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Katarzyna Perlak works in moving image, performance, sound, textiles and installation. Her work is driven by politics and feelings examining queer subjectivities, migration and the potentiality of affect as a tool for registering and archiving both present, continuous and past historical moments.
Katarzyna is a Polish born artist, based in London. Her background is in Philosophy, which she studied in Poland, and Fine Art Media which she studied at Camberwell College of Arts (2008) and Slade School of Fine Art (2017). Her films have been shown widely at film festivals across Europe and she was part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2017. She has exhibited internationally, including: Young Curators New Ideas V, Detroit Art Week, Detroit; I was, but just awake, Art Night, London (2019); Tighten Throat and Butterflies, Metal, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (2018); A Day of Learning, Diaspora Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice (2017) and Remote Intimacies, Leslie – Lohman Museum of Arts, New York & ONE Archives, Los Angeles, (2021).
Inst: @kat_perlak
coming / current:
Poganki, group exhibition, Local 30 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. 24th April – 10th June 2021
Remote Intimacies, The ONE Archives (LA) & the Leslie – Lohman Museum of Arts (NYC), online screening of the ‘Broken Hearts Hotel’ commission, 1st – 31st June 2021
Krzesanie #4 “Tańce”, Kolonia Koplany , Poland, 18th June 2021
Journeys Late, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK , 21st June 2021 (6-9pm)
The Collectif Jeune Cinéma 50th anniversary screening program, Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris, France, 2nd July 2021
Videoclub / Vital Capacities Moving Image Residency – Exhibition, London, UK, 7th July 2021
SURVEY II, touring exhibition:
g39, Cardiff, UK, 2nd July – 11th Sept 2021
Jerwood Arts, London, UK, 1st Oct – 13th Dec 2021
Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK: Mar – May 2022
IN:VISIBILITIES, group exhibition at M.1 Arthur Boskamp -Stiftung Gallery, Hohenlockstedt, Germany: 26th Sept – 1st Nov 2021
Peak Gallery, London, UK, Prints edition commission, September 2021
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Interviews:
‘Queer as Agency in Contemporary Art’ – Denis Maksimov in conversation with Katarzyna Perlak xxx
The Calvert Journal: Katarzyna Perlak – the artist reclaiming queer tradition for Poland (Samuel Goff) xxx
Contemporary Lynx: There is no shame in being Eastern European (Roma Piotrowska) xxx
The New Contemporaries vlog xxx
The New Flesh xxx
SISTRUM – Staram się przedstawić w kulturze to, co już w niej jest_było, tylko nieopowiedziane. xxx
Reviews:
FORBES, by Natasha Gural xxx
ArtNet, by Terence Trouillot xxx
HYPEBEAST, by Nia Groce xxx
PRZEKROJ, by Stach Szablowski xxx
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