Born in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1968

 

Lives and works in London and Nowogród, Poland

 

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Joanna Rajkowska (born 1968) is a Polish artist based in London, working with objects, films, photography, installations, ephemeral actions, and widely discussed interventions in public space.

She critically engages with the legacy, politics, and aesthetics of land art and employs the strategy of unfamiliarity as a political tool whilst focusing on the body and language as the foundations of social relationships. Her works often function as social sculptures in which collective memory, tensions, and desires might be manifested as public monuments interwoven into the urban tissue. Activating layers of meanings (both historical and ideological), they provoke and reveal lines of conflicts, but also serve as platforms for dialogue.

As Joanna Rajkowska’s works are materializing through ‘urban legends’, press-cuttings, gossip and media debates, their form is always ‘unfinished’, so there is a possibility they will evolve and mutate beyond the artist’s initial intentions.

Rajkowska’s artwork has been presented in the UK, Germany, Poland, France, Switzerland, Brazil, Sweden, US, Palestine and Turkey, among others. Her public projects include comissions by CCA Zamek Ujazdowski (2007, Oxygenator, Poland), Trafo Gallery (2008, The Airways, Hungary), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2009, Ravine, Poland), The Showroom (2010, Chariot, UK), British Council (2010, Benjamin in Konya, Turkey), 7th Berlin Biennale (2012, Born in Berlin, Germany), Royal Society of Arts, Citizen Power Peterborough programme’s Arts and Social Change, Arts Council England (2012, unrealised project, The Peterborough Child, UK), Frieze Projects 2012 (2012, Forcing a Miracle, UK) and Institute for Contemporary Ideas and Art (2014, Carpet, Sweden).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art Brussels, Solo presentation, Discovery Section, Booth D12 – 22 April 2018

 

Architecture After the Sunset, Solo exhibition, SKALA Poznań – 13 April – 15 May 2018

 

Suiciders, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland

 

I shall not enter into your heaven, Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw, 18-19 November 2017

 

I shall not enter into your heaven, In the frame of the project Open City, Crossroads, Poland, 2017

 

Faces, The Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Germany, 2017 

 

Konteksty, Event Horizon, 2017

 

Stitching and unstitching, Markiewicz / Rajkowska, 2017

 

THE FACE. A SEARCH FOR CLUES, The Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany, 2017

 

The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2017

 

Painkillers, Rampa, Istanbul, Turkey, 2017

 

Joanna Rajkowska, SALT Ulus, Ankara, 2016

 

Making use: Life in Post-artistic Times, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2016

 

Medicine in Art, MOCAK, Museum of Modern Art, Krakow, Poland, 2016

 

Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea, 2016

 

DE-MO-CRA-CY, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland, 2016

 

Hommage to Kantor, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan, 2015

 

A Beautiful Darkness, 26 October – 30 October 2015, Central St. Martins, London, 2015

 

I am burning Paris (Je brûle Paris), Cité international des Arts, Paris, France, 2015

 

We knew the world not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent, Goldsmiths, 2015

 

Progress and Hygiene, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2015

 

Vot Ken You Mach, Muzeum Współczesne, Wrocław, Poland, 2015

 

The Wall. Art Face To Face With Borders, Careof DOCVA in Milan, Italy, 2015


 

The Light of the Lodge, Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2014

 

A tourist in Other People’s Reality, Vestry House Museum, London, 2013

 

L’ HALLALI, La Station, Nice, 2013

 

Joanna Rajkowska