Agnieszka Dziki, M.A.

Agnieszka Dziki is writing her PhD dissertation "Collecting Incompleteness: The Reception of Unfinished and Imperfect Objects in Early Modern Germany" under the joint supervision of Professor Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw) and Professor Aleksandra Lipińska (Department of Art History, University of Cologne). Her research focuses on the phenomenon of collecting incomplete, semi-damaged, and originally faulty objects across various media by members of urban and court circles between 1500 and 1600; she examines this through three main concepts: “Emptiness,” “Unfinishedness,” and “Imperfection.” Agnieszka’s project is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the National Science Centre, Poland (NCN). She co-edited the volume The Materiality of Terracotta Sculpture in Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2023, together with Dr. Zuzanna Sarnecka). In the previous academic year, she was a junior fellow at the CAS “Imaginaria of Force,” University of Hamburg, and a fellow at the Central Institute for Art History, Munich.