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Feliks Tuszko

Feliks Tuszko

Feliks Tuszko

Great Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship

SfS-HSG
Büro 52-7128
Müller-Friedberg-Strasse 8
9000 St. Gallen
Publications

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Fields of research

Economic sociology

Sociology of valuation and markets

Art markets and art finance

Sociology of the arts

Further fields of research

Assetization and financialization of culture

Uncertainty and expectations in markets

Pragmatic sociology

Cultural policy and public art collections

Qualitative and ethnographic methods

Education

2025: PhD in Sociology, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Sociology

2022: MA in Art History, University of Warsaw, Institute of Art History

2019: MA in Sociology, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Sociology

2016: BA in Sociology, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Sociology

Teaching Activities

Art as a Commodity: Contemporary Art Economy from a Sociological Perspective (seminar), University of Warsaw

Media and Communication (seminar), University of Warsaw

Projects

2026–: Liquidating Art: How Unique Gestures Are Made into Assets. Research on the Swiss art-finance infrastructure and on how singular artworks are turned into financial assets. Great Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of St. Gallen

2025–2026: Circuits of Art. Study of the Polish field of visual arts 2020–2025: institutions, markets and the position of artists (with Prof. Mikołaj Lewicki). Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, University of Warsaw

2022–2024: When Art Crosses Borders: Valuation of Artworks in International Circulation. University of Warsaw, Columbia University and University of St. Gallen

2020–2024: Why is art so Expensive? Analysis of Artwork Value Sources in Contemporary Capitalism. Preludium grant, Polish National Science Centre. 

 

Awards

2026: Great Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of St. Gallen

2023: Zachęta Award for the best master’s thesis in art history, GESSEL Foundation for Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

2022: Fulbright Junior Research Award, Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission (Columbia University, New York)

2020: Polish Sociological Association (PTS) Award for the best master’s thesis in the sociology of art, PTS and Zderzak Gallery, Kraków

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