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Szyłak, Aneta
Aneta Szyłak has worked as a curator and art critic based in Gdańsk, Poland since 1985. She is a Vice-President of the Wyspa Progress Foundation, a non-profit art organization established in 1994. In 1998 Aneta Szyłak founded the Center for Contemporary Art Łaźnia (Bathhouse) and was its Director until spring 2001. Currently she is a co-founder of the Wyspa Institute of Art – the intellectual environment for contemporary visual culture – in the former Gdańsk Shipyard premises. Her most recent shows include “Dockwatchers” (2005) at Wyspa Institute of Art, “Architectures of Gender” (2005) at SculptureCenter, NYC, “The Palimpsest Museum – 1st Biennale of Polish Art” (2004) in Łódź, and “Health & Safety” (2004) at Wyspa Institute of Art. She has written over a hundred texts about contemporary art, published in catalogues, books, and art magazines in Poland and abroad. She co-edited a book entitled “The Site of Idea. The Idea of Site” (1995) covering the first 10 years of the Gdańsk alternative art scene history. Currently she has been awarded the Jerzy Stajuda Award for “independent and uncompromising curatorial practice” (2005).
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Aneta Szyłak has worked as a curator and art critic based in Gdańsk, Poland since 1985. She is a Vice-President of the Wyspa Progress Foundation, a non-profit art organization established in 1994. In 1998 Aneta Szyłak founded the Center for Contemporary Art Łaźnia (Bathhouse) and was its Director until spring 2001. Currently she is a co-founder of the Wyspa Institute of Art – the intellectual environment for contemporary visual culture – in the former Gdańsk Shipyard premises. Her most recent shows include “Dockwatchers” (2005) at Wyspa Institute of Art, “Architectures of Gender” (2005) at SculptureCenter, NYC, “The Palimpsest Museum – 1st Biennale of Polish Art” (2004) in Łódź, and “Health & Safety” (2004) at Wyspa Institute of Art. She has written over a hundred texts about contemporary art, published in catalogues, books, and art magazines in Poland and abroad. She co-edited a book entitled “The Site of Idea. The Idea of Site” (1995) covering the first 10 years of the Gdańsk alternative art scene history. Currently she has been awarded the Jerzy Stajuda Award for “independent and uncompromising curatorial practice” (2005).
beteiligt an › Ewa Partum: The Legality of Space › The Mousetrap
