Marta Keil

Marta Keil is a performing arts curator and researcher based in Warsaw, Poland. Her curatorial and research practice focuses on possible alternative processes of instituting and on redefining modes of working transnationally. Since 2019, she has been co-running Performing Arts Institute in Warsaw, an independent organization that aims at developing the independent performing arts field in Poland. She often works in a curatorial tandem, Reskeil, with Grzegorz Reske. Among their recent projects is “Common Ground”, a season at Komuna Warszawa (2020), which they curated together with Tim Etchells. Together with Agata Adamiecka-Sitek and Igor Stokfiszewski she has been working on the research project “The Agreement” at Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw (2018-2019), that aimed at the feminization of the public theatre institution. She has been working as a curator and dramaturg with Agnieszka Jakimiak, Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué, She She Pop, Agata Siniarska, Jagoda Szelc, and Ana Vujanović, among others. Since 2019, she has been cooperating with RESHAPE as a project facilitator. She initiated the EEPAP platform, that she collaborated with until 2019. She teaches curatorial practice and institutional critique at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków and SWPS University, Warsaw. She is the editor of several books, including “Choreography: Autonomies” (2019) and “Reclaiming the Obvious: on the Institution of Festival” (2017).