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.

Art historian based in Munich, Germany. She holds a degree in art history from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Her research focuses on socially engaged art, art in public spaces, participation, cultural education, and museology.

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.

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.

Aleksandra Lisek is a Florence-based curator, researcher, and Arts & Brand Partnerships Representative for Contemporary Lynx. Holding degrees from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Florence and Jagiellonian University, she specializes in transcultural mediation and art law. Her work interrogates power structures through the prisms of ecofeminism, posthumanism, and decolonial critique. Beyond her theoretical research, she focuses on the strategic development of international cultural projects and institutional collaborations. An active voice in art journalism, Aleksandra has contributed to several italian and international publications, including FUL Magazine, AICA e-mag, Arts Life, Juliet Art Magazine, roots § routes, Forme Uniche.

Art historian, writer, and translator based in London. She graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, continued her studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL, and later pursued a Master’s degree in Art Market and Appraisal. Her writing explores the art market, contemporary practices, and the shifting dynamics of art fairs, with a particular interest in socially engaged art and cultural dialogues between Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. With a background spanning both art and finance, she writes from the crossroads of culture and capital. Alongside her professional career in finance, she continues to explore the ways art is valued and experienced in today’s world.

Klara approaches contemporary art through a cross-cultural and intersectional lens, exploring how visual culture shapes and challenges dominant narratives around identity, gender, and society. Having lived in London, India, and Nepal, she is particularly interested in feminist perspectives, representations of motherhood, and the politics of care. Her editorial and cultural production work includes producing CLOAKROOM, a biannual magazine. She is currently based in Poland and holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she graduated with distinction in 2021. Her research examined racism and identity in post-Soviet contexts, tracing overlooked connections between Eastern Europe and the Global South through their entangled histories of international solidarity.

Writer and journalist – Ilya is impassioned, always, by glowing cultural landscapes and the embers that emerge from contemporary artistic developments. As a recent graduate and current intern at W1 Radio, he is currently committed to immersing himself in this industry, gaining experience and knowledge that will help shape a career focused in music and media. Ever since he could talk or walk, Ilya was either blowing into a harmonica or twirling around records – and it wasn’t long before he was spinning them himself; “music has always been the passion of my life and the pulse in my heart”. Now, through writing, blogging and creative perspectives, Ilya looks forward to contributing his work to media outlets in London and beyond.

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.’

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.

Marta Wróblewska - curator, art writer, culture manager, academic researcher and teacher at the University of Gdańsk where completed her PhD in art history and new museology. She lives between Naples/Italy and Gdańsk/Poland. Her research areas include: museology, heritage, identity, memory, curatorial methodologies, artistic legacies and art collecting practices. She worked in public administration, as chief curator in Gdańsk City Gallery, and as freelance curator active internationally. She publishes scientific and popular texts on contemporary art and museology in academic journals (eg. „Taylor&Francis”), exhibition catalogues, and art magazines (eg. „Contemporary Lynx” and „Oronsko Quarterly”). She is the author of the monograph Musealization and the Identity of Gdańsk (2025). Since 2018 she is member of IKT — International Contemporary Art Curators Association

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

She’s a freelance Creative Strategist and Art Writer exploring the intersection of contemporary art, technology, and digital culture. Her work is driven by a curiosity about emerging technologies and their ability to transform creative practice, artistic expression, and the ways we perceive and experience the world.

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.’

Berenika Balcer is an editor and writer. While interested in all things culture, she specialises in film, having published articles in Cineuropa, Talking Shorts, Modern Times Review, Pełna Sala, Short Stuff, Phantasmag, Documentary Magazine, and more. She has also participated in various film criticism workshops (GoCritic!, MIOB, the END) and contributed to film festivals through festival centre work and pre-selection. She also carves out her own corner of the internet for film criticism and community. As an undergrad, she created The Lambert, the first and only Polish student media in the UK. Recently, she managed content editing and social media for Contemporary Lynx (2024-2026). She holds a degree in Media and Cultural Studies from Lancaster University.

Oscar Bloomfield is an Australian Film Studies PhD candidate, arts writer, and academic currently based in Krakow. His doctoral research concerns the cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni, exploring the existential and epistemological uncertainty emerging from Antonioni’s distinctively estranged modern realities. Oscar writes for both specialised and general audiences, spanning film studies, contemporary art, and design. He has interviewed a range of international and emerging artists, including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Julius von Bismarck, Lucile Hadžihalilović, and Nick Modrzewski. Alongside his text-based practice, Oscar has presented audiovisual work both in Australia and internationally, most recently completing a solo exhibition consisting of three interrelated films at Quality Gallery in Melbourne.

Kate Kadeniuk, an independent curator and writer based in London, originally from Ukraine, focuses on contemporary art. Holding a Bachelor’s degree in Arts Marketing from the University of Hertfordshire and having completed a course in independent art curation at Central Saint Martins, UAL, London, with five years of professional experience, working with Maureen Paley, Frieze, Roman Road Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, 180 Studios, and Nebo Art Gallery. Also a contributing writer for Émergent and NASTY magazines.

Alicja Stąpor is a contributor to Contemporary Lynx since 2021. She is an art writer, based between Paris, Zurich and Warsaw. She’s most inspired by female voices and their consequences in the art scene. Since having graduated from Art History and Philosophy at the Northeastern University in London, she’s been active contributor to the magazine in covering exhibitions, documenting festivals, and interviewing artists. Since 2025 she has joined Contemporary Lynx marketing team.

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.

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.

Photographer, visual artist, and creative translator. Born and raised in New York, currently based in Wrocław, Poland. An alumnus of the International Center of Photography Teen Academy and a graduate with a Master’s Degree from the Polish National Film School in Łódź. Her interests include zines, horror films, makeup artistry, folktales, and social justice initiatives.

Zuzanna Sarlej is a Gdańsk-based researcher, proofreader and writer. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences from the University of Amsterdam, and a Master’s degree in Advanced English Studies from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her interests include literature, ecocriticism and handicraft.

A trilingual translator currently based in Kraków. She holds a Master’s degree in Translation Studies from the Jagiellonian University and a Bachelor’s degree in Ethnolinguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Passionate about language, storytelling, and the cultural context behind texts, she continues to pursue her interest in contemporary culture, literature, and modernist architecture, especially while strolling through her neighbourhood of Nowa Huta.

Originally from Warsaw, Pola is an early-career creative professional and researcher, growing her practice in visual arts curation, cultural programming and arts journalism. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Cultural Policy and Arts Management at University College Dublin. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences from the University of Amsterdam. Her interests span politically involved art and exhibition-making, contemporary literature and cultural memory studies.

producer and curator of cultural events and exhibitions. Previously associated with the National Museum in Krakow, the Photomonth and Unsound Festival as a coordinator of contemporary art exhibitions. Program curator of the Krakow art fair Nówka Sztuka [Brand new art fair]. Finalist of the national competition for an exhibition in the Polish pavilion during the Venice Biennale (OWN project). A graduate of international relations at the Jagiellonian University and contemporary art at the KEN University. Currently doing Phd program at the Fine Arts Faculty, of the Complutense University. Scholarship holder of the Kościuszko Foundation and the Tokyo Foundation. Latin American studies, lecturer and researcher at the Jagiellonian University, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Georgetown University, El Colegio de Mexico. Author of the blog www.thebananas.pl. In her curatorial practice and research she focuses on materiality of art, contemporary art practices in Latin America, and links between craft and art nowadays.

Rosana Lukauskaitė is a Lithuanian writer, editor, and art critic working across literature, visual culture, and contemporary theory. Her work explores the intersections of political affect, aesthetic systems, and poetic witnessing. She is part of the editorial team at Artnews.lt, lectures at Vilnius Academy of Arts, and regularly contributes to both Lithuanian and international art publications. Her fiction and essays have been featured in journals, exhibitions, and interdisciplinary platforms.

I have been an arts and cultural writer for 11 years, working across Mumbai, Dubai, Florence, Rome, and Milan. I believe in infusing everything with poetic essence, prioritising rhythm over rhyme. With two hazel eyes for detail, I’m on a mission to correct the world’s linguistic slip-ups—one misplaced comma at a time. My subjects range from the nuances of a Renaissance masterpiece to dissecting contemporary exhibitions and runway narratives; from questioning why a building will not crumble to examining furniture designed to hurt your savings but save your back. When I am not shaping sentences or critiquing an artwork, you will find me behind my phone camera lens, capturing mundane moments in predominantly monochrome. Take a look: @SanaKrishna89. Over the past decade, I have also worked with a contemporary gallery and an artist studio, developing curatorial strategies, conceptual frameworks, exhibitions, publications, and public programmes—all with an eye toward the relationships, contexts, and gestures that give art its resonance. What has shaped my perspective most is having experienced the art world from both sides—as a journalist, while also as a gallery. That dual exposure has given me a far more layered understanding of artistic evolution, market dynamics, and the wider cultural conversations surrounding contemporary art.

Daga Ochendowska is a curator, art critic, writer, and co-founder of the Sunmedess Foundation. She holds an MA in Art Criticism from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Since 2023, she has been running a gallery and the Artist Do Nothing in Residence program in Essaouira, Morocco, dedicated to intercultural exchange, rest, and collective artistic practices.

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.

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.

Art historian, museum professional and lecturer in the history of art. She has collaborated with leading cultural institutions in Kraków as an exhibition curator, project manager and coordinator of high-profile international cultural projects. Her research interests include pre-modern art, cultural heritage, heritage interpretation, intangible cultural heritage, and the culture and traditions of rural communities. Alongside her professional work, she pursues a longstanding interest in classical literature and classic cinema.

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.

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.

Timika Sukhai is a South African–born writer, researcher, and emerging curator whose interdisciplinary practice engages critically with archival histories, Indigenous knowledge systems, and creative storytelling. Over the past four years living in Scotland, she has developed a distinctive research and creative practice grounded in postcolonial inquiry, experimental methodologies, and the reimagining of historical narratives.

Sonia Witak – artist and writer. A graduate of Photography at the Łódź Film School. Her research interests focus on epistemology, art, critical discourse analysis, and postmodernism.

Taryn Adams is a Celtic-British writer and cultural commentator based in Warsaw. Her work explores Poland’s contemporary art scene and wider Slavic cultural landscape, with a particular interest in cultural identity, artistic narratives and cross-cultural exchange. Through interviews with cultural figures, she explores the people and ideas shaping Polish contemporary culture. Alongside her work with contemporary Lynx, she writes freelance content for artists with high-profile brand collaborations. Her cultural commentary has also featured in Newsweek Polska.

Beata Ekert holds a Bachelor's degree in English Studies with a specialisation in Translation Studies and is currently pursuing her Master's degree, both at the University of Gdańsk. She has a particular interest in literary and audiovisual translation, as it combines her passions for art and language. She is also engaged in the exploration of the art scene of the Tricity, where she is based.

artist, educator and researche based in Poland. She holds a Master’s degree in Art Education from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where she graduated with distinction and received the Rector’s Scholarship throughout her Master’s studies. In 2023–2024, she completed a year-long exchange at the École Supérieure d’Art Anne

Based in London, Yasmin is a historian, artist and writer. She is interested in historical narratives about migration, labour and the environment and their relationships to contemporary culture, artistic practice and criticism. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Cambridge

Sebastian Faure studied at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Archaeology, specializing in Islamic Art. Having grown up in the Middle East, he developed a strong understanding of the region’s cultural heritage and contemporary art scene. He has gained professional experience working with renowned galleries, including Opera Gallery and Eden Gallery, both specializing in Modern and Contemporary Art. In these roles, he worked closely with collectors, advising them on acquisitions and discussing the investment potential of artworks.

An enthusiast of art and language. Still overwhelmed by the modern art world, but eagerly learning. Graduate of ethnolinguistic, student of New Media. Fascinated by all kinds of human expression.

Aleksandra Jóźwiak is a graduate of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. Specializing in translation, her primary areas of interest are Scottish literature and feminist translations of the Bible. Additionally, she completed a post-diploma course at the Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, where she specialized in stained glass. Currently she is exploring the contemporary Polish art scene and looking for a way of expression that suits her best.