Joanna Warsza (born 1976) is a curator in the fields
of visual and performing arts and architecture. She is curator of the Georgian
Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2013. Warsza works mostly in the public
realm examining social and political agendas such as, from 2009 to 2010, the
legacy of post-Soviet architecture in Caucasus, and with Public Movement in
2009, the phenomenon of the Israeli youth delegations in Poland. From 2006–2008
she explored the invisibility of the Vietnamese community in Warsaw with the
project Finissage of Stadium X. Her other curatorial projects
include the Göteborg Biennal, Göteborg, 2013 and, as associate curator, the 7th
Berlin Biennale, Berlin, 2012. In 2006, she founded the Laura Palmer
Foundation that she ran through 2011. She is editor of books including: Ministry
of Highways: A Guide to the Performative Architecture of Tbilisi (2013); Forget
Fear (2012); and Stadium X-A Place That Never Was (2009). Warsza
lives and works in Berlin and Warsaw. [Last updated 2013]