Adam Szymczyk

Adam Szymczyk (born 1970) is a Polish art critic and curator. He is the artistic director of Documenta 14 in 2017 in Kassel and was director and chief curator at Kunsthalle Basel from 2003 until 2014.

Szymczyk studied art history at Warsaw University. In the 1990s he participated at the curatorial education of Amsterdam's art centre De Appel. In 1997 he co-founded Fundacja Galerii Foksal (Foksal Gallery Foundation) in Warsaw. Since 2003 he has been the director of Kunsthalle Basel. In 2008 he was co-curator of the 5th Berlin Biennale. Szymczyk, who the New York Times called a "superstar among curators" was presented on November 22, 2013, as the artistic director of Documenta 14.

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