In 2018 Monika Łuszpak-Skiba joined the organisation team of Punto y Raya, coproducing the sixth edition of PyR Festival (CeTA, 2018) and co-producing and directing the subsequent JUNIOR editions at various venues in Wroclaw.

In 2020 she founded the NGO PyR LAB Poland, devoted to the education, preservation and promotion of abstract fine arts, film, and new media in Poland and the Viségrad region.

Ogrodzka works in the fields of painting, video art and photography. She was an artist in resident at the KulturKontakt program in Vienna (2018), Open Pit in Opolno Zdrój (2021) and TBCK Forward in Kosice, Slovakia (2021). She took part in multiple exhibitions including the Biennale Out of Sth (BWA Wrocław), the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Dresden, and Her Docs Film Festival in Warsaw.

She is the recipient of Scholarships from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2019) and the Government of the City of Wrocław (2020 and 2022). She has also been awarded the WARTO prize (2021).

Collaboration with other artists is a very important in her work. Over many years she has been associated to the ArtBrut Gallery and the Social and Cultural Activation Studio in Wrocław.

BA in Graphic Design and Photography. Founding member of MAD, a non-profit association in Barcelona that for nearly 20 years is devoted to the development of European projects related Art, Science and Technology.

In 2007 she co-founded Punto y Raya Festival.

She also curates themed screening programmes for various institutions.

Screenwriter and researcher. She occasionally delves into making experimental videos and animations, and lectures and writes essays as a film critic. A couple of her short films have been awarded internationally.

Co-founder and artistic director of Punto y Raya Festival.

Since 2008 she's been a member of the iotaCenter's Advisory Council (Los Angeles, CA) and coordinator of the Spanish speaking community at the Visual Music Village.

She acts as a juror for various international film & animation festivals, and curates special programmes of avantgarde animation.

Since September 2024, together with Blanca Rego, she has been co-hosting the Menta en Blanco podcast, exploring the mechanisms of cinema and form as content.

Graduated in Art History and MA in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies at Pompeu Fabra University.
After collaborating with institutions such as Marlborough Gallery Barcelona and Fundació Joan Miró, she worked as a cultural journalist in digital media and national radio, gave workshops and participated in some cultural projects related to cinema. Subsequently, she started working for the marketing department of Grupo Planeta and Penguin Random House Spain and, in 2023 joins Punto y Raya’s team.
Currently, she also co-hosts the podcast ‘Hacerse la peli’, a space dedicated to cinema and the pleasure of talking about films.