Marta Grabowska
Curatorial Activism
since 2021
Dla kobiet wczoraj, dziś i jutro!
Jesteśmy inicjatywą obywatelską. Działamy na rzecz kobiet w duchu siostrzeństwa silniejszego niż
czas. Wydobywamy z cienia dorobek naszych poprzedniczek, wzmacniamy siebie nawzajem dzisiaj, a dziewczynom z następnych pokoleń chcemy zostawić równiejszy świat. To nasze trzy filary:
• Herstoria – upowszechniamy wiedzę o dokonaniach kobiet w przeszłości;
• Sprawczość – walczymy o widoczność kobiet dziś, sieciując siostrzeństwo;
• Nadzieja – poszukujemy narzędzi dialogu w spolaryzowanym świecie.
Chcemy doprowadzić do utworzenia pierwszej instytucji publicznej w Polsce poświęconej sztuce i historii kobiet. Więcej o tym możesz przeczytać tutaj
2023 Jak nie zgubić sztuki kobiet? Conversation series, MuHER, Dom Norymberski
2023 Deep Sea Babies conference, We are all bodied of Water, short film screening, Dom Norymberski, Kraków, Poland
2022 We are All Bodies of Water, short film screening, Kino Paradox, Kraków, Poland
2022 Hilma af Klint. The Pioneer of Abstraction, film screening, Kino Pradox, Kraków, Poland
2022 Ariadna Zine launch, Eszeweria, Kraków, Poland
2022 I am by Ogi Ugonoh, film screening, Kino Paradox, Kraków, Poland
2022 Czas pozytywistek, production of satellite events during the literary conference, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
2021 How to Design a Participatory Museum, virtual tour of the HERstory of Art Museum, Fundacja Galerii Piana, Kraków, Poland
HERstory of Art Museum's Jak nie zgubić sztuki kobiet/ How Not to Lose Women's Art, at Dom Norymberski, Kraków, Poland:
18.05.2023 Jak samej o sobie nie zapominać? Dylematy nie tylko artystek z w/Marcelina Amelia
25.05.2023 Jakich krakowskich artystek – na pewno! – nie chcemy zapomnieć?
w/Alicja Zioło
1.06.2023 ak nie szufladkować kobiet? Sztuka nie do szuflady w/Agata Kokoryn
NOC POEZJI - conversation with Malgorzata Drohomirecka
Malw Miel "Sprawię, że oszalejesz"
Margarita Dyushko, „Maci. Jana jašče tut | Mother. She’s still Here”
other
2022 Abstract Dialogues: Joanna Pottle and Julia Leś, STAKKATO, Kraków, Poland
2021 The Polonia Case: Artist Discussion, Malgorzata Drohomirecka, Izabela Morska, Ula Chowaniec, Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Talks:
2022 Demakijaż Festival of Women's Art: Care, Lublin, Poland
since 2020
Red Zenith Collective is a dedicated platform for empowering and supporting women, female-identifying and non-binary creatives from Eastern and Central Europe, with events to encourage collaborative learning and promote cultural understanding. It was founded by Marta Grabowska, an independent Polish curator and Zula Rabikowska, Polish photographer.
2020 Faces of Racism in CEE, the Red Zenith Collective seminar, online
RED ZENITH DIALOGUES, an online series for the Red Zenith Collective interviews with women and non-binary creatives with a link to CEE:
Dec 2021 Women 21 Century Collective w/ Maja Kolarz
Nov 2021 The Ambiguity of Visual Representations of Trauma and other photographic projects w/ Linda Zhengová
Nov 2021 The Polonia Case w/ Małgorzata Drohomirecka
Jul 2021 Echo Gone Wrong magazine w/ Vitalija Jasaitė and Neringa Černiauskaitė
Jun 2021 The Hidden Mothers Project w/ Tereza Bušková
Apr 2021 Independent curating and the "real face" of the art world w/ Vanessa Giorgio
Apr 2021 What is Slow Art? Slow Exhibition-making w/ Entrance Gallery curators Tereza Jindrová and Veronika Čechová
Apr 2021 I am the emotional gradation of my colors w/ Anca Stefanescu
Mar 2021 Being one of the 100 Artists of Tomorrow w/ Kinga Nowak
Mar 2021 Take your # off my vag w/ dr Alicja Pawluczuk aka HYSTERA
Feb 2021 B-East Association and Polish folk cut-outs w/ Karolina Kazimierska
Feb 2021 Running an independent art gallery - Stroboskop Art Space w/ Kathryn Zazenski
Dec 2020 BLM Movement in Arts and the Power of Dance w/ Julia Stachura
Nov 2020 Aims and values of ZA*Group w/ Vera Zalatuskaya and Yulia Krivich
Oct 2020 Directing the Narva Art Residency w/ Ann Mirjam Vaikla
Sep 2020 LGBTQI+ rights in Romania w/ Antonella Lerca
Aug 2020 Women Cinema and the Demakijaż Film Festival in Lublin w/Joanna Bednarczyk and Jolanta Prochowicz
Jul 2020 Curating and the curatorial in CEE w/ Karina Cabaniková
since 2019
artBLAB runs a series of laid-back lectures about art and its whereabouts. On the artBLAB events, artists and art professionals representing various disciplines come together to celebrate creativity.
I was approached by the founder, Michal Piotrowski, and in July 2019 I delivered a talk about Independent Curating.My participation in the event was followed by a proposition to curate the future line-up and exhibitions. I am responsible for researching and liaising with potential speakers, and share the duties of designing the promo materials, composing interview questions and updating the social media.
I have also created the #artblabonline series that will run for the period of the pandemic and host artists and art professionals based in the UK and abroad.
2020 Text. Innovative poetry Exhibition, artBLAB online
artBLAB online, an online series of Q&A's with interdisciplinary artists from the UK and beyond:
2020 Swimming in Soup w/Niamh Seana Meehan
2020 The Mystery Beyond the Rostrum w/I-Chien Tang
2021 The Face of the Other w/ Marta and Mathew Hawkins, artBLAB online
Kookaburra Gallery
2018 - 2020
Kookaburra Gallery was an online art platform that emerged from the need to find a flexible and alternative exhibition space in London, a city packed with unaffordable to artists and audiences alike, commercial galleries.
The first series of exhibitions included works by Polish photographers: Pawel Piotrowski, Patrycja Bramora, Izabela Jastrzebska and Kinga Swietek.
since 2016
ONE Project is a creative duo with an innovative approach to presenting and perceiving art, championing and researching the notion of Slow Art. Together with Magdalena Zoledz, we curate a program of exhibitions, art residencies and events that centre around the idea of showcasing one artwork.
2020 Slow Art Day festival, artBLABx ONE Project: No return to Comfort Zone, online
2020 Beyond C, Saskia Rodriguez, London, UK
2020 ONE Book Residency vol.2: Ways of Seeing by John Berger, online
2020 ONE Project Messe, Truman Social, London, UK
2018 You Are Only an Image to Me, M. Żołędź, T. Litra, San Mei Gallery, London, UK
2018 Scarlet House, I. Jastrzębska, 971620 GALLERY, Luton, UK
