Michał Sita
(+48) 508 959 029
michal.sita [at] gmail.com
Poznań, Poland
© Michał Sita 2008–2025 all rights reserved

Michal Sita (b. 1985) is a photographer, curator, and anthropologist living in Poznań, Poland. He holds degrees in photography from the Institute of Creative Photography (ITF) in Opava, Czechia, and in anthropology from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he recently completed doctoral research on how volunteers engage with the past through participatory historical spectacle. Two photobooks accompanied this research – History of Poland, Vol. 1 (2021) and Vol. 2 (2024).

His work focuses on social memory, imagined histories, and the research capacities of photography. He curated an interdisciplinary project exploring Wiesław Rakowski’s interwar zoological photographs and co-authored Củ Chi Tunnels Restoration Report—winner of the Photographic Publication of the Year 2020 (Łódź, PL)—which reflects on the work of a Polish-Vietnamese architectural heritage conservation mission carried out in the 1980s.

Recently, through collaborations with the Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju Biennale, and Culture Space Yang, together with Anna Pilawska-Sita he has been conducting artistic research on architectural remnants of the Japanese colonization of Jeju Island, South Korea. He has curated and produced numerous exhibitions and photobook festivals, contributed critical texts on photography, and currently lectures at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań.

books

History of Poland Exercise Book vol. 1 – photos: Michał Sita; design: dobosz.studio; publisher: Michał Sita, Poznań 2021; ISBN: 978–83–961683–0‑6; print run: 100 + 30 AP; format: A5, 32 sheets; font: Brygada 1918; language: Polish; partners: PIX.HOUSE, Kraków Photomonth, Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology Adam Mickiewicz University, Stowarzyszenie Dzieje; founded by the scholarship programme of the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport.
 
History of Poland vol. 2 – History of Poland vol. 2 – photos and texts: Michał Sita; curator: Łukasz Rusznica; photo sequence: Łukasz Rusznica and Michał Sita; graphic design: Agata Bartkowiak; pre-press: Krzysztof Krzysztofiak; Polish version proofreading: Justyna Knieć; English version translation: Agata Lewandowska; publisher: Sun Archive Books; issued in cooperation with the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology AMU. The research of which it is a part is funded by the National Science Center and AMU.
published in 2024.
 
Củ Chi Tunnels Restoration Report — (PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR 2020, PHOTOFESTIVAL ŁÓDŹ 2021) text and book concept: Anna Pilawska-Sita & Michał Sita / drawings: Anna Pilawska-Sita / photographs: Michał Sita / 1982 technical drawings and photographs: Kazimierz Kwiatkowski / DTP: Marcin Markowski / translation: Agata Lewandowska / publisher: PIX.HOUSE, Poznań 2019 / format: 17 x 22,7 cm, 84 pages / print run: 300 / language: English
 
Wiesław Rakowski photographs 1924–1939 — editor dr Maria Szyszkiewicz-Golis / curated by Michał Sita / introductory essays: dr Maria Szyszkiewicz-Golis, Michał Sita, Monika Piotrowska, dr Marta Osypińska, prof. Hieronim Frąckowiak / captions: prof. dr hab. Jerzy Karg, dr hab. Krzysztof Kujawa, dr Marta Osypińska, dr Jan Śmiełowski / PL & ENG / 300 x 300mm / 140 pages / circulation: 1000 / issued by IŚRL Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań 2013 / printed & bound by Moś i Łuczak.
 
Elektrownia Garbary – dokument potencjalny — edited by: Michał Kępski / texts: Emilia Kiecko, Szymon Piotr Kubiak, Ewa Rewers, Miron Urbaniak, Michał Kępski / photographs: Michał Sita / design: Marcin Markowski / print run: 300 / Porta Posnania 2017 

exhibitions / displays

2024 – Survey of the Relationship Between Japanese Colonial Fortifications and Their Natural Surroundings, together with Anna Pilawska-Sita, 4. Jeju Biennale, Jeju Museum of Art, 26.11.2024 — 16.02.2025
2024 – Villa Polonez, curated by Paweł Bąkowski, Paris Photo / Institut Polonais Paris, 07.11.2024 — 15.12.2024
2024 – PHOTO / ARTIST / BOOK | The most exciting recent photo books from the Central and Eastern Europe region – Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, 13.11.2024 — 2.2.2025
2024 – History of Poland, pf Photography Gallery, Poznań, PL, 14.06 – 08.09.2024
2023 – History of Poland vol. 2, Miejsce przy Miejscu 14, Wrocław, PL, 21.09 – 16.11.2023, curated by Łukasz Rusznica
2023 – New Order by Kang Jeauk, Anna Pilawska-Sita and Michał Sita, FOTO-GEN Gallery, Wrocław, PL, 16.06 – 13.08.2023, curated by Paweł Bąkowski
2021 – The Gravity of the Situation, curator Aga Rayss, Kraków Photomonth
2021 – History of Poland Exercise Book vol. 1 – book premiere at Fotofestiwal Łódź
2017 – Garbary Powerplant. Documenting Potentiality – solo exhibition at Porta Posnania Heritage Center
2017 – Zoological Archive is exhibited at Noorderlich Festival, Groningen, NL
2014 – Zoological Archive by Wiesław Rakowski in main programme of TIFF Festival in Wrocław, Entropia Gallery
2013 – Zoological Archive by Wiesław Rakowski – exhibition curator at 8. Biennial of Photography in Poznań, CK ZAMEK, Poznań
2012 – 9th. International Festival of Photography, Rybnik, Poland – artist talk
2010 – Kurdistan, Galeria Obok ZPAF, Warszawa, Poland – solo exhibition

curatorial

2023 – Polyphony of Memories. At the borderland of Carpathian Worlds, Tomasz Kosiek, Ethnographic Museum in Rzeszów, 14.09 – 19.11.2023 (curator)
2022 – Flow(s), Małgorzata Lebda and Rafał Siderski, Sleńdziński Gallery in Białymstok, 12.08 – 19.11.2022 (curator)
2020 — 2022 – Jastrzębie-Zdrój School of Documentary Photography – coordination, program and editing of the newsprint summary publications
2019 – Scenes of no importance – collages and curatorial supervision – archives of Jan Kurek, Porta Posnania 19.01.2019 — 10.03.2019
2019  – RurAction social research with Adam Mickiewicz University – visual research
2016 — 2018 – XPRINT – director of photobook festival, responsible for The Real World by Martin Parr / Rimaldas Vikšraitis exhibition, in cooperation with Kaunas Photography Gallery; LTA by Sputnik Photos Ania Nałęcka-Milach / Rafał Milach; exhibition & newsprint production of Mayumi Suzuki’s works, Igor Pisuk’s Deceitful Reverence solo exhibition production, cooperation with Ego Gallery – Kuba Dąbrowski’s Not Lil / Not Young, Rodriguez Gallery: Alina Sandulyak’s selection of Ukrainian Photobooks, etc.
2016 – 2021 PIX.HOUSE – co-founder and co-curator of PIX.HOUSE Foundation operating a photography gallery and a publishing house in Poznań
2013 – Polish Academy of Sciences ISRL PAN – curatorial supervision over Wiesław Rakowski’s photographic collection

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