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Katarzyna Krakowiak

Country: PL

Born in 1980, Katarzyna Krakowiak explores sculpture and architecture with the use of various media, notably sound.

She had a solo exhibition in the Polish Pavilion of the 13th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Making the walls quake as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers was curated by Michal Libera as part of the Venice Biennale and has been awarded a Special Mention.

In 2006 the artist graduated from the Sculpture Transplantation Studio, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, under Mirosław Bałka, where she worked as assistant from 2004 to 2007.

Significant exhibitions include Who Owns the Air?, Galeria Foksal (Warsaw, 2011), Game and Theory, South London Gallery (London, 2009). Her works were presented in group exhibitions at, among others, KUMU Museum (Tallinn, 2011) and HMKV (Dortmund, 2011). In 2011 she has been working at the Studio Urban Interior Design (Department of Interior Design) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (in collaboration with Jacek Dominiczak). Working with Krzysztof Gutfrański as part of the Ekspektatywa series (Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, 2010) she has prepared and published a manual for constructing your own Metaphones.

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