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).
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).
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INVISIBLE GODDESS, Magazzino Gallery, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy (24th - 27th Nov, screening programme coinciding with the closing week of Venice Biennale).
INVISIBLE GODDESS, Magazzino Gallery, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy (24th - 27th Nov, screening programme coinciding with the closing week of Venice Biennale).
THE GUARDIAN - Survey II review – ‘like a David Lynch riff on my grandma’s lounge’, by Hannah Clugston
THE CALVERT JOURNAL — How one artist is making space for queer love — by celebrating heartbreak, by Anastasiia Fedorova
FORBES — Warped Disney Fantasy, Polish Lesbian Wedding, Boston’s Gentrification, Regional Queer History, And More, Occupy Hotel Rooms In Radical Curatorial Installations, by Natasha Gural
ARTNET — As Detroit’s Reputation for Emerging Art Grows, a Wildly Ambitious Citywide Festival Shows a New Generation of Artists on the Rise, by Terence Trouillot
HYPEBEAST — How Emerging Initiatives Are Highlighting Detroit’s Evolving Arts Scene, by Nia Groce
THE CALVERT JOURNAL — Katarzyna Perlak: The artist reclaiming queer tradition for Poland (Samuel Goff)
THE CALVERT JOURNAL — How one artist is making space for queer love — by celebrating heartbreak, by Anastasiia Fedorova
FORBES — Warped Disney Fantasy, Polish Lesbian Wedding, Boston’s Gentrification, Regional Queer History, And More, Occupy Hotel Rooms In Radical Curatorial Installations, by Natasha Gural
ARTNET — As Detroit’s Reputation for Emerging Art Grows, a Wildly Ambitious Citywide Festival Shows a New Generation of Artists on the Rise, by Terence Trouillot
HYPEBEAST — How Emerging Initiatives Are Highlighting Detroit’s Evolving Arts Scene, by Nia Groce
THE CALVERT JOURNAL — Katarzyna Perlak: The artist reclaiming queer tradition for Poland (Samuel Goff)
INTERVIEWS
Staram się przedstawić w kulturze to, co już w niej jest_było, tylko nieopowiedziane. Rozmowa z Katarzyną Perlak
‘ARTS TERRITORY — Queer as Agency in Contemporary Art’ – Denis Maksimov in conversation with Katarzyna Perlak
CONTEMPORARY LYNX — There is no shame in being Eastern European. Roma Piotrowska in discussion with Katarzyna Perlak
The New Contemporaries vlog (Video)
The New Flesh in conversation with…Katarzyna Perlak (Video)
‘ARTS TERRITORY — Queer as Agency in Contemporary Art’ – Denis Maksimov in conversation with Katarzyna Perlak
CONTEMPORARY LYNX — There is no shame in being Eastern European. Roma Piotrowska in discussion with Katarzyna Perlak
The New Contemporaries vlog (Video)
The New Flesh in conversation with…Katarzyna Perlak (Video)
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