Curatorial practice
Selected research-based, collective exhibitions
2022 COEXIST Liberty, Equality, Biodiversity!
The exhibition is an attempt to present an egalitarian, extended concept of community, based on multiple relationships between people, other animals, plants, fungi and microorganisms.
More info: Lodz Fotofestiwal
2020 STORIES ON EARTHLY SURVIVAL
The exhibition was a showcase of nine artists whose work digs deep into political and environmental narratives defining our global world. With strength and determination, they make a work that unflinchingly challenges social structures and depict abuses of power on natural world.
More info: CiCLO Bienal do Porto
2018 [ENTER] BREAKING POINT
Humanity is at breaking point. Systemic change now seems inevitable. In the face of increased global challenges, from climate change to the migrant crisis, political unrest, cyber-attacks and the threat of terrorism, photography has the ability to bring focus to these issues.
More info: Hamburg Triennale
2016 PHOTOGRAPHY NEVER DIES
The exhibition is devoted to photography and presents its history from the moment of its inception. Apart from renowned authors and curators such as Erik Kassels or Volker Hinz, the audience had the opportunity to see archival daguerreotype and carte de visite juxtaposed with the contemporary amateur photos from Instagram or Flickr.
More info: Wroclaw European Capital of Culture 2016
2015 THE DAY WILL COME
The 6th edition of the Hamburg Triennale of Photography welcomed over 80 artists to present work all based around the theme “The day will come”. Some of the highlights of the exhibitions were Berenice Abbott, David Hockney, Catherine Balet, Phillip Toledano, Henrik Spohler.
More info: Hamburg Triennale
2015 DISCOVERIES (PRIX DÉCOUVERTE)
Nominating and curating the section of Discovery Award, Rencontres d’Arles.
SHILO Group exhibition on social and political issues of Ukraine and the legacy of its Soviet past and contemporary Polish artist - Anna Orłowska's exhibition on projecting, simulation and dreaming.
More info: Rencontres d'Arles
2008 MADE IN CHINA
Co-curating a collective exhibition of European and Chinese artists for the Lodz Festival
Selected artists: Nadav Kander, Wolfgang Zurborn, Harvey Benge, Virgilio Ferreira, ErnstFischer, Oyvind Hjelmen, Ferit Kuyas , Bogdan Konopka, Nathalie Latham, Marrigje de Maar, Chen Nong, Feng Bin, Haibo Yu, Jiang Zhenqing, Liu Lijie, Lu Jun, Meng Jin, Peng Xingjie, Wang Tong, Wei DeZhi, Yao Lu, Zeng Han.
More info: Lodz Fotofestiwal
The extended list of curated and co-curated exhibitions and visual documentation below.
Other curated and co-curated projects and exhibitions
2020 | COLLECTORS
co-curating exhibition program for Lodz Festival
Selected collections: W.M. Hunt’s collection, Antoine de Galbert’s collection, Jean-Marie Donat’s collection, Miklós Tamási’s collection
2019 | SUPERNATURAL
co-curating exhibition program for Lodz Festival
Selected artists: David Fathi, Piotr Zbierski, Klaus Pichler, Christoph Draeger and Heidrun Holzfeind, Henrik Spohler, Alexander Gehring, Carlo van de Roer, Nicola Lo Calzo.
2018 | HUMAN NATURE
co-curating exhibition program for Lodz Festival
Selected artists: Mathieu Asselin, Robert Zhao Renhui, Dornith Doherty, Claudius Schulze, Mandy Barker, Joanna Rajkowska, Karolina Grzywnowicz, Anna Zagrodzka.
2016-2018 | BREAKING POINT
curating the program for Triennial of Photography Hamburg, over 20 venues, 8 museum exhibitions and over 200 invited artists.
Some of the selected artists: Richard Mosse, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Sophie Calle, Thomas Ruff, Anton Corbijn, Joan Fontcuberta, Edmund Clark, Crofton Black, Thomas Demand, Bogomir Ecker, Jenny Holzer, Sven Johne, Annette Kelm, Mårten Lange, Trevor Paglen, Peter Piller, Barbara Probst, Shirana Shahbazi, Valentina Abenavoli, Mathieu Asselin, Mandy Barker, Lucas Foglia, Nick Hannes, Katrin Koenning, Gábor Arion Kudász, Sarker Protick, Claudius Schulze, Martin Errichiello and Filippo Menichetti, Salvatore Vitale.
2016-2017 | PHOTOGRAPHY NEVER DIES
research project, collective exhibition and photobook, curated for Wroclaw, European Capital of Culture 2016
Selected artists and researchers: Francesca Seravalle, Catherine Balet, Jean-Marie Donat, Jojakim Cortis & Adrian Sonderegger, Volker Hinz, Artur Urbanski, Tom Stayte, Federica Chiocchetti, Tim Clark, Erik Kessels.
2013-2015 | THE DAY WILL COME
curating exhibition program for Triennial of Photography in Hamburg, over 20 venues, 8 museum exhibitions, over 200 invited artists.
Some of the selected artists/works: DianeArbus, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Richard Avedon, Nicholas Nixon, Katharina Bosse, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Annette Messager, Clemens von Wedemayer, Yto Barrada, Henrik Spohler, Peggy Buth, Charlotte Duale, Harun Farocki, Abrie Fourie, Anne Hardy, Inga Kerber, Philipp König, Susanne Kriemann, Michael Part, Josephine Pryde, Clunie Reid, Max Schaffer, Dirk Stewen, Bohdan Stehlik, Tris Vonna-Michell, Lidwien van den Ven, Catherine Balet, Phillip Toledano.
2015 | EMERGENCES
curating discovery exhibition for Rencontres d'Arles.
Selected artists: Anna Orlowska & Shilo Group: Vlad Krasnoshchok, Sergiy Lebedynskyy, Vadym Trykoz
2009-2010 | ALL MY LOVIN
co-curating exhibition for Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Lodz Festival and Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Ireland.
Selected artists: Doug Dubois, Jenny Matthews, Lydia Panas, Phillip Toledano, AmeliaStein, Carolle Benitah, Muireann Brady, Alex Ten Napel, Igor Savchenko, ElinorCarucci, Lucia Stráňaiová, Chris Hurley, Edith Maybin, Rebecca Martinez, Anna Shteynshleyger, Sandra Minchin.
COEXIST Liberty, Equality, Biodiversity!
Photography Never Dies
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