Ewa Satalecka

She received her diploma from the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts in 1984. In 2005, presenting a typographic installation of Sarah Cane's drama "Crave" and Witold Szalonek's "1+1+1+1+1", she defended her doctoral thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice and received her habilitation from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 2012 ("Air" to a poem by e.e. cummings and music by Stanislaw Bromboszcz. She currently serves as dean of the Faculty of New Media Arts, working as a professor at the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology in Warsaw.

She is the organizer and curator of numerous exhibitions, workshops, lectures and international conferences on graphic design and visual communication (2011 STGU award for "Responsible Graphic Design", in 2017 nomination for the organization of the world typographic congress ATypI in Warsaw, for the Best Design Event of the Year in Poland); 2012 STGU award for the workshop "Ala has a pen", 2013-2018 MOTYF - International Student Festival of Moving Typography, 2014 Think(in)visual communication, 2016 Laughter, 2018 Thresholds. She is an honorary ambassador of congresses in Poland.

Guest lectures at foreign universities including: Aalto University, Helsinki; MMU Manchester; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (USA); Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA); MIT, MassArt, Boston (USA). She is also the author of articles on graphic design in "2+3D" magazine and editor of the typography publications "Lapikon" and "Fajrant" (awarded with Type Directors Club 2012 certificate) and "Gyubal Wahazar" (TDC Certificate of Excelence 2018 and PTWK award). She is the co-author of the book "Pass on. Design, Teaching, Living. Krzysztof Lenk in conversation with Ewa Satalecka".

For many years she has been creating set designs for theatrical performances and music concerts. Among others, she has cooperated with the Korez Theater designing decorations and costumes for "Ballads of Lovers and Murderers" according to Nick Cave, "Cholonek" according to Janosch (a performance awarded with a golden mask) and "KOMETA czyli ten okrutny wiek XX wg Jaromir Nohavicy" (golden mask for stage design), For the Actor and Puppet Theater "Ateneum" in Katowice for "Theseus and Ariadne" (golden mask for stage design). For the Silesian Theater named after St. Wyspianski, she designed sets for plays directed by R. Talarczycka "Underground" and "The Fifth Side of the World" according to Kazimierz Kutz and "History of a Soldier" according to Igor Stravinsky. She designed typographic multimedia installations for stage essays by T. Slawek and B. Mizerski, stage concerts of the Silesian Quartet, as well as for the film series "Szopienice". She has collaborated with the Polish Theater in Bielsko-Biała and the "Games and People" Theater in Katowice. She is the author of the typographic theatrical installations "Crave" by Sarah Kane and "Air" by E.E. Cummings with music by Stanislaw Bromboszcz, shown at Tetra Korez and on the stage of NOSPR in Katowice, as well as the installation "Medusa", presented at the Museum of Photography in Cracow. She has been involved in designing the graphic identification of premiere performances for the Rozrywki Theater in Chorzow, NOSPR music festivals, the Silesian Quartet and the Music Academy in Katowice. She is a representative of Poland at the ATypI International Forum.

Her work on moving typography in theatrical space was shown in 2008 at the international symposium "Liguid Page" at the Tate Britain in London and is part of the international collection and Moving Type Exhibition presented at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz in 2011 and currently touring Europe. Documentation of the installation "Air" was also presented at the exhibition Pinselstrich vs. Megapixel Medien- /Kunst aus Warschau in Dresden 2013