Alicja Karska (1978), Aleksandra Went (1976)
The artists have been working together since their studies at the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in Poland (2002). Live and work in Gdańsk and in Warsaw (Poland)solo exhibitions2024 Złocień, Galerie EL, Elbląg, Poland 2023 Displaced, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria 2022 Study, Archiv der Zeitgenossen, Krems, Austria Fields, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, Poland 2018 Backgrounds, The Library of the University of Gdańsk, Poland 2017 Absenteeism, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria 2015 Sculpture, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, Poland Młyniska, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, Poland 2013 Franciszek Duszeńko – Monuments, PGS, Sopot, Poland Exercising the Future Profile Foundation, Warsaw, Poland 2012 Memory of Images, Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań, Poland Scenerie, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław, Poland Wrzeszcz Art!, Kolonia Artystów, Gdańsk, Poland Memory of Images, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland 2011 Memory of Images,BWA Olsztyn, Poland Delay, Profile Fundation, Warsaw, Poland 2010 Memorabilia, Galeria Sztuki Najnowszej, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland Minimal Corrections, BWA Katowice,Poland Dialogue 4 (with Mariną Steinacker, Susanne K. Willand), Gdańsk City Gallery, Poland 2009 Forever, Gdansk Photo Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland Sumbles of time, Profile Fundation, Warsaw, Poland Two drops of water, (with Liav Mizrahi), Artistic House, Tel Aviv, Israel 2006 Summer Gallery, Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań, Poland 2005 There Are No Complete Things, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, Poland Sandboxes, Projekt_1, Gdańsk, Poland Space Commitments, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Mo-je po-ko-je, , Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland (Aleksandra Went) 2004 Nie pokoje, Królikarnia, Warsaw, Poland, (Aleksandra Went) 2003 Laboratory, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
group exhibitions2023 Beyond Good and Evil, Profile Fundation, Warsaw, Poland Sopot by the book, Goyki 3, Sopot, Poland 2022 Dedications, Profile Fundation, Warsaw, Poland Sensitized Women National Museum in Gdańsk, GGF, Gdańsk, Poland 2021 On paper, Profile Fundation, Warsaw, Poland 2020 Disegno, Profile Fundation, Warsaw, Poland Gdańsk 2020, online exhibition, www.gdansk2020.eu 2019 NARRACJE 11, Field Actions, Gdańsk-Siedlce, Poland Entropie, j’écris ton nom, Magasin des horizons, Grenoble, France NOMUS. Kolekcja w budowie, NOMUS Nowe Muzeum Sztuki, Gdańsk, Poland 2018 The Skeletons Must Rise, Gdańsk City Gallery, Poland 2017 Life. A manual, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Avant-garde/ Paradoxical Sleep, Museum of Sopot, Sopot, Poland 2016 Conceivable but not yet created, Gdańsk City Gallery, Poland Friends from the seaside, Rynek 25, Wrocław, Poland Submission/Rage/Freedom, Opening Forum, The Nowy Teatr, Warsaw, Poland 2015 Friends from the seaside, Gdańsk City Gallery, Poland Let’s dance, Art Stations gallery, Poznań, Poland Tücken, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg, Germany Władcy much, MONA Inner Spaces, Poznań, Poland We rather look back to futures past, Lajevardi Collection, Tehran, Iran Who makes Europe, Gdańsk City Gallery, Poland 2014 Survival Kit: Utopian City, The former Boļševička Textile Factory, Riga, Latvia Alternativa: Everydayness, Hala 90B, Gdańsk, Poland 2013 Made in…national architecture?, Trafostacja Sztuki, Szczecin, Poland homeMADE, constructing substitute worlds, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland Freelancer trophy, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Testing (Re-)Production, MS2, Łódź, Poland 2012 Test run, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany Buildings and Remnants, Guimarães, Portugal City States, Liverpool Biennal, Liverpool, UK Crosstime Stories, Miriam and Ira D.Wallach Art Gallery, Nowy Jork, USA The combed thunderclap, Ve.Sch, Wiedeń, Austria 2011 Looking into Neighbourship,uqbar, Berlin, Germany Please, step forward to the rear, Apollonia, Strasbourg, France Performing architecture, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Solidaryty Camp, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk, Poland Urban Tales, ul. Haffnera, Sopot, Poland Not in Place, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland 2010 Performing Memory, Astana Municipal Modern Art Museum, Astana, Kazakhstan Grass-mania, Former Department Store,Gdańsk, Poland 736km, Mobile Festival, Gdańsk-Praga, Poland-Czech Republic Bez tytułu, Profile Fundation, Warsaw, Poland The small improvisation, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany Fitting in Space Zico House and 98weeks Project Space, Bejrut, Lebanon 2009 Hanukah, New Synagogue, Gdańsk, Poland Residence 09, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic promise, practice, protocol, Akademie Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart, Germany Over and Over Again 1989-2009, Centennial Hall, Wroclaw, Poland 2008 Stay, stay, stay, Former Mineral Bathhouse, Sofia, Bulgaria Anxiety Syndrome, Transvizualia 008, PPNT Gallery, Gdynia, Poland Licht(h)aus, Lichthaus, Bremen, Germany 06 Survival, Wrocław, Poland Grannar, Karlskrona, Sweden Zdzisław Pidek. We remember, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland 2007 Agorafolly Inside, La Centrale Electrique, European Cetre for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium Agorafolly Outside, Europalia, Place de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium Model Ad Hoc, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk, Poland Trading Places: Back + Forth, Nieuwe Vide, Harlem, Holland Trading Places: Back + Forth, Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn, Holland The Freshness Effect, Pocztowa Street, Racibórz, Poland Art-Space-City, Schwankhalle, Bremen, Germany From Poland, Kasia Kay Art Project Galery, Chicago, USA Reality Effect, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland 2006 In Poland, That Is Where?, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Hansepol, Altonale, Hamburg, Poland Correspondances, Hall des Chars, Strasbourg, France 2005 Absolwent, Wyspa Institute of Arts, Gdańsk, Poland Wall to be destroyed, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France Egocentric, Immoral, Outmoded, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Poland Overview, Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic Impulse, Instytut Polski, Dusseldorf, Germany 2004 Acquaintances from the Seaside, Aula Gallery, Poznań, Poland Proximum, El Gallery, Elbląg, Poland Fish Eye 3, Young Art Biennal, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, Poland Made in, Foire d’art contemporain de Strasbourg St’art 2004, Strasbourg, France Public Spaces, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland 2003 Supermarket of Art IV – Global Attraction, , DAP Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Proximum, , PGS, Sopot, Poland WRO’03 Globaltica, 10th International Media Art Biennale, Wrocław, Poland 2002 Mode, Wyspa Progress Fundation, Gdańsk, Poland
residencies2020 AIR Krems, Austria 2017 AIR Krems, Austria 2009 Futura, Prague, Czech Republic (Visegrad Fund) 2008 Academie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany (Młoda Polska Scolarship) 2006 MapXXL Pepinieres Europeenes pour jeunes artistes, Stanica, Żilina, Slovakia 2005 Bremer Kunststipendium, Bremen, Germany (Alicja Karska)
prizes2024 Photographic Publication of the Year 2024 (short list, book: Pogorzelisko) 2020 Kulturalne Miasto Gdańsk grant 2020 160/160, Programme for artists from the Zachęta collection 2017 Kulturalne Miasto Gdańsk grant 2013 Six-month Scholarship Granted by Minister of Culture and National Heritage (Aleksandra Went) 2012 Kulturalne Miasto Gdańsk grant 2011 The Marshal Office of the Pomeranian Voivodship in Gdansk grant 2007 Sittcomm. Award. (final competition) 2006 3rd award, First Polish Edition of The One Minutes Festival 2006 Six-month Scholarship Granted by Minister of Culture and National Heritage 2004 2nd award, 14th Film-Video Competition – 48th IFHP World Congress, Oslo, Norway 2003 Major of Gdańsk Award for Young Artists in the Field of Culture (Alicja Karska) 2003 Grand Prix w Konkursie Prezydenta RP na najlepszy dyplom ukończenia studiów w zakresie Sztuk Pięknych (Aleksandra Went) 2002 Minister of Culture Scholarship 2001\2002, 2002\2003 (Alicja Karska)