Aleksandra Przybysz

My artistic practice explores the entangled and often unsettling relationships between humanity, non-human entities, and the material world, drawing on themes of posthumanism, speculative fiction, and ecological collapse. I am captivated by the ways in which art can serve as a medium to confront the Anthropocene's complexities. I rich in my projects on what it means to coexist with the monstrous, the alien, and the unknown. It is an invitation to confront the terror and wonder of living in an interconnected, haunted, and deeply material world. Through interdisciplinary experimentation, I aim to foster a new aesthetic language that bridges scientific understanding, philosophical inquiry, and human imagination, illuminating the complex  of life and decay in the Anthropocene. 





education 

2024 - Faculty of Art, Commission of National Education University UKEN in Cracow, PL(PHD)

2017/2018- Faculty of Sound and Image, Escola das Artes in Porto, PT (MA)

2017-2019 - Faculty of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PL (MA)
2014-2017 - Faculty of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (BA)

awards / residences / scholarships

2022 - Finalist of the II edition of the Chris Schwartz Award „Safe Space”/ Galicia Jewish Museum/ Cracow/ PL
2022 - Winner of the„Inner Landscapes” of 6th Wielkopolska Festival of Photography/ Poznań/ PL
2020- Art House Residency/ Adam Mickiewicz Institute +Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle/ PL

seminars/ artist talks

2025 - presentation at conference  "The potentials of Anthropocene literature"/ Cracow PL

2025 - artist talk at Rybnik Foto Festiwal/ Rybnik PL

2025 - artist talk at conference "Tacit Knowledge"/ London Voices x Sound Archives / Glissando / online
2024 - seminary of Institute of Postnatural Studies: Postnatural Matter/ online

2024 - artist talk during opening of Photography Festiwal FFWRS/ Sopot PL
2021 - Portfolio Review, Fotofestiwal Łódź PL

publications

2024 - In Praise of Shadow, Tomasz Kawecki + Aleksandra Przybysz
Rust Publishing, Cracow 2024

2023 - Matters of Live | Notes and Records on the Pluriverse
Edition: Noemi Biasetton, Costanza Sartoris, Matteo Vianello
Artists: Faid Ahmad, Lucilla Barchetta, Giulia Barison, Katie Pelikan Baselj, Silvia Biasetton, Clelia
Cadamuro, Roberto D’Alba, Eléonore Geissler, Tommaso Guariento, HAB (Melissa Grant, Heidi
Pietarinen, Noora Sandgren, Anne Yoncha), Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Georgia Jamieson, boglárka lutz,
Ilya Martynov, Monica Nadegger, Andreas Philippopoulos- Mihalopoulos, Elisa Piazzi, Isabella Pinto,
Guilherme Pratti, Aleksandra Przybysz, Kevin Sweet, Federica Timeto, Tocia!`
Venice 2023

2023 - The Biodegradable Space, Tomasz Kawecki + Aleksandra Przybysz
self- publishing, Cracow 2023


exhibitions

2024
SAUNA platform/ Fringe/ Warsaw Gallery Weekend/ Warsaw/ PL
2138/ Cracow Art Week/ Cracow/ PL

2023
The howling of dogs could be heard in the village/ Galerie Fotografic/ Praha/ CZ
With Them/ Galeria STUDIO/ Warsaw/ PL
Erzac/ Survival 21 / Wrocław/ PL
The Biodegradable Space/ Industra Art/ Brno/ CZ

2022
Inner Landscapes/ 6th Wielkopolska Festival of Photography / Poznań / PL
Matters of Lives/ Meta Forte/ Venice/ IT
Pills/ Survival 20/ Wrocław / PL
It would be nice if/ 3. Festiwal Otwarty Jazdów / Warsaw / PL
You have to start somewhere/ TURNUSIK / Warsaw/ PL

2021
Return from the stars/ VI Piotrkowskie Biennale of Art/ Piotrków Trybunalski/ PL
Biodegradable Space/ Cracow Art Week KRAKERS: (NO) HOPE/ Cracow/ PL
Translation memory/ Kraków Photomonth XIX/ FRINGE/Cracow/ PL
Houseworks/ Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2021/ NAGA/ Pracownia Wschodnia/ Warsaw/ PL
Biodegradable Space/ RFF Rybnicki Festiwal Fotografii/ Fundacja Elektrowni Rybnik/ PL
At the edge of space/ Cracow Photomonth XIX/ FRINGE/ Skład Solny/ Cracow/ PL
God bless this family/ Gwar Przestrzen Artystyczna/ Katowice/PL

2020
Family Archive/ Duzy Pokój/ Picture Doc Foundation/ Warsaw/PL

2018
The Shinings/ Galeria Duzy Pokoj/ Warsaw/ PL
II Contemporary Art Review New Avant-Garde/ Galeria Szyb Wilson/ Katowice/ PL

2017
Tested on myself/ Oleandrów/ Warsaw/ PL
Starting points/ MYKO/ Warsaw/ PL

2016
1000° in sculpture/ Galeria HOL/ Lodz/ PL


media
Der Greif, Česká televize, Glissando, Szum, Ruch Muzyczny, Contemporary Lynxx, Miej Miejsce, Polskie Radio, Przekrój

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