2008 - RE-CONSTRUCTION - 3rd Edition of The Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest

Adam Budak

 

Curator, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

 

Adam Budak, who lives in Graz and Krakow, is currently curator for contemporary art at the Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria. He studied theatre studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and history and philosophy of art and architecture at the Central European University in Prague. He is a guest professor at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts — Flanders in Ghent and at the Theatre Institute of the Kunstuniversität in Graz. He has recently co-established the postgraduate studies programme in curatorial practice and theory at the Art History Institute of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Adam Budak has curatedArchitectures: Metastructures of Humanity, Morphic Strategies of Exposure, exhibition in the Polish Pavilion of the 9th Venice Biennale of Architecture (2004). He worked with acclaimed artists such as John Baldessari, Cerith Wyn Evans and Monika Sosnowska, and has curated a large number of international exhibitions. Recent projects include Protections. This Is Not an Exhibition (together with Christine Peters) and Volksgarten. Politics of Belonging (cocurated with Katia Schurl and Peter Pakesch). Budak is one of the curators for Manifesta 7.