CURATOR IN RESIDENCE / Stanisław Ruksza
24th September – 4th October, 2026
We are pleased to welcome curator, art historian, lecturer, and Director of TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin, Poland, Stanisław Ruksza, as our International Curator in Residence on the occasion of our co-commissioned exhibition Cavitation by artist Izabela Pluta.
Stanisław Ruksza (born 1979) is a curator, art historian, lecturer and the Director of TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin since 2017.
Between 2008-2017, he was Programme Director of CSW Kronika in Bytom. He studied History of Art at the Jagiellonian Universityand postgraduate China Contemporary Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Since 2021 he is a Chairman of Council at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. Guest lecturer at the Academy of Art in Szczecin and Academy Of Fine Art in Cracow.
His research is focused on the relationship between art and social and political changes in our world, the issue of contemporary iconoclasm, representation of sexuality and death, and borderline phenomena in contemporary art.
He has curated several dozen exhibitions, including: 国建 ā á ǎ à — KENBO’s Art Journey from the East to the West (TRAFO Szczecin 2026, co-curated with Andrzej Wasilewski), Andrzej Wasilewski. Albedo Effect (Spitsbergen Artist Center, Longyearbaen 2026); Nguyễn Quốc Thành & Nhà Sàn Collective. Let’s Sleep and We’ll See (Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź 2025); Andrzej Wasilewski. Absolute Factory (OCT Boxes Art, Foshan Guandong 2024); Richard Onyango. Kangalika (TRAFO Szczecin 2024), Natalia Romik. Hideouts. Architecture of Survival (Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, TRAFO, Szczecin 2022; Jewish Museum, Frankfurt Main 2024; co-curated with Kuba Szreder); Leif Elgrenn. A Different Kind of Presence (TRAFO Szczecin, 2019; co-curated with Antoni Michnik), Skip the line! Populism and Contemporary Promises (Warsaw Biennale 2019; co-curated with Kuba Gawkowski); Je brule Paris! (Cité internationale des arts, Paris 2015), Satan’s Children (Imago Mundi Foundation, National Museum, Cracow 2015), Project Metropolis (Silesian Museum, Katowice 2015), The Wall. Art Face To Face With Borders (Careof DOCVA, Milan, 2015), Your City is a Battlefield (Museum Of Modern Art, Warszawa 2014), The Face of the Day. Social Costs in Poland after 1989 (ArtBoom Festival, Cracow 2014), Negotiators and Dreamers (Careof DOCVA, Milan 2013), Collier Schorr. German Faces (Kronika, Bytom 2011), Viennese Actionism. Society’s Opposite Pole (MOCAK, Cracow 2011), Umpolen (Freiraum – Museum Quartier, Vienna 2007).
In 2003-2004, he assisted Andrzej Urbanowicz, Polish cult psychodelic painter, at the legendary studio Piastowska1 in Katowice, with the production of the exhibition and book titled Katowice Art Underground after 1953 at Gallery OfContemporary Art Katowice 2003.
Ruksza was curator-in-residence in apexart in New York (2009), Careof DOCVA in Milan (2013, 2015), Cité internationale des arts in Paris (2017), MeetFactory in Prague (2018), Guangzhou Academy Of Art in Guangzhou (2024).
