Natalia Romik | Artist

Natalia Romik (b. 1983, Poland) is an artist, architect and scholar working with Jewish heritage, Holocaust stories and nomadic structures. She combines academic, historical research and architectural practice and with her contemporary art practice to explore the post-Jewish architecture of memory.

Romik received multiple grants for her major research project investigating the hidden architecture of Jewish hideouts from the Second World War. Her research concluded with the exhibition Hideouts. The Architecture of Survival, has been presented in at the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, 2024; the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, 2022; and Trafo Centre for Contemporary Art in Szczecin, 2022.

From 2007 to 2014, she cooperated with the Nizio Design studio and was a consultant for, among others, the design of the main exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, co-author of the concept of a Museum for Świętokrzyski Shtetl located in the synagogue in Chmielnik. Romik is a member of the SENNA architecture collective, with whom she realised numerous projects, including the exhibition at the Museum of Jews in Upper Silesia in Gliwice and permanent exhibition at the Bródno Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw entitled Beit Almin – Eternal Home. In 2018 she co-curated the exhibition Estranged: March ’68 and Its Aftermath at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. In 2022 she was awarded the Dan David Prize for leading mid-career historians, in recognition of her contribution to the field of historical studies and her innovative, art-based methodology.

In 2018 she completed her Pd.D. at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London for a thesis in Post-Jewish Architecture of Memory within Former Eastern European Shtetls.

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