Lisa Slominski

Lisa Slominski is a London-based writer–curator and PhD candidate in the Department of Critical & Historical Studies at Kingston School of Art. Her project, A Liminal Site, investigates how cultural intermediaries shape the representation of artists at the margins, developing a liminal methodology attentive to relational agency, access, and inclusive interpretation through sustained engagement with artist Nnena Kalu and ActionSpace. Kalu's nomination for the 2025 Turner Prize — as the first individual learning-disabled artist with limited verbal communication and whose practice is faciliated  to be shortlisted — has emerged at a key case study.  It asks: How can the concept of a liminal site challenge institutional protocols and inform transgressive curatorial methods? When and how might a position of marginalisation be acknowledged as an identity framework without reducing practice to biography?

She is a Senior Art Producer at Contemporary Art Society, co-founder of Art et al., and author of Nonconformers (Yale, 2022).