BIO
Zuzanna Bartoszek (b. 1993, Poznań) is an artist and writer whose practice includes painting, drawing, poetry, and prose. She is a recipient of the ING Polish Art Foundation Prize (2021) for her solo show Wax Kid. Her poetry collection, Klucz wisi na Słońcu (The Key Hangs on the Sun), was nominated for the Wisława Szymborska Award in 2022. Bartoszek presented her works in numerous galleries and institutions, including Gaylord Apartments (Los Angeles, 2023), Kunsthalle Zurich (2018), Cell Project Space (London, 2017) and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2017). Her last book ’36 Pokoi’ was published in 2025 with Hela Press. Since 2026 Bartoszek is the resident of the Rijksakademie programme in Amsterdam.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Under The Spiky Sun, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2025 Film Noir, Klemm's, Berlin
2024 Show Room, Galerie Tenko Presents, Tokyo
2024 Wax Kid, Stereo Gallery, Warszawa
2023 The Goose, the Soldier, and the Baby, Gaylord Apartments, Los Angeles
2021 A Walk with a Knife, Stereo Gallery, Warszawa
2021 Self-Portrait (Anatomy of a Poet), Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot
2019 The Sower and Other Paintings, Pina, Vienna
2018 Christmas, Serce Człowieka, Warszawa
2011 Moloch, Galeria ON, Poznań
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Z miejsca, w którym stoisz, Gdańskie Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej, Gdańsk
2026 Wayfaring Stranger, James Fuentes, Los Angeles
2026 Pension ABC, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2026 Breach, Setareh, London
2025 Devotion, GDL525, Amsterdam
2025 Subordinate Trash, Cafe Cox, Berlin
2025 Au-dessus des capitales 2, Scherben, Berlin
2025 Gang Pinokio, Warsaw
2025 Stirring Stills, Minor Gallery, Copenhagen
2024 Słowa przeglądają się w sobie, Fundacja Gierowskiego, Warsaw
2024 Don't Hate The Player, Hate The Game, Galeria BWA, Bielsko Biała
2024 Your Loss, Her Clique, Lisbon
2024 Scotopia, Cabin, New York
2024 Hard Scent Salon, Copenhagen
2024 Kinetic Mugger, Stooge, Berlin
2024 What Men Live By, Office Baroque, Antwerpen
2024 Shudder Mornings, Cabin, Berlin
2024 Artists' Scores, Scenarios, and Intstructions, Gstaad Art, Gstaad
2023 Bruno Schulz. Żelazny kapitał ducha, Muzeum Literatury, Warszawa
2022 The Discomfort of Evening, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa
2022 Happier Than Ever, Exo Exo, Paris
2022 Pull the Trigger, Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Gdańsk
2021 Przyjemność obcowania, Galeria Szara, Katowice, Krupa Gallery, Wrocław
2020 We Paint What Ghosts and Angels Tell Us to, Serce Człowieka, Warszawa
2020 Time to get hi, Zentrale, Karlsruhe
2020 It could have been easy but it was still nice, Mother Culture, Berlin
2019 Disease as a Source of Art, National Museum, Poznań
2018 Wielcy Sarmaci Tego Kraju/Wielkie Sarmatki Tego Kraju, BWA Tarnów
2018 Fool’s Prophecy, Muzeum Ikon, Warszawa
2018 Chłoporobotnik i boa grzechotnik, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok
2017 Temporary Storeroom – Drawing: Case Study 2 (Czech-Polish version), Plato Ostrava
2017 Perverts, Cell Project Space, London
2017 Ministry of Internal Affairs. Intimacy as Text, Museum of Modern Art, Warszawa
2016 Kawka?, Madalińskiego 4, Poznań
SELECTED READINGS
2025 Klemm’s, Berlin
2024 Turnus, Warsaw
2023 Cashmere Radio, Berlin
2022 Transpoesie Festival, Brussels
2019 Katy Bentall Tchorek Studio, Warszawa
2018 Löwenbräu Lebt!, Kunsthalle Zurich
2018 Galeria Dobro, Olsztyn
2017 Alpina Huus, Arsenic, Lausanne
2017 A Strange Encounter/Hey you, Kevin Space, Vienna
2016 Et in Arcadia Ego, Kem, Warszawa
AWARDS
2021 ING Polish Art Foundation Prize
2020 Secondary Archive Award