Dr. Ala Pihalskaya

Forschungsinteressen

Geschichte der visuellen Kultur des Alltags in Belarus

Druckgeschichte von Belarus

Visuelle Kultur und Identitätskonstruktion

Akademische Anstellungen

• März-Dezember 2025: Forschungsstipendium an der Universität Bremen, Institut für Europastudien Studies
• Januar-Juni 2024: Forschungsstipendium an der Univerität Bremen, Centre for Eastern European Studies
• Oktober-Dezember 2023: Forschungsstipendium an der Universität Warschau, Fakultät Artes Liberales
• Februar 2022-Februar 2023: Forschungsstipendium am Insitute of Slavic Studies der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Warschau, Polen
• 2005-2019: European Humanitarian University, Dozentin und Leiterin des BA-Programms Visual Design, Vilnius, Litauen

Berufliche Tätigkeiten

• Seit 2020: Vierteljährliche Veröffentlichungen im Magazin Sztuka
• 2019 - 2021: Monatliche Veröffentlichungen im Magazin Mastatstva / Arts, Minsk, Belarus

Ausbildung

• 2013 Doktortitel (PhD) der Vilnius Academy of Arts im Fach Kunstkritik. Titel der Dissertation: “Forms of Everyday Representation in Belarusian Posters of 1966-1980”
• 2012-2013 Externes Promotionsstudium an der Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania)
• 2001- 2004 European Humanities University (Minsk, Belarus) Postgraduiertenstudium im Fach Theorie und Geschichte der Kultur
• 1994-1999 European Humanitarian University (Minsk, Belarus)

Veröffentlichungen (peer-reviewed)

The Concept of Localness (Tuteishaść/) in Visual Communication in Public Space in Belarus as a Source of Exclusion. In Sprawy Narodowościowe: Seria nowa, 2022(54), pp. 1-19.

Гісторыя друкарні Юзафа Завадскага, рэканструяваная праз сетку кантактаў і зносінаў (The history of Yuzof Zavadsky's printing house, reconstructed through a network of contact and communication). In Homo historicus, 2023, p. 147-162. ISSN 2424-521З6

Hand-Making Modernist Forms: The Visual Environment In Visaginas From the 1970s to the 2010s //In Visaginas From the 1970s to the 2010s. In Re-Tooling Knowledge Infrastructures in a 'Post-Nuclear' Town. Vilnius, 2021  (In English)

Benjamin Cope, Oksana Denisenko, Alla Pigalskaya. TYPO VISAGA - a Collaborative Design Project. In Visaginas From the 1970s to the 2010s In Re-Tooling Knowledge Infrastructures in a 'Post-Nuclear' Town. Vilnius, 2021  (In English)

The Materiality of Visual Hierarchies and the Presumptuous Charm of Russian

1990sPost-Soviet Magazine Design. In "In Defense of the Mainstream", edited by L. Alyabyeva, A. Gorbachev and L. Danilkin, Russian / English, Moscow time, V-A-C press, 2021.

Гендерные исследования и дизайн: историчность визуального и политическая история (Gender studies and design: historicity of the visual and political history)//Актуальные проблемы дизайна и дизайн-образования : материалы III Междунар. науч.-практ. конф., Минск, 18–19 апр. 2019 г. / Белорус. гос. ун-т ; редкол.: О. А. Воробьёва (отв. ред.) [и др.]. – Минск : БГУ, 2019. – С. 322-327.

Модерн плюс авангард: режимы конструирования советского и постсоветского дизайн-образования в БССР и Беларуси (Modern plus avant-garde: modes of construction of Soviet and post-Soviet design education in the BSSR and Belarus)// Перекрёстки, № 1–2/2016, ЕГУ, Вильнюс. С. 66-84.

Research by design and collaboration in the perspective of post-soviet ‘nuclear’ town Visaginas, in ServDes2018. Service Design Proof of Concept, Proceedings of the ServDes.2018 Conference, 18-20 June, Milano, Italy. Ed. By Anna Meroni, Anna María, Ospina Medina, Italy, Beatrice Villari. Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet, 2018. http://www.servdes.org/conference-2018-milano-2/

Modern and avant-garde: modes of designing Soviet and post-Soviet design education in the BSSR and Belarus. Crossroads (online) 1, 2016.

Graphic design practices, technologies of reproduction and communication strategies in Belarus after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in: Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis 83, 2017. Pp. 113-124.

Public space typography in Visaginas. В: Mapping Visaginas. Sources of Urbanity in a Former Mono-functional Town. Vilnius Academy of Arts Press.Vilnius, 2016, pp. 55-61.

Visual Traces Of Individualization Practices In 1960-70s Posters of the BSSR in: Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis 73,2015. -  p. 123-139.

Forms of Representation of Everyday Life in the Belarusian Poster in 1966–1980. Doctoral dissertation. Humanities, Art Criticism (03 H), Vilnius, 2013. ISBN 978-609-447-076-9

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История дизайна и политика повседневности: конструирование истории графического дизайна Беларуси (History of Design and politics of everyday life: the construction of the history of graphic design in Belarus), in: Перекрёстки, 2012,  №1-2. С. 225-252.

History of Design and Politics of Everyday Practices: Reconstructing History of Graphic Design of Belarus, in: Crossroads Digest, 2012, № 7, с. 140-166.

Пигальская А. Подходы к конструированию истории дизайна и его практики (Construction of the Design History and Its Practices), in: Культурологический журнал, 2012, 2 (8).– URL: http://cr-journal.ru/rus/journals/131.html&j_id=10  

“Беларускі графічны дызан” (Belarusian graphic design), in: Культура Беларусі: энцыклапедыя  Т. 3  -  Мінск: Беларуская Энцыклапедыя імя Петруся Броўкі, 2012, с. 543-545.

Weitere Artikel, Interviews und Videos

Historie nierównoległe. Różnice i podobieństwa w projektowaniu graficznym w Polsce, Ukrainie, Białorusi i Litwie in Kultura Liberalna Nr.740, 11/2023 (14.03.2023). In Polish

Маляваныя шрыфты ў шрыфтавым архіве Беларусі / Art.Context, December 2023, In Belarusian

Video: Шрыфтавы архіў і гісторыя мастацкіх практык Беларусі │Art.Context. Ала Пігальская, December 2023, In Belarusian

Zeitschrift SZTUKA (auf Belarussisch)

Тыпаграфія Завадскага. Практыкі друкарскага супраціву (Zavadsky Typography. Practices of typographical resistance.). In SZTUKA.Мастацтва вельмі польскае ІІІ/2023, ст. 62-67.

Крыж, верацяно і кніга. Ядвіга Замойская і жаночая адукацыя ў ХІХст. (Cross, spindle and book. Yadviga Zamoyskaya and women's education in the 19th century).  In SZTUKA. Мастацтва вельмі польскае. IІ/2023, ст. 20-29.

“Калі вам абавязкова патрэбная ахвяра, вазьміце мяне”. Жанчыны ў паўстанні 1863 года ("If you absolutely need a victim, take me." Women in the Rebellion of 1863). In SZTUKA. Мастацтва вельмі польскае. I/2023, ст. 56-63.

Русалка, этнографка, поэтка. Крысціна Крахельская - гераіня палескага краю (Mermaid, ethnographer, poet. Kristina Krahelskaya is the heroine of the Palesko region).  In SZTUKA. Мастацтва вельмі польскае. VI/2022, cт. 34-41.

InDesign – Monatliche Rubrik im Magazin Mastactva (Arts), 2019-2021(more then 40 articles). Im Jahr 2021 verfasste ich Beiträge, die verschiedene belarussische Designobjekte und Ausstellungen im Kontext des polnischen, ukrainischen und litauischen Designs beleuchteten. Leider ist der elektronische Zugriff auf die Zeitschrift derzeit nicht verfügbar.