Studio visits Mirela Baciak: 16 en 17 October
On Thursday 16 and Friday 17 October 2025, director and curator Mirela Baciak will conduct a number of studio visits with artists in The Hague. She describes her areas of interest as follows:
"Mirela Baciak (she/her) works as director and curator at the Salzburger Kunstverein. Her practice is grounded in the notion of hospitality as a process that captures the ethical relation to the unknown and the Strange. She conceives of curating as a choreographic practice that arranges things into spatial, temporal, and conceptual constellations—fostering connections between bodies, objects, and spaces, as well as between concepts, ideas, and other bodies, where distance becomes relative. She is committed to advancing projects that shape contemporary art discourse and to creating access to art and its debates for diverse audiences"
Brief biography
Before joining the Salzburger Kunstverein in 2023, Baciak was curating at steirischer herbst festival in Graz (2019–2023), where she developed new commissions and performance formats across several editions. In 2022 she co-curated, with David Riff, the special exhibition A War in the Distance. Prologue. An Embattled Ukraine in Video Art and Film. Prior to steirischer herbst she worked with Public Art Munich 2018, a perennial dedicated to exploring how art can exist in public space through new commissions, performances, and interventions. She has been a fellow or curator-in-residence at the EDI Global Forum for Education and Integration, Fondazione Morra Greco (2022), ARAC Bucharest (2022), Shanghai Curators Lab II (2019), HOW Art Museum Shanghai (2019), Dhaka Art Summit (2018), CCA Warsaw (2018), kültüř gemma and Kunsthalle Wien (2017), as well as the 7th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course (2016).
Registration
If you are interested in a studio visit with Mirela Baciak, you can register until Saturday 11 October via this link. We ask you to briefly explain your interest in a studio visit (in English!) and to provide a link to your artist profile on haagsekunstenaars.nl as well as your personal website. The responses received, together with any suggestions from Stroom, will be submitted to the curator. From this list, she will make a selection based on which the visit programme will be compiled. Shortly after the deadline, you will be informed whether you have been selected for a studio visit.
About the studio visit programme
Stroom regularly invites curators, artists, and critics from the Netherlands and abroad to conduct studio visits with artists from The Hague who are registered with Stroom. The studio visit offers artists the opportunity to present their work and provides a setting for constructive critical reflection in conversation with an art professional. In this context, it also helps to raise awareness of the artists’ work.