Magdalena Ujma

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Magdalena Ujma

Magdalena Ujma (born 1967) - art critic and curator, essayist, feminist. Curriculum vitae

Graduated from the 1987 State High School of Fine Arts in Lublin, specializing in exhibitions. 1987-1993 studied art history at the Catholic University of Lublin. She then completed postgraduate studies in cultural management from Ecole de Commerce, Dijon (1997). She founded and ran the NN Gallery in Lublin. She worked at the Museum of Art in Lodz. As a curator she worked in the Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, where with Anna Smolak was the author of the Transkultura exhibition series. In the years 2003-2007 she cooperated with Joanna Zielińska in the exergirls duet. Together since 2004 they independently organized 4 editions of the Spring Festival of Women. They were laureates of the Bielska Jesień curatorial competition (2004) and also received the main prize in the Museum of Modern Art competition for the exhibition project (2006).

As an independent curator, she recently created the exhibition "Sweet Disease" (2012) at the BW Municipal Gallery in Tarnów.

Since the 1990s he has been an active critique of art. She was editor of the Kresy and the texts section on the Bunkier Sztuki website. While working in this institution, she also ran a series of meetings. Art critic on the verge of a nervous breakdown - this title is currently the name of her blog.

She is the author of the essays "Neither Revolution or Consumption" in the volume "New phenomena in Polish art after 2000" (ZUJ, Warsaw 2008) and "Transformation Polish artists after 1989" in the volume "Polish Artists" Agata Jakubowska (WSzPWN, Warsaw 2011). She is the author of the book "Visual arts. Art and scandal" WSzPWN Warsaw 2011.

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