Team

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  • Photo by Yuliia Frolova
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  • Ika Sienkiewicz-Nowacka
    • Head of the department and Curator
      • Ika is a manager of culture, curator and founder of the Ujazdowski Residencies. She graduated from Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities (University of Warsaw) and holds the European Diploma for Culture Management (Brussels). Member of the Programme Council of Akademie Schloss Solitude and Res Artis. Her research interests centre on the significance of residencies within the fields of artistic and institutional practice. She carries out projects in which visual arts become a tool of social change and are used to shape and promote alternative models of social development.
      • Contact: i.sienkiewicz-nowacka@u-jazdowski.pl
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  • Marianna Dobkowska
    • Curator
      • Marianna is an art historian, she graduated from the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw and postgraduate Museum Curator Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. She has been co-creating the residency programme at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw almost since its very beginning. She views curatorial practice as a tool/method to build creative situations and relations based on long-term and often international cooperation, blending practices originating from visual arts, performance and social activism. 
      • Contact: m.dobkowska@u-jazdowski.pl
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  • Julia Harasimowicz
    • Curator
      • Julia is an art historian and anthropologist. She is currently a PhD student at the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw. She perceives curatorial activity as a form of creative dialogue. She is particularly interested in artistic critical practices and those which reveal general social issues in a microscale.
      • Contact: j.harasimowicz@u-jazdowski.pl
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  • Aleksandra Biedka
    • Office Manager
      • Aleksandra graduated from the Institute of Polish Culture (University of Warsaw). Behind the scenes of the residency programmes production she works on residency logistics, project reports and budget monitoring. She also works in close cooperation with other U–jazdowski departments.
      • Contact: a.biedka@u-jazdowski.pl
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  • Olga Miękus

    • Coordinator of Artist Residencies Projects

      • Olga is University of Warsaw alumni in Linguistics, English Studies, and Culture studies of Central and Southern Europe. As a cultural and media project coordinator, she works with artists active in art, music and film, supporting them in producing and promoting their projects, facilitating connections and cooperation, as well as creating unique experiences. Olga also works as an English-Polish translator, specializing in literature for children. 

      • Contact: o.miekus@u-jazdowski.pl