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Inés Ruiz Artola

history of art

European PhD in art history (Universidad de Málaga), master’s degree in history and musical sciences (Universidad de Granada), diploma in piano (Real Conservatorio Superior, Granada) and master’s degree in cultural management (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona). Assistant professor at the Department of Composition and Music Theory and Head of the Music Theory Laboratory. She is also a lecturer at the Institute of History of Art at the University of Warsaw, a writer as well as a curator of many exhibitions in Poland, Europe and Central and South America.

In 2024 she won the Hispanex Program (Ministry of Culture in Spain) to support the ELLAS/ONE Festival (Spring 2025), which she is an initiator and director. Also in 2024 she received the first prize at the Concurso Literario de Relato Breve “Jubilare”. She has been twice on an “Erasmus+ Teaching” scholarship, for the second time as the coordinator from Poland in the special “Erasmus BIP” program between Spain, Croatia, Italy and Slovenia (December 2024). She received funding for the publication of the monograph “La Landowska: una crónica por España (1905-1936)” (Chopin University Press) from the “Excellent Science” program (Ministry of Education and Science 2023-24). In 2022 she received a grant from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the field of music to write the first part of a biography on Wanda Landowska. She is the winner of the award of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Spain (Madrid, 2017) for the best doctoral thesis.

Author of books, numerous scholarly articles on contemporary art and music, critics, essays on artists and musicians and short stories. In January 2025, she was invited as an editor-in-residence at the platform on contemporary art a*DESK (Barcelona). As a translator, she worked on editing catalogs for exhibitions including those about Tadeusz Peiper (National Museum, Warsaw, 2015), Andrzej Wróblewski (Museum Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2016). Selected curatorial projects: Chillida. Sounds (Wroclaw, 2016), Lejanías (Valencia 2018), Ceci n’est pas un bâtiment (Lodz, 2017), 6.7GB (Torun, 2018), 13. 603 (Lima, 2019), Seeing Sounds, Feeling Freedom (Warsaw, 2019), I travel then I am (Lublin, 2019), Our Own Room (2020-21), TRANS 11603 (Warsaw, 2021), Home, skin, clothing (Warsaw 2023), L’anatomie de l’existence (Warsaw 2024). As a critic, she has collaborated with a*DESK (Barcelona), Ritmo (Madrid), Glissando (Warsaw), Exit (Madrid), Szum (Warsaw) and others.

Publications:

Books:
“La Landowska”: una crónica por España (1905-1936), Chopin University Press, Warsaw (in print).
A contrapelo. Textos de arte no oficial en Polonia (1960-1989). Metales Pesados, Santiago de Chile, 2017.
Eduardo Chillida. Sounds. Museo Chillida-Leku/BWA Avangarda, Wroclaw, 2016.
Formisci, la síntesis de la modernidad. Libargo, Granada, 2015.

Articles:
Presencias femeninas en los diarios de juventud de Wanda Landowska (1895-1900) (esp., in print), in: “Revista Arenal. Historia de las mujeres”, Universidad de Granada, 2024/25.
Wanda Landowska y Don Quijote /Wanda Landowska i Don Quixot, (pl-esp, in print), in: „Wariacje Bachowskie”, 2024.
Landowska i Chopin: unos manuscritos y dos pianos en una isla, (pl-esp., in print), in: Kobiety UMFC, 2025.
¿Piano o clave? La polémica entre Nin y Landowska y el papel de Henry Lew como artífice, (pl-esp.), in: „Wariacje Bachowskie” (ed. J. Grzanka, J. Majewski). Biblioteca Cultura Scriptae, Cracow 2024, s. 389-416.
Ślad Goyi w sztuce współczesnej/ La huella de Goya en el arte contemporáneo”, (pl-hiszp.) in: „Studia Librettologiczne i Operologiczne”, vol. 2, ed. A. Muszyńska-Andrejczyk, I. Ruiz Artola, M. Kubala, Chopin University Press, Warsaw 2024.
La escenografía de El Retablo de Maese Pedro de Falla en sus primeras representaciones (1923-1925), (esp), in: „Ars Bilduma”, Universidad del País Vasco, 2022, p. 73-84.
Utwór skomponowany bez ograniczeń twórczych – Wanda Landowska i Koncert na Klawesyn i pięć instrumentów Manuela de Falli (1923)”, (pl) in: „Notes Muzyczny”, czerwiec 2021, p. 67-108.
Wanda Landowska: mentor i mamusia, in: Literatura, kultura i sztuka- wybrane motywy, ed. E. Choźko, J. Kozłowska, Tygiel, Lublin 2021, p. 181-195.
Bachantka: Wanda Landowska i interpretacja J.S. Bacha. Teorie, mity i polemiki, (pl-esp.) in: „Wariacje Bachowskie”, 2/33, vol. 59, 2020, p. 67-126.
Sobre distancias subjetivas y algunas reflexiones desde la lejanía, in: L’art mou molt a pensar, Centre d’Art Contemporani El Carme, Valencia 2020.
Presencia de la Generación del 51 en el Festival de Otoño de Varsovia de música contemporánea (1965-1974), in: España y Europa del Este: miradas recíprocas, ed. K. Sabik, M. Piłat Zuzankiewicz, Instituto de Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warsaw 2020, s. 293-314.