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Born in 1979 in Kraków, Poland. Doctor of History, MA at the Jagiellonian University, PhD at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Since 2004, independent curator of art events in Poland and the USA, especially performance festivals including "Flowers of Evil" – PGS in Sopot, "Scores" – National Museum of Szczecin, 2016, "Anarchy and New Art. 100 years of Dadaism", Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, 2016, "Imagine" in the framework of the Triennial of Drawing at the National Museum of Wrocław, 2015, "Performance Month" at the City Art Gallery in Kalisz – 2014, "Manuel Vason. RE: Performance" at BWA “Sokoł” in Nowy Sącz – 2013, "Ephemeral Fixed" at the Wschodnia Gallery in Łódź – 2012, “Kesher” in Kraków and New York – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008. Researcher and author of critical texts on art for newspapers and magazines such as Gazeta Wyborcza, spam.art.pl, Obieg, Exit, livinggallery, Opcje, Fragile, Art and Documentation, Artalk.cz, Artishock. Author of texts for catalogues of artists and performance art festivals. Since 2011 editor and translator of livinggallery.info, in 2012-2014 managing editor of the academic journal Art and Documentation. Co-editor of books, including: War and Peace. Street Art and Conflict in the Urban Space, Spaces. About independent art venues, Friends from the Sea, Visual Text as a Form of Meta-Art, as well as books about artists: Sławomir Lipnicki, Zbigniew Taszycki, and Hanna Nowicka-Grochal. Editor of the book Anarchy and New Art. 100 Years of Dadaism. Between 2006-2012 president of the Foundation for the Promotion of Performance Art “Kesher” in Kraków, member of the Art and Documentation Association and AICA. In 2014-2016 director of City Art Gallery in Kalisz. Between 2016-2017 director of the Library at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, assistant professor and Editor-in-Chief of the Publishing House in the Department of History and Theory of Art at the Faculty of Painting and New Media. Currently, an assistant professor at the University of National Education Commission in Kraków and Head of the Board of the Art Studies Discipline since 2022. Co-author of an MA program of studies “Contemporary art” for art critics and curators. She is also active in theory and documentation of performance art and has lectured in Brazil, Chile, the USA, South Korea, Israel, Taiwan, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Between 2020-2024 vice-president of AICA Poland, 2021-2023 vice-president of AICA International, since 2024 President of AICA International (International Association of Art Critics).


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