Maciej Zdanowicz

Maciej Zdanowicz (born 1982, Poland) is an intermedia artist, art theorist, and curator. He creates forms at the intersection of media, combining image, sound, text, and material. His practice develops within the space of contemporary art, theoretical reflection, and socially engaged activity. In his projects, he explores themes of memory, trauma, and transformation, analyzing their impact on the contemporary experience of the individual and the collective. A particular focus of his work is Central and Eastern Europe. In recent years, Zdanowicz has concentrated on Ukraine, treating art as a tool of presence, care, and community-building in times of war. His works—installations, films, and sound environments—combine documentary traces with the poetics of matter and sound, linking personal experience with collective memory.

He works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Art, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, where he runs the Studio of Intermedia Structures and Mechanisms of Vision—a creative and intellectual space dedicated to research on the complexity of the medium, artistic language, perception, and social tensions—and co-directs the ArtLAB Center for Contemporary Art. His teaching focuses on 20th- and 21st-century art, with particular attention to intermediality, hybridity, and the aesthetics of the in-between.

He has received the Artistic Scholarship of the Mayor of Łódź (2017), the Award of the City Art Gallery in Łódź, and an honorable mention at the 1st National Student Drawing Exhibition in Toruń. In 2025, he completed a research and artistic residency at the Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture (DCCC) within the framework of the Culture Moves Europe program (Creative Europe / Goethe-Institut). He is a member of AICA, ATINER, and the editorial board of the journal Visual Studies (St. Cyril and St. Methodius University, Bulgaria). He also collaborates as an expert with cultural, diplomatic, and higher education institutions in Poland and across Europe.