Agnieszka Mastalerz

b. 1991, lives and works in Warsaw

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CV

Agnieszka Mastalerz graduated from the Studio of Spatial Activities of Mirosław Bałka at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2018. She was a guest student of Candice Breitz and Eli Cortiñas at Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Brunswick (DAAD scholarship for 2019/20) and of Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin at HFBK in Hamburg (2017/2018). In her artistic practice she puts focus on mechanisms of control and processes influencing and exploiting an individual. She uses a poetic visual language to analyse restrictive rules established within intimate relationships, communities, states, or companies.

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singl works IJ

Supports (Elisabeth, 1), 2021,
photography, pigment ink print on Moab Entrada Natural Rag 300gsm, steel, museum glass, acid free mounting board,
50 x 50 cm
100 x 100 cm

Supports (The Botanic Garden of the University of Warsaw, 1), 2020, photography, pigment ink print on Moab Entrada Natural Rag 300gsm, steel, museum glass, acid free mounting board,
50 x 50 cm
100 x 100 cm

Night Flight, 2019
video, 00:06:15 (loop)

H Reconstruction Of Position, 2018
video, 00:08:42 (loop)

Agnieszka Mastalerz with Michał Szaranowicz, 2019
Primary Swarm,
video

Agnieszka Mastalerz with Michał Szaranowicz, 2018
Sluice,
3-channel video, installation, oyster shells

Disciplinary Mechanisms, Untitled (Live Traps for Rodents I), 2016
photography, pigment ink print on Moab Entrada Natural Rag 300gsm,
70 x 100 cm

Disciplinary Mechanisms, Untitled (Live Traps for Rodents II), 2016
photography, pigment ink print on Moab Entrada Natural Rag 300gsm,
70 x 100 cm

Disciplinary Mechanisms, Untitled (Ring for Birds), 2016
photography, pigment ink print on Moab Entrada Natural Rag 300gsm,
105 x 100 cm

Disciplinary Mechanisms, Untitled (Net for Birds), 2016
photography, pigment ink print on Moab Entrada Natural Rag 300gsm
80 x 100 cm

Disciplinary Mechanisms, Untitled (Live Trap for Bisons), 2016
photography, pigment ink print on Moab Entrada Natural Rag 300gsm,
80 x 100 cm

Disciplinary Mechanisms, Untitled (Fish Net), 2016
still from the video, 00:01:00 (loop)

Disciplinary Mechanisms, Untitled (Trail Camera), 2016
video 00:01:00 (loop)

PAST EXHIBITIONS

2020-ongoing

Supports

medium format photographs

‘Supports’ is an ongoing series started in 2020 in the Botanic Garden of the University of Warsaw, where Mastalerz noticed sculpture-like, rickety, steel structures used to shape plants – the so-called flower supports.

Part of the photo series was presented during the Warsaw Gallery Weekend, 2020, within the exhibition Pandemic consequences - dreams, in the Serce Człowieka Gallery.

The series was recently developed during the Artists Development Programme by European Investment Bank Institute in Luxembourg, where she created a video and a series of analogue pictures presenting a female choreographer performing with steel structure within modern architecture.