Weronika Gęsicka
Born in 1984 in Włocławek, Poland. Visual artist. She has created photographic works and installations over the past decade that explore and intentionally complicated our sense of visual histories, evidential knowledge, and shared memories. Photography is the predominant medium of her work and practice – the source, context, material and the resolution of her explorations of societal roles, official histories, cultural shifts, and hidden narratives. Gęsicka eagerly works with archival materials, including images found accidentally on the internet, but also those from stock photo libraries, police archives, and the press. In her most recent project – 'Encyclopaedia' – she has extended her explorations to AI tools that allow her to go further into the realms of the hypothetical and visually uncertain.
She graduated from the Graphics Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts and completed her studies at the Academy of Photography in Warsaw. A winner of Polityka's Passport (Paszport Polityki) 2019 Award in the Visual arts category (2020), EMOP Arendt Award (2019), Foam Talent (2017), Spotlight Award (2017, Belfast Photo Festival) and LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards (2016). Finalist of Prix HSBC pour la Photographie (2017), Pix Levallois (2016) and the ShowOFF section of the Kraków Photomonth Festival (2016). She received a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2008. Her works have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Internazionale, Spiegel Online, Le Monde and many other magazines.
Weronika Gęsicka's works have been exhibited worldwide including Dom Museum, Vienna, Austria; La Chambre, Strasbourg, France; Kyotographie, Kyoto, Japan; Polish Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany; Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; Red Hook Labs, NYC, USA; Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London, UK; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Calvert 22 Foundation, London, UK; Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland; Fesival Circulations, The Cent Quatre, Paris, France; Photomonth Festival, Kraków, Poland.
Gęsicka's work can be found in prestigious collections, including Dom Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria; Arendt Collection, Luxembourg; MuFo Museum of Photography, Kraków, Poland; Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Germany; National Museum in Wrocław, Poland.
Exhibitions
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming:
2025 | Pokrzywka pf Gallery of Photography, Poznań, Poland
2025 | Encyclopaedia Les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles, Arles, France, by invitation of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation
2025 | Encyclopaedia TAI i23 Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2024 | Encyclopaedia Re:Medium Gallery, Łódź, Poland
2020 | Cliffhanger JEDNOSTKA Gallery, Warsaw
2019 | What a Wonderful World Agnes B Gallery, Tokio, Japan
2019 | What a Wonderful World Shimadai Gallery, Kioto, Japan
2019 | Seltsam Polish Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019 | Confusion Dymchuk Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
2019 | Confusion Museum of Georgian Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 | Confusion Dymchuk Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
2019 | Weronika Gęsicka La Chambre, Strasbourg, France
2019 | What A Wonderful World Kyotogpahie, Kyoto, Japan
2019 | Confusion Odessa Photo Days, Invogue Art Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
2019 | Seltsam Polish Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018 | I remember my birth Project Room,
Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2017 | Traces Fotografic Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2017 | Traces Phnom Penh Photo, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Other
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
Upcoming:
2025 | Mine Eyes Bees Deceive Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
2024 | Villa Polonez Polish Institute in Paris, France
2024 | Grow it, Show it! Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2024 | Suburbia. Building the American Dream
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain
2022 | State of Emergency. Polish Photo Art Today
Center for Contemporary Art ZAK, Berlin, Germany
2021 | Fotomorgana PGS National Gallery, Sopot, Poland
2020 | Uniforms and Workwear MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy
2019 | Family Matters Dom Museum, Vienna, Austria
2019 | SHE Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York, USA
2019 | Bodyfiction National Museum of Art and History, Luxembourg
2018 | Foam Talent Red Hook Labs, New York, USA
2018 | Foam Talent Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall,
London, UK
2018 | Foam Talent Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 | The Photographers Gallery artist talk London, UK
2018 | Family Values: Polish Photography Now Calvert 22 Foundation, London, UK
2018 | Bodyfiction ZOYA Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 | Plat(t)form portfolio review, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2017 | Foam Talent Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 | Zasoby zablokowane Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland
2017 | Festival Circulations The Cent Quatre, Paris, France
2017 | Photography II – Medium in New Ways ALAN İstanbul, Turkey
2016 | Vice Magazine Photo Show Industria Superstudios, New York, USA
2016 | Marks Photomonth Festival, Kraków, Poland