about

Interests - syllogomania, collecting, cabinet of curiosities, various aspects of escapism, burelque, re-performance, urban farming, anthropology of eating, cook books, new narrative modes at the visual arts, puppet theatre, social design.

Joanna Zielińska - is an art historian, writer and curator based in Poland. She is a curator at the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor – Cricoteka /  Kraków. Zielinska is the former Chief Curator at the Znaki Czasu Centre of Contemporary Art (CoCA) in Toruń, Poland, where she curated the inaugural exhibition and the institution’s program from 2008-2010. She has collaborated with websites and art magazines, contributed to art catalogues and published over sixty articles. From 2003 to 2007, Zielinska worked with the curatorial collective Exgirls.  She was a guest curator at the Postgraduate Studies Programme in Curatorial Practice and Theory at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 2010 / 2011 she was in residence at International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York. In 2012 curatorial residency at HIAP / Helsinki & creative scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Culture. Currently, she is working on a long-term project on artist novels (2012–2013), in collaboration with David Maroto.

Contact: cswjoanka@gmail.com