results of an open call for artist residency
Agnieszka Mastalerz in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart
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Agnieszka Mastalerz — visual artist born in 1991 in Łódź, Poland
- Graduate of the Studio of Spatial Activities by Mirosław Bałka at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (BA, MA, 2018), former student of Candice Breitz and Eli Cortiñas at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Scholarship for 2019/2020), and a guest by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg (2017/2018). She also obtained my BA in Cultural Studies at the University of Warsaw (2013) and was a participant of the Autumn Intensive at the Malmö Art Academy (2024).
- Agnieszka's work revolves around mechanisms of control and the processes that influence and exploit the individual. Through a poetic visual language, she analyzes restrictive rules imposed within intimate relationships, communities, states, corporations, and towards the natural environment. Rooted in research, her practice is primarily video-based, often integrating scientific imaging techniques and performative elements.
- She exhibited in Królikarnia — the National Museum in Warsaw, Krupa Art Foundation in Wroclaw (2025), Catinca Tabacaru Gallery at the Goethe Institut in Bucharest (2024), NS-Dokumentazionszentrum in Munich (2023), MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Manifesta 14 Prishtina, eastcontemporary gallery in Milan (2022), Fabbri Schenker Projects in London, MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci in Prato (2021), Wschód gallery in Warsaw (2020), Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Starak Family Foundation in Warsaw (2019), Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Fondation Hippocrène in Paris (2018), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2017, laureate of the Hestia Artistic Journey Competition).
- Art fairs include NADA Villa Warsaw (2024), Artissima, and Arco Madrid (2021).
- She was a resident of i.a. Muzeum Susch in Switzerland, the Artist Development Program at the European Investment Bank Institute in Luxembourg (2021), and Futura gallery in Prague (Visegrad Fund, 2020). She participated in the Lucy Art Residency public program in Kavala (2022) and in the School of Expressions in PLATO Ostrava (2019).
- Agnieszka is a laureate of Młoda Polska Scholarship (The Young Poland Scholarship) — a programme designed for artists up to 35 years of age who have outstanding achievements in the disciplines they represent.
- Works of her are in Fondazione in Between Art Film by Beatrice Bulgari, Ergo Hestia Group, European Investment Bank, and Warsaw Ghetto Museum collections, as well as in private ones.
- Since 2021, the artist is represented by eastcontemporary gallery in Milan.
- www.agnieszkamastalerz.com
