Joanna Warsza

Joanna Warsza is a City Curator of Hamburg and an editor, educator and writer, interested in how art functions politically and socially outside the white cubes, her other focuses are the decolonisation in Eastern Europe, art and activism or the theory of performativity. She has co-curated several biennales and large scale projects, such as, in 2024, Radical Playgrounds at Gropius Bau Berlin, in 2022, the Polish-Romani pavilion at the 59 Venice Biennale, or the 3. and 4. Autostrada Biennale in Kosovo. She was also the Artistic Director of Public Art Munich 2018, curator of the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale and associate curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale among other projects. She is an editor of several publications, such as Assuming Asymmetries: Conversations on Curating Public Art Projects of the 1980s and 1990s (Sternberg Press, 2022), And Warren Niesłuchowski Was There: Guest, Host, Ghost (Cabinet, FGF and Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2020), Red Love. A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai (with Michele Masucci and Maria Lind, 2020), The City Curating Reader (2018) I Can’t Work Like This: A Reader on Recent Boycotts and Contemporary Art (2017). In Spring 2020 and 2021 together with Övül Ö. Durmusoglu she co-initiated the community project Die Balkone. Life, art, pandemic, and proximity in windows and balconies of Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin, where they both live.