Alicja Melzacka often works at the intersection of visual arts and language, curating exhibitions and programmes, writing and speaking along. She is a co-founder of celador project space in Brussels. Recently curated projects include solo exhibitions with Rokko Miyoshi at Art Brussels (2024) and Dominik Ritszel at Szara Gallery in Warsaw (2023), as well as, group exhibitions Proxemities at La Box in Bourges (2023, co-curated with Patricia Couvet), and Hypertext Hotel at SB34 in Brussels (2022). In 2024, she was curator-in-residence at Cas-co (Leuven).
Her texts have accompanied multiple exhibitions and appeared in artists’ books, exhibition catalogues, and press – some publishers include HART (Glean), KAJET Journal, BLOK Magazine, Art Viewer, Onomatopee, Fantôme Verlag, MER Paper Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Wien, Museum M (Leuven), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), PARCUM (Leuven), and Raum für Kunst (Aachen).
From 2019 to 2023, she was curator at Jester (formerly CIAP and FLACC) in Hasselt and Genk, where she worked with artists-in-residence and curated solo exhibitions with Beny Wagner & Sasha Litvintseva, Marina Sula, Marianne Berenhaut, and Alexis Gautier. She holds a double Bachelor’s degree in Art History as well as Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies from the University of Gdansk (2011-2015) and a Master’s degree in Arts and Heritage from Maastricht University (2015-2016). In 2019, she completed a postgraduate programme in Curatorial Studies at KASK School of Arts and Conservatorium in Ghent.