Dr. Maja Fowkes
Dr. Maja Fowkes
SAVA Principal Research Fellow
Dr. Maja Fowkes is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Art History and World Art Studies at University of East Anglia. Her research centres on artistic engagements with ecology, climate change and the Anthropocene, and the environmental art history of global socialisms. Her publications include Art and Climate Change (Thames & Hudson, 2022), Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950 (Thames & Hudson, 2020) and The Green Bloc: Neo-Avant-Garde and Ecology under Socialism (2015). She is co-editor of a special issue of Art Marginson the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (2025), Ilona Németh: Eastern Sugar (2021) as well as the book Revolutionary Drills: Art and Extractivism in the Socialist in the Anthropocene (Amsterdam University Press, 2026-forthcoming). In addition to publishing widely, she curates contemporary art exhibitions, including ‘Potential Agrarianisms’ at Kunsthalle Bratislava (2021), and co-hosts the podcast Left to be Desired. She co-directed the Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories project Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History.
Email address: m.fowkes@uea.ac.uk
Selected publications
• Art and Climate Change, Thames & Hudson World of Art series, 2022
• Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950, Thames & Hudson World of Art series, 2020
• Ilona Németh: Eastern Sugar, Sternberg Press, 2020
• The Green Bloc: Neo-avant-garde Art and Ecology under Socialism, CEU Press, 2015.
For a full list of publications, see Maja’s Iris profile.
Selected exhibitions
• ‘Colliding Epistemes,’ Bozar Brussels, Belgium, May-June 2022
• ‘Potential Agrarianisms,’ Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia, August-October 2021
• ‘Walking without Footprints,’ tranzit.sk, Bratislava, December 2015-February 2016
• ‘Like a Bird: Avian Encounters in the Age of Ecology,’ Trafó Budapest / tranzit.ro Bucharest, 2014
• ‘Loophole to Happiness,’ Muzeum Sztuki Lodz / Trafó Budapest / Futura Prague 2011
Grants / projects
• European Research Council Consolidator Grant for ‘The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts,’ at Institute of Advanced Studies UCL, 2022-27
• Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories grant for ‘Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History,’ at Institute of Advanced Studies UCL, 2018-22
• Erste Foundation grant for ‘The Anthropocene Reading Room,’ at the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art, 2014-16
• Creative Europe grant for ‘The Danube River School,’ at Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art in partnership with the Green Art Lab Alliance, 2013-15