Renata Rara Kamińska

RENATA RARA KAMIŃSKA is a conceptual sculptor and mixed media artist and working predominantly in Berlin. 

She grew up in a region immediately adjacent to the eastern border. Always overshadowing of the nightmares of frontier conflicts or, as is currently the case is, wars.

Kaminska holds currently an art grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs of the Berlin Senate and has realised numerous exhibitions in Europe and world-wide. Her practice is characterised by a strong interest in spatial and formal juxtapositions of seemingly contradictory ideas, forms, and materials.

In playing with antitheses, Kaminska draws on observations, associations, and influences from everyday life and visual culture, which she condenses into dialogical compositions. Kaminska’s artistic language repeatedly cites Western modernism while undermining its claims to universalism by incorporating global historical references.
Her objects, installations and films, are less self-contained entities than they are parts of an ongoing process that questions patterns of perception and investigates the formal structure of objects along with their sculptural potential. The spatial conditions in which these often-site-specific works are presented provide an important frame of contextual reference.
Her latest objects and installations move comfortably between sculpture, architecture, and environment occupation. A recent series of participative, haptic sculptures thematises the role of one’s own, individual language in the context of artistic labor.

Born in Poland, Renata Rara Kaminska studied fine art at the Art Academys: Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst HGB in Leipzig, also in Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Zürich and Art Institut of University Marie Curie-Skłodowska Lublin.
Her first solo exhibition, Cushion the blow, was presented by the Eigen Art Gallery Leipzig in 2002. A major exhibition at Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York followed two years later.

She has been awarded grants from the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Berliner Culture Senat, Scholarship Marlboro Foundation US, Scholarship Robert Bosch Stiftung, Pro Helvetia Bern CH, Ministry of Culture Poland and more.
Her work has been presented in various solo and group exhibitions and recently 2025 at Bozar, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Bruxelles,
Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and solo at Foundation Matthäsius, Berlin. In 2024 at Galerie Edition VFO in Zürich, Museum of Paper in Berlin. In 2025 BMLK Museum in Frankfurt and 2026 Museum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus D. Her works was published in latest publication by Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Wien in August 2025. Kaminska lives and works in Berlin and Zamość.