Mirela Baciak is a curator, researcher, and occasional writer in the field of visual arts. In her curatorial and research work, she is interested in putting things in spatial, temporal, and conceptual relations, creating connections of bodies to objects and space, but also to concepts, ideas, and other bodies; whereas distance is relative.
Baciak serves as director of Salzburger Kunstverein (2023–). Prior she was curator at steirischer herbst festival in Graz, Austria (2019–2023), assistant curator at Public Art Munich (2018), talks fellow at Dhaka Art Summit (2018), and culture fellow at Kunsthalle Wien (2017); she has realised numerous exhibitions and projects on a freelance basis, recently as curator of Back Stages (2023) at ARAC Bucharest, co-curator of Suspension of Disbelief at TANK Shanghai (2023), curator of Surface Tension at Blickle Kino, Belvedere21 (2022).
Baciak holds an MA in Critical Studies, and occasionally teaches contemporary art and curating.
