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Piotr Krajewski was born in 1956. Graduated as M.S. at the University of Wroclaw. Co-founder of Open Studio Co-operative (1988) an independent organization devoted to media art and artistic communication. Founder of [[WRO]] Foundation (1998). Artistic director of [[WRO Biennale|WRO International Media Art Biennale]] and curator of numerous art events and exhibitions. Author and commissioner of art programs for Channel 2 of Polish State TV and of several publications in arts magazines, catalogues in Poland and abroad. Visiting fellow at Wroclaw University Theory of Culture Department, Arts Link fellow at the Art Instute of Chicago (1999), Goethe Institut scholarship (2001). Member of the jury panels of the international media art events, among others in Dessau (Germany), Kiev (Ukraine), Split (Croatia), Warsaw (Poland), Moscow (Russia), Lucerne (Switzerland), Minsk (Belorussia). Member of AICA - International Arts Critics Association.
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Curator, critic and lecturer, expert in issues of contemporary art and media culture, Piotr Krajewski completed his degree in Theory of Culture at Wrocław University in 1980. In 1989 Krajewski co-founded the [[WRO Biennale|WRO International Biennale for Media Art]], and he serves as artistic director of that festival to the present day.  Krajewski has curated numerous exhibitions and media presentations in Poland and abroad, including exhibitions at the Kunsthalle in Vienna and the National Museum in Wroclaw; and he has served as juror at many international festivals, including Transmediale (Berlin 2002), Internationale Kurzfilmtage (Oberhausen 2004), the  European Media Art Festival (Osnabrueck (2006). In collaboration with Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska, he has developed over 200 television programs devoted to media art and culture broadcast on TVP's Channel 2.
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Krajewski has authored texts published in Poland, Austria, Germany, Brazil, the UK, the US  and Japan; he has given lectures worldwide, including presentations at conferences at Tate Modern in London and Centre George Pompidou in Paris; in 2005 he served as European Union expert in the Culture 2000 grant program.  Krajewski is currently a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań and at the Cultural Studies Department of Wrocław University. He is a member of the AICA, a member of the Programming Board of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and a member of the board of the Lower Silesian Fine Arts Association Zachęta.

Revision as of 21:54, 26 April 2007

Curator, critic and lecturer, expert in issues of contemporary art and media culture, Piotr Krajewski completed his degree in Theory of Culture at Wrocław University in 1980. In 1989 Krajewski co-founded the WRO International Biennale for Media Art, and he serves as artistic director of that festival to the present day. Krajewski has curated numerous exhibitions and media presentations in Poland and abroad, including exhibitions at the Kunsthalle in Vienna and the National Museum in Wroclaw; and he has served as juror at many international festivals, including Transmediale (Berlin 2002), Internationale Kurzfilmtage (Oberhausen 2004), the European Media Art Festival (Osnabrueck (2006). In collaboration with Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska, he has developed over 200 television programs devoted to media art and culture broadcast on TVP's Channel 2.

Krajewski has authored texts published in Poland, Austria, Germany, Brazil, the UK, the US and Japan; he has given lectures worldwide, including presentations at conferences at Tate Modern in London and Centre George Pompidou in Paris; in 2005 he served as European Union expert in the Culture 2000 grant program. Krajewski is currently a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań and at the Cultural Studies Department of Wrocław University. He is a member of the AICA, a member of the Programming Board of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and a member of the board of the Lower Silesian Fine Arts Association Zachęta.