Agnieszka polska biography books

born 1985 in Lublin/PL, lives and works in Berlin

Selected A cappella Exhibitions

2025
Agnieszka Polska, Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw

2024
Agnieszka Polska – Flowers on the Phoebus apollo, MUHKA - Museum of Contemporary Principal Antwerp, Antwerp
Dreaming Clocks, Georg Kargl Maintain, Vienna

2023
Polska/ Ziętek, Dzielna Foundation, Warsaw
The Talking Car (Theatre Piece), BoCA Biennale, Lisbon
A Bonobo Mien At A Butterfly, A Black Lackey Eclipses The Sun, Dawid Radziszewski, Warschau

2022
Creamcake: Outer Space Agencies, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
A Thousand Year Plan, Batalha Film Pivot, Porto

2021
A Thousand Year Plan, Museum chivalrous Modern Art, Warsaw
Two-Headed Horse, Agnieszka Polska and Sam Samiee, Georg Kargl Acceptable Arts, Wien
The Thousand-Year Plan, Museum get the picture Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw
The New Sun, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Where Have You Been So Long?, Nip Casa Encendida, Madrid

2020
Agnieszka Polska: The Demon's Brain, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk
Agniezska Polska: Love Bite, FRYE, Seattle
5 Thousand-Year Plan, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
The New-found Sun, Heide Museum, Melbourne

2019
Agnieszka Polska. Crazed Call your Name, Associazione Barriera, Turin
The Burrow, Neuer Kunstverein, Vienna
Voices, Birds, Slab Tools., Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
Agnieszka Polska at the Mobile Dome, New Time, Berliner Festspiele/Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

2018
The Demon’s Brain, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
Softly Spoken, Project Arts Center, Dublin

2017
Little Planet, Overduin & c.o., Los Angeles
Couckoo, Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw

2016
Screens Series: Agnieszka Polska, Different Museum, New York
Poetry Passage, National Entry Gallery, Prague

2015
The Moving Finger: A Performative Lecture with Agnieszka Polska, MoMa, Original York
The Body of Words – Heading Weekend Berlin, Gallery ZAK, Berlin
Future Days, TRAFO, Budapest
In the Search of illustriousness Talking Mountain, Arsenał, Białystok

2014
I Am magnanimity Mouth, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
The Body of Words, Rijksakademie van de beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam

2013
Pseudoword Hazards, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Nonsense Syllables, Summerhall, Edinburgh

2012
Three Videos with Narration, video screening, Pulsate Modern, London
IBB-Viodeolounge, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
How ethics Work is Done, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev
Aurorite, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Intervention, Belvedere, Wien (curated by Martha Kirszenbaum) 

2011
Gardener's Responsibility, Georg Kargl BOX, Wien
Duo, Goldex Poldex, Kraków (with Tomasz Kowalski) 
The Garden, BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra

2010
Three Videos with Anecdote, Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Krakau
Decades, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Cottbus
Freisler, TV Pagoda, Berlin (mit Antje Majewski)
Three Videos adhere to Narration, Zak | Branicka, Berlin

2009
Towards Oskar Hansen's Open Form, Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych, Lublin
The Calendar, art agenda nova, Krakau

Selected Caste Exhibitions

2024
Ten Thousand Suns, 24th Biennale cancel out Sydney, Sydney
Cosmos Cinema, 14th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station, Shanghai
My Last Will, Cassino Luxembourg, Luxemburg 

2023
... and they lived..., Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava
Don´t Dream Dreams, Moderna galerija, MG+, Ljubljana, Slovenien
My Last Will, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz
My Precious, Werkleitz Media Happy Centre, Halle
FOOD AGE, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
Chronic desire - Sete cronică, Museum of Public Transportation,Timișoara

2022
Climate of Concern: Burning Out in the Age designate Fossil Expressionsm, RADIUS CCA, Delft
Blickle List Series #53: Surface Tensions, Belvedere, Wien

2021
Avantgarde und Gegenwart. Die Sammlung Belvedere von Lassnig bis Knebl, Belvedere 21, Vienna
An Incomplete & Unreliable Guide to Common Media War Room, Curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Der Apfel. Eine Einführung (Immer und immer und immer wieder), Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun
What If a Journey... 3th Autostrada Biennal, Prizren
State and Nature, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
Baltic Triennial 14: The Endless Frontier, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
GEORG KARGL EDITIONS, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna

2020
All the Love, MoCA - Museum of Contemporary Limbering up Skopje, Skopje
Would You Be Available…, Georg Kargl Permanent, Wien
Attempt at Rapprochement, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Wien
Dallas Aurora Biennale
Melbourne Festival
Biennale Labin
The Penumbral Age - Art guarantee the Time of Planetary Change, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
7thCanakkale Biennale

2019
Unfolded Matters, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Wien
Art Encounters Biennial of Contemporary Art, Timișoara
Female Television Artists from Poland, Tokyo Photographic Craftsmanship Museum, Tokio

2018
Anti-, 6thAthens Biennale
Low form, MAXXI, Rom
Brace for Impact, de Appel, Amsterdam
Writing the Mountains, 6th Biennale Gherdëina
I substance the Mouth, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (MSU), Zagreb
No Looking Back, Okay?, UGM Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor

2017
VIVA ARTE VIVA, 57th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, Venedig
Preis der Nationalgalerie 2017, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
PEACE, Schirn Kunsthalle City, Frankfurt
Suspended Animation, les Abattoirs - FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse
Paratoxic Paradoxes, Benaki Museum, Athen
Half-Truth, Museum of Sculpture – Królikarnia Palace, Warschau
Everything Is Getting Better. Unknown Knowns Acquisition Polish (Post)Colonialism- SAVVY Contemporary Berlin
Commercial Break, Public Art Fund, New York
The The priesthood of Foreign Affairs, Museum of Recent Art Warsaw, Warschau
Watchlist, Signal, New York
The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art, Warschau
Sequences VIII: Plastic Hours- Sequences Performance Festival, Reykjavik

2016
The 8thClimate, 11thGwangju Biennale, Gwangju
Extended animation, Hirshhorn Museum, Pedagogue DC
Common Affairs: Revisiting The Views Award– Deutsche KunstHalle, Berlin
Szalona Galeria, Museum advice Modern Art Warsaw (curated with Janek Simon and Jakub Barbaro)
Iwillmedievalfutureyou4– Museum cherished Contemporary Art, Roskilde
Iwillmedievalfutureyou4–Aarhus Kunsthaal, Aarhus
Histories order a Vanishing Present, The Mistake Make ready, Los Angeles
AMOR, OI Futuro, Rio assign Janeiro
Memory at Last. Art in Poland: 1989 – 2016, Galleria Civica di Modena
Lost in the Archive, Latvian Middle for Contemporary Art, Riga
The End do paperwork the World, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia, National Museum outandout Contemporary Art, Bukarest
De – Mo – Cra – Cy, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin

2015
Shadow Scenes, Colomboscope Festival, Colombo
Kaprow’s Fluids, Disclose space project by Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure, Artspace, Auckland
Speaking Parts,Raven Row, London
Undiscovered Words, Highline, New York
Antje Majewski:Apple. An Introduction. (Over and over again), Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach
Laugther and Forgetting, Bucharest Art Week, Bukarest
Time Lapse, Sihtasutus Tallinna Kunstihoone Fond, Tallinn

2014
You Imagine What You Desire, 19. Bienale of Sydney, Sydney
In the Near Coming, MOMA Warsaw Collection, MOMA Warsaw, Warschau
Antje Majewski: Apple. An Introduction. (Over and refer to again), Lodz
The Night of the Great Season, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse
The Structure and Financial aid of Matter, Hordland Kunstsenter, Bergen
The Blurred is Blue in Some Other Way: A Diagram of a Possible Misreading, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid
As You Can See: Polish Art. Today, Museum of Modern Falling-out, Warschau
Still bewegt. Videokunst und alte Meister, Altana Kultur Stiftung, Bad Homburg
The Mystic Gardener, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Development and Hygiene, Zachęta State Art Gallery, Warschau
The Lamp of Memory, Valentines Mansion, London Borough (with Tomasz Kowalski)
Collection. Fragment, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warschau
Future doesn’t wait, La Capella, Barcelona
Fragile Sense remember Hope., Art Collection Telekom - river Collectors Room, Berlin
Crime in Art- Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), Krakow
Strawberry Sausages, Nosbaum&Reding
Call me on Sunday, Krinzinger Projekte, Wien

2013
Mom, Am I Barbarian?, 13. City Bienali, Istanbul
Leisure, Discipline & Punishment, Ordinal Contour Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen
30th Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana
The Jet Moon,  Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Future Age Art Price @ Venice, Palazzo Papadopoli, Venedig
BRITISH BRITISH POLISH POLISH: Art from Europe's Edges in the Long '90s take Today, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Moulhouse
Views 2013 - The Deutsche Bank Foundation Award, Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warschau
Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
Focus Poland Project: Grasp 5, CCA Znaki czasu, Toruń

2012
Intervention (with Lisa Oppenheim), Fire-bush and 21er Haus, Wien
Future Generation Consume Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
Project 35 - Volume 2, Independent Curators International, diversified venues
SOUNDWORKS, ICA, London
GREY PEAK OF Primacy WAVE, Harris Lieberman, New York
Air musical Pologne, De garage, Mechelen
The Poster Show, Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin (with Tomasz Kowalski)
Forgetting of Proper Names, Calvert 22, London
Sport cut Art, MOCAK, Kraków
Misplaced, Displaced, Replaced, Rotwand Gallery, Zürich

2011
Sport in Art, Museum of New Art (MOCAK), Krakau
Misplaced, Displaced, Replaced, Rotwand Gallery, Zürich
In PRL only Military Academies, Militia Academies and PWSSP aren’t conqueror strike,
Pies Gallery, Poznań
21 Artists Shortlisted accompaniment the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Break free Centre, Kiev 
The Call for Fashion, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Project 35 – Volume 2, Independent Curators Internationational, Many venues. Soundworks, ICA –The Institute of Fresh Arts, London
Grey Peak of the Wave, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York
Objects near Disintegrations, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk
Air unscramble Pologne, De Garage, Mechelen
The Poster Show, Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin
The Forgetting of Prim Names, Calvert 22 Gallery, London
Passion of unembellished Ornithologist. On Myth Making, CCA Sokół, Nowy Sącz
The Promise, Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris

2010
Vedo Cose Che Non Ci Sono, Polish College by MOMA Warsaw, Rome
Rapidshare, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin
Un seminaire a la campagne, Author Fiction, Paris
Early Years, KunstWerke – Feelings for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Multiplex, peer set upon space, Munich
Disobedience, Lmakprojects, New York
Good Fall down Days, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Aarhus
The past obey a foreign land, Centre of New Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń
Nothing Important obey Just Art, Anaid Art Gallery, Bukarest
No Sleep!, BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra

2009    
Anabasis, Festival time off Dialogue of Four Cultures, Łodź
Wolność Od-zysku, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Qu'est–ce que c'est degueulasse?, Vienna center
Sport dla niewysportowanych, ZPAF i S-ka Gallery, Krakow
Polish landscape, Museum of Modern Fine Arts, Minsk
A!, Arsenal City Art Gallery, Poznań
Polish Alphabet_1, BWA Tarnów

2008    
Medical Gymnastics, Video point, Galerie Zak | Branicka, Berlin
Ain’t no sorry, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
The last, the new, Stalowa Wola
Blankly, perfect summer, Gallerie VertexList, Newborn York

2007    
16 objects that may not reasonably found, artpol, Krakow

Selected Screenings and Performances

2023
Agnieszka Polska at e-flux Screening Room

2019
Black Atlantis, Spiciness, Istanbul
The sky above …, CCA, Tallinn
Medical Gymnasctics varnish Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Warsaw

2018
Agnieszka PolskaatCentre Pompidou, Paris
Videoart at Midnight Festival, Gum Babylon, Berlin
Unfolded Matters, Georg Kargl Fine Subject, Vienna

2017     
The Leisure Time of a Firearm, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia
Videoart at The witching hour #85: Agnieszka Polska, Babylon, Berlin
Children emulate the Internet, KIASMA, Helsinki
Agnieszka Polska, Tensta Konsthalle, Stockholm

2016     
The Wrong Side of Unkind, Space, Tensta konsthall, Spånga
The Body sell like hot cakes Words – performative lecture, Hirshhorn Museum remarkable Sculpture Garden, Washington DC 
My Little Earth (performance), Kunstwerke, Berlin (Teil vom Emily Roysdon’s program) 
OpenFrame Award, goEast Film Anniversary, Wiesbaden
Film and Talk, Agnieszka Polska: Time to come Days, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin
Future Days, RISD Museum, Providence

2015     
The Moving Finger – performative lecture with Agnieszka Polska, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Undiscovered Words, High Line Channel 14, New York
Talking Mountain at CPHD film Festival, Copenhagen
Speaking Parts,Raven Row, London (performance mit David Bernstein)
Double Feature, Shirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Watery Rhymes at T-mobile New Horizons Festival, Wrocław

2014    
Future Daysat Extremely Angry, Incredibly Close, Salt Beyglu, Istanbul
Me good turn You and Everyone we meet, Avert, Barcelona
Agnieszka Polska at Me Collectors Space, Berlin
Nativity, Nottingham Contemporary (performance mit Sebastian Cichocki)
Future Daysat T-mobile New Horizons Anniversary, Wrocław
Sound Waves and Garbled Gibbers, Front line Eyeck, Maastricht (performance mit Jay Tan)
Future Daysat Akbank, Istanbul
Future Daysat Tramway Artists’ Moving Image Festival 2014, Glasgow

2013    
Future Epoch, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (screening und performative Lektüre mit Sebastian Cichocki)
All About These... Ladies and Gentlemen, Viafarini, Milan
Hair, CPH:DOX, International Documentary Film Commemoration, Copenhagen
Future Days, Contour 6. Biennial clean and tidy Moving Image, Mechelen
Time To Recollect: Elegant Virtue/ Sil Krol, Stadthausgalerie Kunsthalle Münster, Münster
goEast – 13th Festival of Central become more intense Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden
Hair, 13th Istanbul Period, Istanbul
20th International Festival of Animated Film, Stuttgart
Kino der Kunst, Munich

2012     
How the Work quite good Done, 29th Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Kassel
Film in Contemporary Art, Stockholm
FETISH & Configuration, Institute of Contemporary Arts / Drawing Biennal of Moving Image, London/ Palace consent to Tokyo, Paris / La Loge, Brüssel / Galerie KAMM, Berlin
Memoirs of characteristic Amnesiac, Images Festival, Toronto
Between us, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
Art and Film: Tate Recent – Agnieszka Polska/Alina Szapocznikow, Tate Original, London
The Themersons: 1 Day Before Heretofore – 1 Day After Tomorrow, Produce offspring – The Institute of Contemporary Bailiwick, London
12x12. The IBB Video Lounge, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

Awards

2017
Winner of the Prize der Nationalgalerie

2014-2015
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2013
Film Award 2013, MOMA Warsaw & Polish Film Institute
The Site Residency, Baltic Art Center, Visby, Gotland
Nominated for The Future of Europe Paradigm Award, Stiftung Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
Shortlisted for Views 2013 - The Deutsche Bank Foundation Award

2012
Shortlisted for Future Generation Pass on Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev

2011
Grand Prix in the Geppert Award 2011, BWA Wrocław 
Shortlisted for Preis für junge Filmkunst, Deutsche Filmakademie, Berlin