Joanna Piotrowska
Stable Vices | Kunsthalle Basel
25 October 2019 to 5 January 2020
Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019 | Leeds Art Gallery
22 June to 29 September 2019
Art Now: All Our False Devices | Tate Britain
8 March to 9 June 2019
Untitled
30 September to 4 November 2017
Hester
5 - 28 FEBRUARY 2015
JOANNA PIOTROWSKA
b. 1985, Warsaw, Poland. Lives and works in London.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
FROWST
Zachęta National Gallery of Art
Warsaw, Poland
2019
Stable Vices
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
All Our False Devices
Art Now
Tate Britain, London, UK
Yorkshire Sculpture International
Leeds Gallery, Leeds, UK
2018
Frieze London with Southard Reid, London, UK
2017
Untitled
Southard Reid, London, UK
Art Basel Statements
Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2016
Frantic
Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal
2015
Hester
Southard Reid, London, UK
How Are You?
Księgarnia | Wystawa, Krakow, Poland
FROWST
Krakow Photomonth Festival 2015
The Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum, Krakow, Poland
2014
s.w.a.l.k
Project Space, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020-2021
Our Red Sky
Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden
2020
Museum for Preventive Imagination – EDITORIAL
MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy
Paranoia TV
steirischerherbst’20, Vorherbst Magazine
2019
occupy and echo (a stage)
ReadingRoom, Melbourne, Australia
Tell me about yesterday tomorrow
NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, Munich, Germany
Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art
Coimbra, Portugal
Jen Liu, Joanna Piotrowska, Jesse Wine
Simone Subal, New York
2018
Antartica: An Exhibition on Alienation
Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna
CONDO London
Southard Reid, London, UK
Being: New Photography 2018
MoMA, New York, USA
La Bottega Oscura
GRGLT, Turin, Italy
Material Environments
The Tetley, Leeds South Bank, Leeds, UK
We Don't Need Another Hero
10th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
SCULPTURES
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
SUPERSTITION
Museum Marres, Maastricht, Netherlands
Structures of Meaning: Architectures of Perception
Gateway, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Warsaw Gallery Weekend
Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, Poland
2017
Big towers
ICA, Singapore
OFF-Biennale Budapest
Budapest, Hungary
SEVER
Galeria Boavista, Galerias Municipais, Lisbon, Portugal
These Rotten Words
Curated by George Vasey
Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, UK
Something halfway between the typical atmosphere I breathe and the tip of my reality.
Curated by Juan Canela and Stefanie Hessler
La Tabacalera, Madrid, Spain
Room
Sadie Coles, London, UK
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
2016
Give Me Yesterday
Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Milan, Italy
Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2015
True Players
W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Royal College of Art Stand
Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK
Kombucha
Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
ALTRIMENTI CHE ESSERE
Galleria Oltredimore, Gender Bender Festival, Bologna, Italy
Krasna-Krausz Book Awards and First Book Award 2015
Media Space, Science Museum, London, UK
Jerwood and Photoworks Award Exhibition
Jerwood Space, London, UK
2014
What love has to do with it
Project Space, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2013
When Sleeper Wakes
Aperto Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Family Politics
Jerwood Space, London, UK
Fly me through the night, Pilot
Private house at Primrose Hill, London, UK
Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Spike Island, Bristol, UK
Call XV
Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia, Spain
21st Century Art and Design - RCA 2013
Christie’s, London, UK
MA Graduation Show
Royal College of Art, London, UK
2012
The Suspension of History
Basement Project Space, Cork, Ireland
2010
Sittcomm.award
Wyspianski Pavilion, Krakow, Poland
"5128"
Zpafiska Gallery, Krakow, Poland
SELECTED RECENT PRESS
Oct 2017 TANK Live, Food for Thought, by Adam Bychawski
Spring 2016 TANK, cover and photography, Double Take, p.256 - 278
Jan 2016 VICE, feature, Black and White Photos That Show the Disturbing Side of Being a Teenage Girl
Nov 2015 VAULT, feature, Joanna Piotrowska: Of Body and Mind by Daniel Boetker-Smith, p. 50
Nov 2015 AnOther, interview, ...Using Gesture to Empower Women, by Daisy Woodward, online
Jun 2015 Magenta Mag, Nowa Anatomia, The King is Naked..., by Michal Grochowiak, p. 49
May 2015 Art News, review, Joanna Piotrowska, Southard Reid, by Jennifer Thatcher, p. 127
March 2015 Art Monthly, review by Nick Warner, p. 29
March 2015 Calvert 22, essay by Anastasiia Fedorova, online
Spring 2015 Tjej Land, text by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
March 2015 Art Monthly, review, Joanna Piotrowska, Southard Reid, by Nick Warner, p. 29
Winter 2014 Aperture, text by Wojciech Nowicki
Winter 2014 Dazed Magazine, pictorial feature, Never is a Long Time, p. 180
Jul 2014 Paper Journal, Uncertain Constellations, interview by Darren Campion
Dec 2013 The Independent, Art Stars of Tomorrow by Adrian Hamilton
Dec 2013 Dust Magazine, Frowst, text by Anca Rujoiu
Nov 2013 Photomonitor, interview by Christiane Monarchi
Nov 2013 Time Out, Bloomberg New Contemporariesby Martin Coomer
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
National Photography Collection, Bradford, UK
SELECTED AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2017
Inclusartiz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
Plat(t)form 2015, Winterthur Fotomuseum, Switzerland
Photoworks & Jerwood Award
2014
Nomination: reGeneration, Tomorrow’s Photographers Today
Nomination: REFOCUS: The Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Castlegate Photography Prize
Kuldiga Artists Residence 2014
First Book Award, MACK Books
2013
Selected for Catlin Guide 2013
2011
Genesis Foundation Scholarship
2010
Nomination for sittcomm. award 2010
Creative Scholarship of the Head of the City of Krakow
Hidden Places artist in residence, Görlitz, Germany
SELECTED TALKS AND LECTURES
2014
Frowst book launch
Claire de Rouen, London, UK
Artist’s talk
Calvert 22 Gallery, London, UK
Book launch & conversation with Ben Burbridge
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017
Frantic by Humboldt Books
2014
Frowst by Mack
EDUCATION
2011 – 2013 MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2010 Contemporary Culture, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
2008 Erasmus Exchange, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
2006 – 2009 BA Photography, Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
2004 – 2006 Photography course, Warsaw Film School, Warsaw, Poland