Talk Series: Marta Czyz

Marta Czyż is an art historian, independent curator and critic. She Lives and works in Warsaw. Curator of the Polish Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 (with an exhibition by the Ukrainian collective Open Group). Her practice draws on archives and recent developments in art history to influence culture and social movements. She researches the history of exhibitions in Poland and the profession of curator.


Since 2019 she is focused on Ukrainian art. She graduated in Art History faculty in Warsaw University, curatorial studies in Jagiellonian University in Cracow. She was also participating in the Erasmus program in Freie Universitat in Berlin. She has realised her exhibitions at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, BWA Zielona Góra (Poland), MOS Gorzów (Poland), and the National Museum in Szczecin (Poland) and other. In 2020, she curated the 10th Contexts Festival of Ephemeral Arts in Sokolowsko (Poland) and the 9th Youth Triennale at the Centre for Polish Sculpture in Oronsko (Poland).

In 2022 she created the exhibition “Society of Discouragement” at the History Meeting House in Warsaw (with Yuriy Biley). She regularly publishes texts for the catalogues and in the art and opinion press (Dwutygodnik, Vogue Polska, Polityka, miejmiejsce, Wysokie Obcasy, Camera Austria, Follow.art). In 2015 she published (together with Julia Wielgus) the book "In the frame of the exhibition - conversations with curators". Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture. Member of the AICA.