About

I was born in Poland in 1979. I remember when my country was grey and people often seemed weighed down by everyday life, yet remained remarkably creative and full of revolutionary dreams. I remember the fall of communism, when everything began to bloom with new ideas and possibilities that had previously seemed unimaginable. My dream was always to become an anthropologist of culture (after my pre-school ambition to become an astronaut or a North Pole explorer faded away), and Poland's accession to the European Union gave me the opportunity to pursue that dream through a university education and the freedom to travel to almost every place I had longed to visit.

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For my master's thesis, I travelled through Umbria and Tuscany to explore the phenomenon of the Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca. That same year, I continued researching another subject that fascinated me: the spiritual dimension of music in society. This journey took me to Puglia in Italy, where I immersed myself in the traditions and cultural context of the tarantella and to Essaouira in Morocco, where I searched for Gnawa tradition.

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After earning a Master's degree in Cultural Anthropology from the Jagiellonian University, I began creating new spaces for culture in Poland. I founded festivals, joined existing ones as a curator, established a cultural NGO, and worked internationally as a cultural manager and curator.

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Whenever I set out to understand a new subject, I have always felt the need to meet people, listen to their stories, and experience the local context firsthand. Working across disciplines became my natural language of expression. Music, visual art, anthropology, and storytelling have never existed separately in my practice. They have always informed one another.

 

As a festival director and curator in Poland and abroad, I never saw a reason to separate one artistic discipline from another. Pure, isolated forms have never interested me. On the contrary, I have always believed that every subject deserves to be told through a fluid, layered, and multidisciplinary narrative.

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In 2015, I came to Istanbul to better understand the country and the position of women within its society. Music became my primary tool of exploration, alongside conversations with people and the stories they entrusted to me. Once again, I realised that the only way to truly understand something is to get close, until you become part of it.

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I have lived in Istanbul ever since, sometimes on the mainland, sometimes on one of the Princes' Islands, working as a DJ, curator, writer, and storyteller while travelling across the world in search of new stories, new encounters, and deeper understanding.

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What comes next?