DEBATE: THE ART OF WOMEN - WOMEN IN ART March 18, 2024 (TUESDAY), 6:00 PM

Meet the speakers

Agata Kołacz – Program Director of the Malta Festival. Cultural manager, curator, and leader of international cooperation. At TR Warszawa (2017–2023), she was responsible for the theatre’s international projects and partnerships, collaborating with leading festivals such as Festival d’Avignon, FTA Montréal, Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Wiener Festwochen, Romaeuropa, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, and Festival/Tokyo. TR Warszawa productions were presented at major stages across Europe, including the International Theatre Festival in Amsterdam, Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Comédie de Genève, and Centro Dramático Nacional in Madrid. At the National Audiovisual Institute (2014–2017), she developed international cooperation and represented NInA in networks such as EUNIC and FIAT/IFTA, organizing its world conference in Warsaw in 2016. She previously collaborated with Arte Europe and the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, and worked at Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk (2012–2014). She co-organized and acted as spokesperson for the No Women No Art Festival and Enter Enea Festival in Poznań. She has been connected with the Malta Festival for nearly 20 years.

Anna Sańczuk – Journalist, art historian, and author of cultural podcasts and programs. She collaborates with Vogue Polska (culture section, podcasts Jak ona to robi and Filozofia jest dla dziewczyn, co-created with Dr. Katarzyna Kasia), Newsweek (Strefa Kultury), Spotkania z zabytkami, Polish Radio, and Hala Odlotów on TVP Kultura. She works regularly with festivals such as Ciało/Umysł, Kielce International Theatre Festival, and Big Book Festival.

Irmina Walczak – Photographer, anthropologist, and educator. PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Brasília. She lived in Brazil for 13 years, where she began her research on the anthropology of everyday life and family relations. Author of Retratos pra Yayá (Portraits for Yaya) – a monograph on childhood free from technology and immersed in nature. Co-founder of the women’s collective TiT. Mentor of women’s creative groups in Poland and Brazil. Editor-in-chief of the photography magazine Clan. Author of texts for journals and photobooks. Mother. Traveler.

Marta Czyż – Art historian, curator, writer, and activist. Curator of Repeat after me II by the Ukrainian collective Open Group, a profoundly moving work presented at the Polish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale and later at Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. She regularly publishes on contemporary art in Polish journals and Vogue. Beyond her curatorial work, she reflects on the intersections of motherhood and artistic practice. At BWA Zielona Góra, she curated Alma Mater – Prologue, inviting four mother-artists to raise awareness of the often invisible challenges faced by women balancing artistic and family life.

Monika Szewczyk-Wittek – Specialist in communication, education, and media. For over a decade she has lectured at the Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies, University of Warsaw. She supports photojournalists and reporters. In 2021, she published her first book, Jedyne. Nieopowiedziane historie polskich fotografek (The Only Ones. Untold Stories of Polish Women Photographers). She also runs a photography podcast for Fotopolis.

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