ARTIST STATEMENT
The main tools of my practice are language and waste. Language mediated by technology and socio-economic dynamics. English broken by non-Anglosaxon speakers and youth culture. Waste as an effect of symbolic and material overproduction, hoarding, circulating. I believe that clashing these two elements can give a surplus of unexpected potential.
Founder of SURPLUS, a mutable platform adressing material and symbolic overproduction
Co-founder of artist-run gallery, VLP, Copenhagen
Mother, Sister, Daughter
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Born in 1979. Lives and works in Copenhagen and Warsaw.
NEWS:
24th March, Artist Talk with Rine Rodin, VLP, Copenhagen
15th Nov, Artist Talk along with Beatrix Reinhardt, Peter Kunt, Michael Biber, Aga Szostek, moderated by prof Siona Wilson, The College of Staten Island, NYC
20th Oct, Artist Talk along with Unu Sohn, moderated by Lotte Løvholm, organized by 51 Cth, Collega Copenhagen
Supported by Adam Mickiewicz Institute "Kultura Polska na Świecie" 2023
Awarded by Statens Kunstfond Denmark with Production Grant for three projects for 2022
Awarded by Statens Kunstfond Denmark with a grant for curatorial project for TAK TAK / VLP 2022
Awarded by Artist Residency at Accademia di Danimarca, Rome 2022
Supported by Adam Mickiewicz Institute "Kultura Polska na Świecie" 2022
SHOWS:
2023
Einstein on the beach, Super Dakota, Brussels
Juxtapose artfair, Aarhus
Sankt Hansine, performance with Arobal, VLP, Copenhagen
2022
Girls and Eggs, CUNY gallery Staten Island, NYC, curated by Siona Wilson
TAK TAK, VLP, group show, Copenhagen curated by VLP & Marta Czyż
SURPLUS reverted, Super Dakota, solo show, Brussels
SURPLUS, Collega, group show, Copenhagen, curated by Lotte Løvholm
Girls and Eggs, C_U_Sadka, group show, Krakow Art Week, curated by Siona Wilson
2021
SURPLUS X REVIEW, in collab with Agnieszka Szczotka, RA Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2020
VI LEVER PA POLSK, Studio Eliasgade, Copenhagen
Refugees Welcome, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Bending Towards unknown, Art Hub Copenhagen
Floraphilia, Temporary Gallery, Cologne
2019
SURPLUS at Potentiale, Feldkirch, Austria
Floraphilia. Rewolucja Roślin at Biennale Warszawa
SURPLUS at Opener festival, Gdynia, Poland
Random Selection at Paperlust Photobook Fest, Krakow
Line 88, Leto gallery, Warsaw
Wear Polish, NEONYT, Berlin Fashion Week
2018
Floraphilia, Akademie der Kunste der Welt, Cologne
SURPLUS X KOLEKTIV 318, Galerie 318, Marseille
SURPLUS X Photomonth, Krakow Photomonth, Tytano, Krakow
SURPLUS X CALVERT, performance and book launch, Calvert 22 Foundation, London
Look mum no hands, drawing performance for Contemporary Lynx, Calvert 22, London
2017
SURPLUS popup, offspace, Warsaw
Look mum no hands, drawing performance for Contemporary Lynx, Salon Zimowy, Warsaw
Look mum no hands, drawing performance for Contemporary Lynx, during frieze London
SHADE, performance in collaboration with Bozna Milan, Leto, Teatr Studio, Warsaw Gallery Weekend
Friend of a friend, LSI showcase, Camden Arts Centre, London
SURPLUS popup, The Hive, Hackney Wicks, London
SURPLUS popup, Quadrat, Berlin Fashion Week, Berlin
So What feat. Slow Download, Doomed Gallery, London
Baltic 39/ Figure Four by Kati Karki, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle
New Year's Resolutions, photobook exhibition, BWA DIZAJN, Wroclaw
2016
Different=Irreplacable, by Nick Knight ShowStudio, Stary Browar Poznań
The sea, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków
In the pines, In the pines, performance, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
Visual Spa, Matosek/Niezgoda, Warsaw
Random Selection, XS, Warsaw
Books from Poland, Istanbul photobook Festival, Istanbul
So What, galeria I, FreshfromPoland/Cracow Fringe
Random Selection, galeria I, FreshfromPoland/Cracow Fringe
Future reality, XS, Warsaw
2015
A Million Lines, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
TEXT: IMAGE / IMAGE: TEXT, Symbiosis, Fotogalerie Wien, Austria
Make sure you freeze grandma, Gallery Fridge, Akureyri, Iceland
Justina&co.uk, Photobook show, Benaki Museum, Athens Photo Festival
Inside out, WANTED Design Festival, New York
I wish everyday could be like Christmas, Delta Total, Hjalteryii, Iceland
I'M HERE FOR YOU, Amatorska, London
2014
Print Control Yearbook premiere, Bookoff@Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
You can't choose your neighbors, SOMA SUMMER, Mexico city
Photo Book of the Year, Łódź Art Center, Fotofestival Lódź 2014
Strong feelings, CAC, Troy, NY
A mermaid of South Dakota, installation&performance, AIAR, Mexico
Hecho Aqui, AIAR, Mexico
Coś pozytywnego, Małopolski Ogród Sztuki, Kraków
2013
Lido#3, performance, Venice
One hundred favorites, solo show, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Justina&co.uk, solo show, Art Agenda Nova, Krakow
Varnish on paper, MAJ, experimental section at Krakow Photomonth
2012
Orgy for the end of the world (as we know it), performance night, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków
Icons, Raum 58, Munich
Cieszyn, love from away, Galeria Szara, Cieszyn
2011
Body in the Library, BWA Design, Wrocław
Lido#2, performance, Venice
2010
Justina is, solo show, Łódź Art Center, Fotofestival Łódź 2010
The chronicle of the forseen homecomings, Modernism in Borderlands, Skoczów
2009
Lido#1, performance, Venice
Girls, Factory of Photography, Fotofestival Łódź 2009
RESIDENCIES:
2022
Danish Cultural Institute in Rome
2020
Desk Residency at Art Hub Copenhagen
2019:
Danish Art Workshops, Copenhagen
2017:
London Summer Intensive, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and Camden Arts Centre, London
2016
DIY13, Live Art Development Agency & Delfina Foundation, London
Das Weisse Haus Vienna
Nida Art Colony, Lithuania (by IAM & A-I-R Laboratory, CCA Ujazdowski Castle)
2015
Gamli Skoli, Iceland
2014
SOMA Summer, Mexico city
Contemporary Art Center, Troy NY, USA
AIAR International Artist Residency, Mexico
AWARDS &NOMINATIONS:
2021
Received a Special Work Grant from Statens Kunstfond Denmark
2019
selected for the international programme LET'S EXHIBIT 2019 by Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw
selected to represent Polish sustainable design at NEONYT Berlin Fashion Week by Polish Institute of Culture
2018
selected for the international programme LET'S EXHIBIT 2018 by Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw
2017
Hanna and Zdzisław Broncel Trust Bursary
2016
10 best photo publications of the year shortlist at culture.pl, "Random Selcetion" artbook
among nominated by Print Control, "Random Selcetion" artbook
2015
Athens Photo Festival, photobook shortlist, "Justina&CO.UK" artbook
2014
the Polish Photobook of the Year (self publishing category), "Justina&CO.UK" artbook
MACK First Book Award, London - among the 12 shortlisted for the prize, "Justina&CO.UK" artbook
Bok de Jour at Self Publish Be Happy, London, "Justina&CO.UK" artbook
2009
Young Talent Prize and the Audience’s Choice prize at Fotofestival Łódź
Audience’s Choice Prize
2008
Transvisualia Mediascream Festival – honorable mention
LECTURES / WORKSHOPS / ARTIST TALKS:
2020:
Social and economic inequalities, talk & workshops at The Department of Economics, Warsaw University
Institutional Work and Conditions of Collaboration, international seminar at Art Hub Copenhagen
2019:
Scream your Screen, conducting creative writting for public space, Potentiale Festival, Feldkirch, Austria
Sustainable Fashion Forum, Vogue Festival, Warsaw
Wear Polish, Berlin Fashion Week, panel discussion, Berlin
2018:
Trigger Warning, There There, performative workshop, CAMP Centre for Art on Migration and Politics, Copenhagen
Language: From Practice to Action, seminar curated by Maija Rudovska and Inga Lāce, Kim? & Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga
guided tour on the Floraphilia show, Akademie der Kunste der Welt, Cologne
Write the print, conducting art-writing workshops, End-less project, Warsaw
WTF IS SURPLUS speed-dating at Copenhagen Fashion Summit, Copenhagen
artist talk and book launch, Krakow Photomonth, Krakow
WTF IS SURPLUS book launch, Calvert 22 Foundation, London
artist talk for Luca School of Arts in Ghent, Warsaw
2017:
Open Studio Night, Slade Research Centre, LSII residency, London
Slow Download, artist talk, London, 3rd Feb 2017
2016
book launch &artist talk @ Photomonth Krakow
2015
Million lines, workshop, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow
Artbook in the context of art practice, panel discussion, Warsaw Art Book Fair, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Collaboration as an art process, lecture, Academy of Fine Art in Krakow, Photography Department
Intermediality as an art process, lecture, Academy of Fine Art in Krakow, Photography Department
2014
curating III and IV round of AIAR residency, Mexico
SELECTED PRESS
See more at culture.pl
new 2019 interview featured at c/o Vienna
more about SURPLUS at Vogue magazine
10 pages individual feature insert in the printed 2018 issue of Contemporary Lynx magazine
see also interview May 2017
also interview at contemporary Lynx magazine here
COLLECTIONS:
Akademie der Kunste der Welt, Cologne
MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków
The National Media Museum in Bradford
The Library Project / Photoireland in Dublin
Selfpublish Be Happy, London
EDUCATION:
2018
HOW TO BE REAL, performative choreographic workshop, Nowy Teatr, Warsaw
2016
Nida Doctoral Seminar, free auditor, Nida, Lithuania
2014
SOMA Summer, Mexico city
2008
MA at Photography and Intermedia, Graphics Department at Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
2007
Scholarship at Photography Department at Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp
2006
BA at Graphic Design, Graphics Department at Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
2005
MA at Journalism and Mass Communication at Jagiellonian University in Krakow
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PRESS:
SURPLUS at Berlin Fashion Week, 2017
interview, semi-zine, 2017
Faces of chance / Wcielenia przypadku czyli o Raandom Selection Magdy Buczek, Fotopolis 2016
Polish artists animate still nature, ID magazine, Polish edition, 2017
CULTURE.PL, 2016
About the book, 2016
Best photo publications of 2016
Let's Talk About Justina. Baby! Contemporary Lynx, interview, 2014
Self Publish Be Happy, 2015
Magenta Magazine, A mermaid of South Dakota, 2015
SEZON, photos, 2015
PRINT CONTROL Yearbooks, best of 2014 and 2016
KTW 5 pages collage pictorial on Silesia, 2014
MOCAK Forum, cover and photos, 2014
MAJ magazine, experimental section of Kraków Photomonth 2013
WYSOKIE OBCASY, 2013
WAW magazine, 2011
Kultura Natychmiastowa, 2013
TEXTS:
Net transformations, WRSW/BRLN 2016
The place where you are, Fresh from Poland magazine no1, 2016
American landmarks and ghosts, Rebecca Shippee, Strong feelings
Notes and prophesies on collaboration and participation, Magda Buczek
SPEED DATING, a collaborative publication of artists of SOMA Summer residency in Mexico city
The Return of Justina, Aneta Rostkowska, JUSTINA&CO.UK
Powrót Justyny, Aneta Rostkowska, JUSTINA&CO.UK