Małgorzata Ludwisiak

Dr Małgorzata Ludwisiak – historian and art critic, curator, cultural institution manager, lecturer. Member of the board of the International Committee for Museums of Modern Art (CIMAM) (since 2020), where she chaired the Scientific Committee and is currently responsible for, among other things, programming webinars and preparing conferences. Doctor of Humanities, she graduated in art history from the University of Łódź and the University of Vigo, and studied philosophy at the University of Łódź. 

Currently an independent curator, responsible, among other things, for the Albanian Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale in 2026. In 2023–2024, she worked as deputy director for programming at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, participating in the work on opening the new building to the public. From September 2021 to November 2022, she was the chief curator of the Modern Art Department of the National Museum in Gdańsk, responsible, among other things, for opening NOMUS to the public. Previously, she was director of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (2014-2019) and deputy director of the Museum of Art in Łódź (2008-2014). 

She was the director of Łódź Biennale 2006 and the initiator and director of Łódź Design 2007 – the first design and architecture festival in Poland. In 2004–2006, she worked as a reviewer in the culture section of Gazeta Wyborcza Łódź, and previously – among others – in the editorial office of City Magazine. She lectured on art history and cultural dissemination at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (2007-2010), and in recent years also on curating and cultural management (University of Łódź, Academy of Art in Szczecin, Skvot). She curated, among others, the exhibition El Hadji Sy. At first I thought I was dancing at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw (2016), and co-curated, together with Jarosław Lubiak, the monumental exhibition ‘Correspondences. Modern Art and Universalism’ at the Museum of Art in Łódź (2012-2013), nominated for the annual TVP Kultura award as the event of the year in the visual arts. In her speeches and theoretical texts, she explores the relationship between art and its institutions and the social environment.