Weronika Gesicka, born in 1984 in Włocławek (Poland). Graduated from the graphics department
of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Academy of Photography in the same city. She received
a scholarship from the polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Weronika is doing projects about
memory and its mechanisms. She is interested in the scientific and pseudoscientific theories,
mnemonics and various disorders concerning it. Her main field of activity is photography, but she also
create objects and artifacts, often in collaboration with craftsmen and sometimes with other artists.
An important part of her art is working with archive materials of various sources. These are both
image banks or images found on the Internet and police archives or old press photography.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 What A Wonderful World/ agnes b gallery / Tokyo
2019 What A Wonderful World/ Shimadai Gallery / Kyoto
2019 Seltsam / Polish Institute / Düsseldorf
2019 Confusion / Dymchuk Gallery / Kiev
2018 I remember my birth / Project Room / Centre for Contemporary Art / Warsaw
2017 Traces / Fotografic Gallery / Prague
2017 Traces / Phnom Penh Photo / Phnom Penh
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
2020 Uniforms and Workwear / MAST Foundation / Bologna
2019 Family Matters / Dom Museum / Vienna
2019 Bodyfiction / National Museum of Art and History / Luxembourg
2018 Foam Talent / Red Hook Labs / NYC
2018 Foam Talent / Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall / London
2018 Foam Talent / Frankfurter Kunstverein / Frankfurt
2018 Family Values: Polish Photography Now / Calvert 22 Foundation / London
2018 Bodyfiction / ZOYA Gallery / Bratislava
2018 Plat(t)form / portfolio review / Fotomuseum Winterthur
2017 Foam Talent / Foam Fotografiemuseum / Amsterdam
2017 Zasoby zablokowane / Muzeum Współczesne / Wrocław
2017 Festival Circulations / The Cent Quatre / Paris
2017 Photography II – Medium in New Ways / ALAN İstanbul / Istanbul
2016 Vice Magazine Photo Show / Industria Superstudios / NYC
2016 Marks / Krakow Photomonth Festival / Krakow
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2020 Paszporty Polityki / winner
2019 EMOP Arendt Award / winner
2018 PDN Photo Annual / book category / winner
2018 Photographic Publication of the Year / honorable mention
2017 Foam Talent / winner
2017 Spotlight Award, Belfast Photo Festival / winner
2017 Prix HSBC pour la Photographie / shortlist
2016 LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards / winner
2016 Prix Levallois / shortlist
2016 ShowOFF / Krakow Photomonth Festival / winner
2008 Dolina Kreatywna / I prize
2008 Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2008 International Photography Awards / I prize
2008 Lucie Awards – Discovery of the Year / nomination
COLLECTIONS
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankurt, DE
Dom Museum, Vienna, AT
Museum of Photography, Cracow, PL
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, INTERVIEWS AND FEATURES
Art / Das Kunstmagazin
The New York Times
Foam Magazine / cover
Internazionale
LM magazine / interview
http://www.lm-magazine.com/blog/2017/07/07/weronika-gesicka-2/
Gente di Fotografia
RedMilk / interview
http://redmilkmagazine.com/2017/04/weronika-gesicka/
FK Magazine
http://fkmagazine.lv/2017/01/05/traces/
Spiegel Online / interview
http://www.spiegel.de/stil/fotokunst-aus-polen-weronika-gesicka-erschafft-neue-bildwelten-a-1111010.html
Wysokie Obcasy / interview
http://www.wysokieobcasy.pl/wysokie-obcasy/1,80530,20565806,wiekszosc-rzeczy-ktore-robimy-zwiazana-jest-z-tym-ze-nie.html
Lomography / interview
https://www.lomography.com/magazine/323704-weronika-gesicka-s-photo-surrealistic-recycled-collage-work
VICE 15th Annual Photo Issue
Beaux Arts Magazine