Magda Lipska

Magda Lipska is a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, where she curated and co-curated a number of exhibitions such as Who Will Write the History of Tears? Artists on Women’s Rights (2021) and Niepodległe, Women and the National Discourse (2018). She co-edited Was Socialist Realism Global? Modernism, Soc-modernism, Socially Engaged Figuration (2023) with Piotr Slodkowski; and Hope Is of a Different Color: From the Global South to the Lodz Film School (2022) with Monika Talarczyk. Past curatorial projects include Dance Scene at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2013) and Stage & Twist at the Tate Modern in London (2012). She is a co-founder of the research project “Performance as the Paradigm for the Arts,” researching the genealogies and historicity of performance art in Eastern Europe, established at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in collaboration with Andre Lepecki, Associate Professor in Performance Studies, New York University. Lipska studied Cultural Sciences in Warsaw and Berlin, and Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths College in London. She currently lives and works in Warsaw and London.