Mirela Baciak

Descripción del Profesional del arte

Mirela Baciak will be the next director of Salzburger Kunstverein. She will take up the position in July 2023 for a five-year term with a possible extension. Baciak comes to Salzburger Kunstverein from steirischer herbst festival, where since 2019 she has served as curator for visual art and performance. Mirela Baciak (b. 1987, Warsaw) is a curator in the field of visual arts whose practice is guided by the notion of hospitality as a process which captures one’s ethical relation to the unknown and the strange. Since 2019, she has served as curator at steirischer herbst festival in Graz, where she has been developing new artistic commissions and performance formats for the festival’s various editions. Last year, she and David Riff also curated the special exhibition A War in the Distance. Prologue. An Embattled Ukraine in Video Art and Film. Before joining steirischer herbst, Baciak worked at Public Art Munich 2018, a perennial that investigated ways in which art can exist in the public realm through newly commissioned performances and interventions. Baciak was a fellow or curator-in-residence at the EDI Global Forum for Education and Integration by Fondazione Morra Greco (2022), ARAC Bucharest (2022), Shanghai Curators Lab II (2019), HOW Art Museum Shanghai (2019), Dhaka Art Summit (2018), CCA Warsaw (2018), kültüř gemma and Kunsthalle Wien (2017), and the 7th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course (2016). On a freelance basis Baciak has also curated and co-curated exhibitions, most recently Suspension of Disbelief (2023) at TANK Shanghai, Something Soft, Something Strange, Something Scary (2023) at PGS Sopot, the screening program Surface Tension (2022) at Blickle Kino, Belvedere21, and Nature \ nature (2019) at Kunstraum Niederösterreich, and as associated researcher has contributed to the art-based research project Mythopoesis for Techno-Living Systems (2021–ongoing). Baciak holds an MA in Critical Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where she was also a guest lecturer (2022) and an exhibition-committee member (2020–2021). In 2023, she initiated the AAC | Austrian Association of Curators, an organization that fosters curatorial-knowledge production, where she continues serving as a board member. Mirela Baciak succeeds Séamus Kealy, who recently took on his new role as executive director of Oakville Galleries. Baciak’s program at Salzburger Kunstverein will begin in 2024. Through 2023, she remains involved in part with steirischer herbst, completing projects she has been developing for the festival.

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Suspension of Disbelief

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