This year, the Jerzy Stajuda Award for Art Criticism (2024) was presented to Dr. Magdalena Ziółkowska and Wojciech Grzybała, art historians, curators, and co-founders of the Andrzej Wróblewski Foundation, for their monographic volume “Andrzej Wróblewski. Exhibiting.”
The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Stach Szabłowski.

As noted by the Award Committee — Aleksandra Semenowicz, Jan Stajuda, Jeremi Stajuda, Marcin Fedisz, Arkadiusz Półtorak, and Agnieszka Szewczyk — “This book is the result of a unique endeavor: an attempt to take a research-based look at the work of a renowned artist through the lens of its exhibition interpretations. (…) Over the course of 780 pages, the authors not only summarize the reception of Wróblewski’s oeuvre to date but also provide important foundations for further research and reinterpretation. The publication is critical in a double sense: it offers exploratory readings of Wróblewski’s works and exhibitions, while also presenting criticism and curatorial practice as tools of cultural inquiry.”

The Jerzy Stajuda Award, established in 1992, honors achievements in art criticism. It is funded by the family of painter and art critic Jerzy Stajuda (1936–1992) and by Zachęta — National Gallery of Art, with the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts as co-organizer.

The book “Andrzej Wróblewski. Exhibiting” was co-published by Hatje Cantz Verlag in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.