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, developing a liminal methodology attentive to relational agency, access, and inclusive interpretation through sustained engagement with artist Nnena Kalu—a learning-disabled artist with limited verbal communication— and ActionSpace.

The project maps both conventional and emerging strategies through interviews, public forums, and curatorial practice. Kalu’s nomination for, and win of, the Turner Prize in 2025 has emerged as a central and critical 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).