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This is a selection from more than over 250 visual arts projects I curated, authored, consulted, or produced. The projects from 2000-2010 I organized while Director and Deputy Director of the Polish Cultural Institute in New York.
Betsy Damon, Passages: Rites and Rituals, La MaMa Galleria, NYC, 2021
(curator, public programming)
Bronx Museum of the Arts, AIM fellowship, NYC, 2019, 2020, 2021
(lectures on artist-curator relationship and curatorial workshops for AIM fellows)
Art and Social Activism Festival, Lower East Side, NYC, 2019
The exhibition, exploring themes of identity and representation, displacement and immigration, and environmental degradation, was curated by Nick Cohn and Monika Fabijanska, following an Open Call and review process by the Curatorial Committee.
photo Monika Fabijanska
Maciej Toporowicz: Serial Killers and Other Fingerprints, SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2017 under the curatorial theme Black Mirror, NYC, 2017
(curator; essay)
Dan Bainbridge, Bestiary, ART 3 gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
(co-curator, exhibition and performance; essay)
exhibition view, photo by Monika Fabijanska
Linda Karshan, Signs of Men, ART 3 gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
(co-curator; essay)
exhibition view, photo by Monika Fabijanska
2014/2015 ART OMI Residency
(member of the jury)
photo by Monika Fabijanska
Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 2012-2013
also shown at: Wiels, Brussels, 2011-2012, The Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
(initiative pursued since 2001: nationwide curator search, leading curatorial study visits to Poland, consulting, initiative and collaboration with a private gallery on the 2007 exhibition and placing the works in museum collections - MoMA purchased a group of 15 sculptures and drawings)
exhibition view, photo by Monika Fabijanska
Krzysztof Wodiczko, The Veterans Project, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2009-2010
(co-production of the work, promotion)
exhibition view, photo courtesy of ICA Boston
Christian Tomaszewski & Joanna Malinowska, Mother Earth Sister Moon, commissioned by Performa 09, NYC, 2009
also shown at: Nottingham Contemporary, UK, and Zachęta, Warsaw, Poland
(co-production and promotion)
photo courtesy of Performa
Projects 91: Artur Żmijewski, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 2009-2010
(curatorial consulting, leading curatorial study visits to Poland, co-financing, promotion)
exhibition view, photo courtesy of MoMA
The Art and Theater of Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) series:
- Tadeusz Kantor’s installation The Desk (1975) in Theaters of Memory: Art and the Holocaust, The Jewish Museum, NYC, 2008-2009
(artist advocacy, leading curatorial visit to Poland resulting in the first U.S. museum acquisition of the work by Kantor; publicity assistance)
- Tadeusz Kantor's "Theatre of Death" screenings series and an exhibition, La MaMa E.T.C., NYC, 2008
(initiative, curator, producer)
- Art and Theater of Tadeusz Kantor, international conference, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, Graduate Center CUNY, NYC, 2009
(initiative, organizer, panelist)
from the collection of The Jewish Museum in New York, photo by Marek Gardulski
Katarzyna Kozyra, Elżbieta Jabłońska and Anna Baumgart in Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NYC, and Davis Museum, MA, 2007
(initiative to include Polish artists in the show, leading curatorial study visits to Poland, consulting, co-financing, promotion)
photo: Katarzyna Kozyra's Appearances as Lou Salome, 2005, still from a video. Courtesy of the artist and Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Magdalena Abakanowicz and Ewa Partum in WACK! Art in the Feminist Revolution, MoCA, Los Angeles, 2007
also shown at: the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 2007; MoMA P.S.1, NYC, 2008; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, 2008–2009
(initiative to include Polish artists, leading curatorial study visits to Poland, consulting, co-financing, promotion)
exhibition view at MOCA LA with Magdalena Abakanowicz's Abakan Red, 1969, photo by Monika Fabijanska
Polyphony of Images. A Night of Cutting-Edge Contemporary Art from Poland: Video, Performance, and Other Media, De Lamar Mansion, New York, NY, 2006
(curator and catalog author: 45 works by 28 artists, 32 pp. catalog)
Part of the centennial celebration of the landmark De Lamar mansion, the exhibition transformed the seat of the Consulate of Poland in New York into a museum for one night (Oct. 19, 2006) attracting more than 1,500 visitors.
Artists: Azorro, Bodzianowski, Bujnowski, Burska, Grzeszykowska & Smaga, Harabasz, Jabłońska, Kalinowska, Kozyra, Krenz, Kulik, Lejman, Libera, Malinowska, Moskal, Niesterowicz, Robakowski, Sawicka, Skutnik, Tomaszewski, Toporowicz, Weiss, Wiechowska, Wodiczko, Wójcik, Wolski, Wyrzykowski, Żmijewski.
exhibition view: Maciej Toporowicz's video Obsession, 1993, projected onto historical mirrors, photo by Jerzy Kos
Polyphony of Images. A Night of Cutting-Edge Contemporary Art from Poland: Video, Performance, and Other Media, De Lamar Mansion, New York, NY, 2006
exhibition view: Monika Weiss' installation Phlegethon-Milczenie, 2005, photo by Jerzy Kos
Polyphony of Images. A Night of Cutting-Edge Contemporary Art from Poland: Video, Performance, and Other Media, De Lamar Mansion, New York, NY, 2006
exhibition view: Dominik Lejman's video Media Frottage, 2005, projected onto the main staircase, photo by Jerzy Kos
POZA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2006-2007
exhibition of 31 artists of Polish origin from Poland, US, Canada, France and Brazil
(consulting, co-producer, collaboration with curator)
opening: Marek Bartelik, exhibition curator; Will K. Wilkinson, director, RAW; Monika Fabijanska, director, PCI NYC; Kristina Newman-Scott, curator, RAW, photo courtesy of PCI NYC
Zbigniew Libera: Work from 1984-2004, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006
(co-producer, public programming)
Zbigniew Libera in Conversation with Eleanor Heartney and Raul Zamudio, White Box, NYC, 2006
(initiative, organizer)
exhibition view at Work Ann Arbor gallery, photo by Monika Fabijanska
Poland on the First Page, outdoor exhibition on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Solidarity movement, Union Square, NYC, 2005
(initiative, principal producer, coordination with Office of the Mayor and NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, opening speech at the inaugural ceremony)
opening celebration: NYC Mayor Edward Koch, President of Poland and Nobel Prize winner Lech Wałęsa, Polish Consul General Agnieszka Magdziak-Miszewska, PCI NYC Director Monika Fabijanska, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, photo by Jerzy Kos
The Workshop of the Film Form (1970–1977): Early Film Work from Poland (exhibition, screenings, DVD, catalogue), Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), NYC, 2004
(initiative, producer, catalog editor and introduction)
catalog cover
Stanisław Dróżdż, Wojciech Fangor, Jarosław Kozłowski, and Roman Opałka in Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940s-1970s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2004
(collaboration, co-financing, PR)
photo: Stanisław Dróżdż, Between, installation, 1977. Courtesy of LACMA
Dominik Lejman, Animating Spaces, a permanent video installation commissioned by RxArt for Schneider Children's Hospital, New Hyde Park, NY, since 2004
(organizing artist’s residency at Location One, co-production)
photo: Dominik Lejman, Flamingoes, lobby of the Schneider Children's Hospital. Courtesy of the artist
A Short History of Polish Animation, and A Short History of Polish Avant-Garde and Experimental Film (82 films, catalog), The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 2003
and North American tour of 39 films: Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley, CA; LACMA, Los Angeles, CA; College of Santa Fe, NM; The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, OH; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Webster University, St. Louis, MO
(initiative, co-producer for MoMA; producer of the entire tour)
catalog cover
Architectures of Gender. Contemporary Women’s Art in Poland, SculptureCenter, NYC, 2003
the first exhibition of Polish contemporary art in NYC in 35 years: 16 installations, catalog, public programming
(project idea with curator A. Szyłak, producer, assistance to curator on the exhibition design, public programming, fundraising)
photo: SculptureCenter director Mary Ceruti, artists: Karolina Wysocka, Natalia LL, Hanna Nowicka-Grochal, Anna Plotnicka, Katarzyna Jozefowicz, curator Aneta Szylak, Dorota Nieznalska, producer Monika Fabijanska, artists Agnieszka Kalinowska, Elzbieta Jablonska, Monika Sosnowska, Dominika Skutnik. Courtesy of PCI NYC
Architectures of Gender. Contemporary Women’s Art in Poland, SculptureCenter, NYC, 2003
exhibition view: Natalia LL, Hortus Eroticus, 1995, photographic installation. Courtesy of SculptureCenter
Architectures of Gender. Contemporary Women’s Art in Poland, SculptureCenter, NYC, 2003
exhibition view: Zofia Kulik, The World As War and Adornment, 2003, sculpture, modified reconstruction of a work from 1971. Courtesy of SculptureCenter
Polish Cultural Institute’s POLAND-US ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE EXCHANGE PROGRAM, 2003-2010
More than 40 artists participated in the program at CCA Zamek Ujazdowski in Warsaw, Location One in NYC, Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA, and Spaces in Cleveland, OH
(I identified potential US partners, built the exchange system, selection process, and secured funding in collaboration with partners, consulted about artists under consideration by the selection committees, led curatorial study visits in Poland and the U.S., provided curatorial care and promotion for the artists)
exhibition view: Robert Kusmirowski, The Museum of the Last Artwork, Yerba Buena for the Art, San Francisco, CA, 2005 - the work produced thanks to coordination the artist's residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA
