Connect – Campus Summer School – Exchange Program.

The program focuses on developing key artistic and professional competencies. Its structure is based on three main components:

1. Artistic practice: workshops and masterclasses aimed at developing individual creative projects.
2. Professional skills: training in self-presentation, portfolio building, and promotional strategies.
3. Networking: direct meetings and consultations with artists, curators, and gallerists.

The goal of the course is to equip participants with practical tools that will enable them to effectively develop and promote their artistic practice after graduation.

Dates: October 23–29.2025

Connect – Campus program:

• portfolio consultations
• masterclasses
• artistic activities
• final exhibition

Lecturers and experts: Bożenna Biskupska, Piotr Bosacki, Aleksandra Chciuk, Marta Czyż, Zuzanna Fogtt, Karolina Freino, Grzegorz Hańderek, Michał Jakubowicz, Anna Klimczak, Ada Piekarska, Józef Robakowski, Katarzyna Roj, Zbigniew Rogalski, Michał Suchora.

Participating institutions:

• Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
• The Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts Łódź
• Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan
• SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Wroclaw
• Academy of Art in Szczecin
• The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław
• Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice
• Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw

Organizer:
Fundacja Sztuki Współczesnej In Situ | Contemporary Art Foundation In Situ

Biographies of Lecturers and Experts

Bożenna Biskupska – pursues painting, sculpture, installation, video art, and performance. Her explorations and experimentation have been rooted in figurative art which she processes through abstract forms to develop a unique artistic language showcased in the multifarious project Demarcation of the Image realized in a variety of media over an extended period of time. The passage of time and demarking and arranging space are the artist’s principal concerns and her “alphabet” is based on line, sign, and trace. She experiments with concrete, negative film, and linseed oil but simultaneously explores new technologies to reshape space into her immersive Possible Construction.

Bożenna Biskupska exhibited her works at the 41st Venice Biennale (1984); the 14th International Biennale of Small Bronze Sculptures, Padua (1986); A Woman’s View, Washington (World Bank 1995); NordArt in Büdelsdorf (2000); Form and Colour, Chicago (Forum+ Gallery 2003); Art First, Bologna (2006); SIEGesIKONen/Icons of Victory – transForm, Berlin (2009); Centre of Polish Sculpture at Orońsko (2003); Galeria Zachęta, Warsaw (1986); Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture in Królikarnia, Warsaw (2002); The Artist and the Possible Construction, National Museum in Wrocław (2024); In the Footsteps of the One-Legged, Wallspace Gallery, Warsaw (2024); Cabinet of Possibilities, International Cultural Laboratory, Sokołowsko (2025). She was honoured with the First Prize at the 5th International Biennial of Miniature Textile Art at the Savaria Museum in Szombathely, Hungary (1984). In the same year 1984, she received the Stanisław Wyspiański Prize for Painting and Sculpture and the scholarship of the Minister of Culture and Art. In 2018, she was honoured with the Jerzy Stajuda Award of Art Critics.

In 2004, together with Zygmunt Rytka and Zuzanna Fogtt, she established the Contemporary Art Foundation In Situ to restore the historic building of the former Brehmer Sanatorium at Sokołowsko in the Sudeten Mountains and turn it into the International Cultural Laboratory.

Bożenna Biskupska’s works are in the collections of the Museum of Art, Łódź; State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau; National Museums in Kielce, Szczecin, and Gdańsk; Lubusz Museum in Zielona Góra; Historical and Ethnographical Museum in Chojnice; Archaeological Museum of the Middle Odra Region in Świdnica; Museum of Warmia and Masuria in Olsztyn; Galeria Studio in Warsaw; BWA Galleries in Warsaw and Opole; Zachęta Society for the Encouragement of Arts in Szczecin and Wrocław; Savaria Museum in Szombathely (Hungary). The Humboldt University in Berlin; Polish Museum in Chicago; International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., Bank Pekao S.A. NFOŚiGW in Warsaw; Kokusai Koeki Co. in Tokyo; Galeria Wymiana in Łodź; and in private collections in Poland and abroad.

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Piotr Bosacki – visual artist, creator of animated films, sculptor, and draftsman. He also works in various literary forms. A member of the Poznań-based collective Penerstwo. A formalist and grammarian. He is a lecturer at the University of the Arts in Poznań and a recipient of the Katarzyna Kobro Award. His works are held in numerous collections, including the Museum of Art in Łódź and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

Aleksandra Chciuk – is a visual and sound artist, composer, and improviser. She graduated with honors from the Łódź Film School, completing a theoretical thesis on Maya Deren’s experimental cinema, along with films created under the supervision of Professor Józef Robakowski. In her installations and video works, she explores the phenomenon of the relationship between sound and image within the organic nature of events. Her performative audiovisual experiments often take on an immersive and intimate character. She also works with interactive site-specific sound objects. Chciuk conducts numerous workshops in urban spaces, using architecture, for example, to explore acoustic transformations and to treat it as a kind of musical score. She has co-founded several artistic collectives, including Rumory Orkiestra with Marcin Pryt, Maciej Ożóg, and Paweł Cieślak. She currently performs with the band Węże Kobro and the Pełnia collective.

In addition to presenting her works in galleries and museums such as the MMCA in Seoul, the Center for the Arts in Boston, the Siddhartha Art Gallery in Kathmandu, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Atlas Sztuki, the Museum of Art, the Central Museum of Textiles, and the Signum Foundation Gallery in Łódź, she also performs at festivals of new and experimental music, including: Audio Art (Hevre, Academy of Music, Kraków, 2022–2023); Warsaw Autumn (ATM Studio, TR Warszawa, 2020–2022); Spontaneous Music Festival (Dragon, Poznań, 2023); Instalakcje (Nowy Teatr, Warsaw, 2018); Musica Moderna (Academy of Music, Łódź, 2018); Musica Privata (Łódź House of Literature, University of Łódź Library, Academy of Music, Museum of the Book Art, Wi-Ma, Łódź, 2014–2023).

She collaborates with international musicians, including Don Malfon, Miguel Petruccelli, and In Situ Ens. She has participated in masterclasses for filmmakers and composers, including Labour in a Single Shot by Harun Farocki and Synthesis by Zygmunt Krauze in Radziejowice.

Marta Czyż – art historian, curator, author of texts on contemporary art. She has curated exhibitions in Kordegarda, the BWA Zielona Góra, the U-Zjazdowski Castle Contemporary Art Center. Together with Julia Wielgus she has published books “D.O.M. of Poland”. (with the Raster and BWA Zielona Góra galleries) and “As part of the exhibition – talks with curators”, which has been recognized by the culture.pl portal as one of the ten most important books about art of 2015. She is currently working on a publication analysing the most important exhibitions in the history of Polish art as part of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and as a curator for the 9. Youth Triennial in Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko.

Zuzanna Fogtt – President of the In Situ Contemporary Art Foundation, graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. Curator and coordinator of artistic events. Founder and director of the Sanatorium Dźwięku music festival. She runs an artist residency center in Sokołowsko, including Konteksty – Festival of Ephemeral Art and Hommage a Kieślowski – Film Festival.

Karolina Freino – born in 1978. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław (sculpture), Edinburgh College of Art (School of Sculpture) and Bauhaus University in Weimar (MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies). In 2014-17 she completed her doctoral dissertation (ASP in Warsaw/ASP in Gdańsk). In 2025 she obtained a postdoctoral degree (ASP in Wrocław). Assistant professor at the Faculty of Sculpture and Art Mediation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. She has carried out a number of activities in public spaces, individual and collective exhibitions. Scholarship holder of, among others, Alfred Töpfer Stiftung and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. She works at the interface of many media, mainly in the public sphere, often creating ephemeral events. Her artistic practice is strongly rooted in a given context, working with a place (site), its physical, political, social or mental emanation, as well as the memory recorded in it. The narratives of his works are often embedded in an immaterial network of relationships, information flow, collective symbols and ideas.

Grzegorz Hańderek – born in 1977 in Zabrze. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (graduated with honors from the Intaglio Studio in 2003) and at the University of Silesia in Katowice (branch in Cieszyn, graduated in 2002).

Since 2003, he has been working at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, where he currently runs the Literary Interpretation Studio. In 2005, he completed his doctoral thesis, and in 2010, his habilitation thesis. In 2021, he obtained the title of professor of fine arts. In 2008–2012, he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts, in 2012–2020 Vice-Rector for Education and Students, and since 2020 Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice.

He is a visual artist working in the fields of drawing, graphic art, installation, and site-specific art. He has twice received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. He is the author of several dozen individual exhibitions. He has participated in over 250 collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Winner of many awards and distinctions. Curator of the 9th and 10th editions of the Polish Graphic Arts Triennial in Katowice.

Michał Jakubowicz – a visual artist who uses photography, film, objects, and drawing in his work. He is interested in the theory and practice of visual arts as a means of reflecting on culture and communication. He has exhibited his works in Poland, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, and Japan. Represented by the Foto-Medium-Art Gallery in Krakow in 2007-2010. Author of the photography books sub (2018) and subPark (2016), the research collection Eksperyment koło fotografii (Experiment Around Photography) (2018), the monograph Medium na białym tle. Sytuacja, przedmiot, odbiór, widmo w twórczości Jerzego Olka (Medium on a White Background: Situation, Object, Reception, Specter in the Work of Jerzy Olek) (2007), and catalogs. Since 2023, he has been a member of the Program Council of the Wrocław Contemporary Museum. At SWPS University, he heads the Graphic Arts Gallery in Wrocław and is also the director of postgraduate studies in photography.

Anna Klimczak

A visual artist, Anna Klimczak creates site-specific installations and performative work. She explores themes relating to nature and communication. She is intrigued by objects embedded in public spaces and natural environments.

Alongside her artistic practice, she is actively involved in organising cultural events. She works as a curator of exhibitions and artistic projects. She has collaborated with the WRO Art Center and the Copernicus Science Center. Since 2009, she has been working at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw.

Ada Piekarska – curator and author of texts on art. She currently leads the curatorial team at Galeria Bielska BWA in Bielsko-Biała. Her curatorial practice focuses on the non-artistic functions of contemporary art, particularly its relationship with structures of power and its potential to reshape social imaginaries. She is the curator of the Biennale of Painting Bielska Jesień – one of the most important art competitions in Poland. In 2024, she received the Jerzy Stajuda Award for Art Criticism. Photo attached: Joanna Musiał

Zbigniew Rogalski – born in 1974 in Dąbrowa Białostocka. Painter, creator of photographic projects and installations. In 1999, he obtained a degree in painting from the studio of Prof. Jerzy Kałucki at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. He has collaborated artistically with Hubert Czerepok, Michał Budny, Szymon Rogiński, and Przemek Matecki.
He has exhibited at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Raster in Warsaw, the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok, the Museum of Art in Łódź, the Awangarda Gallery in Wrocław, Spruth Magers Gallery in Munich, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Kestner Gesselschaft in Hanover, Kunsthalle in Mannheim, Kunstverein in Goettingen, Zak Branicka Gallery in Berlin, Almine Rech Gallery in Paris, Akinci Gallery in Amsterdam, Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco, Site Santa Fe-Santa Fe, Krasnoye Znamya-Saint Petersburg, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Museum of Contemporary Art-Bat Yam, Sommer Gallery-Tel Aviv, Sprüth Magers Lee Gallery-London, Krinzinger Projekte-Vienna, The Letterkenny Arts Centre-Letterkenny, Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn.

Katarzyna Roj – is the author of numerous texts on material culture and curator of exhibitions-situations and exhibitions-processes, such as Żyjnia, Pola regeneracyjna (Wrocław Irrigation Fields), Zaświaty, Una Breve Vacanza (Short Vacation). Since 2023, she has been the deputy director of BWA Wrocław for program, education and promotion.

Connect – Campus Summer School – Exchange Program. Artistic Professional Course in Sokołowsko. “Financed from the resources of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland from the Culture Promotion Fund – a state earmarked fund.”