Curator, art historian, author, book editor, lecturer. Since 2017 Director and Head Curator of TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin. Between 2008-2017, Programme Director of CSW Kronika in Bytom. He studied History of Art at the Jagiellonian University. Since 2021 he is a Chairman of Council at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. His research is focused on the relationship between art and social and political changes, the issue of sexuality and death, and borderline phenomena in contemporary art.
He curated among others: Natalia Romik. Hideouts. Architecture of Survival (cocurated with Kuba Szreder, Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Waraw, TRAFO, Szczecin 2022); Leif Elgrenn. A Different Kind of Presense (cocurated with Antoni Michnik; TRAFO Szczecin, 2019), Katya Shadkovska. Yeltsin Death Brigade (TRAFO Szczecin, 2019), Skip the line! Populism and Contemporary Promises (cocurated with Jakub Gawkowski, Biennale Warszawa, Warsaw 2019); Je brûle Paris! (Cité internationale des arts, Paris 2015), Satan’s Children (Fundacja Imago Mundi, National Museum, Kraków 2015), Project Metropolis (Kronika, Bytom, Fundacja Imago Mundi, Silesian Museum, Katowice 2015), The Wall. Art Face To Face With Borders (Careof DOCVA, Milan, 2015, TRAFO Szczecin 2017), Plica Polonica (Kronika, Bytom 2014), Your City is a Battlefield (Museum Of Modern Art, Warszawa 2014), The Face of the Day. Social Costs in Poland after 1989 (ArtBoom Festival, Kraków 2014), Łukasz Surowiec. Beggars (Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków 2013), Negotiators and Dreamers (Careof DOCVA, Milan 2013), Collier Schorr. German Faces (Kronika, Bytom 2011), Vienna Actionism. Society’s Opposite Pole (MOCAK, Kraków 2011), Catholics in Kronika (Kronika, Bytom 2010), Umpolen (Museum Quartier, Freiraum, Vienna 2007). In 2003-2004, he assisted Andrzej Urbanowicz, Polish cult psychodelic painter, at the legendary studio Piastowska 1 in Katowice. At the time, he collaborated with Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej BWA Katowice as a curator. In the years 2007-2009, lecturer with the Śląsk University in Katowice – Art Institute in Cieszyn; in the years 2014-2017 – at the Academy of Arts in Katowice; and 2017-2020 at the Szczecin Academy of Art.
Resident with apexart in New York (2009), Careof DOCVA in Milan (2013, 2015), Cité internationale des arts in Paris (2017), MeetFactory in Prague (2018).
In 2014, he was announced the curator of the year in Poland in the ranking of the art magazine “Obieg”. In 2015, he was nominated for the “Guarantees of Culture 2015” award at TVP Kultura in the category of visual arts. The justification said: “Tireless and stubborn titan in curatorial work. For the exhibition „Faces of the Day“ about the costs of political transformation. For the international Project Metropolis, a multidimensional, three-year attempt to create an image of contemporary Silesia. For his work at the CSW Kronika in Bytom, which made the insitution famous throughout Poland”.