Arkadiusz Półtorak

Arkadiusz Półtorak is a cultural studies scholar, curator, and critic of visual and performing arts, assistant professor at the Department of Performance Studies, Jagiellonian University.

Biography In 2015 he obtained the scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. In 2021 he obtained doctorate in cultural and religious studies from the Jagiellonian University.

He has collaborated with, among others, the CSW Zamek Ujazdowski and the Studio Gallery in Warsaw, the Arsenał Gallery in Białystok and the curated_by festival in Vienna (together with Goschka Gawlik). In 2024, he became a member of the Board of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź and the jury of the Jerzy Stajuda Art Criticism Award. and Dwutygodnik.

Together with Łucja Iwanczewska, he has co-organized conferences in the “Performatyka. Poza kanonem” series since 2022 and co-edited two publications in the series under the same title at Wiele Kropek Publishing House.

He lives in Kraków.

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