Agata Ciastoń

September 2025

Agata Ciastoń is a freelance curator, researcher, and author based in Wrocław, Poland. She holds a PhD in cultural studies from the University of Wrocław, where she explored the dynamic relationship between photography and moving images.

Her curatorial work spans solo and group exhibitions, including Poetry and Performance. The Eastern European Perspective (2020, with Tomáš Glanc and Sabine Hänsgen) and Fotografia Magazine 1953–1974 (2017, with Paweł Bąkowski), both presented at the MWW Museum of Contemporary Art in Wrocław, as well as shows by artists such as Marta Bogdańska, Ella Littwitz, Tom Swoboda, Netta Laufer, Amir Yatziv, and Guy Slabbinck. She was also the curator of the international residency programme Whose Voices Are Being Heard (Wrocław Institute of Culture, 2023), which concluded with a group exhibition at BWA Wrocław.

Her long-term interests focus on borders and territories, ambiguous landscapes, and the relationships between humans and the world of animals, plants, and objects. In 2022, she received an artistic scholarship from the Mayor of Wrocław for a project exploring visual archives related to the post-Nazi A4 motorway in Lower Silesia. This research resulted in her debut visual-textual book In the Middle Lane, the Grass Was Tall in the Summer, published by Warstwy in 2024, and a series of exhibitions at PF Photography Gallery, ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznań (2024), and Rybnik Foto Festival (2025).
Her work has been supported by the Creative Europe Programme and by the Programme Supporting Cultural and Creative Sector Entities to Stimulate Their Development, funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.