Based in Kraków, Poland, Joanna Zielinska is an art historian, curator and a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and IKT – International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art. In 2010, she started a collaboration with the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor – Cricoteka in Kraków. Zielinska is the former Chief Curator at the Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń, Poland, where she curated the inaugural exhibition and conceptualized the institution’s program from 2008-2010. She has collaborated with websites and art magazines, contributed to art catalogs and published over sixty articles. From 2003 to 2007, Zielinska worked with the curatorial collective Exgirls. Her interests ranges from syllogomania, collecting, various aspects of escapism and anthropology of food and eating to social design and John Bock.

While at ISCP, Zielinska is developing a new project titled The End Of Collecting, a collection of facts, stories, everyday practices, quotations and other texts. Beginning with an attempt to impose order on chaos, to compile and arrange collections, it will culminate in madness, obsession, compulsively crammed living spaces, self-destructive habits and, finally, escape. Zielinska pays attention to the nature of the phenomenon of collecting and the very thin borderline between the process of collecting and common hoarding.