Asia Zak Persons | Curator

Asia Zak Persons graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
She is the co-founder of ZAK | BRANICKA Gallery, ZAK | BRANICKA Foundation and Persons Projects. In addition, Zak Persons is the president of the Kulik-KwieKulik and Grey Crawford Foundations. Furthermore, she is a member of Paris Photo New York selection committee. Currently she co-directs Persons Projects and the Helsinki School, works both as an independent curator, writer, publisher and editor. Asia Zak Persons is the creator and director of the Image to Image video platform.


CURATED EXHIBITIONS

2021

New Perspectives Through Photography – 25 years of the Helsinki School, 11 September – 31 October 2021,  Taidehlli Helsinki, FI

Inconsistent Ways of Seeing, Kristján Gudmundsson | Jarosław Kozłowski | Ville Kumpulainen | Milja Laurila | Dominik Lejman, 29 April – 28 August, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE


2020

Searching for the Shapes Within, Grey Crawford | KwieKulik | Teresa Murak | Riitta Päiväläinen | Finnbogi Pétursson | Ragna Róbertsdóttir | Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir | Ryszard Wasko, 21 November 2020 – 6 March 2021, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE


Female Positions from the Helsinki School, Tiina Itkonen I Ulla Jokisalo I Sanna Kannisto I Sandra Kantanen I Eeva Karhu I Anni Leppälä I Teea Saanio I Niina Vatanen, 27 August – 1 September 2020, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, DK

The Helsinki School: The Nature of Being, Elina Brotherus I Ulla Jokisalo I Janne Lehtinen I Ville Lenkkeri I Anni Leppälä I Sanna Kannisto I Sandra Kantanen I Eeva Karhu I Riitta Päiväläinen I Jyrki Parantainen I Jorma Puranen I Jari Silomäki I Santeri Tuori, 27 June – 5 September 2020, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE

A Kiss Given by Time to Light, Timo Kelaranta I Niko Luoma I Niina Vatanen I Kira Leskinen I Pertti Kekarainen, 23 May – 25 June 2020, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE

2019

Abstractions, Timo Kelaranta I Niko Luoma I Teea Saanio I Mikko Sinervo I Ea Vasko, 26 October – 16 November 2019, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE

2018

Cyclic Repetitions, Kristján Guðmundsson I Tanja Koljonen I Rainer Paananen I Finnbogi Pétursson I Mikko Rikala I Ragna Róbertsdóttir, 24 November 2018 – 16 February 2019, Gallery Taik Persons (now Persons Projects), Berlin, DE

Reflections: From Here to There, Rita Anttila I Elina Brotherus I Ulla Jokisalo I Aino Kannisto I Anni, 30 June – 8 September 2018, Gallery Taik Persons (now Persons Projects), Berlin, DE

Continuum, On Kawara | Jarosław Kozłowski | Roman Opałka | Barbara Schmidt Heins | Gabriele Schmidt Heins, 30 May – 8 September, 2018, ZAK | BRANICKA Berlin, DE

2015

The Admirable Number Pi, Daniel Buren I Stanisław Dróżdż I Jan Dibbets I Vlatka Horvat I Marlena Kudlicka I KwieKulik I Szymon Kobylarz I Mario Merz I Ryszard Wasko I Magdalena Abakanowicz, 27 June – 12 September, 2015, ZAK | BRANICKA Berlin, DE, April 30 – May 4, 2015, St. Elisabeth Church, Berlin, DE

Images of Contingence, Valie Export, 26 April – 15 June, 2013, ZAK | BRANICKA Berlin, DE

2010

MINIMUM MAXIMUM, Stanisław Dróżdż | Carl Andre | Robert Barry, 11 June 2010 – 4 September 2010, ZAK | BRANICKA, Berlin, DE

2009

From the Archive, Wojciech Bakowski I Yane Calovski I Sławomir Elsner I Katarzyna Kozyra I Paweł Ksiazek I Zofia Kulik I Robert Kuśmirowski I Agnieszka Polska, June 26, 2009, ZAK | BRANICKA, Berlin, DE