Patrycja Ryko is a contemporary art curator, author of texts and publications, producer of art house films and educational workshops.
She earned a master's degree in art history from Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna (2009). She also earned a master's degree in postgraduate studies - curating contemporary art - from London's Royal College o... Read More

Patrycja Ryko is a contemporary art curator, author of texts and publications, producer of art house films and educational workshops.
She earned a master's degree in art history from Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna (2009). She also earned a master's degree in postgraduate studies - curating contemporary art - from London's Royal College of Art (2008). She studied art management at Dartington College of Art in the UK as a Socrates-Erasmus scholarship holder (2003 - 2004). She completed postgraduate creative producer studies at the Film School in Lodz (2019-2020). Scholarship recipient from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice (2005) and the 5th Gwangju International Curator Course, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, South Korea (2013). Sopot City Scholarship holder (2016).
From 2011-2017 employed at the Gdańsk City Gallery as curator of exhibitions and the public program. She curated exhibitions of Polish and foreign artists, e.g. Paweł Althamer, Paulina Ołowska, Julita Wójcik, Slavs and Tatars, Maria Loboda, Michał Szlaga, Agnieszka Polska, Oskar Dawicki/ Rafał Bujnowski, Yinka Shonibare, Piotr Janas, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Jeremy Deller, Normal Leto, Michał Marczak and Robin Klassnik/Bronwen Buckeridge/Richard Greyson and Goshka Macuga.
Ryko has worked/interned at various institutions in Poland and abroad, including Matt's Gallery in London, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Venice Biennale (Pavilion British), Vermelho Gallery in Sao Paolo, and Hunt and Gallery Kastner in Prague. Curator of exhibitions in Poland and abroad (for example, BWA Pozna in Bydgoszcz/ ETC Gallery in Praga/ Space Gallery in London/ Museum Modern Art in Astana/ Lajevardi Collection in Tehran/ Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana/ CSW Castle Ujazdowski in Warsaw).
Ryłko gave guest lectures at the Academy Fine Arts in Hue (Vietnam), University of Arts (Poznan) and Lodz Film School (Lodz).
She has founded PINK GALAPAGOS an independent, collaborative film production company
focusing its praxis mainly on the art-house fiction and fantasy. It explores the boundaries between visual art and film by supporting artist’s ambitious visions and transforming them into the film. Read Less