MAŁGORZATA KAŹMIERCZAK
ul. Zakopiańska 2b/38
30-418 Kraków
tel. + 48 606736362
e-mail: malgorzata@mkazmierczak.com
born 05.05.1979 in Kraków
EDUCATION
2005 – 2010
Doctoral studies at the History Department of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan – Ph.D. in History
1999 – 2004
MA studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków – MA in History
1994 – 1999
6th LO in Kraków with English as a language of instruction
CURRENT POSITION
2017 – present
Assistant Professor at the Pedagogical University of Kraków
2016-2017
Assistant professor at the Academy of Art in Szczecin
Editor in Chief of the Faculty of Painting and New Media of the Academy of Art in Szczecin Publishing House
Director of the Multimedia Library at the Academy of Art in Szczecin
Lecturer at the Academy of Art in Szczecin
2014 – 2016
Director / curator at the City Gallery of Kalisz, Poland
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
(selected events and exhibitions)
2018
Flowers of Evil. An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Sopot, Poland – co-curator (with Arti Grabowski)
2016
Scores. An exhibition of artists associated with the Faculty of Painting and New Media of the Art Academy in Szczecin – National Museum of Art in Szczecin – curator
Art.eria Festival – Częstochowa – performance art programme featuring Jagoda Dukiewicz & Katarina Olivova – curator
Dariusz Fodczuk, God – Honour – Fatherland – at the Alternativa Festival in Gdańsk
Dariusz Fodczuk, God – Honour – Fatherland – exhibition of video and objects – Sztuka Piękno i Nie Tylko Gallery, Lublin, Poland – curator
Anarchy and New Art. 100 years of Dadaism. An exhibition of artists associated with the Faculty of Painting and New Media of the Art Academy in Szczecin – Centre for Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland – curator
2015
“Imagine” performance art event organised as part of the Think Tank lab Triennale in Wrocław (Przemysław Branas, Magda Grzybowska, Fiona Wright, John Court, Alastair MacLennan, Mehdi Farajpour, Seiji Shimoda, Mineki Murata, Dariusz Fodczuk) – National Museum of Art in Wrocław, Poland – curator
Dariusz Fodczuk, God – Honour – Fatherland – exhibition of video and objects – City Art Gallery of Kalisz, Poland – curator
“Moving Pictures Moving Pieces” – a project comprising on shows of the movies about art and artists; City Art Gallery of Kalisz, Poland – curator
“Art full stop” – a project comprising of artworks located in bus stops of Kalisz (by Przemysław Branas, Karol Radziszewski, Michał Knychaus, Irena Kalicka) – curator
2014
Performance Month (Paweł Kwaśniewski, Omar Ghayatt, Irma Optimisti, Jeffery Byrd) – performance art event at the City Art Gallery of Kalisz, – curator
Beata Ewa Białecka, Thank God I’m a Woman – exhibition of painting, City Art Gallery of Kalisz, Poland – curator
Peter Grzybowski, Faux painting. Performer’s objects – exhibition of painting, Bielska BWA Gallery in Bielsko-Biala – curator
“Pain / Pong” Bipolar International Performance Art Meeting, Sopot, Poland – host, co-ordinator
2013
RE: Performance – photographic exhibition by Manuel Vason, BWA „Sokół” Gallery in Nowy Sącz – curator
2012
International Performance Art Night at F.A.I.T, Kraków (http://fait.pl) – curator
Kesher 5, international performance art meeting, Fusion Arts Museum, New York – curator
Ephemeral fixed. Ephemeral art – history documented, Galeria Wschodnia, Łódź – a project consisting of 2 nights of performance art, a symposium and the presentations of artist run initiatives in Visegrad countries, organised by the Art and Documentation Association in Lodz in cooperation with partners: Galeria Jama Michal, Ostrava, Magyar Muhely, Budapest and Kassak Center for Intermedia Activity, Nove Zamky (Slovakia), (http://ephemeralfixed.eu) – curator
Ephemeral fixed pre-event at the F.A.I.T Gallery, Kraków – curator
2008
Kesher 4 – international performance art meeting, Piękny Pies Club, Kraków – curator
2006
Kesher 3 – international performance art meeting, Fusion Arts Museum, New York – curator
2005
Kesher 2 – international performance art meeting, Fusion Arts Museum, New York – curator
2004
Kesher Pe Gimel – international performance art meeting, 3 po 3 Club, Kraków – curator
1998 – 2000
International Performance Art Festival “Castle of Imagination”, Słupsk / Ustka, Gdańsk, Sopot, Bielsko-Biała. (http://www.performance.art.pl/en/en.html) – assistant curator
1996 – 1998
Polish-Irish Symposium ”Irish Days”, Ustka – assistant curator
EDITORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS
2017
Visual Text as a Form of Meta-Art – co-editor
2016
Anarchy and New Art. 100 Years of Dadaism – editor
Friends from the Seaside – a book about an informal collective of artists born at the turn of 70s and 80s who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk – co-editor
since 2016
Editor in chief of the Faculty of Painting and New Media of the Academy of Art in Szczecin Publishing House
since 2011
Managing editor or a scholarly journal Art and Documentation (http://journal.doc.art.pl/)
Editor and English translator – portal www.livinggallery.info As part of the editorial work on the portal – a coordinator of the projects: “What is performance art?” and “Timeline of performance art”, in which collected are performance art definitions sent by performance art practitioners.
since 1995
The author of many reviews for: Gazeta Wyborcza, spam.art.pl, obieg.pl, Exit, www.livinggallery.info, Opcje, Fragile as well as texts in catalogues of artists and performance art festivals.
MEMBERSHIP IN ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANISATIONS
since 2017
A member of AICA International
since 2011
A member of the Art and Documentation Association in Lodz.
2006-2012
A chair of the Foundation for the Promotion of Performance Art “Kesher” in Krakow
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
English (Certificate of Proficiency in English), working knowledge of French and Latin.
Malgorzata Kazmierczak 