full professor in the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, head of the Holocaust Literature Studies Department of the Institute of Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, editor of the annual Holocaust. Studies and Materials. Together with Barbara Engelking he is a scholarly supervisor of the Holocaust gallery in the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Interested in various forms of recording limit experiences (including the Holocaust experience). Recently published a new, amended, improved and extended edition of Getto warszawskie. Przewodnik po nieistniejącym mieście (2013, (co-author with Barbara Engelking) [English edition: The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City], Tekst wobec Zagłady. O relacjach z getta warszawskiego (2 nd edition 2016), Biografie ulic. O ulicach Warszawy od narodzin po Zagładę (2017), Młyny boże. zapiski o Kościele i Zagładzie (2018). Published in 2019: Limit Experiences. A Study of Twientieth-Century Forms of Representation

P.h.D, photography critic and theorist, art historian and Americanist. Since 2013, he has been a lecturer at the Photography Department of the University of Arts in Poznań. Together with UAP students and Ph.D. students, he edits the postmedium.art magazines (from 2018) and polishphotobookreview.com (from 2020). Since 2018, he has been running the magazine "BLOK" (blokmagazine.com), which he founded. In the years 2002–2013 curator of the Warsaw Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle. Since 2013 as independent curator (a.o. art shows by Aneta Grzeszykowska in PGS Sopot, Artura Żmijewski  in Contemporary Museum in Wrocław, Piotr Uklański in National Museum in Krakow, Rafał Milach in Futura Prague). Editor of anthology, catalogs, and author of books, incl. ocham fotografię (2008, 2009), Historie fotografii w Polsce 1839–2009 (2010), Decydujący moment. Nowe zjawiska w fotografii polskiej po roku 2000 (2012), Głębia ostrości. Eseje o fotografii polskiej po 1945 roku (2014), Po końcu fotografii (2018), Okaleczony świat. Historie fotografii środkowoeuropejskiej 1839–2018 (2019).

visual artist, director, sculptor associated with the Warsaw Foksal Gallery Foundation and the Peter Kilchmann Gallery in Zurich, member of the "Krytyka Polityczna" team. He studied at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the studio of prof. Grzegorz Kowalski, Ph.D. at the Faculty of Media Art of the Academy of Fine Arts. In 2005, he represented Poland at the Venice Art Biennale (Powtórzenie), participated in Documenta 12 in Kassel (Oni) and Documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens (Spojrzenie and Realizm). Curator of the 7th Biennale of Contemporary Art in Berlin. The most famous works include Oko za oko (1998), Berek (1999, 2001), KR WP (2000), Lekcja śpiewu 2 (2003), Nasz śpiewnik (2003), 80064 (2004), Polak w szafie (2007), Katastrofa (2010), Spojrzenie (2018). Recently, he published the Warszawski trójkąt Zagłady (2021, together with Jacek Leociak and Zofia Waślicka-Żmijewska), he is also the author of the text Stosowane sztuki społeczne (2007).