Ewa Satalecka

In 1984, she received her degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. In 2005, presenting a typographic installation based on Sarah Cane’s play “Crave” and Witold Szalonek’s “1+1+1+1,” she defended her doctoral dissertation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice and received her habilitation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2012 (“Air,” based on a poem by e.e. cummings and music by Stanisław Bromboszc). She currently serves as dean of the Department of New Media Art and holds the position of professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Computer 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, a nomination for the award for organizing the ATypI World Typography Congress in Warsaw, for Best Design Event of the Year in Poland); 2012 STGU honorable mention for the “Ala ma pióro” workshops, 2013–2018 MOTYF – International Student Festival of Moving Typography, 2014 Think(in)visual communication, 2016 Laughter, 2018 Thresholds. She is an honorary ambassador for congresses in Poland.

She is a visiting lecturer at universities abroad, 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 the magazine “2+3D” and the editor of publications on typography, including “Lapikon” and “Fajrant” (awarded the Type Directors Club Certificate of Excellence in 2012) as well as “Gyubal Wahazar” (2018 TDC Certificate of Excellence and a PTWK honorable mention). She is the co-author of the book “Pass It On: Design, Teaching, Life—Krzysztof Lenk in Conversation with Ewa Satalecka.”

For many years, she has been designing sets for theater productions and music concerts. She has collaborated, among others, with the Korez Theater, designing sets and costumes for *Ballads of Lovers and Murderers* based on Nick Cave, *Cholonka* based on Janosch (a production awarded the Golden Mask), and *KOMETA, or That Cruel 20th Century* based on Jaromir Nohavica (Golden Mask Award for set design), and for the “Ateneum” Theater of the Actor and Puppet in Katowice on “Theseus and Ariadne” (Golden Mask Award for set design). For the Stanisław Wyspiański Silesian Theater, she designed sets for productions directed by R. Talarczycki: “Underground” and “The Fifth Side of the World” based on Kazimierz Kutz, as well as “The Soldier’s Tale” based on Igor Stravinsky. She designed typographic multimedia installations for stage essays by T. Sławek and B. Mizerski, stage concerts by the Silesian Quartet, and for the TV series “Szopienice.” She has collaborated with the Polish Theater in Bielsko-Biała and the “Gry i Ludzie” Theater in Katowice. She is the creator of the typographic theater installations *Crave* by Sarah Kane and *Air* by E.E. Cummings, with music by Stanisław Brombosz, presented at the Korez Theater and on the NOSPR stage in Katowice, as well as the installation *Medusa*, presented at the Museum of Photography in Kraków. She has designed visual identities for new productions at the Rozrywka Theater in Chorzów, as well as for music festivals organized by the NOSPR, the Silesian Quartet, and the Academy of Music in Katowice. She is Poland’s representative at the ATypI International Forum.

Her works on moving typography in theatrical spaces were shown in 2008 at the international symposium “Liquid Page” at Tate Britain in London and are part of the international collection and exhibition “Moving Type Exhibition,” which was presented at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz in 2011 and is currently touring Europe. Documentation of the installation “Air” was also presented at the exhibition “Pinselstrich vs. Megapixel: Media and Art from Warsaw” in Dresden in 2013.