Agnieszka Polska
Agnieszka Polska (* 1985 in Lublin ) is a Polish artist. Her work includes photography , painting and video as well as installation works . In 2017 she received the National Gallery Prize .
life and work
Polska studied from 2004 to 2005 at the Art and Media Faculty of the Maria Curie Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin and from 2005 to 2010 in the Faculty of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Agata Pankiewicz, Grzegorz Sztwiertnia and Zbigniew Sałaj . In between she attended the class of Hito Steyerl at the University of the Arts in Berlin. In 2011 Polska won the Eugeniusz Geppert painting competition organized by the Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych - Contemporary Art Galleries (BWA) in Wroclaw . From 2014 to 2015 she was artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam.
In her animated films, Polska uses a digital collage technique to incorporate archival materials such as pre-war newspapers, old black and white photographs, art magazines and books with set pieces from our everyday culture in a new picture narration. "By manipulating and reproducing historically significant excerpts, Polska points out the possibilities of reinterpreting important, historical events in her animated videos and questions the authority of photography as a documentation medium."
As part of the exhibition for the Nationalgalerie Prize, her two award-winning video collages were on view in a dark room at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin: a large sun ( What the Sun Has Seen, Version II ) that functions as an observer of the earth and a second projection ( Little Sun ) that takes on human features with large eyes and imitates human sensations. The work was underlaid with text, sounds and music.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- 2018: The Demon's Brain , National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin
- 2017: Little Planet , Overduin & Co., Los Angeles; Cuckoo , Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw
- 2016: Screens series: Agnieszka Polska , New Museum , New York; Poetry Passage , National Gallery Prague
- 2015 The Body of Words , Żak Branicka Galerie, Berlin; Future Days , TRAFO, Budapest
- 2014: I am the Mouth, Nottingham Contemporary , Nottingham
- 2013: Pseudoword Hazards , Salzburger Kunstverein , Salzburg
- 2012: How the Work is Done , PinchukArtCentre , Kiev; Aurorite , CCA Ujazdów Castle , Warsaw
- 2011: Gardener's Responsibility , Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna; Three Videos with Narration , Żak | Branicka, Berlin
Participations (selection)
- 2017: PEACE , Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt am Main
- 2014: You Imagine What You Desire , 19th Biennale of Sydney
- 2013: The Black Moon , Palais de Tokyo , Paris
- 2011: Based in Berlin , Kunst-Werke Berlin - Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Screenings and Performances (selection)
- 2016: The Body of Words - performative lecture, Hirshhorn Museum , Washington DC; My Little Planet , Kunst-Werke Berlin
- 2015: The Moving Finger - performative lecture with Agnieszka Polska, Museum of Modern Art , New York
- 2014: Nativity, Nottingham Contemporary (performance with Sebastian Cichocki)
- 2013 Future Days , Institute of Contemporary Arts , London (Performative reading with Sebastian Cichocki)
- 2012: Agnieszka Polska / Alina Szapocznikow , Tate modern , London; 12x12. The IBB Video Lounge , Berlinische Galerie , Berlin
Web links
Film library: Museum of Modern Art Warsaw
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website based in Berlin 2011
- ↑ Strong reference to the present, the Goethe-Institut website .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Polska, Agnieszka |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lublin |