Forbes Women 2024
“Business carries art, art carries business”
What is the relationship between business and money and culture and art? Do we need art galleries in today's, in many ways difficult, times? We are currently facing an economic downturn and a very unstable geopolitical situation. So do we even have the space to interact with art?
June, 2024
IT Manager of Tomorrow 2024
19.06 Power speech “Be a leader of the future and make it an art”
18.06 Gear up Workshop: Human Skills, Power Skills and Building Future Competences
The "IT Manager of Tomorrow 2024" conference, taking place in Gdynia, Poland, explores the latest trends in IT management, including digital transformation, cybersecurity, AI, cloud computing, and IT governance. This 9th edition features keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking opportunities aimed at providing IT leaders with practical skills and insights. Attendees can expect to learn about cutting-edge technologies and best practices to drive their organizations forward in an ever-evolving industry.
June, 2024
Horizon’24 CEE
“Art for art’s sake, or art for everyone’s sake?
In today’s world, where artists are revolutionising art, breaking patterns and opening up new perspectives, art is no longer just for insiders. It is an exploration of boundless creativity, where boundaries of cultural acceptance turn into bridges of understanding. Art today increasingly plays an educational role, reviewing the challenges of the reality around us. What should the question of accessibility, the democratisation of culture and the role of art in society look like? How does technology become a vehicle for art and how does this combination affect its popularisation? How does contemporary art bring awareness to society and what benefits does this bring? Should state support of the arts be a strategic action?
June, 2024
Impact CEE Congress
“Does Art Like Money”
Exploring the significance of stable funding for future institutional sustainability, the interplay between public, private, and NGO sectors in financial dynamics, fostering long-term partnerships, ensuring transparency in operations, and preserving creative freedom.
Poznań, May 2024
Venice Biennale – Polish Pavilion
“Repeat After Me II”
Organizer – National Gallery of Art “Zachęta”
The Polish Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, curated by Marta Czyż and realized by the Ukrainian collective Open Group, presents a poignant installation comprising two video works. It offers a collective portrayal of war witnesses, particularly civilians with refugee experiences from Ukraine, who narrate the war through recalled sounds of weaponry, engaging the audience in a participatory “military karaoke” that underscores war as a universal collective experience transcending societal boundaries.
Venice, April 2024
Vogue Living
Guide to the Venice Art Biennale
“Zachęta for the Biennale” in Vogue Living Poland – Justyna Szylman, director of Zachęta, talks about what’s happening at the National Art Gallery and the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Justyna’s debut in one of the most beautiful magazines published by Visteria. A publishing house where she was responsible for introducing the Vogue brand to the Polish market.
March, 2024
“Godzina Szumu” Podcast
Podcast on the changes at the Zachęta National Museum. The new director and curators of art – Justyna Szylman, Michalina Sablik, Aleksandra Skowrońska – present exhibitions in the museum, which are to help change the image of one of the most important galleries in Poland.
March,2024
Empower PL+UA
Boston Consulting Group
The EmpowerPL+UA Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Mentoring Program 7th Edition is an immersive and enriching initiative aimed at fostering professional growth and leadership development among young professionals in the fields of Product Management and User Experience (UX) Design. This program, now in its seventh edition, provides participants with the unique opportunity to engage in one-on-one mentorship with seasoned industry experts from BCG, a global leader in management consulting.
Warsaw, 2024
ONET KOBIETA
Human versus AI. What will the labour market of the future be like?
A conversation with Justyna Markiewicz, career shaping expert, founder of the Future Thinking Hub platform, setting the direction for companies, organisations and leaders of the future, lecturer, mentor, trainer; author of the podcast ‘Short Conversations about the Future’.
May, 2023
Short talks about the future
Episode 5
The guest of the final episode of this season of ‘Short Talks About the Future’ is Kamila Bondar – President of the Board of the ING Polish Art Foundation. A woman who is influential, committed, effective and infectious with her passion.
Kamila talks about what the future of art and in art will be and why a financial institution needs such a good collection of contemporary art and whether art can exist with understanding in a corporate world.
May, 2023
Short talks about the future
Episode 4
Interview with Tymek Borowski – painter, author of photographs, videos and animated films. Co-founder of the experimental graphic design studio Garlic, Herostrates gallery, which represented non-existent artists, and Billy Gallery, which produced animations explaining the mechanisms driving the art market, but also the woes of the contemporary artist – the winner of the 2013 Views – Deutsche Bank Foundation Award and the 2015 Polityka Passport.
April, 2023
Short talks about the future
Episode 3
The Girl and the Spaceman, a Netflix hit – modern romance – which I discuss with Olga Cerkaska film and TV producer, screenwriter, owner of production house Lulu Production and Bartek Prokopowicz director of the series, co-creator of such films as Komornik, Jak to się robi z dziewczynami, Przedwiośnie, Dług, Strefa ciszy.
April, 2023
Short talks about the future
Episode 2
With Tom Skowronski, CCO at EssenceMediacom PL, we talk about who are systems thinkers and what does this have to do with the future? What are systems thinking tools used for today? Are metavers a tool for interacting with clients? And why are bees so important?
March, 2023
Short talks about the future
Episode 1
Talk with Przemek Dzienis, photographer, director, winner of the Fryderyk Award for Brodka Game Changer Video of the Year and the Berlin Music Video Award, about the future of art and new artistic paths. About whether artificial intelligence is needed for art? What will be the competences of the future and can they be learned from artistic experience?
February, 2023
Short talks about the future
Future Thinking Hub Podcast
Series of meetings with exceptional figures of art, science, philosophy and business is an exchange of knowledge, thoughts, ideas about futurology, artificial intelligence, tools and competences of the future.
A discussion about everything that is essential for development and that stimulates curiosity about what civilisation will be like in a few decades. And an attempt to answer many important questions:
Is the world heading in the direction man wants to go?
What do we fear and what fascinates us about the future?
What will remain of what is important to us today?
“Wprost o Kulturze” Podcast
Podcast with Justyna Szylman, cultural manager, business coach and business development director at Desa SA. As Guest of the third episode of the Wprost o Kulturze podcast, Justyna talked about whether it is possible to combine art and business, what Polish collectors are like and what opportunities NFT in art can bring.
April, 2022
OFEMININ
Forbes Women & ONET KOBIETA
#IDONTWAIT107YEARS
In 2015, the UN Agenda for Building a Better World was developed. One of its goals was to achieve gender equality. However, progress towards gender equality has been marginal since 2015, and the outbreak of the pandemic has only exacerbated these inequalities. At the current pace of action, the gap will be closed in 2128.
107 years – that’s how long it could take to achieve true gender equality in Poland. You can wait or start changing today! Inequalities can be seen in many areas of our lives. They concern not only work, promotion, earnings, but also private issues. Inequality in one area affects others. For example, the burden of domestic and parental responsibilities on women affects their position in the labour market.
Poland, 2021
TEDxSGH
x = independently organized TED event
Justyna Szylman’s talk about the attitude of artists and the fashion world towards the ever-changing reality that challenges us further.
Warsaw, November 2019
Conversations on Diversity
“the impact of diversity in different aspects of life on the workplace and on staff development opportunities”
The Diversity Charter is an international initiative, implemented in EU countries such as Poland, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Finland, Estonia and Luxembourg, and promoted by the European Commission.
The Charter is a pledge, signed by organisations that decide to ban discrimination in the workplace and work towards creating and promoting diversity, and expresses the company’s willingness to involve all employees and business and social partners in these activities. Organisations choosing to implement this tool are working towards social cohesion and equality.
July, 2016
Justyna Szylman 