Aneta Szylak (1959-2023) was a curator, writer, and the co-founder and current Director of Wyspa Institute of Art. Since 2010, Szylak had been Artistic Director of Alternativa, a series of exhibitions and events, which seeks new directions for art and its social role. After co-founding and running the Laznia (Bathhouse) Centre for Contemporary Art (1998-2001), she continued her career as an independent curator and researcher. Since 2004, Szylak had been responsible for programming Wyspa—the intellectual environment for contemporary visual culture—in the Gdańsk Shipyard. In 2005, she received the Jerzy Stajuda Award “for independent and uncompromising curatorial practice.” Szylak had a long interest in located practice, and her exhibitions were characterized by a strong response to cultural, political, social, architectural, and institutional particularities. She taught and lectured at many art institutions and universities including Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem, New School University, Queens College, New York University, Florida Atlantic University, Goldsmith College, Copenhagen University, and worked as a guest professor at the Akademie für Bildende Künste in Mainz, Germany.
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