Weronika Wysocka

Born in 1994.
Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany

In her artistic practice, she often uses visual essays as a discursive model for reflecting on and questioning individual and collective subjectivity. She is particularly interested in the impact of technology on human beings, politics, and nature. In narrative texts, she often uses Newspeak and draw inspiration from messenger platforms and tweets, as reflections of global moods and explain the amplitudes of new emotions at the intersection of the material and virtual world.

A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (diploma in the Studio of Spatial Activities), she did exchange fellowship at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Currently she studies at Staedelschule.

The initiator of the artistic residency for young artists, Turnus Słupsk; founder and curator of the end-less program. In 2019 she lead the NARRATION STRATEGIES workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Curator of online exhibition Scrolling the System for Zachęta – National Art Gallery.

Her works have been shown among others in Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, TOP – Photography Museum Tokyo, Backehause Art Complex Miami and Lokal_30 Gallery.

EDUCATION

2022-2023 Städelschule, Gerard’s Byrne class
2013-2018 Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Mirosław Bałka studio of Spatial Activities
2018 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, Fine Arts Department
2015 Akademie der Kunste Berlin, Visual Communication department

EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS

2022
The Discomfort of the evening, Zachęta – National Art Gallery, Warsaw, PL Don’t hate the player, hate the game, Krakers gallery weekend, Kraków

2021
19th Media Art Biennale WRO 2021, Wrocław, PL
Who will write the history of tears, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, PL
The crooked circle, Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Solo show – Nobody’s fool, Artists Colony Gallery, Gdańsk, PL
Solo show – The gentelness of respect with the quality of the touch, NOWY ZŁOTY, Lublin, PL
Short Waves Film Festival, Poznań, PL

2020
Milk me sugar, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, PL
Something in common, Warsaw under Construction, MoMA Warsaw, PL
Pandemic consequance: dreams, Serce Człowiek Gallery, Warsaw Gallery Weeekend, PL
Scrolling the System, Zachęta – National Art Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Our bomb is a flower – why quit, Wroclaw, PL

2019
below zero – Industra Art Space, Brno, CZ
where all problems end – Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, PL
Collective capital – Museum of Cooperatives History, Warsaw, PL
Foreign Bodies – video screening, Zachęta – National Art Gallery, PL
Festival Mondial des Cinémas Sauvages Brussels, BE
Project X, Zachęta – National Art Gallery, PL
Her Own Way Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland: From 1970s to the Present, TOP Museum Tokio, JP
I try to move the free Hand, Gallery Wozownia, Toruń, PL

2018
Sculpture in the Bush, Cooperative Krzak, Warsaw, PL
Pret-a-Porter, Lokal 30 Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Coming Out, Koneser, Warsaw, PL

2017
Turnus Słupsk, Słupsk, PL
Holiday Break, Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Rekonesans II, FIU Miami Beach Urban Studies, Miami, USA
Final of Hestia Artistic Journey, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
Nothing is happening, Institute of Photography Fort, Warsaw, PL
Tarnów, Tarnów, BWA Tarnów, PL
Deep Water, Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Gdańsk, PL
Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz Notes from the Expanse, Zachęta – National Gallery, Warsaw, PL

2016
S1_92537, VI season of project Otwock Studio, Otwock, PL
Videonews, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, PL
Recognition, Ney Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Rekonesans, Backehause Art Complex, Miami, USA

2015
Rundgang, UdK, Berlin, Germany

2014
Untitled individual exhibition, Turbo Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS

2018
ZAiKS Authors’ Association award in the field of visual arts

2017
Finalist of Hestia Artistic Journey
Scholarship of the Mayor of Słupsk for the Creators of Culture
Scholarship of the Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship for the best art universities students

RESIDENCIES

2021
KONTEMPORA, Kyustendil, BL
2017
Bunkier Gallery, Czerniowce, UA

PUBLICATIONS

2019
This is Krzak Papier Issue 1 – The subject is Waste, published by krzak collective

PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
https://zacheta.art.pl/magazyn/en/you-are-the-net-and-it-is-you/
https://magazynkontakt.pl/cyfrowe-emocje-w-tworczosci-weroniki-wysockiej/
magazynszum.pl/jestesmy-zsynchronizowane-rozmowa-z-weronika-wysocka/
Vogue.pl/a/girls-dont-ask-weronika-wysocka
Magazynszum.pl/where-all-problems-end-weroniki-wysockiej-w-baltyckiej-galerii-sztuki-wspolczesnej/

STATEMENT https://secondaryarchive.org/artists/weronika-wysocka/