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Weronika Zielińska-Klein is an artist, researcher, curator, educator, and a mother. She has been running Upominki (gifts in Polish), a project space in her family home in Rotterdam, since 2012. In her work, she often explores curatorial approaches in which gift-giving and hospitality are central. Zielińska is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities, at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory, and Material Culture (AHM). Her interdisciplinary project brings together art history, theory, and artistic practice to examine the intersection of pedagogy, feminism, and artistic research. Specifically, she researches mother-artists' initiatives, collectives, and networks, and how their self-organizing practices contribute to discussions of artistic autonomy, while recognizing the proximity and interconnectedness of artistic and political autonomy, particularly in relation to reproductive and collective labor. 

Zielińska currently serves as a Principal Lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Between 2018 and 2025, she led Autonomous Practices, an interdisciplinary BA program at the same institute. Most recently, Zielińska co-curated Through the Keyhole, an international group exhibition featuring works by seventeen artists who turn the audiovisual gaze on their everyday situations and encounters: http://www.laznia.pl/wystawy/through-the-keyhole-448/. For an extensive portfolio of projects curated by Zielińska, see: http://upominki.nl