Arkadiusz Półtorak
Jagiellonian University
Poland
Arkadiusz Półtorak (Poland, 1992) - curator and writer based in Kraków; PhD candidate at the Department of Literary Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the Jagiellonian University and graduate of De Appel Curatorial Programme (2018); assistant researcher at the Department of Art Sciences at the Pedagogical University in Kraków; recipient of an individual grant for arts and media theory research funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland (Diamentowy Grant, 2015-19); co-founder of the Kraków-based art space "Elementarz dla mieszkańców miast" (with Leona Jacewska and Martyna Nowicka). As freelance curator he has collaborated with artists such as Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk, Norman Leto, Mateusz Kula or Verena Blok. He writes regularly on subjects related to contemporary arts for Magazyn SZUM and has contributed to a few art-related monographs including Kinship in Solitude – Perspectives on Notions of Solidarity, eds. Anna Jehle and Paul Buckermann, Hamburg (adocs) 2017.