studied art history at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, and at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. He was active in the 1970s and 1980s independent culture movement. He is a member of CIMAM (International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art; ICOM stands for the International Council of Museums), AICA (International Association of Art Critics) and the Associations of Art Historians. In 1991–1996 he was director of the Museum of Art in Łódź, where he had worked since 1980. In 2006–2008 he ran the Warsaw-based Foksal Gallery. He has taught art studies, exhibition design and museology at the State Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź, the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, the Institute of Art History of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and at many other institutions in Poland and abroad. He has organized or co-organized many exhibitions, authored a number of studies, texts and interviews with artists and worked on films about art. He now works as an independent curator. Currently on view is the exhibition “Marek Chlanda: Beatifications 2006–2007” he curated at Poznań’s National Museum and he is preparing an exhibition for the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Joseph Beuys and Tadeusz Kantor. Memory, which is to be held in 2012.
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