Taras Gembik

Taras Gembik (born Kamin-Kashyrskyi, 1996, lives in Warsaw, Poland) is a poet, curator, performer, and activist. He is the curator of the public programme at Zachęta National Gallery of Warsaw, where in 2024 he also curated, together with Joanna Kordjak, Siergiej Parajanov's retrospective. Since 2018, he has worked with the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw to provide a platform for refugees and those afflicted by the homelessness crisis. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he co-created the Sunflower Solidarity Community Centre, praised in an extensive profile in Frieze Magazine, as part of a dossier on "Forms of Resistance". 
He has performed at the Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw, 2021), Galeria Bielska BWA (Bielsko-Biała, 2022), and Cell Project Space (London, 2023), and the Osaka Kansai International Art Festival (2023). Gembik's curatorial and community work has been recognised by the European Cultural Foundation.