Agnieszka Polska

„The protagonists of my animated videos and films are often historical artists – those who left art or discredited their own role as an artist, like Lee Lozano, Charlotte Posenenske or Paweł Freisler. I’m very much inspired by artists who are forever searching for an escape route, and share their doubts about the role of art in the contemporary world. I try to render these doubts in a hallucinatory form, composed largely of found, digitally manipulated images. Many of my works examine various processes of influence, legitimization or exclusion in the fields of language, consciousness and history. In order to describe these processes, I deliberately use visual and acoustic stimuli to affect the viewer’s brain – in other words, that trigger a very physical feeling of being immersed in the material being watched.“ 

Agnieszka Polska studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and the Universitaet der Kunste Berlin.  Her solo exhibitions have been organized by the New Museum in New York, the National Gallery in Prague, Nottingham Contemporary in the UK, and the Salzburger Kunstverein in Austria. Polska’s work has been included in exhibitions and screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the 19^th Biennale of Sydney, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the 13^th Istanbul Biennial, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, 11^th Gwangju Biennale and the 57^th Venice Biennale.