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
Between October and December 2022, I commissioned artists Dana Olărescu and Noemi Gunea, who collaborated on Food Resilience, a series of weekly workshops debating food politics with Londoners of Eastern European heritage.
Commissioned by POMOC (Polish Migrants Organise for Change), and generously hosted by Calthorpe Community Garden, the project explored food, plant, and cultivation knowledge-sharing as a tactic to withstand and organise during the cost of living crisis.
Alternative economics became an underlying theme. Participants bonded through their shared ancestral fears of famine, violence, and invasion, while dreaming of wider networks of mutual aid. Selected artists were also invited to facilitate the sessions. Artist and educator Magda Fabianczyk invited everyone to make a ‘democratic soup’; performance artist Anca Dimofte asked for soil regeneration pledges during the Day of the Dead celebrations; and fine artists Olha Pryymak and Lika Tarkhan-Mouravi debated Eastern colonialism through the prism of Georgian tea.
A final public-facing event took place in December, with contributions from artists, activists, food lovers, therapists, and other community members whose paths crossed at Calthorpe Community Garden. These included learning about setting up food co-operatives, reflections on migrant land workers’ rights, and navigating daily stresses.
The workshops informed a zine which is freely accessible here.
