Katarzyna Perlak is a Polish born artist, based in London whose
practice employs video, performance, textiles, sculpture and installation.
Perlak’s work examines potentiality of affect as a tool for registering and
archiving both present continuous and past historical moments.
Through her work Perlak employs a notion of ‘tender crafts’, exploring how crafts (heritage and traditions) can be revisited and re-imagined from contemporary feminist, queer and diasporic (migrant) perspectives. She engages 'affective truths' such as myths, tales, dreams, desires, collective memories, and seek to problematise how history is written and traditions are represented.
Perlak background is in Philosophy, which she studied in Poland and Fine Art Media that she has studied in UK (Camberwell College of Arts and Slade School of Fine Art). Her work has been aquired by Arts Council Collection, she was part of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017, and shows in the UK and internationally, including: Diaspora Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennial, Art Night London, Jerwood Arts (SURVEY II), Leslie – Lohman Museum of Arts (NYC), The One Archive (LA), Whitechapel Gallery, 2nd Brent Biennial London, B3 Biennial of Moving Image and 2019 Detroit Art Week (USA).
Through her work Perlak employs a notion of ‘tender crafts’, exploring how crafts (heritage and traditions) can be revisited and re-imagined from contemporary feminist, queer and diasporic (migrant) perspectives. She engages 'affective truths' such as myths, tales, dreams, desires, collective memories, and seek to problematise how history is written and traditions are represented.
Perlak background is in Philosophy, which she studied in Poland and Fine Art Media that she has studied in UK (Camberwell College of Arts and Slade School of Fine Art). Her work has been aquired by Arts Council Collection, she was part of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017, and shows in the UK and internationally, including: Diaspora Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennial, Art Night London, Jerwood Arts (SURVEY II), Leslie – Lohman Museum of Arts (NYC), The One Archive (LA), Whitechapel Gallery, 2nd Brent Biennial London, B3 Biennial of Moving Image and 2019 Detroit Art Week (USA).
CURRENT / UPCOMING
Window Licker, (UN) SAFE SPACE, 6-30th April, Warszawa, Poland
GO EAST - 24th Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, 24 - 30th April, 2024 Wiesbaden, Germany
C U at Sadka, 13 - 28th May, 2024, Kraków, Poland
GO EAST - 24th Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, 24 - 30th April, 2024 Wiesbaden, Germany
C U at Sadka, 13 - 28th May, 2024, Kraków, Poland
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
Fetch Magazine - interview with Katarzyna Perlak: “Art Allows You to Move Forward”. By Nastia Svarevska
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)
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)
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Texts and images by Katarzyna Perlak. Site by Yvon Langué. Copyright © 2021 Katarzyna Perlak.