Joanna Piotrowska (born 1985) is a Polish photographer based in London. She works primarily with black and white photography, focusing on themes of history, memory, and repetition.
Education
Piotrowska earned an MFA from the
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It o ...
, London, in 2013.
Career
Piotrowska's 2014 series "FROWST" is a series of staged family portraits. The photos were published in a book by the same name, which won the First Book Award in 2014.
After winning one of the three
Jerwood/Photoworks Awards in 2015, Piotrowska focused on photographing teenage girls in self-defense poses. She shot the series in Poland, finding subjects through friends and casting agencies that worked with aspiring actresses.
In 2016, she began her "Frantic" series, in which she asked adults to construct homemade forts from their personal belongings. She traveled to Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro, photographing her subjects in their homes.
In 2018, a selection of Piotrowska's photographs were shown with 16 other contemporary artists in the
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
's ''Being: New Photography 2018'' exhibition.
Exhibitions
*2018 – ''Being: New Photography 2018'', organized by Lucy Gallun, at
MoMA, New York City, NY, USA
*2018 – ''10th
Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art'', curated by
Gabi Ngcobo, at
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
*2019 – ''Art Now: Joanna Piotrowska – All Our False Devices'', curated by Sofia Karamani and Zuzana Flaskova, at
Tate Britain
Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in ...
, London, UK
*2019 – ''Hotel Europa: Their Past, Your Present, Our Future'', curated by Théo-Mario Coppola with associate curator Livia Tarsia in Curia, at
Open Space of Experimental Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
*2019-2020 – ''Joanna Piotrowska: Stable Vices'', curated by
Elena Filipovic, at
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel is a contemporary art gallery in Basel, Switzerland. As Switzerland's oldest and still most active institution for contemporary art, Kunsthalle Basel forms a vital part of Basel's cultural centre and is located next to the city's ...
, Basel, Switzerland
*2020 – ''Joanna Piotrowska: FROWST'', curated by Magdalena Komornicka,
Zachęta National Gallery of Art
The Zachęta National Gallery of Art (Polish: ''Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki'') is a contemporary art museum in the center of Warsaw, Poland. The Gallery's chief purpose is to present and support Polish contemporary art and artists. With numero ...
, Warsaw, Poland
Books
*''Joanna Piotrowska: FROWST'', London:
Mack, 2014, 48 p.,
*''Joanna Piotrowska: Stable Vices'', with essays from Sara De Chiara, Joanna Bednarek and
Dorota Masłowska
Dorota Masłowska (Polish pronunciation:; born 3 July 1983) is a Polish writer, playwright, columnist and journalist.
Life and work
Masłowska was born in Wejherowo, and grew up there. She applied for the University of Gdańsk's faculty of psy ...
, London: Mack, 2021, 176 p.,
References
External links
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Alexander García Düttmann, Joanna Piotrowska: In the Contemporary for the Contemporary Camera Austria International 146 , 2019
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1985 births
Living people
Photographers from Warsaw
Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom
Alumni of the Royal College of Art