Mirela Baciak (1987, Warsaw, Poland) is a curator and writer in the field of visual arts. She is interested in the systems of transaction that are used for profit around the globe, and in crisis as an inherent quality of things that makes them more volatile. The aim of her practice is to address the contradictions between human needs in terms of ethics and neoliberal conditions on both a theoretical and practical level. Her projects take formats commonly used in art-based knowledge articulation and communication in the present day, such as publications, lecture-performances, exhibitions, symposiums, screenings, or workshops.

Baciak graduated from the Critical Studies department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and currently works as a curator for visual and performing arts at the steirischer herbst festival in Graz. Recently she curated the exhibition Nature \ nature at Kunstraum Niederösterreich (2019), was assistant curator at Public Art Munich (2018), Curator-in-Residence at CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (2018), Talks Fellow at the Dhaka Art Summit (2018), and kültur gemma fellow at Kunsthalle Wien (2017). She also worked as a managing editor of the reader Curating the City. Public Art Munich 2018, as well as I Can't Work Like This. A Reader on Boycotts and Contemporary Art (2017), and writes occasionally for art magazines.