Zuza Golińska

Zuza Golinska (b. 1990, living and working in Warsaw and Gdansk, PL) is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the impact of architecture and public space on the human individual. Her practice reflects on the way in which human physical and mental wellbeing is influenced by the psychology of space in the time of civilisational acceleration and late capitalism. In her work, Golinska frequently disrupts the clear-cut division between the functional and the aesthetic as she examines the influence of spatial forms on emotions and decisions of users. 

Zuza is a graduate of the Mirosław Balka’s Studio of Spatial Activities at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She wrote her master’s thesis under the supervision of Anda Rottenberg. A recipient of the scholarships by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In 2015 Golińska was nominated for the StartPoint Prize. In 2018 in London, she won the ArtePrize awarded by the ArteVue and Delfina Foundation. Zuza was a resident of EIB Artist Development Programme in Luxemburg and Delfina Foundation in London. She is a part of the upcoming Fogo Island Art Residency programme. Zuza presented her works at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery, Yokohama Triennale, National Gallery in Prague and many others. In 2021 she was nominated and became finalist of the Dorothea von Stetten Art Award 2022, her works will be presented in the upcoming year in the Kunstmuseum Bonn.

Education:
2015 – 2018  Teaching Assistant in the Studio of Spatial Activities
2010 – 2015 Department of New Media, graduated from Mirosław Bałka Studio of Spatial Activities (MA), Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, PL
2009 – 2010 Cultural Studies, University of Gdańsk, PL 

Selected solo exhibitions and spaces:
2021 Body Electric, Anton Janizewski Gallery, Berlin, DE
2020/21 Red Giant, Wrocław Contemporary Museum,  PL
2019 Suns, Piktogram Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2019 Eye Drop Cinema (part of Temporary Structures 5), PLATO Ostrava, CZ
2018 Slimy, Schimmel Projects Art Center, Dresden, DE
2018 The Office (within The Department of Presence), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
2017 Invisible Wall (with Magdalena Łazarczyk), Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL
2016 COMMON GROUND, Gdańsk City Gallery, PL

Selected group exhibitions:
2021 Helena Bohle-Szacka. Przenikanie, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, PL
2021 Pavilionesque (Stage), collaboration with Paulina Olowska, Page Not Found, The Hague, NL
2021 FOAF Warsaw, Piktogram Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2020 WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
2020 Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art, JP
2020 Scrolling the System, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
2020 When I dropped the rocket on the vacuum cleaner, Strizzi, Cologne, DE
2019 See you after the revolution!, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL
2019 Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, Coventry, UK
2019 Light-footed light-fingered, The Ryder, London, UK
2019 Power Play, Delfina Foundation and Korean Cultural Center, London, UK
2018 (IN)Sessions, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2018 WALHALLA II, Documentation Future Center / Am Molkenmarkt 2, Berlin, DE
2018 Various Others, Sperling hosting Piktogram Gallery, Munich, DE
2018 POLICY OF DISAPPEARANCE, BWA Studio, Wrocław, PL

Date of residence: 7. 2. 2022 –30. 4. 2022