Anda
Rottenberg - Art Director of the 45 th October
Salon
Art Historian, art critic and curator. Graduation from
the Warsaw University 1971.
Practice in the art exhibitions organization since 1969
(Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art);
Science researches in the field of modern and contemporary
art in the Polish Academy of Sciences 1973 -1986;
Art director of the "EGIT" art foundation 1986
-1995;
Director of the Fine Arts Department director - Ministry
of Culture 1990 -1991;
Director of Mazowiecka Art Gallery 1991 -1993;
Director of the National Gallery of Contemporary Art -
Zacheta, 1993 -2001;
President of the Institute for Art Promotion Foundation
as of 1998;
Fine Arts Desk Officer, Institute Adam Mickiewicz as of
April 2003.
Writing
(publications) since 1966 (more than 200 texts translated
into more than 10 languages).
Exhibition curatorial activity (internationally) since
1980 i.e. Polish art exhibitions: in Cuba - 1980; Italy
-1988;
International exhibition "Europe Unknown" -
Krakow, 1991, "Where is Abel Thy Brother" -
1995; "Art from Poland" - Budapest, Vilnius,
Riga, Tallin 1996-1997; "Personal Time" - art
from Baltic States - Warsaw 1996, St.Petersburg 1997;
"Fauna" - 1999; "Postindustrial Sorrow"
- Wiesbaden - 2000; "Forgetting - Amnesia" -
Bremen - 2000; "In Between" Chicago 2001; "Topos
Polonicus", Stockholm, 2003; "Bialy Mazur", Berlin,
2003,
as well as numerous personal exhibitions of international
and Polish artists.
Organizer and curator of the Polish Culture Festival in
Sao Paulo – 2002; "Polish Cultural Season",
France 2004
Founder of:
- EGIT Art Foundation,1986;
- Soros Center of Contemporary Art - Warszawa, 1992;
- Institute for the Art Promotion Foundation, 1998.
President of AICA Polish Section 1988-1990 and 1991-1993;
Vice President of AICA International 1994-2000.
Member of:
- Germinations coordination Group since 1992;
- Manifesta Board since 1994;
- IKG, IKT, CIMAM
- the Selection Committee of the Artistic Director Documenta
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Curator of the Polish Pavillion - Venice Biennale 1993 -
2001; Polish participation in the Instanbul Biennale - 1992;
Sao Paulo Biennale since 1997.
Co-curator:
- "Der Riss im Raum"- Berlin 1994, Warszawa 1995;
- I Kwanju Art Biennale - 1995;
-"Positions in the art of Middle Europe" - Vienna
1999, Budapest, Birmingham, Barcelona - 2000;
- "L'autre Moitie d'Europe" – Galerie Nationale
du Jeu de Paume, Paris 2000.
As of May 2001 - free lance writer, curator and the Visiting
Consultant of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
