Monika Bakke

Monika Bakke is an associate professor in the Philosophy Department and director of the
Environmental Humanities Center at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She
writes on contemporary art and aesthetics, particularly from posthumanist, transspecies, and
gender perspectives. She is the author of Bio-transfigurations: Art and Aesthetics of
Posthumanism (2010, in Polish) and Open Body (2000, in Polish), co-author of Pleroma: Art
in Search of Fullness (1998), and editor of Australian Aboriginal Aesthetics (2004, in Polish),
Going Aerial: Air, Art, Architecture (2006), The Life of Air: Dwelling, Communicating,
Manipulating (2011) and Refugia: The Survival of Urban Transspecies Communities (2021).
Her curatorial work includes art exhibitions: Bio-Reminiscences (Poland), Seeing the Forrest
Through the Trees (UK), Boundless Objects (Portugal), Refugia: Keep (Out of) these Places
(Poland), and Mineral Immersions (Poland). Her current research focuses on nonlife agency
and new articulations of mineral affinities with life in contemporary art.