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, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. 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

• 2026
  
  Phases, Places and Faces, Florit / Florit, Palma de Mallorca (upcoming)
  
  2025

• Viewpoints, Coulisse, Stockholm

• 2024

• All Walks Have Lead Me to the Place Where I Stand, Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf

• 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

• 2026
  
  Adaptacja, Marcelle Alix, Paris
  
  2025
  
  Moving Image, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
  Retroversions. Szczecin’s New, Very Old Podzamcze, TRAFO, Szczecin
  Ways of Seeing. Collection of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
  The Impermanent. Four Takes on the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
  
  2024
  
  Osad, Stereo, Warsaw
  Transformations. Modernity in the Third Polish Republic, National Museum, Kraków
  
  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