Zuza Golińska
Contact: mail, +48 506 664 146

Zuza Golińska is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the impact of architecture and public space on the human individual. Her work reflects on the ways in which human physical and mental wellbeing is influenced by the psychology of space in the time of civilizational acceleration and late-stage capitalism. Golińska frequently disrupts clear-cut divisions between the functional and the aesthetic as she examines the influence that spatial forms have on the emotions and decisions of users.

Golińska is a graduate of the Mirosław Bałka Studio of Spatial Activities at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She is the recipient of scholarships from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In 2015, Golińska was nominated for the StartPoint Prize. In 2018, she received the ArtePrize awarded by the Delfina Foundation in London. In 2022, she became one of the three recipients of the Dorothea von Stetten Art Award held by the Kunstmuseum in Bonn. She has presented her works in many institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Zachęta National Gallery, the National Gallery in Prague, and the Yokohama Museum of Art.

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UPCOMING

2025

• TBA, GOLD + BETON, Cologne, DE

SELECTED SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS

• 2025 Rój/Swarm, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL
• 2025 Remnants of the Current with Cezary Poniatowski, WAF, Vienna, AT
• 2024 Lament, Artists in Neighbourhoods: Creative Commissions, Household, Belfast, NIR
• 2023–24 Posthuman Abstraction with Wanda Czełkowska, Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong, CN
• 2024 One/Them with Iza Tarasewicz, Galeria EL, Elbląg, PL
• 2023 SWARM, KIN, Brussels, BE
• 2023 One/Them with Iza Tarasewicz, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko, PL
• 2023 Something Soft, Something Strange, Something Scary, State Gallery of Art, Sopot, PL
• 2023 Scorching with Trin Alt, Ravnikar Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
• 2022 Villa(in) with Markéta Slaná, Villa Tugendhat, Brno, CZ
• 2022 Betwixt #2: Zuza Golińska, Teresa Pągowska, Piktogram Gallery, Warsaw, PL
• 2022 The Claws of Events, DOROTHEA VON STETTEN ART AWARD, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE
• 2021 Body Electric, Galerie Anton Janizewski, Berlin, DE
• 2020–2021 Red Giant, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, PL
• 2019 Suns, Piktogram Gallery, Warsaw, PL
• 2019 Eye Drop Cinema, part of the Temporary Structures 5, PLATO Ostrava, CZ
• 2018 Slimy, Schimmel Projects Art Center, Dresden, DE
• 2018 The Office, part of The Department of Presence, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
• 2017 Invisible Wall with Magdalena Łazarczyk, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL
• 2017 COMMON GROUND (GRID), MOS, Gorzów, PL 
• 2016 COMMON GROUND, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk, PL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

• Retroversions, TRAFO, Szczecin, PL
• Narracje #16, Aniołki District, Gdańsk, PL
• Concilium, Palazzo Grasselli, Cremona, IT
• To Be a Mouse, Museum of Literature, Warsaw, PL
• Arkadius. Great Passions, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, PL
• Mud, Muck, Marsh, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL

2024

• Narracje #15, Niedźwiednik estate, Gdańsk. PL
• kinship, KIN, Brussels, BE
• Tremors, National Centre for Culture Poland, Gdańsk, PL
• The Power of Monochrome, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, PL
• The View, Loft, Servais Family Collection's exhibition space, Brussels, BE
• LAW OF THE DESERT FESTIVAL, Błędów Desert, PL

2023

• PSYCHOBODIES, NOT FIGURES, Conference on Maria Jarema, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
• Affair, SUPRAINFINIT, Bucharest, RO
• Helena Bohle-Szacka. Diffusion II, Sleńdziński Gallery, Białystok, PL
• Material Fatigue, 17th International Triennial of Tapestry, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, PL

2022

• Biennale Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, PL
• The Discomfort of Evening, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
• Sun Republic, BWA Wrocław, part of the New Horizons International Film Festival, PL
• WORLD(S), Wrocław Drawing Triennial 2022, BWA Wrocław Główny, PL
• Und in Welchem Namen tun Sie es?, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, AT
• Isabella, Associazione Barriera, Turin, IT

2021

• Helena Bohle-Szacka. Diffusion, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, PL
• Open Discussions, Guna Contemporary, Kastellorizo, GR
• They call me Gypsy but that's not my name, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk, PL
• Pavilionesque Premiere with Paulina Ołowska, Page Not Found, The Hague, NL
• FOAF Warsaw, Piktogram Gallery, Warsaw, PL
• Frieze and Emblem. A practical manifesto of new art forms in Polish schools, Pamoja Foundation, Warsaw, PL

2020

• WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 12, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
• Refugees Welcome, charity auction and exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
• Flagge Zeigen, Landkreis Oder-Spree, DE
• Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art, JP
• Scrolling the System, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
• Garden Cult Triennale: Chapter II Baden-Baden, outdoor and online, PL
• Garden Cult Triennale: Chapter I Sopot, outdoor and online, PL
• When I dropped the rocket on the vacuum cleaner, Strizzi, Cologne, DE
• Other Ways of Watching Together, Showroom MAMA Screening, Rotterdam, NL

2019

• Peach Score, +DEDE, Berlin, DE
• See you after the revolution!, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL
• Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, Coventry, UK
• Project X, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
• As x as y, Palace of Culture and Knowledge, Warsaw, PL
• THE NIGHT, Danchov House, Plovdiv, BG
• City Scanning Session Festival, Promprylad.Renovation, Ivano-Frankivsk, UA
• Body Works, State Gallery of Art, Sopot, PL
• WRO Media Art Biennale, Wrocław, PL
• LIGHT-FOOTED LIGHT-FINGERED, The Ryder Projects, London, UK
• Power Play, Delfina Foundation, London, UK

2018

• (IN)Sessions, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
• Things to Learn from Facebook, part of The 3rd Tbilisi Triennial , CCA, Tbilisi, GE
• WALHALLA II, Documentation Future Center / Am Molkenmarkt 2, Berlin, DE
• WALHALLA II, Documentation Future Center / Sootbörn 22, Hamburg, DE
• Various Others, Piktogram hosted by Sperling, Munich, DE
• Self-fulfilling Prophecy, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL
• Małachowskiego Square 3, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL
• Farmhands in Factories and Boas in Brasseries, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL
• POLICY OF DISAPPEARANCE, Gallery of Contemporary Art BWA Studio, Wrocław, PL
• Artevue ArtePrize – Finalists Exhbition, Delfina Foundation, London, UK

2017

• Open Triennale, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, PL
• BRIDGES/DIE BRÜCKEN, Sleńdziński Gallery, Białystok, PL
• Breathtaking, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, PL
• Stay in Shape, Studio Gallery, Warsaw, PL
• Close Your Eyes!, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL

2016

• Eye Candy, KUNSTHAL ved siden af, Svendborg, DK
• Among Faces, State Gallery of Art, Sopot, PL
• 10th In Out Festival, Łaźnia CCA, Gdańsk, PL
• Hosted Simply, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, AT 

2015

• Hosted Simply, Spektrum Tower, Warsaw, PL
• Museum der Melancholie Posen, Alfa Department Store, Poznań, PL
• StartPoint Prize, National Gallery, Prague, CZ
• Goosebumps, The House of the Polish Word, Warsaw, PL
• Mimicry, Ethnographic Museum, Warsaw, PL
• Test/Exposure, WRO Media Art Biennale, Wrocław, PL
• Hestia Artistic Journey – Finalists Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL

2014

• Myths. Students/Artists/Teachers, PDP at Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, IT
• Lesson, Zachęta National Gallery Project Room, Warsaw, PL
• 50 Slov/words, part of Month of Photography, Bratislava, SK
• Gdańsk Art Biennale, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk, PL
• No Yawning #1, #2, #3, #4, The New Theatre, Warsaw, PL
• S-NOW apersonalformofarchitecture, project in public space, European Capital of Culture 2014, Umeå, SE
• Masquerade, Centrum för fotografi, Stockholm, SE

AWARDS / GRANTS

• 2022 Winner of the DOROTHEA VON STETTEN KUNSTPRES, Bonn, DE
• 2021 Finalist of the DOROTHEA VON STETTEN KUNSTPRES, Bonn, DE
• 2020 Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, PL
• 2018 Winner of ArtePrize, UK
• 2016 Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, PL
• 2015 Finalist of the StartPoint Prize, CZ
• 2015 Finalist of the Hestia Artistic Journey Award, PL
• 2014 Winner of the Gdańsk Art Biennale, PL
• 2014 Achievements Scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, PL

RESIDENCIES

• 2024 Residency at Launch Pad LaB, La Boissière, FR
• 2022 Residency at Brno House of Arts, Brno, CZ
• 2022 Residency at Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island, CA
• 2022 Residency at MeetFactory, Praha, CZ
• 2019 Residency at MetaLab, Ivano-Frankivsk, UA
• 2018 Residency at Delfina Foundation, London, UK
• 2017 Residency at EIB, Artists’ Development Programme, Luxembourg, LU

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• The ING Polish Art Foundation, PL
• NOMUS. New Art Museum, National Museum in Gdańsk, Gdańsk, PL
• Arsenal City Gallery, PL
• Zachęta National Gallery of Art, PL
• Lewben Art Foundation, LT
• European Investment Bank Art Collection, LU
• Raffles Europejski Warsaw, PL
• Servais Family Collection, BE
• State Gallery of Art in Sopot, PL

SPACE AND SET DESIGN

• 2024 Arkadius. Great Passions, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, PL
• 2024 Skok Wzwyż, Dramatic Theatre, Warsaw
• 2022 Where are the senses hiding?, dir. Renata Piotrowska-Auffret, Nowy Teatr, Warsaw
• 2022 Bodyplay, dir. Renata Piotrowska-Auffret, BAJ Theatre, Warsaw
• 2018 Hamlet, dir. Magda Szpecht, CSK, Lublin
• 2017 Better Me for the Centre in Motion, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
• 2017 Last Animals, dir. Magda Szpecht, Łaźnia Nowa Theatre, Kraków
  
• 2017 In Dreams Responsibilities Begin, dir. Magda Szpecht, Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, Kraków
• 2016 Schubert. Romantic Composition for Twelve Performers and a String Quartet, dir. Magda Szpecht, Jerzy Szaniawski Theatre, Wałbrzych

GUEST LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

• 2025 Artist Talk, Royal Collage of Art, Sculpture Department, London, UK
• 2024 Public pocket, Guest Lecture, Studio of Sculpture II, AVU, Prague, CZ
• 2024 Workshop at WOMEN'STEC, Belfast, NIR
• 2024 Guest Lecture, Faculty of Architecture, Queen's University, Belfast, NIR
• 2022 Guest Lecture, KURS DESIGN!, Faculty of Design, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, PL
• 2018 Guest Lecture, Studio of Photography, UMPRUM, Prague, CZ

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2015—2018

• Teaching Assistant at the Studio of Spatial Activities led by Mirosław Bałka, Department of New Media, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, PL

Represented by
Piktogram Gallery (Warsaw) -> info@piktogram.org
KIN (Brussels) -> info@kinbrussels.com

Website designed by Marcel Kaczmarek. Upper right corner graphic by Karolina Pietrzyk.