Mirela Baciak

As a kültüř gemma! fellow at Kunsthalle Wien, Mirela Baciak was working closely with the Community College on the public program of the exhibition How to live Together. She has been responsible for planning and moderating a number of the Collective Study sessions. She hosted a two-day workshop entitled “Conditions of Togetherness”. The workshop was unfolding the notion of togetherness by presenting and discussing a number of participatory projects in institutionalized contexts. During the workshop participants engaged in a series of exercises, which aim was to understand the entanglements of the moral and reputational economies that are driving the art field. The outcome of the workshop took a form of a poster with Guidelines for working together.

Mirela Baciak (born 1987 in Warsaw, lives in Vienna) is a researcher and occasional writer and curator in the field of visual arts. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Arts in Poznan and completed an MA program in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She co-curated the exhibition “Prosperous Poison. On the Feminist Appropriation of the Austrian Unconscious”, Mumok, Vienna (2015-16); co-edited “I Can't Work Like This: A Reader on Recent Boycotts and Contemporary Art” (2017); assistant curator of the exhibition “Everything is getting better. Unknown Knowns of Polish (Post)Colonialism”, SAVVY Contemporary Berlin (2017). She works as a co-lecturer at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg (2015-2017).