BIO

• Nearly 20 years of experience within the culture and academia area in curating, planning, programming, managing, and coordinating various arrangements (exhibitions, seminars, conferences, debates, etc.) locally, nationally, and internationally as a part of the institution team and independently. 
• Experience in broadly understood journalism/net publishing; writing, editing, and collaborating with various magazines, institutions, editors, and writers.

Sofia M. Ciel is a philosopher and an independent researcher, curator, and writer. She works across the fields of visual culture, feminist art history, contemporary French thought, Norwegian art, and environmental humanities.

She holds a Ph. D. from the Faculty of Philosophy (Jagiellonian University, 2013). Her doctoral thesis dealt with performance and subjectivity (“Embodiment of the Subject: Philosophy and Performance within the Context of Contemporary Critique of Culture”). She is a graduate of Philosophy (2006), Curatorial Studies (2008), and Editorial Studies (2010).  In 2010, she received a scholarship from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (Department of Visual Studies). She taught philosophy courses at Jagiellonian University during her doctoral studies and she was an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Art in Szczecin from 2014-16 (where she thought the Theory of Photography, Theory of Film, and Culture Studies). Sofia M. Ciel published over 60 texts that include academic articles and texts for art magazines or newspapers such as essays, reviews, or interviews (she collaborates inter alia with Billedkunst, Kunstkritikk, and Hyperallergic). She has worked in or collaborated with several arts, cultural or academic organizations both in Norway or abroad (inter alia with Forbundet Frie Fotografer, Kulturrådet, University of Luxemburg, Center for Contemporary Art, Aberystwyth Art Center, etc. ).  She is a member of The Norwegian Critics’ Association (Norsk kritikerlag), International Association of Art Critics – AICA (AICA Noway), and an affiliated researcher at The French Civilisation Centre (Centre de civilisation française de l’Université de Varsovie).

*full name Sofia Maia Ciel / born Zofia Cielatkowska