Agnieszka Polska
° 1985
Born in Lublin (PL), lives in Berlin (DE), works in Berlin (DE).
Agnieszka Polska uses computer-generated media to reflect on individuals and their social responsibility. She‘s rendering the ethical, political and societal challenges of our time into immersive, meditative and hallucinatory films and installations. Composed largely of found, digitally manipulated images, her works examine processes of influence and legitimation in the fields of language, consciousness, and history. Her involvement with immersion and affectivity comes from the belief that the effect of an artwork is an intrinsic part of it. Viewers of Polska’s work may depart from the micro-scale of bodily sensations, only to arrive at the scene of a global or cosmic event. Like those global processes – such as climate change, the rise of nationalism, development of the communication grid and surveillance mesh – are in turn the result of infinite maze of micro-events, responsibilities, and conditions.
Agnieszka Polska is a Polish artist who lives and works in Berlin. She presented her works in international venues, including the New Museum and the MoMA in New York, Centre Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Tate Modern in London, and Hirshhorn Museum in Washington. Her solo exhibitions were organised by Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Nottingham Contemporary, Saltzburger Kunstverein, among others. She also took part in the 57th Venice Biennale, 11th Gwangju Biennale, 24th and 19th Biennale of Sydney, 14th Shanghai Biennale, and 13th Istanbul Biennial. In 2018 she was awarded German Preis der Nationalgalerie.
