Art historian, curator, editor, graduate of the Art History Institute at the University of Warsaw and CuratorLab at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, my work sits between architecture, design and visual arts. In my curatorial practice I try to take into account historically-conditioned and thought-provoking contexts. I use my research strategies to seek inspiration and creative responses in the past for the challenges of the present.
Most recently the focus of my interest was the sense of security in architecture (Lares and Penates exhibition created with Krzysztof Maniak, Katarzyna Przezwańska and Maciej Siuda for the Polish Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, 2025), the use of textiles in interiors before the spread of electricity (the Clothed Home exhibition, created with Alicja Bielawska and Centrala for the London Design Biennale, 2021) and the role of water plants in modernist architecture (Centrala’s Nenúfars blancs art intervention at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, 2022). Before that, I coordinated an international research and exhibition project on Oskar and Zofia Hansen at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and tended to the summer house in Szumin (2013–2017).
I teach at the School of Form, Faculty of Design, SWPS University in Warsaw.
My surname is pronounced /kɛɲˈd͡ʑɔ.rɛk/. I also go by the name ‘Ola’, which in Polish is short for Aleksandra.
Biographical note on Culture.pl (in Polish)
Publications on Academia.edu
Aleksandra Kędziorek 