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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.
Selected Projects:
1. 07.03 - 11.04.24 - Curator - WRACK LINE, High Holborn, LCF UAL, London
2. 04 - 06.25 (upcoming) - Co-curator - The Future of Curatorship, Paul Mellon Centre
3. 12.2023 - Co-Curator - Spoken Worlds, British Art Network
4. 02-06.2023 - Guest Curator - On Resilience, Migration Matters Festival, Sheffield
5. 04.2023 - Curator - Becoming a body of water, David Kovats Gallery, London
6. 09-12.2022 - Curator - Food Resilience, Polish Migrants Organise for Change, London
7. 02-05.2022 - Producer - OUTCOME, BACKLIT, Nottingham
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
2. 10.2024: GEM Artist Residency - Janhavi Sharma, BACKLIT
3. 08.2023:
Exotic Cosmopolitanism: Magdalena Abakanowicz at Tate Modern, Art Margins
4. 05. 2022: The Porosity of British Art, British Art Network
5. 01.2022: For some, home is somewhere in between, British Art UnCanon
Selected Awards, Grants and Bursaries:
1. Paul Mellon Centre Seminar Support Grant 2024
2. ECG Legacy Fund 2023
3. 10.2023-10.2029: Techne
AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership for PhD: Representation of East-Central European women artists in the history of exhibitions in England after 1989.
4. 06.2022: Art Trade Training and Bursary, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
5.12.2021-12.2022: Developing Your Creative Practice Grant, Arts Council England
6.10.2020-11.2021: Emerging Curators Group Bursary, TATE, British Art Network and Paul Mellon Centre
︎ m.marsicka@gmail.com