Agnieszka Brzeżanska (born 1972), For Odra; 2022

Acrylic, canvas; 40 x 60
Signed on the back: A Brzeżanska/ 2022/ for Odra

Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk (1992-1995) and Warsaw (1995-1997) and at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music (1998-2001). She has received scholarships from the Japanese government (1998-2001, Tokyo), DAAD (Berlin, 2008-2009), Büchsenhausen (Innsbruck, 2005), Collegium Helveticum (Zurich/ETH, 2004). Her work includes painting, drawing, photography, film and ceramics. In her practice, Brezanska draws on various registers of knowledge, from physics and philosophy to systems of cognition marginalized by modern science, such as alchemy, parapsychology, esotericism, indigenous knowledge and matriarchal traditions. She has exhibited her work in numerous solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, most recently including. Whole Earth a National Park, Królikarnia National Museum, Warsaw (2019-2020), Whole Earth a National Park at Gdansk City Gallery (2018), Matrix-Sratrix, Kasia Michalski, Warsaw (2016), Ma Terra, Vera Munro, Hamburg (2015-2016), This all occurs quickly, with ease, grace and joy, Marlborough Contemporary, London (2015), Family Land / Ma terra, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (2014), Kobayashi Maru, Nanzuka, Tokyo (2014) and Bonniers Konsthal (2019), A Painting Cycle, Nomas Foundation, Rome (2012); Back to the Garden, Galerie Kamm, Berlin (2012); Cosmic Equation, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2010). In 2018, she was one of the few artists from Poland to participate in the Berlin Biennale. During Warsaw Gallery Weekend (2018), she was awarded the ING Polish Art Foundation Prize.