New Town: Nowa Huta, Poland
Organisation: The Norwid Culture Center

Monika Kozioł is manager of the Nowa Huta Heritage Laboratory at the Norwid Culture Centre in Kraków. Art historian, curator of exhibitions and projects in the field of contemporary art, author of texts on post-1945 art. Graduate of art history and postgraduate museum studies from the Jagiellonian University, as well as cultural management at the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź. PhD student at the Doctoral School of the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow. She has curated and co-curated over 40 exhibitions. Awarded scholarship by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the City of Krakow. She is particularly interested in the contemporary art of Central and Eastern Europe and the history of the development of the artistic community of Nowa Huta in Krakow in the 1960s and 1980s.