Pawel Pachciarek

Born in 1986 in Zielona Gura, Poland. He graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University’s Institute of Oriental Studies with a degree in Japanese studies. He then completed a doctoral program in Japanese studies and literary criticism at the same university. In 2013, he was an invited overseas researcher at Osaka University’s Graduate School of Letters on a Japan Foundation fellowship. In 2015, he was a research scholar in art at the Doshisha University Graduate School of Letters. He is currently enrolled in the doctoral program at Osaka University’s Graduate School of Letters, majoring in comparative literature, on a grant for Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarships. He specializes in Japanese studies, contemporary literature, art, and aesthetics. He is the author of Kusama Yayoi czyli obsesja kropek (Tako, 2015).

After positions at Sumika Electronic Materials Poland in Torun and Funai Europe in Nowa Sól, and as a gallery assistant at Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk in Poznań, he is currently responsible for the Japan section of the Asian programs at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, which is funded by Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Main curator: Polish Art Festival 2019 in Japan Celebration -Japanese Polish Contemporary Art Exhibition-, Kyoto Art Center, Japan(2019); Mono no aware Celebration project -Japanese-Polish Contemporary Art Exhibition-in Szczecin, TRAFO, Szczecin, Poland (2019)