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Anna Łazar

Anna Łazar is a Polish director of the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, curator, writer, and translator. She has co-curated the following exhibitions: the group show "R.E.P." ("Revolutionary Experimental Space") at NAMU | National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv; “Look How This Moment Trembles” at Galeria Arsenał in Białystok; “Distant Bearable Murders” (curatorial text | Culture.pl) in Berlin; “In What a Beautiful Place We Find Ourselves” at the Museum of Art in Łódź; and “Table of Women,” a delegated performance by Anna Baumgart at the Museum of Zofia and Wacław Nałkowski in Wołomin. From 2022 to 2024, she has curated the international artistic cooperation program “Free Word” within the framework of Gdańsk – City of Literature.

Łazar has formerly worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Polish Institutes in Kyiv and Saint Petersburg and served as curator at the Museum of Art in Łódź. She is a member of the Women’s Archive team at IBL PAN and of the Polish section of AICA.