Martyna van Nieuwland (Markowska)
| Curator, consultant and researcher. From 2013 to 2022 she was head of programming at the Katowice City of Gardens Cultural Institution, where she programmed the Katowice JazzArt Festival and the world music festival Gardens of Sounds. She writes for publications on interdisciplinary art and specializes in curating interdisciplinary and community projects (including the Katowice – UNESCO Creative City of Music program, the Polish Czech Music Crossroads program in Ostrava from 2025-2022, Katowice’s artistic program for the European Capital of Culture 2016 in Wrocław and 2023 in Veszprem). Member of the organizing team of WOMEX Worldwide Music Expo 2017 in Katowice, Poland. From 2018-2021, member of the board of the Europe Jazz Network. For two years (2022-2024) she served as artistic director of the Music Meeting Festival in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. At the same time, she serves as an educator, mentor and consultant for Creative Europe projects such as MOST The Bridge for Balkan Music and UPBEAT, a European platform for presenting world music. From 2014-2024, she served as a juror for numerous music competitions and showcase festivals around the world such as jazzahead!, WOMEX, Injazz, Seoul Music Week, Keep an Eye and many others. She is the winner of the Music and Community 2022 award for the Katowice JazzArt Festival broadcast by the Europe Jazz Network. Education: 2009 – 2013: post-graduate studies at Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies (field: Comparative Literature), University of Helsinki, Finland; Doctor’s thesis subject: Relations between photography and literature in contemporary Finnish, Polish and British novels. 2010 – 2011: research visit at Department of Nordic Philology, University of Zürich, Switzerland (part of the PhD programme, Swiss Federal Scholarship) 2000 – 2006: studies at Arts-Interfaculty Department of Selective Studies at University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland (two main subjects: philosophy and culture studies, some classes also at sociology, Polish philology, English philology, film directory) 2005: Master’s degree at philosophy, Master’s dissertation titled: Interpretation theory in hermeneutic philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey and Hans-Georg Gadamer (tutor: professor Andrzej Noras, Department of Social Science, University of Silesia) 2006: Master’s degree at culture studies (comparative literature), Master’s dissertation titled: Between arts – relations between photography and literature. Example of new Polish novel writing (tutor: Dr Beata Gontarz, Department of Philology, University of Silesia) 2006: Socrates-Erasmus scholarship at University of Stockholm, Master’s thesis titled Reportage – literature and photography genre (tutor: doc. Maria Zadencka, Department of Slavonic Philology) 2007: University of Turku, Finnish language course for the foreigners with academic degree Professional experience: 2022-2024: Artistic Director Music Meeting, Nijmegen (The Netherlands) 2013 – 2022: Head of Programming at Institution of Culture Katowice – City of Gardens (coordinator and artistic director of such initiatives, as Katowice JazzArt Festival, World Music Festival “Gardens of Sounds”, curator of Polish section of the conference and showcase Czech Music Crossroads in Ostrava, member of local team in charge of WOMEX 2017 in Katowice) www.miasto-ogrodow.eu. 2018 – 2021 – member of Board of Directors of Europe Jazz Network; from 2020 – Secretary 2005 – now: cooperation with several Polish cultural, music and literature magazines (“Opcje”, “FA- art”, “Artpapier”, “Topos”, “Jazz Forum” etc. 2007 – 8. 2009: Tajik State National University and Russian-Tajik (Slavonic) University, Dushanbe, Tajikistan – Polish language lecturer (delegate of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland) 2008 – 2. 2009: program assistant of the project “Sacred places of Tajikistan” at NGO “Anthropology Center” working at Tajik Academy of Science, Dushanbe, Tajikistan Since 2003: work as a literature critic, focused especially on new Polish novelists; critical articles published in magazines like “Opcje”, “Pismo Folkowe” Language Skills: Polish – mother tongue English – proficiency: spoken and written (CAE exam, TOEFL) Finnish – proficiency: spoken, intermediate: written (level B2) Russian – proficiency: spoken, intermediate: written  Photo by Joanna Nowicka |
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