Anna Łazar

Curator of the Free Word international art collaboration programme within the framework of the Gdańsk City of Literature project, creator of projects revolving around contemporary culture, translator (including Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic: Poems, Warsztaty Kultury Publishng House in Lublin, 2023;Oksana Zabuzhko, Wormwood Planet, Agora, 2022, Dlaczego w sztuce ukraińskiej są wielkie artystki, Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation, 2020), editor of Aleksandra Kubiak's book Zrobię serce, BWA Zielona Góra, 2022, author of articles (Gdańsk City of Literature, Nowa Europa Wschodnia, New Eastern Europe, Herito, Czas Kultury, Czas Literatury), professor at postgraduate studies at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2019-2023) and Maria Konopnicka and Maria Dulębianka Gender Studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Science (2020-2023). She worked as a diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as deputy director and acting director of the Polish Institutes in Kyiv (2008-2014) and St. Petersburg (2015-2018), and as curator at the Museum of Art in Łódź (2021-2022). Curator of exhibitions: Distant Tolerable Murder (Berlin, urban space, 2022), What a Fabolous Place We Are In (Museum of Art n Łódź, 2022), Lesia Pcholka's The Street of Weakness (Gdńnsk City Gallery, 2022), I Don't Know Who Told Me the Story (Warsaw Exhibition Bureau and the Zofia and Wacław Nałkowski Museum in Wołomin, 2021), Ukraine. Mutual Views (ICC Kraków, 2021), Anna Baumgart's Table for Women (Zofia and Wacław Nałkowski Museum in Wołomin, 2020).