Anna A. Slaczka

Anna A. Ślączka, Ph.D. (2006), Leiden University, is Curator of South Asian Art at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has published extensively on Hindu art and ritual, including Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India: Text and Archaeology (Brill, 2007).

After studying Sanskrit and Asian Art and completing her PhD at Kern Institute, Leiden University, she spent six months (Nov. 2006- May 2007) as a fellow researcher at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS, The Netherlands), researching ​“Indian Shaivism and the religion among the Khmers during the Angkor Period: the study of mutual relations,” in particular through Indian ritual and architectural manuals and the inscriptions of Cambodia, as well as Khmer art — with special attention for the iconography of the Hindu deities. She also worked with École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) in Pondicherry, India.

While curating collections and exhibitions at the Rijksmuseum, Anna Ślączka has expanded her research on Hindu ritual and art, as well as ritual and iconographic Sanskrit texts, and joined a project on production and casting technology of Chola bronzes. 

In October 2024, she co-curated the exhibition Asian Bronze: 4,000 Years of Beauty at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, with rare pieces coming from India to Japan, which went on until January 2025. 

Latest Publications

• Nataraja the Divine Dancer, Amsterdam : Rijksmuseum, 2018. ISBN 9789492660107.
• [with Sara Creange, William Southworth] Asian Bronze: 4,000 Years of Beauty, Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2025, 208 p. ISBN 9789462088863.