Alicja Melzacka

Alicja Melzacka lives in Maastricht and works in and between different places, often on the train, curating exhibitions and programmes and writing about contemporary art. Since 2020 she has been working at Jester (f.k.a. CIAP and FLACC) in Genk, where she curated, amongst others, solo exhibitions with Alexis Gautier (2022), Marianne Berenhaut (2021), and Beny Wagner and Sasha Litvintseva (2021), and where she is currently developing artistic trajectories with Jester's residents.

In 2019, she completed a postgraduate in Curatorial Studies at KASK, Gent. Before that, she did art history and heritage studies (at Gdansk University and Maastricht University, respectively), and she also had a thing for applied linguistics and translation. Language in its various forms and contexts, especially in relation to art and exhibition-making, continues to be her main interest. She enjoys long-term, research-driven collaborations, in particular, with artists working on the intersection of literature and (audio-)visual arts. She prefers writing to speaking, and she is curious about hybrid genres such as fictocriticsm, essay, or ekphrasis. Her texts were published in artists' books, exhibition catalogues, and art magazines. Recently, she curated and produced Hypertext Hotel at SB34 in Brussels (2022), which conceives of an exhibition as a collective work of interactive fiction.