Monika Szewczyk

Monika Szewczyk is the Visual Arts Program Curator at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. Prior to joining the Logan Center, Szewczyk was head of publications at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, where she co-edited more than twenty publications ranging from monographs to artists’ books to critical readers. She also has taught at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, and most recently at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts. Szewczyk’s writing has appeared in numerous catalogues and journals, including Afterall, A-Prior, Mousse, and e-flux journal online. Her recent curatorial projects include The Joy of Pleasure (co-curated with Dieter Roelstraete at VeneKlasen Werner in Berlin, 2011), Nether Land (co-curated with Nicolaus Schafhausen at the Dutch Culture Center in Shanghai, 2010) and Allan Sekula: This Ain't China (at e-flux, New York, 2010). And she has just collaborated with the dancer and choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis as a dramaturg of the recently premiered piece Etude (2012).