07.03.2024, 19:00—20:00
Alicja Melzacka
On March 7, Cas-co will receive curator Alicja Melzacka for a dinner talk and studio visits. Melzacka is the current curator-in-residence at Off the Grid. During the talk at 7 pm, she will talk about her practice in-depth. Before the talk, you can attend the inauguration of Flag #5 by Bebe books at Stroom. Afterwards, you can join us for a good conversation, drinks and an open studio by Oya. Save the dates 27−28.04 (1−6 pm) for Back-to-back, a two-day programme of talks, performances, and readings, devoted to publishing as artistic practice.
As an independent curator and writer, Alicja Melzacka has collaborated with artists and institutions in Belgium, Netherlands and beyond. Recent projects include the solo exhibition‘Close Contact’ with Dominik Ritszel at Szara Gallery in Warsaw, the group exhibition‘Proxemities’ at La Box, Bourges (co-curated with Patricia Couvet), and‘Hypertext Hotel’ at SB34 in Brussels, which conceived of an exhibition as a work of interactive fiction.
Her texts have accompanied multiple exhibitions and appeared in artists’ books, catalogues and art press; some publishers include HART, KAJET Journal, BLOK Magazine, Onomatopee, Fantôme Verlag, MER Paper Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Wien. She is a co-founder of project space celador in Brussels and a board member of SB34 (Brussels) and B32 (Maastricht).
From 2019 to 2023, she worked at Jester (formerly CIAP and FLACC) in Hasselt and Genk, where she supported artists throughout their residency projects and curated solo exhibitions with Beny Wagner & Sasha Litvintseva, Marina Sula, Marianne Berenhaut, and Alexis Gautier. She was one of the coordinators of the biannual artists’ books fair co-organised by Jester, KRIEG, and Oda Park.
She holds a double Bachelor’s degree in Art History as well as Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies from the University of Gdansk (2011−2015) and a Master’s degree in Arts and Heritage: Policy Management and Education from Maastricht University (2015−2016). In 2019, she completed a postgraduate programme in Curatorial Studies at KASK School of Arts and Conservatorium in Ghent.