Marianna Dobkowska is an art historian and curator of residencies, projects, and exhibitions. She is using curatorial practice as a tool for building relations and fostering situations (often based on long-term and international collaborations), bringing together practices from the fields of visual and performing arts, education, and activism. She lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. Dobkowska received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Warsaw and completed postgraduate studies in curating at Jagiellonian University. She is a recipient of “Młoda Polska”, a stipend from the Ministry of Culture of Poland for young Polish artists and curators; the stipend of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland; and grants from Backers Foundation (Tokyo), CEC Artslink (New York), and Getty Foundation.
Since 2004, she has co-curated a residency program at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, which is one of the leading residency programs in Central Europe. She is a co-creator and co-curator of the Re-Directing: East professional development seminars held annually at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (2011–2020). Together with Krzysztof Łukomski, she curated a two-year-long project and exhibition at the National Gallery of Indonesia in Jakarta titled Social Design for Social Living (2015–2016), as well as the exhibition-meeting Gotong Royong. Things We Do Together at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (2017–2018). She is involved in the international network Red de Pedagogias Empaticas. Dobkowska recently curated an online and offline seminar Re-Directing: East x Empathic Pedagogies - Future Intimacies (2020), and co-edited (with Krzysztof Łukomski) Things We Do Together. Post-reader, published by Mousse Publishing and Ujazdowski Castle (2020). Together with Sebastian Cichocki, she curated Konteksty. Postartistic Congress in Sokołowsko, Poland (2021–) and Postartictic Assembly part of Gwangju Biennale 2023. She is a founding member of the Office for Postartistic Practices.
