Dorothé Orczyk

Description

Dorothé Orczyk is a curator and a PhD candidate at UvA working on the curatorial and research project “Performance Art as Female Resistance”. The focus of her project is on if and how performance art was and is used as a form of (political) resistance by Polish female performance artists who started their art practice during the Polish People’s Republic (1952-1989) and continued their practice after the fall of the Wall.

Orczyk previously worked as gallery director at Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS and was co-founder and curator at the exhibition space ROZENSTRAAT - a rose is a rose is a rose in Amsterdam. Her curatorial interest is in performance art with a focus on socially engaged and feminist art practices.