Dr Piotr Rypson is an art critic and historian of literature and visual culture. He is the deputy director for academic matters and curator of the Collection of Contemporary Art at the National Museum in Warsaw. Between 1990 and 1995, he worked as the editor-in-chief of the art magazine Obieg. He was the chief curator of the Collection and Gallery of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw (1993–96). He prepared many exhibitions and wrote a number of books and articles on the connections between literature and art, 20th-century art and modern applied graphic design, e.g., Obraz słowa. Historia poezji wizualnej [An image of a word. The history of visual poetry] (1989), Książki i strony. Polska książka awangardowa i artystyczna w XX wieku [Books and pages. Polish avant-garde and artistic book in the 20th century] (2000), Piramidy, słońca, labirynty. Poezja wizualna w Polsce od XVI do XVIII wieku [Pyramids, suns, labyrinths. Visual poetry in Poland from the 16th to the 18th centuries] (2002), Nie gęsi. Polskie projektowanie graficzne 1919–1949 [Not geese. Polish graphic design 1919–49] (2011). He is the curator of the Gallery of 20th and 21st Century Art at the NMW and has recently curated a monographic exhibition on Tadeusz Peiper (The Pope of the Avant-Garde, 2015). He is currently working on a book on Polish graphic design in the 1940s and an exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of Poland’s Independence.
