Kuba Szreder

Kuba Szreder is a curator and associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2016 he was awarded PhD by the Loughborough University School of the Arts for his dissertation on the social aspects of independent curating. He has broad experience in curating research-based and site-specific artistic projects, such as Making Use. Life in Postartistic Times (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw 2016), Dark Matter Super-collider (S.a.L.E. Docs Venice 2017), Art of Cooperativism (Warsaw Biennale, 2019), Redrawing the Economy (Company Drinks, London 2019), Economics! The Blockbuster (The Whitworth, Manchester 2023), and Hideouts. The Architecture of Survival (Zachęta, Warsaw 2022; Trafo, Szczecin 2022; Jewish Museum, Frankfurt 2024). He initiated and co-curated many research-based artistic platforms and collectives, such as Free/ Slow University of Warsaw (2009 - 2016), Centre for Plausible Economies (London 2018 - ongoing), Office for Postartistic Services (Warsaw 2020 - ongoing). His current research interests include curating artistic research, new models of artistic institutions, postartistic theory and practice. “ABC of the Projectariat. Living and working in a precarious art world” is his most recent book, published by the Manchester University Press and the Whitworth Museum (2021).