BIO

Art historian and critic, exhibition curator, writer, organizer of Polish art life. She headed the Zachęta National Art Gallery for many years. She co-founded the independent Egit Foundation (1986), the Institute for the Promotion of Art Foundation (1998) and the Center for Contemporary Art of the Batory Foundation (1992). In 1988-1993 she chaired the Polish Section of the International Association of Art Critics AICA, and later became vice-chair of the Association’s Board of Directors (1994-2000).

She has numerous texts on art, published in more than a dozen languages. She has curated numerous exhibitions promoting Polish art at home and abroad (including at the Venice and São Paulo Biennials), as well as issue exhibitions from Germany and Russia to the USA and South Korea. Of exceptional interest to Polish audiences were her exhibitions: Where Is Your Brother Abel, 1995, Gray in Color 1956-1970 (2000) and Warsaw-Moscow/Moscow-Warsaw 1900-2000 (2004-2005), as well as international exhibitions: Next to. Poland-Germany. 1000 Years of History in Art (Berlin, 2011), Progress and Hygiene (Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, 2014), Perspective on the Age of Adolescence (Silesian Museum, Katowice 2018; OM Museum, Vilnius 2021). She is the author of the novel Please Very Much (2009; 2021), the book Art in Poland 1945-2005 (2005), a collection of essays Draft (2009) and Spread (2023) sketches on Polish artists Approaches (2020), diaries: Berlin Depression (2017) and The List (2019), a book dedicated to the figure of Harald Szeemann From Poland with Love (2019; 2021). She hosts a regular program on Tok FM radio (with Anna Waclawik-Orpik) called Andymateria, as well as a culture section in the monthly magazine Vogue.