lecturers (alphabetically)
- Paweł Bień
Poet, art historian, publicist.
Assistant professor at the National Museum in Warsaw, author of the poetry book “Light Sensitivity” (Lodz 2021) and more than a hundred popular science articles on painting published in several titles, curator of exhibitions, critic.
He has given lectures at the invitation of, among others, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Institute of Frederic Chopin and other institutions.
He constantly cooperates as a lecturer with the ArtTransfer Foundation and Expeditions with Art.
- Karolina Greś
Art historian. I have been talking about art for 12 years. Founder of the company “Bright Image.” Creator of lectures, podcasts, trainings, workshops, courses and author exhibition walks. Cooperates with major cultural institutions. Ambassador of the National Museum in Warsaw. Conducts original educational projects for the Hestia Artistic Journey Foundation and ERGO Hestia. Her mission and dream is to make as many people as possible gain a “Bright Image”.
- Przemysław Głowacki
Art historian who for many years has been involved in the popularization of knowledge about art. He graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in art history, and also studied cultural studies at Jagiellonian University. He worked for many years at the National Museum in Warsaw acting as deputy head of the Education Department. Currently he cooperates with numerous cultural institutions, including the Royal Castle in Warsaw, where he conducts an original series of lectures. He also teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He is one of the originators of the Expeditions with Art project. He was one of the founders of the Forum of Museum Educators and co-initiated the Polish edition of the international social action Day of Free Art. He was a juror of the Sibyl Competition for the Museum Event of the Year organized by the National Institute of Museology and Collections Protection under the patronage of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. In 2007 he was awarded the badge “Meritorious for Polish Culture.” His passion is visiting museums and he runs a website dedicated to art and exhibitions www.artdone.pl.
- Katarzyna Haber
Graduate of art history at the University of Warsaw, scholarship holder of ICOMOS IFLA University of York, lecturer at WSEiZ, curator of Kordegarda Gallery of the National Cultural Center, curator of Art Pharmacy Gallery, organizer of WarsawByArt Gallery Festival, curator and coordinator of about 200 exhibitions (including J. Czapski in curatorial cooperation with E. Skoczek, C. Norwid, B. Schulz and L. Cranach, J. Halas, A. Strumillo, etc., Z. Herbert), author of articles on art (including PAU PAN, Contexts, catalogs, NCK catalogs including “Sztukmistrz” awarded the Phoenix Prize 2022), screenwriter for TVP, cartoonist and illustrator (including Miłosz, Warsaw 2024).
- Katarzyna Jasiołek
Graduate of Polish philology at the University of Warsaw. Author of books: “Asteroid and half-couch. About Polish postwar design” (Marginesy Publishing House, 2020), ”Packaging, or perfuming herring. On graphics, advertising and commerce in the People's Republic of Poland” (2021), ”Hanna Lachert. Convenience more important than beauty” (2022), ”Fabric. Art and Craft” (2023). She writes articles and texts for art exhibition catalogs. Passionate about interiors, she is an admirer of second-hand objects and frequents antique fairs. Accompanying her curiosity about human stories and objects, she tries to save the former from oblivion in her books, and invites the latter to her interiors for a closer look.
- Marta Kudelska
Curator, art critic graduate of cultural studies/contemporary culture (in critical theory of contemporary culture) and art history at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In 2024, she received her PhD in the discipline of art sciences on the basis of a dissertation on the strategies and practices of young art curators from Katowice and Krakow (awarded dissertation).
In her curatorial and research practice, she is interested in issues related primarily to the relationship of contemporary art with the Romantic tradition (artists' interest in magical, horror and esoteric themes), the strategies and practices of art curators, young art, but also reflections around art institutions and the activities of independent art initiatives.
She has carried out her curatorial projects at the Polish Institute in Dusseldorf, the Kronika Center for Contemporary Art in Bytom, the State Art Gallery in Sopot, Art. Agenda Nova in Krakow, during the ArtBoom Festival, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Slupsk, Gallery Two Left Hands in Katowice, Widna in Krakow, but also collaborated with institutions such as Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw, lokal_30, BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art in Katowice, Silesian Museum, Warsaw Gallery Weekend. She regularly publishes her texts in Szum Magazine, Contemporary Lynx, and has collaborated with Obieg, art.Paper, Art.&Businnes, Pavilionesque or Elements.
From 2013 to 2014, she was associated with the Museum in Gliwice and the Art Reading Room operating there. From 2014 to 2017, she served as a spokeswoman at the Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery. She was also in charge of education at the Krakow Museum from 2017 to 2020, and works with the Museum of Photography in Krakow. She is also deputy editor-in-chief at the academic journal “Management in Culture.” She works in the Department of Contemporary Culture at the Institute of Culture at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
- Magdalena Kąkolewska
Law and art history graduate, founder of the Art Transfer Foundation, whose mission is to popularize art. Curator, educator, lecturer, author of articles, lectures and workshops. Promotes intergenerational dialogue by creating educational programs for adults with numerous participation of seniors. Author of a series of lectures on women artists held as part of the “Magda's Sunday Lectures” program since 2018 and a series of weekly lectures in the “Transferring Arts” program since 2013.
- Agata Małodobry
Art historian and museologist. Curator in the Department of Contemporary Art at the National Museum in Krakow, where she deals with sculpture. She is interested in the impact of sculpture in social space and the place of Polish sculpture in the context of world art. Her other fascination is geometric abstraction. She is a curator of exhibitions and author of scientific and popularizing publications on 20th and 21st century art. A special place in her activity is occupied by the person and work of Maria Jarema.
- Paulina Olszewska
curator, producer of art projects, writer. Since 2019 she has been associated with Warsaw's Studio Gallery, where she is responsible for the substantive program of the gallery. Curator of exhibitions at home and abroad. She has collaborated with such institutions as the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, Galerie im Körnerpark in Berlin, the Yidrich Chalupetsky Society in Prague, and the Boris Lurie Art Foundation in New York.
In 2024 she co-curated the exhibition “We Want All Life. Feminisms in Polish Art” at the State Art Gallery in Sopot. Associated with Warsaw and Berlin.
- Monika Przypkowska
I am an art historian, curator and museum educator. I graduated in art history from the University of Warsaw, writing my master's thesis under Prof. Anna Sieradzka on English fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. Since 1996 I have been associated with the Royal Castle in Warsaw, where as a curator I prepared the exhibition “The Art of Seeing. Nowosielski and others”, I lead the author's series of meetings with contemporary artists ‘Key in the Castle’, museum classes in art history, culture and fashion for youth and adults. I also cooperate with other institutions involved in art education: National Museum in Warsaw, Służew Culture House, Children's and Youth Art Academy, Warsaw Universities of the Third Age. In 2022, I started working with “Radio with Qltura.” Previously, I was also professionally connected with fashion as an editor, stylist and producer of photo shoots in such magazines as Avanti, I Am, Claudia, Moda Top.
- Romualda Radwańska
For many years a lecturer and educator at the National Museum in Warsaw. She guides temporary exhibitions and the permanent collection at Spectra Art Space. She gives lectures for Warsaw cultural institutions.
- Katarzyna Rogalska
Art historian, graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Protection of Cultural Property, specialization in conservation). She also completed postgraduate studies Art History. Social and Political Perspective (Collegium Civitas and the Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences) and Postgraduate Museum Studies at Warsaw University. Member of the Association of Art Historians, Warsaw Branch. Since 2006 she has been working in museology. Author of scientific and popular science publications in the field of art history and conservation, co-curator of exhibitions. Curator, employee of the Art Center at the Royal Castle in Warsaw - Museum. My main interests include architecture and contemporary art. My hobbies include sightseeing, scuba diving, horseback riding and photography. I also have a lot of fun learning new things.
- Marcel Woźniak
Born 84, writer and journalist, PhD in humanities. He created the crime trilogy Repetition, Glimpse and Abyss about Toronto detective Leon Brodzki. The continuation of this series is Bridge over Troubled Water starring Jan Sambor, a detective story that is the author's tenth book. The author of the first biography of Leopold Tyrmand Tyrmand. The Writer with White Eyes, with which he was included in the Books From Poland 2020 of the Polish Book Institute. Tracing Tyrmand's story, he visited San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Vilnius, Frankfurt am Main and even Moscow. The author of detective stories and war novels The Enforcer and The Butcher of Lyon, in the course of writing which he visited Drohobych, Lviv, Amsterdam and Lyon. He is a past recipient of a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and a radio journalist. Author of scripts for documentaries and series. He is currently studying at the Lodz Film School and working on a biography of Jan Lenica.