Gizela Mickiewicz

biography

b. 1984, lives and works in Warsaw

Mickiewcz graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland. Solo shows include: Stereo, Warsaw (2022, 2020, 2017, 2015, 2011); Lucas Hirsch, Dusseldorf (2017); Arsenal, Białystok (2016); Frutta, Rome (2013), BWA Zielona Góra (2013). Group exhibitions include: Lovay Fine Arts, Geneva; Bureau, New York; at-fifteen, Tel-Aviv; CAC Kim?, Riga; CAC, Vilnius; Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow; Kunsthalle Bratislava; Zachęta National Gallery of Art; and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Mickiewicz completed a residency at Gasworks, London (2014) and Triangle, New York (2016). She was shortlisted to VIEWS – Deutsche Bank Award (2019).

selected solo exhibitions

• 2024

• Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf (upcoming)

• 2023

• Shifting Views, Skala, Poznań
• The Right to Be Forgotten, L21, Palma de Mallorca

• 2022

• Interior Blackout, Stereo, Warsaw
• Art Basel Statements, w/ Stereo, Basel

• 2020

• Internal lighting, Stereo, Warsaw

• 2017

• The Decay of a Day, Karlin Studios, Prague
• To Give, to Take Back, to Leave a Sense of Lack, Stereo, Warsaw
• solo presentation (w/ Stereo), LISTE Art Fair, Basel
• Almost together, almost alone, Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf

• 2016

• The Next Now, Galeria Arsenal, Białystok

• 2015

• Mass and Mood, Stereo, Warsaw

• 2014

• Background Time, Frieze Art Fair, London

• 2013

• Persistent Front, Frutta, Rome
• The Show of Strenght, BWA Zielona Gora

• 2011

• Hauled Bolt, Stereo, Poznan

selected group exhibitions

• 2023

• And in the Wilderness, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
• Blue for Distinction, Red for Correction, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, AT
• Clouds of Lead, GGM, Gdańsk, PL
• Grappling with Gestures, the Gaze Wanders, Renata Fabbri, Milan, IT
• I tried being myself, I ended being others, Lovay Fine Arts, Geneva, CH
• Gypsum Flesh Story, ASP Gallery, Kraków, PL
• Tender Revolution, Metropolitan, Pamoja Foundation, Warsaw, PL

• 2022

• Material Fatigue, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, PL
• Broken Pinata, L21 Lab, Palma de Mallorca, ES
• New Memories, ECHO Cologne. DE
• Shirt Skirt Skin Kin, CCA, Prague, CZ

• 2021

• How to Be Together, Art Encounters Biennial, Public Transport Museum, Timisoara, Romania, RO
• Guilty Curtain, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
• From A to Z and Back Again, Stereo, Warsaw, PL
• Ghosts and Bones, Stereo, Warsaw, PL
• Not Fair, Fort Mokotów, Warsaw, PL

• 2020

• Head With Many Thoughts, CAC, Vilnius, LT
• The Spirit of Nature and Other Fairy Tales, Silesian Museum, Katowice, PL

• 2019

• Monumentomania, 11th Warsaw Under Construction Festival, Zodiak Pavilion of Architecture, Warsaw
• VIEWS – Deutsche Bank Prize, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
• Friend of a Friend Prague, SVIT, Prague
• Friend of a Friend Warsaw, Stereo, Warsaw

• 2018

• Orient, CAC kim?, Riga
• Orient, BOZAR, Brussels
• Canti Espositi, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole

• 2017

• It Is As You Think It Is, Galeria Arsenal, Białystok
• Equators to Bi-Polar, Stereo, Warsaw
• Lea Porsager / Gizela Mickiewicz / Nicola Martini, Rolando Anselmi, Berlin

• 2016

• Szalona Galeria, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
• XII Baltic Triennal, CAC Kim?, Riga
• How Rare Is Rare, at-fifteen projects, Tel-Aviv
• January Blues, Frutta, Rome

• 2015

• Gizela Mickiewicz & Jaromir Novotny, GGM, Gdansk
• Feet, 4 Walls & Head, Bureau, New York
• XII Baltic Triennal, CAC, Vilnius
• Procedures For the Head, Kunsthalle Bratislava
• Minimal Forms of Reality, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow
• Keep both feet on the ground, BWA Katowice

• 2014

• What You Can See. Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

• 2013

• The New Morals, Stereo, Warsaw
• Things in Common, Art Stations Foundation, Poznan

residencies

• 2017
  Futura, Prague

• 2016
  Triangle, New York

• 2014
  Gasworks, London