Mirela Baciak

Mirela Baciak (b. 1987, Warsaw) is a curator in the field of visual arts whose practice is guided by the notion of hospitality as a process which captures one’s ethical relation to the unknown and the strange. Since July 2023, she has been serving as the director of the Salzburger Kunstverein. Previously, she was a curator at the steirischer herbst festival in Graz (2019–2023) and worked at Public Art Munich (2018). Baciak holds an MA in Critical Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 2023, she initiated the AAC | Austrian Association of Curators, an organization that fosters curatorial-knowledge production.