Krystyna Jędrzejewska-Szmek

Visual artist and biologist. A graduate of photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and biology at the University of Warsaw. She worked for many years at the Botanical Garden of Warsaw University. Her interests focus on the interconnections and tensions between humans and the “more-than-human world” created by entities such as trees, toads, mosses and fungi. She consistently pursues her artistic activities on the borderline between art and science. A member of the ZAKOLE Group, which focuses on finding ways to narrate and experience environments such as marshlands and bringing the perspective of the creatures that inhabit them. Co-author of the award-winning artbook Tropicale which addresses the link between botany and colonialism. She operates not only in the visual sphere, but also as a writer and animator of various social activities and workshops.