Agnieszka Polska

Agnieszka Polska was born in 1985. Studied at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (2004–2005), Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (2005–2010), and University of the Arts, Berlin (class of Hito Steyerl, 2008–2009). Winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie (2017).
 

Works in collections

Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
The ING Polish Art Foundation Collection, Warsaw, PL
dela.art collection, Warsaw, PL
Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, PL
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Art Collection Telekom, DE

2024

• Flowers on the Sun, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, BE
• Dreaming Clocks, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna, AT

2023

• Polska/ Ziętek, Dzielna Foundation, Warsaw, PL
• The Talking Car (Theatre Piece), BoCA Biennale, Lisbon, PT
• A Bonobo Looks At A Butterfly, A Black Moon Eclipses The Sun, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, PL

2022

• Creamcake: Outer Space Agencies, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, DE
• The Thousand-Year PLan: Batalha Centro de Cinema / Batalha Film Centre, Porto, PR

2021

• A Thousand-Year Plan, Museum od Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
• Two-Headed Horse, Agnieszka Polska and Sam Samiee, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
• The New Sun, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, AU
• Where Have You Been So Long?, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES

2020

• The Demon’s Brain, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, PL
• Love Bite, FRYE, Seattle, US
• The New Sun, Heide Museum, Melbourne, AU

2019

• I Call your Name, Associazione Barriera, Torino, IT
• The Burrow, Neuer Kunstverein, Vienna, AT
• Voices, Birds, Stone Tools., Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna, AT
• Agnieszka Polska at the Mobile Dome, New Infinity, Berliner Festspiele/Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE

2018

• The Demon’s Brain, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, DE
• Softly Spoken, Project Arts Center, Dublin, IE

2017

• Little Planet, Overduin & c.o., Los Angeles, US
• Couckoo, Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw, PL

2016

• Screens Series: Agnieszka Polska, New Museum, New York, US
• Poetry Passage, National Art Gallery, Prague, CZ

2015

• The Moving Finger: A Performative Lecture with Agnieszka Polska, MoMa, New York, US
• The Body of Words – Gallery Weekend Berlin, Gallery ZAK, Berlin, DE
• Future Days, TRAFO, Budapest, HU
• In the Search of the Talking Mountain, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, PL

2014

• I Am the Mouth, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
• The Body of Words, Rijksakademie van de beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL

2013

• Pseudoword Hazards, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, AT
• Nonsense Syllables, Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK

2012

• Three Videos with Narration, video screening, Tate Modern, London, UK
• IBB-Viodeolounge, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, DE
• How the Work is Done, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, UA
• Aurorite, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
• Intervention, Belvedere, Vienna (curated by Martha Kirszenbaum), AT

2011

• Solo presentation, Żak Branicka Galerie, Art Basel Statements, Basel, CH
• Gardener’s Responsibility, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna, AT
• Duo, Goldex Poldex, Kraków (with Tomasz Kowalski), PL
• The Garden, BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra, PL

2010

• Three Videos with Narration, Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, PL
• Decades, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Cottbus, DE
• Freisler, TV Tower, Berlin (mit Antje Majewski), DE
• Three Videos with Narration, Zak | Branicka, Berlin, DE

2009

• Towards Oskar Hansen’s Open Form, the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts , Lublin, PL
• The Calendar, art agenda nova Gallery, Kraków, PL