Anna Orłowska
Photographerand visual artist, born in 1986 in Opole, Poland. She studied photography at the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź and at the Institute of Creative Photography at the University of Silesia in Opava. She was awarded the Photo Global scholarship at the School of Visual Arts in New York (2013). The artist uses photography to reveal invisible layers of history and its ideological conditioning, usually absent from official narratives. Playing with various conventions, from documentary to staging, she exposes hidden myths and legends, deconstructing fantasies about the past, and creating new constellations of meanings. Her objects, based on photographic images, test the boundaries of the medium. Orłowska treats photography as an instrument for exploring the concept of knowledge itself and as a tool for working with memory, which by its nature is also fragmentary. She lives and works in Warsaw and Silesia.
Exhibitions
2023
Otherworlds, Museum of the Earth, Warsaw, Poland
Otherworlds, BWA Wrocław, Poland
2022
Sankt Anna, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2021
Part of the Part, Tanzmuseum des Deutschen Tanzarchiv Köln, Photoszene United 2021, Cologne, Germany
2020
Flatlets, Gdansk City Gallery, Poland
2019
Futerał‚ Galeria Bałucka, Łódź; Miejsce przy miejscu, Wrocław, Poland
Pompier, Muck, Socrococo, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland
2018
Futerał, Wschód, Warsaw, Poland
Whitewash, Galeria Szara and Silesian Museum, Katowice, Poland
2017
Like a sick eagle (with Mateusz Choróbski), Exile Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Things, Higashikawa Photography Festival, Higashikawa, Japan
Sunday Night Drama, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Belonging(s) (with Peter Puklus), Platan Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
2016
The Loneliness of the Long Distance runner (with Mateusz Choróbski), MANIFESTA, Zurich, Switzerland
2015
Dog and a girl, Archeology of Photography Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Leakage and other works, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
Case study – invisibility, Krakow Photomonth, Poland
Leakage and other works, Panopticon, Stockholm, Sweden
2014
Case study – invisibility, Josef Sudek Studio, Fotograf Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
The Loneliness of the Long Distance runner (with Mateusz Choróbski), BWA Katowice, Poland and Another Vacant Space, Berlin, Germany
Case study – invisibility, BWA Katowice; Asymetria, Warsaw, Poland
Sound of silence, Festival International de Mode et de Photographie, Hyères, France
2013
Sweet thing, PF Gallery, CK Zamek, Poznań, Poland
2012
Soaking in, Lookout Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Leakage, Prexer, Fotofestiwal 2012, Łódź, Poland