ABOUT

Marta Keil is a performing arts curator, dramaturge and researcher, based between Utrecht and Warsaw. Her practice focuses on transforming transnational modes of working and re-enchanting the ways of instituting in the performing arts field. She has collaborated as freelance dramaturg, curator, teacher, editor and advisor with various European institutions, networks and artists. Currently she is a fellow of BAK (basis voor actuele kunst) Fellowship for Situated Practice (2023-2024), where she researches gestures of withdrawal as artistic and political practices in contemporary performing arts. She collaborates with DAS Theatre in Amsterdam as a theory tutor and with TR Warszawa as a curatorial board member. Recently, she initiated and curated an artistic research project Breaking the Spell, co-produced by Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, München Kammerspiele, Performing Arts Institute in Warsaw and Viernulvier in Ghent (2022-2023) and collaborated with the New Theatre Institute of Latvia in Riga and Rosendal Teater in Trondheim for The Shakedown project (2022-2023). Between 2018 and 2021 she worked as facilitator for the RESHAPE: a Creative Europe project that seeked for collaborative change-making in the arts. Together with Grzegorz Reske (as ResKeil) she co-curated Konfrontacje Teatralne festival in Lublin (2013-2017) and the Common Ground season at Komuna Warszawa (2020, with Tim Etchells). She worked as dramaturg and curator for Teatr Polski in Bydgoszcz (2014-2016). Marta edited several books on curation and contemporary choreography and regularly teaches curatorial practice, recently at the Utrecht University. She holds PhD in Culture Studies and is a founding member of the Performing Arts Institute (InSzPer) collective in Warsaw, which has been active in several Creative Europe projects, including the apap feminist futures network.