Portret Anki Wandzel z prywatnego archiwum

Anka
Wandzel

Anka
Wandzel

Writer, essayist, researcher, interviewer, and mother of two. She is the author of a debut collection of essays entitled Sztuka Przetrwania, which was published by Karakter in 2025. She is a contributor to Dwutygodnik, Miesięcznik Znak, OKO.press, Przekrój, Ładne Bebe, Kukbuk, and Zwykłe Życie. In 2024, she received a literature scholarship from the City of Warsaw and participated in the ‘Common Field’ residency at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. Her writing covers topics such as the environment, the water crisis, survival, climate catastrophe, invisible care work, the inner workings of Polish contemporary art, and global and local social inequalities. She also writes about urban thickets, waters, and weeds. In the age of climate change, she seeks hope amongst the bushes. She is a member of MOST, an urban cooperative farm in Siekierki, where she is trying to cultivate the future alongside others. She runs the ‘Sztuka przetrwania’ newsletter. She has participated in numerous author talks and panel discussions at venues including the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Rondo Sztuki in Katowice, Gdańsk City of Literature, Dom Literatury in Bydgoszcz, the Czuby Południowe Neighbourhood Cultural Centre in Lublin, the Public Library in Konin, the ‘City with a River’ Literary Festival in Przemyśl, and the ‘Nad Wodą’ Mazovian Heritage Forum in Warsaw. Previously, she worked at the Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture (Królikarnia), undertook her PhD at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, and was a Gessel Foundation scholarship holder at the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art. She began collaborating with Goyki 3 in 2025 as part of the ‘good vibes’ exhibition.

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