Our Team of international contributors

Sylwia Krasoń (fr)

  • founder & director

Sylwia Krasoń CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Lynx, an international online magazine founded in 2013. Since 2024, she has been the sole owner of Contemporary Lynx, an arts organization she co-founded. Under her leadership, the organization transitioned from simultaneous online and print editions (2015–2023) to fully embracing the digital era with an online magazine. Beyond publishing weekly articles, Contemporary Lynx offers a rich educational and artistic program, including Lynx Academy, panel discussions, events, and art prizes, in collaboration with partners across Europe and beyond. She also serves as President of the Contemporary Lynx Foundation in Warsaw, which she co-founded in 2017. Sylwia holds an MA in Arts Policy & Management (specializing in curating contemporary art) from Birkbeck, University of London (2012) and an MA in History of Art from Jagiellonian University in Kraków (2008). With 15 years of experience in the art field, she has held roles at Philips de Pury, Saatchi Gallery, Barbican Art Gallery, and Zderzak Gallery. She also co-founded a pop-up art gallery in London (2012). She is the author of workshop programs “Storytelling for Creatives” and “How to Make a Magazine”, supported by Arts Council England. A seasoned conference speaker, workshop facilitator, and jury panel member, Sylwia writes on art and culture. She is currently based in Paris.


Anna Nowok (pl)

  • Content Manager

Content manager, graphic designer, e-commerce specialist, and an art historian with many years of experience working in the artistic environment. Studied history of art at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and completed postgraduate studies in e-commerce and social media. She cooperated with various institutions, companies, and organizations, co-creating events organized by the Contemporary Lynx.

Justyna Trojanowska (PL)

  • Advertising Sales Representative

She is Advertising Sales Representative in the Lynx Team. A graduate of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw (philology, specialist translation), as well as Management and Marketing. She has many years of experience in the media industry. She is passionate about new media, visual arts and music.

Berenika Balcer (PL/ ENG)

  • Content editor
  • social media specialist

Content editor & social media specialist, and writer. A Lancaster University graduate with a degree in Media and Cultural Studies. As an undergrad, she created The Lambert, the first and only Polish student media in the UK, and later worked in social media and communications. While interested in all things culture, she has participated in various film criticism workshops and helped at various film festivals. She also publishes film analyses and reviews, facilitating her own corner of the internet. Currently based in Poland.

Aleksandra Mainka-Pawłowska (uk)

  • Art Writer

Art historian and art writer based in London. She is currently studying for an MA in art market and appraisal at Kingston University.

Patrycja Głusiec (pl)

  • Art Writer
  • Photographer

Art writer, a graduate of Polish Philology and Art History based in Warsaw. She explores contemporary photography and writes mainly about women photographers. Her research interests also include film history. From 2019 to December 2023, she worked as Social Media Manager and a member of the editorial team.

Marek Wołyński (uk)

  • Art Writer

London-based creative producer and curator. His practice has been increasingly focused on innovative public engagement and developing visceral, multi-sensory experiences. Particularly interested in the interplay between art, nature, and technology.

Alex Mirutziu (ro)

  • Art Writer

Artist whose practice deals with the process of how we create meaning to interpret the world around us. Inspired by philosophy, literature, and design, he explores the inadequate use of objects, language, and the body as tools of communication.

Patrycja Rozwora

  • Art Writer
  • podcaster

Artist and writer. Studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Critical Studies Department at the Sandberg Institute. Her ongoing research relates the post-Soviet countries. In 2020, she launched a podcast series called ‘Kitchen Conversations.’

Niccolò Lucarelli

  • Art Writer

Niccolò Lucarelli holds a degree in International Studies but also has a background in the arts and academia. He works as an art critic for esteemed European publications. His curatorial research is primarily dedicated to exploring the influence of socio-political subjects on artistic practices. He keenly examines how artists engage with and respond to these themes, resulting in thought-provoking exhibitions and projects. He has curated shows in Italy, Euorpe and Africa. He also works as a military historian for the Italian Army General Staff and has published some essays and books on World War I and II.

Alicja Stąpór (PL)

  • Art Writer

Dancer, performing artist, writer. Bachelor of Art History and Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities in London. Interested in contemporary dance, theatre, philosophy of beauty, fashion, cinema, and all things antiquity.

Sylwia Żółkiewska (pl)

  • Art Writer

Visual artist, designer, and creative manager. She writes about how new technologies can be used to promote knowledge and an appreciation of art, deepen users’ understanding of culture, facilitate education, and streamline business activities.

Aleksandra Lisek (PL)

  • Art Writer

She holds a degree in Performativity Studies from Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Art Curatorship from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. Currently working as a freelance writer, she collaborates with international artistic institutions and associations. Her research focuses on institutional and decolonial critiques of contemporary art, through the prism of ecofeminism and posthumanism. She has contributed to several Italian and international art magazines, such as roots § routes, Juliet Art Magazine, Forme Uniche, and Arts Life.

Maggie Kuzan (uk)

  • Art Writer

Freelance art writer and curator living and working in Valencia, Spain. She explores gender, sexuality and the body from a feminist phenomenological perspective. Since 2014 she has worked with Contemporary Lynx. In 2018 she launched Thinking Flesh, a feminist art platform dedicated to embodiment and lived experience.

Julia Gorlewska (de/pl)

  • Art Writer

Warsaw-based art writer and art advisor with an interest in Post-War & Contemporary Art and the art market. Author of numerous texts on art and interviews with Polish and foreign artists, curators, and art critics. Graduated from Art History at Humboldt University in Berlin. Currently works at DESA Unicum Auction House in Warsaw, where she coordinates projects related to Polish contemporary art.

Kuba Żary

  • Art Writer

Journalist, curator, communication specialist based, spokesman for numerous cultural events, and a long-time radio host in Wrocław. Creator of artistic projects devoted to the urban space and the identity issues that come with it.

Weronika Mielcarek (PL)

  • Art Writer

Weronika graduated from Adam Mickiewicz’s University in Poznań with an undergraduate degree in English Studies. She’s passionate about cinema, literature, politics and life writing.

Grażyna Siedlecka (is)

  • Art Writer

Founder of ‘Fresh From Poland’ — an independent platform for contemporary Polish photography. She works as a curator, picture editor, and writer. She has curated several group exhibitions and cooperated with festivals across the world.

Anna Tomczak (fr)

  • Art Writer

Art writer and PhD researcher based in Lyon. She is interested in the anthropology of the image and concentrates on the potential and influence of the Internet on today’s artistic and curatorial practices.

Dominika Górowska (PL)

  • Art Writer

Studied art history and protection of cultural property at the Jagiellonian University. Particularly interested in the history of architecture, tangible and intangible cultural heritage, cultural identity, perception and interpretation of works of art, not only high art. Likes to become familiar with new technologies, especially if they can be incorporated into heritage protection. She gained professional experience by working with leading Krakow cultural institutions. By day, a museum worker, but also an art history teacher. Spends her free time away from the noise of a big city, in the mountains or in the forest. Constantly up to date with cinema.

Anja Tomljenović

  • Art Writer

Journalist at website Booksa.hr and art writer. She graduated in History of Art and Croatian language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She contributes to internet portals, writes short stories and participates in projects linked with art galleries in Croatia. She is interested in socially-engaged art and literature.

Sara Dąbrowska (PL)

  • Art Writer

a PhD student in art history. She popularises knowledge about art on social media, where she is known as Art Belfer. A teacher and educator. Interested in protestant as well as art of liminal cultur, she likes to seek connections between the art of the past and our times.

Małgorzata Marszałł (pl)

  • Art Writer

Art historian. Currently, she works in the Education Department at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, where she creates educational programmes and workshop scenarios. Interested in architecture, artistic fabrics, and issues related to ecology.

Edith Lázár (ro)

  • Art Writer

Fashion theorist and art writer based in Cluj-Napoca. She was involved in the residency programme of Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. She researches fiction and aesthetic politics at the intersection between art, fashion, and practice.

Marta Kudelska (pl)

  • Art Writer

Independent curator and critic. Interested in curatorial strategies, young art, and relationships between art and horror, and between magic and the romantic tradition. PhD student at the Institute of Culture of the Jagiellonian University, member of the AICA.

Karol Szafraniec (pl)

  • Art Writer

Freelancer, film scholar, and educator. He curates interdisciplinary events and creates educational programmes related to films for cultural institutions. Interested in cinema, music, games, and art. Author of a podcast series called ‘Audio/Wizualny.’

Maria Markiewicz (en)

  • Art Writer

Freelance art writer and curator with an interest in gender and queer theory. Having completed her BA at Central Saint Martins and her MA at Goldsmiths, University of London, she now collaborates with different art organisations worldwide. As a cultural theorist and a researcher, she has published a number of essays on art that is socially and politically engaged, analysing it in regards to sexuality studies and psychoanalysis.

Anna Shostak (pl)

  • Art Writer

Anna Shostak holds a BA in English Philology from USWPS in Warsaw. She's a life-long admirer of languages, European art and culture. Anna is an English teacher who frequently introduces a piece of a literary text or fine art in her class.

Helena Postawka-Lech (PL)

  • Art Writer

Art historian and PhD researcher based in Kraków. She is interested in architecture of Polish interwar and post-war period and museum education. She travelled to Kaunas in search of places where contemporary art, architecture and history meet.

Marta Wróblewska (PL)

  • Art Writer

Freelance curator, art writer, culture manager, occasional translator, based in Naples/Italy. She completed her PhD in art history and new museology at the University of Gdańsk (PL). Previously worked in public administration and as chief curator of Günter Grass Gallery/Gdańsk City Gallery. Member of IKT — International Contemporary Art Curators Association.

Dominika Tylcz (USA)

  • Art Writer

Dominika Tylcz – Curator and art historian, currently completing her MA in Curatorial Studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College. Based in upstate New York.

Richard Greenhill (uk)

  • Proofreader

Writer and proofreader. He primarily covers fields of arts, culture, and sex. Editor at Przekrój and content writer for the KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival. His work has been published on such websites as VICE, Dazed Digital, and Calvert Journal.

Karolina Jasińska (pl)

  • Translator

Monika Juskowiak (PL)

  • Art Writer

She's a freelance Creative, Art Writer, and Project Manager with a keen interest in exploring the intersection of art, culture, and neuroscience. Holding a BA in Ethnolinguistics, an MA in Visual-mediation communication, and a degree from Wielkopolska School of Photography. She is the founder of Nebula, a neuroaesthetic-coated art and curatorial project.

Katarzyna Boch (pl)

  • Art Writer

Katarzyna Boch is a graduate of English Studies at the University of Warsaw who specialises in 19th century British literature and art, especially as regards the representation of women. Apart from being a regular contributor at Contemporary Lynx, she is currently working in academic publishing, doing translations, and pursuing her postgraduate degree in branding and content marketing.

Monika Mokrosz (pl)

  • Translator

Joanna Pottle (US)

  • Art Writer

Visual artist, researcher, writer, and educator based in Kraków,, from Richmond, Virginia, US. She is an alumnae of The Fulbright Program to Poland (2019-2020/21) and current grantee with the Kosciuszko Foundation to Poland (2022-2023) to conduct artistic projects and research. She also completed graduate studies at Jagiellonian University, with her research focusing on the intersection of cultural heritage, collective memory and identity, contemporary arts, public space and democracy.

Joanna Pietrak (pl)

  • Translator

Kate Webster (UK)

  • Translator

Eleftherios Makedonas (GR / UK)

  • Art Writer

Holder of a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA), a PhD in Economics, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Studies. The author of a book (in Spanish) about the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar’s novel ‘Hopscotch’: ‘Lenguaje, Tiempo y “Yo” en ‘Rayuela’ de Cortázar: Para una aproximación filosófica a la novela’ (Editorial Académica Española, 2019).

Oli Gudgeon (uk)

  • Art Writer

Freelance writer. He is the editor of Contemporary Sound Art. In 2017, he completed a master’s degree at the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a distinction for his research and writing on the history and aesthetics of sound art.

Karolina Slup (UK)

  • Art Writer

Karolina Slup is a London-based creative producer and consultant working at the intersection of art, design, and publishing. As a curatorial advisor and book designer, she has been bringing art books into existence, including "The Mechanics" by Zoro Feigl and "Many Nights" by Jacqui Kenny. Dedicated to sustainability, Karolina also leads Buoyant Press, a publishing initiative that fuses ancient marbling techniques with experimental bookbinding.

Anna Halek (PL)

  • Art Writer

Ania Halek (she/her) is an interior architect and researcher. Her work focuses on interior practice as a form of spatial perception. Her current research concerns death and its relations and interactions with space. She is interested in exhibition design and methods of textile creation.

Klara Bender (PL)

  • Art Writer

Freelance editor and producer, currently based between India and Poland. In 2021, she completed a master's degree in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths University, where she was awarded a distinction for her research on the issues of racism and identity in post-Soviet countries. Her portfolio includes the production of a biannual magazine, CLOAKROOM, among others.

Dorian Batycka (PL)

  • Art Writer

Dorian Batycka is a curator and art writer based in between Europe, Canada and Dubai. His writing can be found in Hyperallergic, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Artnet News, The Art Newspaper, Contemporary Lynx and others, where he covers everything from the trials and tribulations of the art market, cultural politics and issues ranging from censorship to restoration, heritage and technology.

Weronika Gromow (PL / UK)

  • Art Writer

Weronika Gromow - a recent Comparative Literature MPhil graduate based in Dublin. Interests include autofiction novels, horror movies, and japanese cooking.

Julia Wędrychowska

  • Intern

Julia Wędrychowska - Originally from Cracow, Poland, and currently based in Amsterdam, she holds a BA degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences from Maastricht University and an MA degree in Linguistics from the University of Amsterdam. With a passion for storytelling in all its forms, she is deeply interested in writing, languages, literature, and cinema.

Nazar Atamaniuk (PL)

  • Intern

Ukrainian journalist currently based in Warsaw, Poland and studying business journalism at the Vistula University. He is a former employee of the Polish Press Agency. He had written articles on a variety of topics, from political interviews to film festival reports, as well as translated and edited.

Patrycja Poznańska (PL)

  • Intern

Musician, producer and art enthusiast, passionate about any and all forms of experimental art. Student of Culture and Media management at Jagiellonian University in Kraków and alum of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York.

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