Agnieszka Mastalerz
Agnieszka Mastalerz is a graduate of the Studio of Spatial Activities led by Mirosław Bałka at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2018). She studied under Candice Breitz and Eli Cortiñas at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig as a DAAD scholarship holder (2019/2020), and under Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin at HFBK Hamburg (2017/2018). She also holds a degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw (2013) and recently completed a postgraduate program at Malmö Art Academy (2024).
Exhibitions
She has participated in exhibitions at venues including Królikarnia – National Museum in Warsaw, Krupa Art Foundation in Wrocław (2025), the Chopin Museum in Warsaw, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery in Bucharest (2024), NS-Dokumentationszentrum in Munich (2023), MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, eastcontemporary gallery in Milan, Manifesta 14 in Pristina (2022), MAXXI in Rome, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato (2021), Wschód Gallery in Warsaw (2020), Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, the Starak Family Foundation in Warsaw (2019), Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Fondation Hippocrène in Paris (2018), the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2017 – winner of the Hestia Artistic Journey competition), and TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin (2016).
Other
She was an artist-in-residence at Hospitalfield in Scotland (2022), Muzeum Susch in Switzerland, the Artist Development Program at the European Investment Bank Institute in Luxembourg (2021), and Futura Gallery in Prague (Visegrad Fund, 2020). She also took part in the Lucy Art Residency Talks in Kavala (2022) and the School of Expressions at PLATO in Ostrava (2019).
In 2024, she was awarded a Young Poland scholarship.
Her works are held in the collections of Fondazione in Between Art Film Beatrice Bulgari, the Ergo Hestia Group, the European Investment Bank, and the Warsaw Ghetto Museum.
[Portrait of Agnieszka Mastalerz by Marcin Gołąb]