Visual artist Maciej Zdanowicz Follow.Art Card

About me

Maciej Zdanowicz (b. 1982, Poland) is an intermedia artist, art theorist, curator, and educator. He is currently Assistant Professor and Dean for Educational and International Affairs at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. A member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), he works across visual arts, sound studies, socially engaged design, and curatorial practice. His research and artistic practice explore the aesthetics of trauma, the affective memory of places, the symbolic and material dimensions of salt and clay, and the psycho-geography of spaces affected by war, systemic oppression, or disintegration.

Zdanowicz is particularly known for his long-term collaborations with Ukrainian institutions during wartime, including the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, and Dnipro Art College. He has conducted art therapy workshops, sound and image-based installations, and educational programs focused on resilience, community, and sensory perception in front-line cities. His recent solo exhibition Edges of Memory: Dnipro – Unveiling the Imagined, Symbolic, and Real (2025), realized as part of the Culture Moves Europe grant, presented a multi-sensory environment of video essays, brine-immersed objects, clay tablets, and soundscapes transmitted through megaphones.

His works have been exhibited across Poland, Ukraine, Germany, and the US. He has curated international projects on the legacy of modernism, memory, and counter-aesthetic practices in Central and Eastern Europe. He is also a member of editorial boards of visual studies journals and an external expert for the European Commission.

His artistic method is rooted in poetic conceptualism, relational aesthetics, and critical materiality—transforming absence, silence, and fatigue into intimate spatial experiences.