Zoe Robakiewicz
@zoezofia.bsky.social
Polish living in Denmark
Marxist Art Historian,
European Colonialism, Early Modern European History, Social Art History.
Marxist Art Historian,
European Colonialism, Early Modern European History, Social Art History.
First @histmat.bsky.social London conference, first Marxist Octagon experience 🔻 even seen Máret Ánne Sara’s work at the Turbine Hall.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
First @histmat.bsky.social London conference, first Marxist Octagon experience 🔻 even seen Máret Ánne Sara’s work at the Turbine Hall.
Larmessin’s Les Costumes Grotesques carries something of a naïve futurism within it (eighteenth-century cyborgs). Orrr it could be read as an illustration of Capital’s domination over labour: the machine-person, absolutely alienated from the self, whose existence is wholly subsumed by labour. 🌚
October 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Larmessin’s Les Costumes Grotesques carries something of a naïve futurism within it (eighteenth-century cyborgs). Orrr it could be read as an illustration of Capital’s domination over labour: the machine-person, absolutely alienated from the self, whose existence is wholly subsumed by labour. 🌚
There was more but.... The butt was the only one I could see myself in...
June 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
There was more but.... The butt was the only one I could see myself in...
Rant: went to Copenhagen Contemporary yesterday and let me say (risking sounding like an old hag) I'm ok with art lacking substance or originality at this point (in the given conditions), what I find aggravating is the haphazard and joyless form of these pieces, unfortunately done better before..
June 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Rant: went to Copenhagen Contemporary yesterday and let me say (risking sounding like an old hag) I'm ok with art lacking substance or originality at this point (in the given conditions), what I find aggravating is the haphazard and joyless form of these pieces, unfortunately done better before..
Going to work soon, but very glad and elated for the 10 I got for my masters thesis (Embodied Encounters: Artistic Form and Colonial Power in Seventeenth Century Ethnographic Portraits), from Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab at Københavns Universitet under supervision of Prof. Mathias Danbolt!
June 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Going to work soon, but very glad and elated for the 10 I got for my masters thesis (Embodied Encounters: Artistic Form and Colonial Power in Seventeenth Century Ethnographic Portraits), from Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab at Københavns Universitet under supervision of Prof. Mathias Danbolt!
Back in 🇩🇰 reminiscing on the short vacation in Poland reading Polish Marxist historians (a gift from my Brother - Jerzy Topolski's Theory of Historiographical Narrative) with a little rascal next to me.
June 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Back in 🇩🇰 reminiscing on the short vacation in Poland reading Polish Marxist historians (a gift from my Brother - Jerzy Topolski's Theory of Historiographical Narrative) with a little rascal next to me.
Thrift shopping with my Mom in Poland, now it's pierogi and pickled sour cucumber soup at the Milk Bar.
June 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Thrift shopping with my Mom in Poland, now it's pierogi and pickled sour cucumber soup at the Milk Bar.
"Thy father was the Duke of Milan
Thy mother was a piece of virtue" - Prospero to Miranda, The Tempest.
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Thy mother was a piece of virtue" - Prospero to Miranda, The Tempest.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
"Thy father was the Duke of Milan
Thy mother was a piece of virtue" - Prospero to Miranda, The Tempest.
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Thy mother was a piece of virtue" - Prospero to Miranda, The Tempest.
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Somewhat ironic snack, considering I'm writing about colonial "ethnographic portraits".
May 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Somewhat ironic snack, considering I'm writing about colonial "ethnographic portraits".
Wonderful protest against funding from complicit in the Genocide of Palestinians Mærsk at KUA yesterday. The flags should be there permanently. @studerendemodbesættelsen academicsforpalestine.dk?fbclid=PAQ0x...
May 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Wonderful protest against funding from complicit in the Genocide of Palestinians Mærsk at KUA yesterday. The flags should be there permanently. @studerendemodbesættelsen academicsforpalestine.dk?fbclid=PAQ0x...
Wowza I was not aware that Christian IV was trying to organise state-owned sweatshops/work houses c. 1605-28, pity that the detained tended to die from horrible conditions. What a modern day maverick.
March 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Wowza I was not aware that Christian IV was trying to organise state-owned sweatshops/work houses c. 1605-28, pity that the detained tended to die from horrible conditions. What a modern day maverick.
Prøv Marvis, den skulle være i Normal ❄️
March 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Prøv Marvis, den skulle være i Normal ❄️
Thankful for Goated Art Historians of the past for writing monographs like this + just look at this edition.
March 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Thankful for Goated Art Historians of the past for writing monographs like this + just look at this edition.
Boy oh boy.... What are you saying? There came by 50 Kalaaleq boats on board and they brought narwhal and seal skin with them and the same day came a long boat with 12 women, which didn't have anything special to sell?Folchis 3 months more and I'll be fluent in this mixture of German and old-Danish.
February 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Boy oh boy.... What are you saying? There came by 50 Kalaaleq boats on board and they brought narwhal and seal skin with them and the same day came a long boat with 12 women, which didn't have anything special to sell?Folchis 3 months more and I'll be fluent in this mixture of German and old-Danish.
Anyway, who knows who painted this work from David Dannel's third trip to Kalaallit Nunaat in 1654? First known oil painting picturing kidnapped Kalaallit. It's not Salomon Van Haven, or i didn't read any convincing arguments to support that. #arthistory #greenland #danishart #colonialism
February 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Anyway, who knows who painted this work from David Dannel's third trip to Kalaallit Nunaat in 1654? First known oil painting picturing kidnapped Kalaallit. It's not Salomon Van Haven, or i didn't read any convincing arguments to support that. #arthistory #greenland #danishart #colonialism
Forgot that art historians write articles containing statements like, "The character depicted in the background is believed to be a self-portrait of the artist" about a painting with disputed authorship from a period when all artists (illustrations) sported goatees and mustaches... Thanks aloooot.
February 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Forgot that art historians write articles containing statements like, "The character depicted in the background is believed to be a self-portrait of the artist" about a painting with disputed authorship from a period when all artists (illustrations) sported goatees and mustaches... Thanks aloooot.
Question to art historians or dilettante(hehe):
Does anyone have a photo of a Pinturicchio's fresco from Apartamento Borgia of Alexander VI surrounded by children of Apollo 1492-5? #renaissance #pinturicchio
Portrait of a boy, c.1550.
Chariot of Apollo, c. 1509.
Does anyone have a photo of a Pinturicchio's fresco from Apartamento Borgia of Alexander VI surrounded by children of Apollo 1492-5? #renaissance #pinturicchio
Portrait of a boy, c.1550.
Chariot of Apollo, c. 1509.
February 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Question to art historians or dilettante(hehe):
Does anyone have a photo of a Pinturicchio's fresco from Apartamento Borgia of Alexander VI surrounded by children of Apollo 1492-5? #renaissance #pinturicchio
Portrait of a boy, c.1550.
Chariot of Apollo, c. 1509.
Does anyone have a photo of a Pinturicchio's fresco from Apartamento Borgia of Alexander VI surrounded by children of Apollo 1492-5? #renaissance #pinturicchio
Portrait of a boy, c.1550.
Chariot of Apollo, c. 1509.
new year's eve plans
December 31, 2024 at 6:00 PM
new year's eve plans
Gustave Doré, illustrations for Milton's Paradise Lost, 1866.
December 23, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Gustave Doré, illustrations for Milton's Paradise Lost, 1866.
I respect this respect 🥹
November 23, 2024 at 5:05 PM
I respect this respect 🥹
4/ The Dutch peasants culture as I understand it, has left a permanent imprint on Amager traditional clothing and furniture. Left : Julius Exner painting of a family of Dutch origins from 1853. And the little triangular shelf on the wall. Right :so-called Amager shelf used now.
November 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
4/ The Dutch peasants culture as I understand it, has left a permanent imprint on Amager traditional clothing and furniture. Left : Julius Exner painting of a family of Dutch origins from 1853. And the little triangular shelf on the wall. Right :so-called Amager shelf used now.
2/It's a three tier fountain, decorated with (from the top)figures of infants, toddlers and adults. The surprising part is they are regular residents of Amager wearing Amager/dutch traditional outfits, performing work fx. Shoveling.
November 23, 2024 at 4:09 PM
2/It's a three tier fountain, decorated with (from the top)figures of infants, toddlers and adults. The surprising part is they are regular residents of Amager wearing Amager/dutch traditional outfits, performing work fx. Shoveling.
🧵1/Today while walking from a shop through Ebert's Villa Town in Amager, Copenhagen(where I've been living since February) I found an unusual fountain. It was made by a stucco artist Adam Hansen on behalf of a fabricant Herman Ebert in 1896.
November 23, 2024 at 4:07 PM
🧵1/Today while walking from a shop through Ebert's Villa Town in Amager, Copenhagen(where I've been living since February) I found an unusual fountain. It was made by a stucco artist Adam Hansen on behalf of a fabricant Herman Ebert in 1896.