I am a curator, researcher and an art historian based in the Midlands. My curatorial interests are East-Central European identities and representation, migration and xenoracism, institutional critique, equity in UK-based art institutions. Read more about my work here.
8. 06.2021- Co-Curator - Piotr Krzymowski: Major Incident, Project THIRTEEN, London
Selected Conferences and Public Speaking
1. 04. 2025:
Shaping the Future: People, Place and Practice - Panel Chair, UK New Artists, Nottingham
2. 04. 2025: Between Stereotype and Subversion – Folk in the Practices of Contemporary Polish Artists in the UK - Panellist, Association for Art History Annual Conference, University of York
3. 12. 2024: Curatorial Imaginings - Panellist, British Art Network, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK
4. 06.2024:
Genius from the Periphery: Revisiting Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle
of Thread and Rope Exhibition at Tate Modern, Panellist, Agents of Change: Process, Transformation, and
Decentring Art’s Histories, Summer Symposium 2024, Association for Art History, Liverpool John
Moores University, UK
Selected Writing:
1. 04. 2025: Ill female body in practice - Notations by Malgorzata Dawidek, JAWS Journal
Becoming a body of water was a group exhibition, showcasing
works by UK-based, East-Central European women artists. The show explored the social experience of
being and becoming a CEE migrant woman through notions of adaptability, resilience, self-exploration,
and connection with surroundings and the natural world.
The exhibition is inspired by the concept of hydrofeminism, developed by a cultural scholar and writer
Astrida Neimanis. Neimanis’ writing and research focus on the cultural, social and political relationships
between aquatic environments and Earth’s inhabitants, whose bodies are built primarily from water.
Neimanis calls for a reevaluation of systems of power and responsibility, and advocates for creating
sustainable bonds within the environment and between humans, based on care, trust and empathy.
In the Western art history, water has often been a symbol of transformation, change or unpredictability. It is
ever-flowing and can take any course, depending on the circumstances and the vessel it inhabits. The
exhibition revised the ideas of fluidity, adaptability and empathy concerning the East-Central European
women artists' migration experiences.
Acceptance of change is a crucial element of the process of socialisation in a new environment, which
eventually becomes home. We are ever-becoming, questioning our forms or essences as something
fixed, solid and rigid. This fluidity becomes a tool of one’s resilience and agency.
Showcased works delved into fluidity on the symbolic level, through the explorations of self or the
environment, but also on the literal level, by experimenting with textures, and natural materials, playing
with the idea of preserving the elusive. The exhibition celebrates the resilience of CEE migrant women
and provides a platform for their work and expression, which continues to be underrepresented in the
contemporary art sector in the UK.
Participating artists: Natalia Janula, Maja A. Ngom, Miroslava Vecerova, Ana Milenkovic, Katia Kesic,
Anna Kostritskaya, Noemi S. Conan
