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Joanna Rajkowska
Born in 1968 in Bydgoszcz, Poland
Lives and works in London, UK and Nowogród, Poland
Member of Krytyka Polityczna editorial board and Civic Forum For Contemporary Art
Represented by l'étrangère in London.
www.letrangere.net
44a Charlotte Road
London EC2A 3PD
United Kingdom
+44 (0)207 729 9707
mail@letrangere.net
EDUCATION
MFA in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, 1988 - 1993
MA in Art History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 1987 - 1992
Studio Semester Program, State University of N.Y., New York, 1994 - 1995
PUBLIC PROJECTS
2017 I Won't Go to Your Heaven, In the frame of the project Open City, Crossroads, Lublin, Poland
.........Event Horizon, The 7th International Festival of Ephemeral Art in Sokołowsko, Poland
2016 Forcing a Miracle, Museum of History of Polish Jews POLIN, Warsaw, Poland
.........Trafostation, in the frame of visual arts programme of European Capital of Culture Wrocław
2016, Wrocław, Poland
.........Greetings from Kielce, in the frame of Nomada project, Kielce, Poland
.........Timepost Helsinki, in the frame of Helsinki Design Week, Helsinki, Finland
.........Avant-garde for Insects, in the frame of Parkowanie, Gdańsk, Poland
2015 Zechstein Sea, The Baltic House Lab 2015, Gdańsk, Poland
.........The Peterborough Child, Wysing Arts Centre, UK
2014 Rosa's Pasage, in the frame of Łódź of Four Cultures Festival, Łódź, Poland
.........Soundlessness, Open'er Festival, Gdynia, Poland
.........Carpet, Institute for Contemporary Ideas and Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
.........Soon Everything Will Change, PEA, Birmingham, UK
2013 All-Seeing Eye, Open Art Projects, Brasilia, Brazil
.........Kino!, Critical Mass, St Petersburg, Russia
2012 Forcing A Miracle, Frieze Projects 2012, London, UK
.........The Peterborough Child, Made in Peterborough commissioning programme, Arts and Social
Change, Citizen Power Peterborough (Royal Society of Arts, Peterborough City Council, Arts
Council England), Peterborough, UK (not installed at site)
.........Thermometers and glasses, Relocations Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland
.........Bund!, Whose History?, Billboard International and Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków,
Oświęcim, Poland
.........The Light Of The Lodge, Copenhagen Art Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
.........Sumpfstadt, Polish Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany (project not realised)
.........Final Fantasies, 7th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
.........Born in Berlin, 7th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
2011 Two Days From Europe, 6th Curitiba Biennial, Curitiba, Brazil (project not realised)
2010 Benjamin in Konya, British Council, Konya, Turkey
.........March Backwards, action around Minaret project, by Hanna Gill-Piątek, Malta Festival, Poznań,
Poland
.........Chariot, The Showroom Gallery, London, UK
2009 - 2011 Minaret, Poznań, Poland (project not realised)
2009 Rotor, Bęc Zmiana Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
.........Aquarius, Art Boom Festival, Kraków, Poland
.........The Bat, Bern, Switzerland (project not realised)
2008 Jenin Refugee Camp Central Station, Jenin, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian
Territories (project not realised)
.........Spitoon, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
.........The Uhyst Refugee Asylum, Uhyst, Germany
.........Airways, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
.........Camping Jenin, Freedom Theatre, Jenin, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories
2007 Oxygenator, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
.........A Walk, Krytyka Polityczna, Warsaw, Poland
.........Centre of the World, The Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland (project not realised)
2006 Umeå Volcano, Verkligheten Gallery, Umeå, Sweden (project not realised)
2004 Only Love, Warsaw, Poland
2003-2005 Artist for Rent [Twenty-Two Tasks], Berlin, Łódź, Sheffield
2002 Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue, Warsaw, Poland
2001 The Diary of Dreams, XX1 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Architecture after Sunset, :Skala Gallery, Poznań, Poland
.........Suiciders, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland
2017 Painkillers, Rampa, Istanbul, Turkey
.........Trafostation, Recepcja, Wrocław, Poland
2016 Emre Hüner / Joanna Rajkowska, Salt ULUS, Ankara, Turkey
2015 Painkillers, l'étrangère, London, UK
2014 The Light of the Lodge, Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria
.........Gold, Silver, Brass, Żak | Branicka Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2012 Born in Berlin - a Letter to Rosa, Żak | Branicka Gallery, Berlin, Germany
.........Sumpfstadt, Polish Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2011 The Minaret that Wasn't Built, Malta Festival, Poznań, Poland
.........The Task of the Translator, Żak | Branicka Gallery, Berlin, Germany
.........Dogs From Üsküdar, ZPAF i S-ka Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2009 Periscope, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk, Poland
.........Postcards from Switzerland, ZPAF i S-ka Gallery, Kraków, Poland
.........Basia, OKSiR, Świecie, Poland
.........Between The Palm Tree And The Bat, PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
2008 Camping, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland
.........Revolution of 1905, FD4K, Łódź, Poland
.........The Force of Things, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznań, Poland
.........City Oxygenators - Oases, Malta Festival, Poznań, Poland (in cooperation with
Krytyka Polityczna)
.........Airways, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2007 Oxygenate Yourself, Nizio Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2006 Umeå Volcano, Verkligheten Gallery, Umeå, Sweden
.........Leave It, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2005 Twenty-Two Tasks, Program Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2003 Formal Promise. Artist For Rent, Müllerdechiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2002 My Great-Grandmother Rosa Stern, Photofestival, Skulpturen Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 Stockholm International Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
.........The Diary of Dreams, XX1 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2000 Satisfaction Guaranteed, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
.........Satisfaction Guaranteed, AMS - Outdoor Gallery, 400 billboards all over Poland
1999 On Saturday I Eat Sweets and I Masturbate, Open Gallery, Kraków, Poland
.........Things I Do In the Evenings, Manhattan Gallery, Łódź, Poland
1998 Menu of Desires, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Kraków, Poland
.........Starmach Gallery, Kraków, Poland
.........The Love of a Man Named Dog, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
.........It Was Not Me, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland
1997 Midget House, Biała Gallery, Lublin, Poland
.........Lobster Lovers, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, USA
1996 Trio for Skin, Voice and Madman, Bucklein Theatre, Kraków, Poland
.........Indispositions. Principles of Internal Medicine, Prowincjonalna Gallery, Słubice, Poland
.........Water-Tower. Headache, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
1995 No Sign of Dying Soon. The Past - the Physical Presence, State University of NY, NYC, USA
.........Irritation, Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Altered States. Substances in Contemporary Art, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany
.........White Lie, CCA Kronika, Bytom, Poland
2017 The Illusion of Return, Arts Territory, London, UK (the commission)
.........Two Men and a Mattress, screening programme in collaboration with the Arts Territory, at the Diaspora Pavilion, Venice
.........Cine-Eye. Around Vertov and Constructivism, Arsenal Gallery Bialystok, Poland
.........Stitching and unstitching - Markiewicz / Rajkowska, Mathare Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
.........THE FACE. A SEARCH FOR CLUES, The Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
.........The Wall. Art Face To Face With Borders, Trafo Art Gallery, Szczecin, Poland
.........Art and Life. From the Hopeful Affinity between Art and Medicine to the National Socialist
Crimes, Zentrum für verfolgte Künste in Solingen, Germany
.........The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
.........Her White Plumage, Shone on by Rays of Light, Gleamed like the Sun Itself, Henryk Gallery,
Kraków, Poland
2016 Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, Busan Biennale 2016, South Korea
.........Making Use: Life in Postartistic Times, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
.........The Hybrid Show, Bunker Gallery, Chernovitsye, Ukraine
.........Medicine in Art, MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cracow, Poland
.........Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Henryk Gallery, Cracow, Poland
.........DE-MO-CRA-CY, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
.........Lucid Dream, Biała Gallery, Lublin, Poland
.........Land. Origin: thereafter, Art Konsult Gallery, New Delhi, India
National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
.........Hommage to Kantor, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery@KCUA, Kyoto Art Center,
Kyoto, Japan
.........A Beautiful Darkness, Central St. Martins, London, UK
.........Land. Natural, Gendered, Nandan Gallery, Kala Bhawan, Santiniketan, India
.........I am burning Paris (Je brûle Paris), Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France
.........Motherhood, Lviv Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine
.........ARTINTERNATIONAL, Videos on Stage, Istanbul, Turkey
.........War and Peace, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
.........Vot Ken You Mach, Muzeum Współczesne, Wrocław, Poland
.........Private Nationalism, Open Gallery, Bratislava, Slovenská Republika
.........The Wall. Art Face To Face With Borders, Careof DOCVA in Milan, Italy
.........My Poland. On Recalling and Forgetting, Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
.........UMENIE NA HLAVE/PROCEDURES FOR THE HEAD, Poľské súčasné umenie/Polish Art Today,
Dom umenia/Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 Critical Juncture, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
.........As You Can See: Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
.........Regenerate Art, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
.........Your City Is A Battleground, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
.........In the Heart of the Country. The Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw,
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
.........RUPTURES & CONVERGENCES, Kuad Gallery and Kuadrum space, Istanbul, Turkey
.........How to Disappear Completely, Tiroler Künstlerschaft – Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, Austria
.........Gold, Kunsthalle FORUM Factory, Berlin, Germany
2013 A Tourist In Other People's Reality, Vestry House Museum, London, UK
.........3rd International Festival of Ephemeral Art, Sokolowsko, Poland
.........In the Heart of the Country, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
.........L'hallali, La Station, Nice, France
2012 7th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
.........Dependency Culture as a State of Mind, InteriorDAsein, Berlin, Germany
.........Between Us, (screening), HMKV, Dortmund, Germany
.........Middle East Europe, Labor Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
.........Middle East Europe, Bethlehem Peace Centre, Bethlehem, Palestinian Occupied Territories
.........Middle East Europe, Dox Museum Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
.........Attendance Obligatory?... or A Few Tough Tales about Participation, Łódź Design
Festival 2012, Łódź, Poland
2011 Public Folklore, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
.........The Journey to the East, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
.........6th Curitiba Biennial, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brazil
.........Performing Architecture, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
.........Scenarios about Europe, GfZK Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
.........For Kids and Adults, BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
.........The Journey to the East, Arsenał, Białystok, Poland
.........Prague Quadriennale 11th International Competitive Exhibition of Scenography and
.........Theatre Architecture, Prague, Czech Republic
.........5+5, Tvrdava Gallery, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
.........Trembling Bodies / Körper in Aufruhr, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany
.........Taktiken des Wilderns, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
2010 Performing Memory, Astana Municipal Modern Art Museum, Astana, Kazakhstan
.........You Can't Get There From Here, The Camera Club of New York, New York, USA
.........Hostipitality. Receiving Strangers, Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej w Łodzi, Łódź, Poland
.........Things Evokes Feelings. Selected narrations for the CCA Ujazdowski Castle,
CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warszawa, Poland
.........Estrangement, The Showroom, London, UK
.........Mute Signs, Contemporary Approaches to (In)tolerance,
Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem, Budapest, Hungary
.........Early Years, KunstWerke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
.........Exhibition presented by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
.........Let's Talk About Nationalism! Between Ideology and Identity, Kumu Museum, Tallin, Estonia
2009 1989, End of History or Beginning of the Future?, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, USA
.........Warsaw Under Construction, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
.........ANNENVIERTEL! The Art of Urban Intervention, Gallery, Graz, Austria
.........Disappear at Vistula River, Bęc Zmiana Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
.........The Department of Contemporary Art: The Polish Alphabet 1, BWA, City Gallery,
Tarnów, Poland
.........Over and Over Again 1989-2009, The Centennial Hall, Wrocław, Poland
.........The truest love stories. Allegories of Love in the Contemporary Polish Art,
.........Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz
.........Foreigners in their Homeland, Screening of Polish contemporary video art, KUMU.
Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
.........Place in Heart, Emil Filla Gallery, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic
.........Territories, Lokal-int, Biel, Switzerland
.........Where to go? Notes on Transformation after 1989, < rotor > association for
.........contemporary art, Graz, Austria
.........Energy Class: B, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
.........Windows upon Oceans - 8. Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art,
.........Museum of Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland
2008 Chosen, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel, Wyspa Art Institute, Gdańsk, Poland
.........Points Of Reference, Collection of the Foundation for Contemporary Art of the
National Museum in Warsaw, National Museum, Warsaw
.........Place in Heart, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
.........Sensualia, Starmach Gallery, Kraków, Poland
.........Another City, Another Life, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
.........Monsters, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
.........Bifurkacje, Appendix2, Appendix2 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
.........Souvenirs: Repressed Historical and Personal Memory in the works of Israeli and
Polish Artists, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
.........Fade into Black, BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
.........Republic of Cultures, doc review, Warsaw, Poland
2007 Open House, IASPIS Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
.........The 11th Prague Quadrienalle 2007, Prague, Czech Republic
.........The Memory of this Moment from the Distance of Years, the former
Schindler's Factory, Kraków, Poland
2006 Paris Is Burning, Laurin Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
.........Architecture intimate/Architecture abandoned, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland
.........Ulica Próżna 2006, Shalom Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
.........In Poland, That Is Where?, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
.........Southeast Passages, Palazzo Massari PAC, Ferrara, Italy
2005 Spectator T, Art Sheffield 05, Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum, UK
.........Egocentric, Immoral, Outmoded. Contemporary Images of Artists,
Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
.........We will make it somehow / Elections A.D. 2005, Piotr Nowicki Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
.........Site-ations 2005, Cardiff, UK
.........Culture Time, Arsenał Gallery, Poznań, Poland
.........Horizon of Collisions, Art Poznań 2005, Poznań, Poland
.........How to Talk about Contemporary Art?, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
.........Culture Time, Arsenał Gallery, Poznań, Poland
.........Horizon of Collisions, Art Poznań 2005, Poznań, Poland
.........How to Talk about Contemporary Art?, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
2004 Continental Breakfast, 45th October Salon, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
.........Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland
.........Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
.........Memoirs of a Time of Immaturity, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
.........White Mazur, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland
2003 Operation Mice, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland
.........Logo! No Logo?, Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen, Brugge, Belgium
.........White Mazur, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
.........Stockholm International Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Open House, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
.........Really. The Young Are Realists. Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle,
Warsaw, Poland
.........Global Priority, Jamaica Arts Center, New York, USA
.........Semiotic Landscape, Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria
.........Ostensiv-Moscow, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
.........Oder-Sprung, Kunsthalle Essen, Germany
.........Poland, Academia Theater, Warsaw, Poland
2001 In Freiheit endlich, Polnische Kunst nach 1989, Krolikarnia, Warsaw, Poland
.........Słubice-Kraków, Prowincjonalna Gallery, Słubice, Poland
.........The Last Woman, Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznań, Poland
.........Ostensiv, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig, Germany
.........Irreligia, Muzeum Atelier 340, Brussels, Belgium
.........Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2000 Scena 2000, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
.........In Freiheit endlich, Polnische Kunst nach 1989, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
.........Postindustrial Sorrow, Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany
1999 Blue Fire, 3rd Biennial Prague, Young Artists from Central Europe, Prague, Czech Republic
1998 Fragment of Collection 3, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1997 Re-Bates, The L. C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, USA
1996 Art in Poland, New Directions, UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
.........Sensitive, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
.........Solvay, Blok A/D, L'Atelier Gallery, Kraków, Poland
1995 Unter Einem Dach, Podewil, Berlin, Germany
1994 Let Me Wash Your Hands, Sauce Place, New York, USA
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2012 Award of the City of Warsaw (not accepted)
2010 Grand Prize, Fundacja Kultury, Warsaw, Poland
2009 Pro Helvetia grant and residency, PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
2007 Paszport Polityki for Best Visual Artist, annual award by the Polityka weekly
Visegrad Artist Residency, Budapest, Hungary
2006 The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship IASPIS grant and residency,
Umeå, Sweden
2001 The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship
1998 The Civitella Ranieri Fellowship
1997 The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship
1996 The ArtsLink Partnership, Buffalo, USA
1992 President's Award of the City of Kraków, Kraków
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