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Curatorial tour of the Mariusz Hermanowicz exhibition All traces
15.09.2024 (Sunday), 13:00
Bydgoszcz Art Center, Jagiellońska 47
Free admission
The curatorial tour of the Mariusz Hermanowicz exhibition "All Traces" will be led by Mikołaj Chmieliński and Alicja Lesiów.
Mikołaj Chmieliński – an art historian specializing in the history of Polish photography after 1945. He graduated from the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw. He is the main prize winner of the 33rd edition of the Jan and Wojciech Wawrzynków Award for the best master's thesis on the political history, culture, and social issues of Silesia. Between 2020 and 2022, he collaborated with the Inna Przestrzeń Foundation, where he was, among other roles, the editorial coordinator of the portal "Kontynent Warszawa - Warsaw of Many Cultures". Since 2023, he has been an archive specialist at the Archeology of Photography Foundation.
Alicja Lesiów – a visual artist, educator, curator, and digitization specialist at the Archeology of Photography Foundation. She graduated from the Film School in Łódź with a degree in photography (2024) and the Jelenia Góra School of Photography (2018). In her work, she often explores intermedia collisions between photographs and archival materials, focusing on the relationship between humans and the environment. She has conducted original workshops on historical photographic techniques at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art. Her works have been exhibited both in Poland and abroad, including in Vilnius and Paris. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and artistic events, including the International Photography Festival "Interphoto" in Białystok (2021), the Photography Festival "w Ramach Sopotu" (2023), the Polish Photo Brunch in Paris (2023), as well as the Łódź Fotofestiwal (2022).