Composition
of the Program Council

prof. Mirosław Bałka
Beata Jaworowska
dr hab. Katarzyna Kujawska-Murphy
Marek Kuś
Jolanta Męderowicz
Andrzej Szczepłocki
dr hab. Maria Wrońska

On December 15, 2020, by Resolution No. 1186/207/20 of the Pomorskie Voivodeship Board, the Marshal of Pomorskie Voivodeship appointed the Program Council at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Słupsk. The Council is composed of seven people. The Council’s tasks include giving an opinion on the program of activities of the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Słupsk, submitting proposals to the director on matters concerning the gallery, and assisting in the search for new forms of organizational, conceptual and financial support.

prof. Mirosław Bałka 

Prof. of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Sculptor. He also works with drawing and experimental film.

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1985, where he has led the Spatial Activities Studio at the Media Art Department since 2011. He was awarded the Mies van der Rohe Scholarship in Krefeld. Member of Akademie Der Kunste in Berlin. He participated in important international exhibitions such as: Documenta in Kassel (1992), Venice Biennale (1990, 1993, 2003, 2005, 2013),The Carnegie International in Pittsburgh (1995), Sao Paulo Biennale (1998), Sydney Biennale (1992, 2006), Santa Fe Biennale (2006). In 2009 he realized the project “How It Is” at the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern in London. He is the author of the memorial to the victims of the “Estonia” ferry disaster in Stockholm (1998). His works are in major museum collections around the world including. : Tate Modern / London, Van Abbemuseum / Eindhoven, MOCA / Los Angeles, SFOMA / San Francisco, MOMA / New York, Hirshhorn Museum / Washington DC, Art Institute / Chicago, The Carnegie Museum of Art / Pittsburgh, Museu Serralves / Porto, Moderna Museet / Stockholm, Kiasma / Helsinki, Kroller Muller / Otterlo, The National Museum of Art / Athens, The National Museum of Art / Osaka, The Israel Museum / Jerusalem. In Poland, among others: Museum of Art / Lodz, CCA / Warsaw, Zachęta / Warsaw, Museum of Modern Art / Warsaw, National Museum / Wroclaw, MOCAK / Krakow.

Beata Jaworowska 

representative of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Board

dr hab. Katarzyna Kujawska-Marphy

prof. nadzw. UAP in Poznań.

The main field of Katarzyna Kujawska-Murphy’s artistic research is space and time in the context of the psychophysiology of perception – which is visualized by do-space installations. The artist also explores the social aspects of human existence in the psychology of the city. The aesthetics of modernism and constructivism, which are close to her, as well as the video art of the 1960s and 1970s characterize her drawing activities, installations and films. A large part of her artistic explorations are authorial curatorial ventures in Poland and Japan. She is a graduate of two art colleges: Central Saint Martin College of Art and Design in London (1996), the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań – today the UAP University of Arts, where she is head of the 8th Drawing Studio. She is an associate professor. In 2011, she received a state decoration: “Meritorious for Polish Culture”. She is a laureate of the Prize of the Minister of Culture and Art (National Painting Review, Promotions’97, Legnica).

She has participated as a speaker in many international symposia, including Columbia University and the School of Visual Arts in New York (in cooperation with the Foundation), also Kyoto University in Japan. He has curated many international projects, including Regeneration Through Art of Forgotten Districts of Poznan, art festivals in cooperation with centers in London and Osaka. She promotes Polish contemporary art during exhibitions at Contemporary Art Space Osaka in Japan. Since 2005, she has carried out permanent exchanges between the Polish and Japanese art communities in Osaka, Japan. Most of her undertakings have the honorary patronage of the Japanese Embassy in Warsaw and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tokyo, as well as the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.


She exhibits in Poland and abroad, mainly in England (London), Japan (Osaka, Tokyo), South Korea, Germany (Berlin, Hannover, BAUHAUS -Dessau, Wiesbaden), Italy, New York, USA, Ukraine, Taiwan. She regularly publishes and writes introductions to art catalogs and magazines. She lives and works in Poznan and London.

www.kujawska-murphy.com

Marek Kuś

Artist, curator, exhibition organizer. Co-founder of the Kronika Gallery in Bytom, director of the BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art in Katowice.

He studied at the Institute of Art Education at the University of Silesia in Cieszyn, where a special authority for him was Prof. Jerzy Wroński, who significantly influenced the nature of his work. In his artistic activity he reaches for various forms: from performance through drawing and sculpture to installation and actions in public space. In his works, the motif of creeping figures recurs obsessively, interacting strongly with the place where they are exhibited.

Selected solo exhibitions

1985 – Panopticum Student Club, University of Silesia, Cieszyn | Panopticum Student Club, University of Silesia, Cieszyn; 1986 – Railway Station, Bielsko-Biala | Railway Station, Bielsko-Biala; Panopticum Student Club, University of Silesia, Cieszyn | Panopticum Student Club, University of Silesia, Cieszyn; 1987 – Performance Against Killing Unborn Children, Student Church, Cieszyn ; Branch of University of Silesia, Cieszyn; 1988 – Works, Pisuart Gallery, Cieszyn; BWA University Gallery, Cieszyn [with Piotr Lutyensky]; 1990 – BWA, Bytom; Works, Dziekanka Gallery, Warsaw; 1990 – Three Works, Miejsce Gallery, Cieszyn, [cat. ]; 1993 -Objects, Gallery 6, Gliwice [with Piotr Lutyensky]; 1994 – Columns [with Piotr Lutyensky] City Gallery, Wroclaw, [cat. ]; 1995 – X, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, [cat.]; 1997 – Performance Juxtaposition, Bukleina Theater, Cracow; 1998 – 14 Tables, Biblioteka Gallery, Tarnowskie Góry; 1999 – Tables, Galeria Otwarta, Cracow; 1999 – Works, Pokaz Krytyków Gallery, Warsaw; 2002 – Galeria Inny Śląsk, Tarnowskie Góry; 2006 – Marek Kuś, untitled and author’s lecture titled, “The Work of the World. 20 years of work on one problem, Gallery of Graphics Art Library, Zielona Gora; 2007 – Marek Kuś, sculpture, Gallery Oranżeria, Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko; 2008 – Marek Kuś, works, Chamber Gallery, Słupsk; 2009 – Marek Kuś – sculptures in the city space, Center for Creative Activity, Ustka; 2010 – Maria Wronska & Marek Kuś, Witches’ Tower, Słupsk; 2011 – Bożena Biskupska – Marek Kuś, Fra Angelico Gallery, Katowice; 2012 – Objects. Stadiums, Arsenal City Gallery, Poznan; Marek Kuś – Sculptures in the City Space, as part of the interdisciplinary project City – Space for Art, Alojzy Budnioka Park, Katowice; 2014-15 Marek Kuś, Atelier 34zero Museum, Brussels.

Selected group exhibitions

1984 – Panopticum Student Club, University of Silesia, Cieszyn; 1985 – Exhibition of students’ works accompanying Jonasz Stern exhibition, Branch of University of Silesia, Cieszyn; Filmmaker’s Club, Chybie; 1986 – Barracks [exhibition accompanying Jan Tarasin exhibition], University of Silesia, Cieszyn; 1989 – Drawing in the basement, City Museum, Cieszyn; 1991 – Caravan, Gallery of Art Activities, Bytom; Kronika Gallery, Bytom, [cat. ]; 1992 – Places Not Places, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko, [cat.]; 1993 – 5th Biennale of New Art, Zielona Góra ; 1994 – Desert Storm, bwa Gallery of Contemporary Art, Katowice, [cat.]; 1995 – Traum, Parochialkirche, Berlin, [cat.]; Summer Collection, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poznań; 1996 – Where do you come from? Andy Warhol’s Museum Moderneho umenia, Medzilaborce, Slovakia; Exhibition of contemporary art for the esteemed public, Poznań International Fair, Poznań, [cat.]; Summer Collection, Kronika Gallery, Bytom; 1997 – Winter Collection, Kronika Gallery, Bytom; Festival via 3, Paris, [cat.]; Hourglass, Tiergarten park, Berlin, [cat. ]; Festival aizu art, college, Japan, [cat.]; mmac Festival in Tokyo, Japan, [cat.]; 1997 – Mladych u Dobreho Pastyre Gallery, Brno, [cat.]; I International Art Encounters, Gallery of Contemporary Art, bwa, Katowice, [cat.]; Private Spaces, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, [cat.]; City Hospital, Ostrava; 1998 – E Gallery. Filly. Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic; 1999 – In the Circle of Kronika, Sektor I Gallery, Katowice; 2000 – 4th Triennale of Polish Graphics, bwa, Katowice, [cat.]; III International Art Encounters, bwa, Katowice, [cat.]; 2001 – 4th Triennale of Polish Graphics, Museum of Architecture, Ljubljana; Faces of Death, bwa, Katowice, [cat.]; 2002 – ArteFakty. 10th Anniversary of the Kronika Gallery, Bytom, [cat.] ; 2003 – 5th Triennale of Polish Graphics, bwa, Katowice, [cat.]; Four Rooms, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow; 2004 – 5th Triennale of Polish Graphics, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Triennale of Polish Graphics, Miscolc, Hungary; Show 3, Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom, [cat. ]; V International Art Encounters Katowice 2004, Gallery of Contemporary Art, bwa, Katowice; Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice; Krzysztofory Gallery, Bunkier Sztuki; 2005 – I carry a mirror in front of me [exhibition dedicated to Andrzej Szewczyk], Szara Gallery, Cieszyn; 2005 – Silesia Active, Gallery of Contemporary Art bwa, Katowice; Traces of Memory, Sektor I Gallery, Katowice; 2006 – Evocations of the Matrix, Otwarta Pracownia, Cracow; Młyn Art Center, Mikołów; 2007 – Gallery of Contemporary Art. Show 3, Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom [the exhibition is accompanied by a book. Collection of Contemporary Polish Art of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom. Catalog of acquisitions from 1990-2002]; 2008 – Medium…Post…Mortem…, bwa Gallery, Zielona Gora; 2009 – Cross over, Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, Germany, [cat.]; 2011 – Fear of Darkness, exhibition within the framework of the Biennale of Art for Children, Katowice – realization of sculptures in the city space; 2012 – Open Studio, el Gallery Art Center in Elblag; Open Studio, State Art Gallery in Sopot; 2012-2013 Artists and their children. Family Exhibition, K. Bochenek Katowice Cultural Center and City Space; 2014 – Masters of the Workshop. Polish contemporary drawing, Bielska bwa Gallery, Bielsko-Biala; 2015 – Otwarta pracownia 1995-2015, Otwarta Pracownia Gallery, Krakow; 2016 – Internal Affairs, Arka Vilnius Gallery; Rysa na powiece, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej bwa, Katowice; Sanatorium, 44 Lea Street Railway Hospital, Krakow; 44 Lea Street.

Jolanta Męderowicz

art historian.

Graduate of the Faculty of Art History of the Catholic University of Lublin. Since 2013, doctoral studies at the Institute of Art History (Department of Modern and Contemporary Art History) of the John Paul II Catholic University. Since 1988, curator of dozens of exhibitions (in: Poland, England, Germany, France), author of texts (publications in, among others: “Exit”, “Guardian”, “Sztuka.pl”, “Rzeźba” CRP Orońsko, Zeszyty Naukowe KUL) and lectures on art theory and criticism ((UH England, WSEI, KUL). She deals with the subjects of 20th century avant-garde art, neo-avant-garde in Poland, photography, contemporary art collections, market and culture. Enthusiast of classical, experimental music and jazz. Since 1990, participant of scientific conferences at home and abroad. Employed: 1988-2010 in the Gallery of the Bureau of Art Exhibitions in Lublin (curator of the Grodzka Gallery program 1989-1994; head of the Department of Exhibition Realization 1997-2004; head of the Department of Art Publications and Documentation 2008-2010), since 2010 specialist for collections in the Labyrinth Gallery. In 2001-2003 she was a lecturer at the Cultural Knowledge Department at the OIC Poland School of Economics and Innovation in Lublin. Since 2015, she has taught classes on market and culture at the anthropological-cultural specialization of Polish Philology at JP II Catholic University of Lublin. . Member: Council of the Contemporary Art Foundation “In situ” (since 2005, curator of art exhibitions and festivals there) and the Lublin Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts (vice-president 2006-2010, then member of the Board), where she co-creates the program and collection of contemporary art. Author of research programs, most recently including: 2011 – Meta-Weiss/Meta white (Freies Museum Berlin) within the framework of the cultural program of the Polish Presidency of the EU; 2013- Who is art, within the framework of the creative scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

Andrzej Szczepłocki

dr hab. Maria Wrońska

Department of Art Mediation, Faculty of Painting and Sculpture, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw.

1993 – diploma in sculpture in the atelier of Prof. Leon Podsiadły at the Eugeniusz Geppert State Higher School of Fine Arts (now the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts) in Wroclaw 2002 – doctoral thesis on the subject , “Experiencing Space” realized under the artistic supervision of Professor Alojzy Gryta. The author of many solo exhibitions and participant in important group exhibitions at home and abroad, since 1992 she has been associated with her alma mater as a teacher. From 1992 to 1995 she was an assistant to Professor Alojzy Gryta in the sculpture studio of the Department of Ceramics and Glass. From 1995 – 2007 she worked under Waldemar Szmatula in the same studio. From 2007 to the present, she has participated in the didactic process of the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture where, since 2012, she has been teaching Sculpture and Spatial Relationship Studies to Art Mediation students. From 2002- 2007 she headed the General Art Department at the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass, and from 2007 – 2012, the Department of Art Education, which she organized from scratch according to her own original program, leading to the transformation of the name of the major in 2012 to Art Mediation. This course of study, which is new in Poland and educates Art Mediators, specializes in Art Criticism and Exhibition Curating. No less the silhouette of its graduate, combining the personality of an artist and the intellect of a theoretician, reaching out to current social problems and the latest artistic phenomena, has been developed on the basis of careful observation of the activities of the Baltic Contemporary Art Gallery in Slupsk, led by Director Edyta Wolska. For here, , “over the years 2009 – 2013 Maria Wronska carried out an artistic residency project, the premise of which was the idea of staying and readapting the place. Within its framework, the artist presented four exhibitions” , and actively participated in art projects initiated by BGSW. She considers it an unquestionable success to include in the field of didactics she is developing the cooperation with such significant institutions as Wro Center and MWW in Wroclaw with their leaders Piotr Krajewski and Dorota Monkiewicz. The launch of the Open Studio and Guest Studio has resulted in collaborations with world-class artists. These include Milan Kohout and Adina Bar-on. Organizing in Wroclaw, within the framework of the “Visiting Professor” program, the stay of Adina Baron – an outstanding performance artist and professor at the Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Jerusalem, resulted in including Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts in the Polish-Israeli project Aesthetics and Bias. Participation in the project, which has been ongoing since 2012 and is based on cooperation between the Academies of Fine Arts in Jerusalem, Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan and Wroclaw, brings results in the form of major international conferences, exhibitions, symposia.

Extremely important for her development is her contact with Professor Yael Navaro-Yushin, a prominent anthropologist from the University of Cambridge, with whom she made an expedition to Musa Dagh, Turkey, within the framework of The REMNANTS project of the Division of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge and, at whose invitation she was able to participate in the International Scientific Conference REVERBERATIONS; Violence Across Time end Space, organized from March 26- 28, 2015 at Galata Grek School in Istanbul by the University of Cambridge.

For the past five years, he has been piloting a scholarly and research project entitled ARENA by Jerzy Bereś on the Living Monument, a work dedicated to the history of the fate of the people of Wroclaw and its reception in the present day. Contact with a multiplicity of creative attitudes, active involvement in the process of creation, not only her own, but also the artists of the youngest generation with respect for mature attitudes, cooperation with artists from the international group Cekmece, allow her to move smoothly in the problems of contemporary art.