Amsterdam Art Weekend 2018

Kasia Redzisz

Functie: Senior Curator Tate Liverpool Land: United Kingdom Bezoekperiode: 22 - 25 november Bezoekjaar: 2018 Onderdeel van Amsterdam Art Weekend 2018

Kasia Redzisz. Photo: veerle vercauteren

Kasia Redzisz is Senior Curator at Tate Liverpool, where she is responsible for the museum’s programme of exhibitions, collection displays and international collaborations. Since 2015 she curated touring retrospectives of Maria Lassnig, Francis Bacon and Edward Krasiński as well as new commissions by artists such as Ugo Rondinone, Judy Chicago (both in public space) and Sol Calero (forthcoming).

Between 2010 – 2015 she was Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, working on retrospectives of Alighiero Boetti, Mira Schendel and Sigmar Polke, as well as a number of group shows and film programmes. Over the past 5 years Redzisz has served as one of the lead curators of Tate Russia and Eastern Europe Acquisition Committee setting up the collection strategy for art from the region. Her independent projects include a major retrospective of Mirosław Bałka at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź (2016) and interdisciplinary exhibitions encompassing visual arts, film, performance and contemporary dance such as “For Each Gesture Another Character” (2014) and “Modest Muses” (2015). As co-founder of Open Art Projects, between 2008 and 20014 Redzisz curated and produced a number large scale commissions in Poland, US, UK, Grermany and Brazil. In 2011, together with artist, Mirosław Bałka, she established “Otwock”, a project exploring the notion of locality and the relationship between art and place. It features site-specific commissions, exhibitions and contributions by  international artists including Lara Alamrcegui, Tacita Dean, Luc Tuymans, Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, Marc Camille Chaimowicz,Taus Makhacheva and Lawrence Weiner. Redzisz is an author of books and essays on contemporary art. She edited  and contributed to numerous catalogues and published critical texts in magazines such as “Frieze” and “Tate etc.”. She is currently working on the exhibition inaugurating the activity of Muzeum Susch in Switzerland.