Julia Stachura is an art historian, independent curator, and Fulbright Ambassador. In 2025, she completed her PhD studies at the School of Humanities at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 2023–24, she was a Fulbright Junior Research Award grantee at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has curated exhibitions in Poland and the United States, collaborating with art institutions and non-governmental organizations. Her research and curatorial practice focus on the photography of BIPOC women artists and artists from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as on the invisibility of power structures and the tangibility of memory.
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Fulbright Ambassador in Poznan, Poland
2024—26 Lecturer, Department of History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
2023—24 Visiting Researcher, Department of Photography & Imaging (DPI), Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, Fulbright Junior Research Award
2023 Visiting Researcher, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freien Universität Berlin, funded by Initiative of Excellence – Research University AMU
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Curatorial statement – Joanna Piotrowska’s exhibition
YOU LOVE HOME AND THE SILENCE OF ITS OWN In her latest exhibition, You Love Home and the Silence of Its Own [Kochasz ty dom co ciszą swą], Joanna Piotrowska looks at female protagonists in domestic interiors,…
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Joanna Piotrowska’s exhibition opening
Joanna Piotrowska, Kochasz ty dom co ciszą swą / You Love Home and the Silence of Its Own Fundacja Czas Kobiet / Foundation Women’s Time Opening: June 27th, 2024, Exhibition runs through July 25th,…
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Proszę to USUNĄĆ! Przedmiot s/o/poru – tekst kuratorski
Tekst kuratorski do wystawy “Proszę to USUNĄĆ” kolektywu POD CIŚNIENIEM w ramach Poznań Art Week 2024 Adres lokali: Mielżyńskiego 19, Poznań Tekst+dokumentacja: Julia Stachura Proszę to USUNĄĆ! Przedmiot s/o/poru Miejsca wspólne wymagają od nas…
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Wernisaż wystawy “Proszę to USUNĄĆ” Kolektyw POD CIŚNIENIEM, Mielżyńskiego 19 | 24/05/2024
Relacja z wystawy “Proszę to USUNĄĆ” Kolektywu POD CIŚNIENIEM, w składzie: Cyryl Ambroziak, Patryk Bosco, Wiktoria Cwityńska, Mateusz Drozdowski, Kasia Knychała, Bartek Kościołek, Gabriel Kryszpiniuk, Julia Białas, Katarzyna Strzykalska. Wystawa zrealizowana w ramach 8.…
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Zuzanna Janin’s SHAME (femmage a Aneta Szyłak), “Overcoming the shame culture,” curator’s statement
Overcoming the shame culture It seems very likely that the structuring of associations and attachments around the affect shame is among the most telling differentials among cultures and times: not that the entire world…
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Opening of Zuzanna Janin’s SHAME / wernisaż wystawy Zuzanny Janin SHAME
Zuzanna Janin, SHAME, femmage a Aneta Szyłak, curator: Julia Stachura, Gallery Women’s Time, opening 05/22/2024 6 pm., cooperation Anna Świątkowska, Maria Czarnecka, Monika Młynarczyk. Night dedicated to memory of Aneta Szyłak and Ana Mendieta.…
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Henry Taylor’s B Side
The joy that brings Henry Taylor’s exhibition “B Side” to the art geeks is immaculate! Rich in references, from pop culture, art history, music, sports, and politics, Taylor’s visual world is full of color,…
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Tracey Rose in Queens Museum
A vibrant, radical, and full of references and symbolism retrospective exhibition of Tracey Rose at Queens Museum. In “Shooting Down Babylon” the South-African multimedia artist uses body as a site of protest, outrage, resistance…
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She Is The Fountain. On María Magdalena Campos-Pons.
Only an artist can tell … what it is like for anyone who gets to this planet to survive it. James Baldwin This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is…
Polish art historian and independent curator with a passion for photography.
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- painting (6)
- performance (3)
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