Elzbieta Koscielak

Elzbieta Koscielak is a curator, art critic, and lecturer born and now based in Wroclaw, Poland.

She has curated numerous art exhibitions, including Art Identities and Mythos/AntiMythos most recently, as well as Transcultural Visions: North – South at the Krolikarnia Castle, National Museum in Warsaw, in 1999 and, in collaboration with her sister Gosia Koscielak, Transcultural Visions 2: Polish American Contemporary Art, in 2001 and 2002, a traveling exhibition that appeared at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, IL and at the National Museum in Szczecin, Poland. Her most recent lecture appointment was at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland.

In 1985, Koscielak received a M.A. from Wroclaw University’s Department of Anthropology of Culture. In 2001 she graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics’ Management and Art Administration post-graduate program.

She has published over 100 essays, articles, monographs and reviews in European art magazines such as Arti, Project, Odra, Art & Business, Obieg, Format and Exit, and is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics). Her writing most often addresses issues surrounding Minimal art and Conceptual art, and has focused on the contemporary art of Central European and Greek artists. In 2002 she was honored to work as a consultant for the Polish Ministry of Culture.