A graduate of art history at the Jagiellonian University, associate professor at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University. In 1999 he obtained a doctoral degree (doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Jan K. Ostrowski). On January 28, 2011, the Council of the Faculty of History of the Jagiellonian University awarded him the academic degree of habilitated doctor.

In 2012–2016, director of the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University. Initiator of establishing a permanent conference of directors of Art History Institutes in Poland (2013). In 2016-2019, he was the director of the National Museum in Krakow, and from January 3, 2020, the director of the Wawel Royal Castle.

His scientific interests focus primarily on modern art, especially architecture and sculpture in the eastern territories of the former Republic of Poland, as well as the issues of artistic patronage and the influence of graphic patterns. Foreign scholarship holder of the Foundation for Polish Science (2002; at the Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte in Munich); Kościuszko Foundation (2003, at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles), several times of the Lanckoroński from Brzezie Foundation, of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and of the US Department of State (as part of The International Visitor Leadership Program). Twice he has received research grants from the National Program for the Development of Humanities. Expert of the National Science Center and the National Program for the Development of Humanities.