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AGNIESZKA GOTOWAŁA


I’m visual artist, photographer, performer, facilitator from Poland. I’m graduate of Photography at University of Fine Art in Poznan in Poland. After studies I started to develop also the performative workshop. I’m interested in interdependence between visual and performance arts as the correlation between what is visible and sensible. In my artworks and activities I focus on the research, exploration and transformation in the fields of states of human and nature, and the memory and identity they contain. My creative practices are involved in processes related to nature, sensuality, embodiment, feeling and recollections.

I constantly develop my experience in working with photography (mostly the analogue one), experience with various techniques of working with body (such as Butoh, Tuning Scores and others) and inspiration with a deep connection with the intuition, dreams and subconsciousness. Currently I also develop my own way of working with nature by drawing inspiration from the processes taking place in nature, its periodicity and environment elements to the process of contacting with own self. 

I’m involved in the creation of works, the implementation of individual artistic projects and creative cooperation. I’m taking part in art and research projects, artist residencies. My artworks are presented and published in Poland and abroad.



Education
2010-2013
University of Arts in Poznan, Poland, Photography, BFA
2005-2010
University of Technology in Wroclaw, Poland, Technical Physics, MSc Eng


Solo exhibitions
2021
I Am My Home, Fundacja Elektrowni Rybnik, Rybnicki Festiwal Fotografii, Rybnik, Poland
I Am My Home, Interchange Festival, Batumi Boulevard, Batumi, Georgia
2020
I Am My Home, Fotofestiwal, Imaginarium Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2019
I Am My Home, Miejsce Przy Miejscu 14 Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
I Am My Home, 6th Suwon International Photo Festival, Suwon, South Korea
2016
Things image, Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland


Group exhibitions (selection)
2023
Life Take on a Different Meaning, OP_ENHEIM Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
Nature, 11th Annual Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE
2020
Of Man And Woods, Verzasca Foto Festival, Sonogno, Switzerland
Quiet, The Earth Issue (online)
2019
Weibsbilder, Fine Art Galerie, Traismauer, Austria
Photobook Storytelling, PAPERLUST Photobook Fest 2019, New Art Foundation ZNACZY SIE, Krakow, Poland
2017
Poród, Brzuch Centrum Trawienia Wizji, Wroclaw, Poland
2016
Young Photographers 2016, Fine Art Galerie, Traismauer, Austria
A Process 2.0 / Der Greif, Krakow Photomonth Festival, Festival Center Tytonie, Krakow, Poland
Awakenings, Photo LA, Los Angeles, USA
2015
Interpret art, OFF_Festival, Pisztory Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
Young Art Show 8, House of Art, Piestany, Slovakia
WRO Résumé, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
Alles auf Anfang, Fotosommer, Erfurt, Germany
Das Blaue vom Himmel versprechen, Das Spreehöfe Project, Berlin, Germany
Censored Exhibition, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Denmark
2014
Obrazy które trwają w czasie, Kolektyw 1a, Poznan, Poland
One Shot: One World, Month of Photography, Los Angeles, USA
A Process / Der Greif, Neue Gallery, Ausburg, Germany
2013
Diplomas UAP 2013, Poznan International Fair, Poznan, Poland
*brak części tekstu*, Poznan Gallery Weekend, Patrz! Gallery, Poznan, Poland
(Gra)witalny, Poznan Gallery Weekend, TŁO Gallery, Poznan, Poland


Performances
2017
solo performance Biography, Butoh Festival Amsterdam, Teatro Munganga, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016
solo performance Biography, Šopa Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia
2015
group performance Tuning Scores, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
group performance Tuning Scores, Art Station Foundation, Poznan, Poland
2014
solo performance Biography, Brzuch Centrum Trawienia Wizji, Wroclaw, Poland


Awards
2022
Laureate, OP_YOUNG by OP_ENHEIM
2019
Nominee, Photogrvphy Grant 2019
Laureate, Photolab Batumi Photo Festival 2019
2017
Nominee, Photogrvphy Grant 2017
2016
Shortlisted, BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER 2016
Shortlisted, LATENT 2016
2014
Honorable Mention IPA 2014, International Photography Awards
2013
Honorable Mention IPA One Shot, International Photography Awards


Scholarships
2020
Fundusz Popierania Twórczości, Stowarzyszenie Autorów ZAiKS
2018
Culture of Mobility #5, Artist in Residence Programme AiR Wro, Culture Zone Wroclaw
2017
Culture of Mobility #5, Artist in Residence Programme AiR Wro, Culture Zone Wroclaw
2016
Alternative Dance Academy 2016, Art Station Foundation


Residencies
2023   
OP_ENHEIM Art Residency, Tarczyn near Wlen, Poland
2018   
Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
2017   
Long Island Artist Residency, Long Island / Averøy, Norway
2016
Šopa Gallery in cooperation with K.A.I.R. (Košice Artist in Residence), Kosice, Slovakia


Projects
2022-2023
microTAIGA (Transformational Leadership Program) with Agnieszka Bułacik and Liene Jurgelãne, new visions, online
2022
ISSP Summer School of Socially Engaged Art
with Liene Jurgelãne and Agnieszka Bułacik (new visions), Rucka Artist Residency, Cẽsis / Latvia
2016
The body as an instrument
with Ben J. Riepe, Art Station Foundation, Poznan, Poland
2015
Tuning Scores with Lisa Nelson and Scott Smith, Art Station Foundation, Poznan, Poland
2014
Quiet House with Katarzyna Zejmo, Cinema Theater / Michalowice, MiserArt / Wroclaw, Poland


Publications
rûm issue °IV
Propeller #2
HANT Magazine issue 8
HANT Magazine issue 6
Der Greif #8
HANT Magazine issue 5
Witty Mag#3


Online publications
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