Mark Starel

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In the years 1989-2024, curator of over 100 exhibitions, including:

• Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw,
• Aspekty Gallery, Warsaw
• Textile Museum, Łódź
• Dziekanka Gallery, Warsaw
• Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
• Akademija Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania 
• BWA Gallery Sandomierz
• Galeria Działań, Warsaw
• XS Gallery, Kielce
• Museum of Warmia and Mazury, Zamek Gallery, Reszel
• National Museum in Kielce
• University Gallery, Cieszyn
• EL Gallery Art Center, Elbląg
• XX1 Gallery, Warsaw
• Abstract Project Gallery, Paris, France
• Polish Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia
• Venice Exhibition Gallery, Venice, Italy

In 2015-2018, curator of the exhibitions accompanying the international conferences "Geometry in discourse - discourse in geometry", including:

• Discursive Geometry 5 and Interferencje, XS Gallery, Kielce, 2015, 28 participants from Austria, Germany, Poland and Switzerland.
• Hommage to the black square, Galeria XS, Kielce, 2016, 11 participants from Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, the USA and Hungary.
• GRID 3, XS Gallery, Kielce, 2016, 54 participants from Austria, Bulgaria, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Russia, Switzerland and Hungary.
• GRID 5, Galeria XS, Kielce, 2017, 48 participants from Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden and Hungary.
• CONCRETE / DISCOURSE / COMPLEXITY, Galeria XS, Kielce, 2018, 60 participants from Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, USA and Hungary.

The latest curatorial projects started in 2020 are:

• A series of 6 exhibitions under the common title DISCURSIVE GEOMETRY. Each exhibition is dedicated to a different discourse, which is reflected in the second part of the exhibition title:

1. DISCURSIVE GEOMETRY - LANDSCAPE 
2. DISCURSIVE GEOMETRY - CITY & ARCHITECTURE
3. DISCURSIVE GEOMETRY – WORDS AND SOUNDS
4. DISCURSIVE GEOMETRY – CH-ART 
5. DISCURSIVE GEOMETRY - ALGORITHM  
6. DISCURSIVE GEOMETRY – RE-CONSTRUCTION / RE: CONSTRUCTION

• A global manifestation of geometric art under the name COVIMETRY.

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2016 

• "Images You Absorb. About the work of Jacek Sienicki" National Museum in Kielce, 2016 (co-author)

2015 

• "A box called imagination - Julia Hartwig", text for the post-competition exhibition catalog, ZPSP Kielce, 2015

2014 

• Text for the catalog of the National Art Competition "A BOX CALLED IMAGINATION - Ewa Lipska", State Art Schools in Kielce

2011 

• Invited lecture "Mapping in art and education", Macroregional Review of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at ZPSP in Kielce
• Article "Galeria Działań 2004-2010", PASSA, weekly of neighbors, ISSN 1640-405X, Warsaw 
• Article "Galeria Działań 2004-2010", EXIT, new art in Poland, No. 4 (88) 2011, PL ISSN 0867-0625
• Invited lecture "International experiences in the field of study trips, internships and grants of JKU employees on the example of the Institute of Fine Arts" as part of the seminar entitled "International cooperation as a chance for the development of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship", Competence Center for International Cooperation, Faculty of Management and Administration of the Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce

2010 

• paper and self-presentation "Man as a database in artistic mapping strategies", XXVIII International open air and symposium Art and transience, Mazovia Center for Contemporary Art "Elektrownia" in Radom, House of Creative Work in Radziejowice, (IX)
• lecture "Three-dimensional space in contemporary art" as part of the Days of Contemporary Culture, Complex of State Art Schools in Kielce

2009 

• paper and multimedia presentation "Mapping as Art", XXVII International Plein-Air and Symposium "Forecasts for Art", Mazovia Center of Contemporary Art "Elektrownia" in Radom, House of Creative Work in Radziejowice 
• article "Language of geometry in the new media art", Arteria, ed. Art Department of the Radom University of Technology, Radom

2008 

• "Wood in the era of virtual reality", introduction to the catalog, Wood Festival, Galeria Ostrołęcka, Ostrołęka
• article "Continuation and objection", artluk 3 (9) 2008, pp. 88-89
• lecture and multimedia presentation "The language of geometry in the art of new media", XXVI International open air and symposium "New media in art", Center of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko
• lecture and multimedia presentation "The language of geometry in the art of new media", 2nd Art Festival Jerzy Busza "Random in Radom", the Museum of Jacek Malczewski, Radom (XII)

2007 

• "Statistics as inspiration", paper presented at XX1 Gallery in Warsaw during the Night of Museums in Warsaw
• "Metal in art and culture", article and introduction to the catalog, Metal Festival, Galeria Ostrołęcka, Ostrołęka
• "Painterly autobiography of Leszek Sokoll", introduction to the catalog, Society of Friends of Ostrołęka, Ostrołęka
• "Rhythm of the avant-garde in the painting of Zbigniew Porębski", text in the catalog "Zbigniew Porębski. Painting ”, BWA Kielce

2006

• "Warka Art Festival 2006", Mazovia Center of Culture and Art, Warsaw, text not published

2004 

• introduction to the catalog of the exhibition "Postawy", DAP Gallery, Warsaw
• lecture "Imaging space", as part of the cycle entitled "Territories of Contemporary Art", Galeria Działań, Warsaw

2003 

• introduction to the catalog of the exhibition "Joanna Milewicz. Other worlds", Galeria TPSP Pałacyk, Warsaw
• lecture "Theory of color", Art Symposium "Endless Horizon - Never-ending Dreams", Ricsovary Major, Hungary
• paper "The issue of space in art" as part of the series entitled "Territories of Contemporary Art", Galeria Działań, Warsaw

2002 

• paper "Statistics as inspiration", 20th International plein-air and symposium "The Importance of Inspiration", Center of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko

2001  

• text about own work "A look at creativity" in: Kowalska Bożena, "In search of order. Artists about Art ”, BWA Katowice Contemporary Art Gallery, EL Gallery, Elbląg

1997 

• article "Space - methodology of classes" in: "Space - idea and reality", materials after the symposium, publ. Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

1993 

• self-presentation, Art and History Museum, Kaliningrad, Russia

1990

• lecture and multimedia presentation, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada
• lecture and multimedia presentation, Video In Society, Vancouver, Canada
• lecture and multimedia presentation, The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada

1988

• text about own work, catalog for the exhibition "Moving thoughts - Parallel Actions", Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 1989

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• Kazimierz Piotrowski, OBRAZY STATYSTYCZNE (malarstwo Wiesława Łuczaja), katalog wystawy IN QUADRO 2, wyd. Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie, 2009, ISBN 978-83-61558-17-0, str. 323
• Kowalska Bożena, Wiesław Łuczaj, Format. Pismo artystyczne, 47, 2005
• Domanowska Eulalia, O ogrodzie osobliwości i dynamice przemieszczania się, katalog wystawy Marsylia – Wilno – Warszawa, ASP Warszawa, 2000
• Domanowska Eulalia, Obrazy statystyczne, EXIT. Nowa Sztuka w Polsce, No. 3 (39), 1999
• Domanowska Eulalia, Drumheller, EXIT. Nowa Sztuka w Polsce, No. 4 (28), 1996
• Kleimann Jurgen, Wiesław Łuczaj, maszynopis, wstęp do wystawy, Stadtmuseum Esslingen, 1993
• Winiarski Ryszard, wstęp do katalogu wystawy Hin und Her, Warszawa 1993
• Kowalska Bożena, Wiesław Łuczaj, wstęp do katalogu, Galeria 72, Chełm, 1993
• Gilbert Sidney, A dual showcase and competition winners at Ariel Gallery, Artspeak, New York, Feb. 1991
• Kowalska Bożena, Wiesław Łuczaj, katalog wystawy Krytycy o nas, BWA Sopot, 1989
• Kowalska Bożena, Drei Entdeckungen aus Polen, Mitteilungen des Instituts für moderne Kunst, Nurnberg, Nr 49/50, October 1989
• Kowalska Bożena, Start – Wiesław Łuczaj, Projekt 3/98
• Kowalska Bożena, Wiesław Łuczaj, wstęp do katalogu, Galeria 72, Chełm, 1988

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