Adam Szymczyk Photo: Hildegard Spielhofer

MA in Art History, Warsaw University, Poland. Participated in Curatorial Training Programme at De Appel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1995). Curator at the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw, Poland (1997-2003). Curator and writer, currently director of the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. Adam Szymczyk worked on exhibitions and publications with contemporary artists including Pawel Althamer, Christoph Büchel, Douglas Gordon, Susan Hiller, Edward Krasinski, Gustav Metzger, Rosalind Nashashibi, Gregor Schneider, Ahlam Shibli, Superflex, Piotr Uklanski, Krzysztof Wodiczko. Curated group exhibitions include 'Roundabout' (CCA, Warsaw, 1998), 'Amateur' (co-curated with Mark Kremer and Charles Esche, Kunstmuseum Göteborg, Sweden, 2000) 'Painters' Competition' (Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala, Poland, 2001), 'Hidden In a Daylight' (co- curated with Joanna Mytkowska and Andrzej Przywara, Hotel 'Pod brunatnym jeleniem', Cieszyn, Poland 2003). In 2008 Adam Szymczyk curated together with Elena Filipovic the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, 'When things cast no shadow'.