Natalia Romik

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Biography

Natalia Romik is a practicing architect, designer, artist and historian. In 2018 she was awarded PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London) for her dissertation on “Post-Jewish Architecture of Memory within Former Eastern European Shtetls”. Romik combines academic research with methods of contemporary art and architecture to explore the (post)Jewish architecture of memory. She has received numerous grants and awards, including the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, the Gerda Henkel Foundation and Foundation for the Memory of Shoah in Paris. Her research resulted in the exhibition Hideouts. The Architecture of Survival, presented in 2022 at Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Trafo Centre for Contemporary Art in Szczecin, and at the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt (2024). Natalia Romik is a member of the SENNA architecture collective, with whom she executed numerous projects, including the permanent exhibition at the Bródno Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw entitled Beit Almin – Eternal Home. Member of the Association of Polish Architects. In 2022 she was awarded the Dan David Prize.