Ph.D. (b. 1977, Lodz, Poland) is a Warsaw-based independent curator, art historian, art critic, museum management expert and academic teacher. She studied the history of art and philosophy at the University of Lodz, Poland and University of Vigo, Spain.
Ludwisiak was a director of the most important museums and art institutions in Poland: the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (Artistic Director, 2023–2024), where she was co-responsible for the programme for the opening of the new venue, CCA – the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (General Director, 2014–2019) and Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz (Deputy Director, 2008–2014). She was also Chief Curator of the Modern Art Department in the National Museum in Gdansk, Poland (2021–2022), director of the International Lodz Biennale (2006) and initiator and director of Lodz Design Festival (2007). Thanks to the bold and precise profile of the CCA in Warsaw focused on a critical approach to globalization, the institution gained international partnerships (including Jatiwangi Art Factory in Indonesia and National Culture and Arts Foundation in Taiwan) and recognition. In 2019 she was invited to present her institutional methodology at the conference Europe des Musées in Centre Pompidou.
She was a board member of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) for two terms (2020-2025), working on annual CIMAM conferences and webinars programmes. Her major international curatorial projects include: CIMAM Annual Conferences (2021–2025); Theatrism. Radicalism in Contemporary Art and Theater in the Face of the Crisis of Democracies (co-curator; 2025, Museo Moderno in Buenos Aires); Curating Institution, a series of lectures by researchers, curators and museum directors at the CCA in Warsaw (2017–2019); El Hadji Sy. At First I Thought I Was Dancing (2016, CCA in Warsaw collaboration with Clementine Deliss, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt and Adam Budak, National Gallery, Prague); and Correspondences. Modern Art and Universalism (co-curated with Jaroslaw Lubiak; 2012–2013, Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz).
Ludwisiak’s main fields of research include historical avant-gardes in Eastern Europe, postwar art in former “Eastern Bloc” countries, contemporary art with special emphasis on performative and de-colonial practices, art in relation to climate catastrophe, and new institutional theory and critique. Her writing has been published by Artnet News, Mousse, and Polish art magazines, and has also appeared in many exhibition catalogues and readers.