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JURY DUGIEGO ETAPU KONKURSU:

Piotr Lorens – PhD, DSc., urban planner. Lecturer in urban design and development and - since 2007 - Head of the Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology. He graduated as architect from the Gdansk University of Technology, and also completed the post-graduate studies (as Fulbright Fellow) at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then he is active as guest lecturer at numerous universities, mostly around Europe. His university activities also include coordination of the research and EU Social Fund projects. Based on these projects he was responsible for organization and coordination of the post-graduate studies and international conferences related to the issues of urban regeneration and management. Besides his academic career he is also actively involved in the activities of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (at present – holding the position of Vice President responsible for the Young Planning Professionals program) as well as of the Society of Polish Town Planners – TUP (at present – President of the society).

Enrico Lunghi (b. 1962 in Luxembourg) – studied History of Art, as well as History at the University of Human Sciences in Strasbourg. He was a Scientific Assistant at the National Museum of History and Art of Luxembourg from 1991 to 1995, an Artistic Director of Casino Luxembourg - Forum of Contemporary Art founded with Jo Kox, from 1996 to 2008. He was a General Director of the Mudam (Museum of Modern Art of Luxembourg) from 2009 to 2016. He was a Curator for Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale in 1995 (Bert Theis, Potemkin Lock), in 1999 (Simone Decker, Chewing and Folding projects) and in 2007 (Jill Mercedes, Endless Lust). In 2009, he was a Curator in Venice for the French Community of Wallonia-Brussels with Jacques Charlier’s 100 Sexes d’artistes project. From 2005 to 2011, he was a President of the IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art). Curator of multiple exhibitions, he has also published numerous texts on art and contemporary artists. Since 2017, he has been in charge of studies for the Ministry of Education (SCRIPT) and at the University of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (IRMA). He explores the relation of contemporary art and architecture as a Guest Professor at a Master's course in architecture at the University of Luxembourg and he has organized or been involved in many projects of "art with public space" (rather than "art in public space") in Luxembourg and abroad. In 2019 he curated, a.o., the retrospective of Bert Theis Building Philosophy - Curating Utopia at Mudam Luxembourg, "Un monde, un seul, pour demeure – Sociétés et figures humaines dans les collections des FRAC de Nouvelle-Aquitaine" at the Château de Biron (Dordogne) and Celebration Factory of Filip Markiewicz at Kunsthalle Osnabrück.

Joanna Rajkowska – born in 1968, Bydgoszcz, Poland, is an artist based in Warsaw and London. A versatile artist, Rajkowska is best known for her work in public space, where she uses real-life situations, energies, organisms and materials to construct sites, installations and ephemeral actions. She utilises elements as diverse as plants, buildings, found objects, water and smoke. De-familiarizing, de-humanizing and relating are her operating devices. She is interested in the limitations and the limiting of human activities, multiplicity of agencies and human and non-human relations.The outcomes of her works range from urban axes and architectural projects, through geological fantasies, excavation sites to underwater sculptures. Both alongside and separately, she produces films, photographs and models. Most of her works happen, live and age in public space. Thus, her practice embraces all the entities involved as well as their relations, including organic and inorganic beings. Her work has been presented in the UK, Germany, Poland, France, Switzerland, Brazil, Sweden, USA, Bulgaria, Palestine, India, Japan, Turkey and Kenya among others.
Her public projects include commissions by Frieze Sculpture 2019, United Nations Environment Pogramme, European Capital of Culture Wrocław, Institute for Contemporary Ideas and Art (2014, Carpet, Sweden), Royal Society of Arts, Citizen Power Peterborough programme’s Arts and Social Change, Arts Council England, Frieze Projects 2012, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2009, Ravine, Poland), CSW Zamek Ujazdowski. As well as commissions, she has realized a number of partisan public projects, most notably Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue in Warsaw (2002) which shaped the unique set of methods Rajkowska employs. The project was to become a major city landmark and has acted as a base for numerous political actions ranging from nurses’ protests to expression of solidarity with Ukraine during its invasion.