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Jagoda Kwiatkowska is an interdisciplinary artist, based in Warsaw (Poland), born in 1991, Jelenia Góra (Poland). Deeply rooted in exploring mental health, identity, and the post-traumatic spaces we inhabit, shaped by historical trauma, responding to both society and individual crises—whether they stem from climate change, war, or personal struggle. 

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Graduate of Miroslaw Balka Studio of Spatial Activities (2018) and Grzegorz Kowalski Audiovisual Studio (2016) at Media Art Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Knowledge about Culture at Warsaw University (2016).  

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Rather than adhering to a single medium, I allow the themes I explore to dictate the form. My practice is grounded in performance, sound, and visual art, with a strong focus on sensory engagement. I seek to create works that offer solace while provoking deeper introspection on how we, as individuals and communities, can heal and redefine our narratives in response to the world’s challenges.

 

Since 2018, I have been collaborating with Julia Golachowska and Anna Shimomura as part of the Kolektyw Łaski (Grace Collective) feminist art group. Our work explores themes of history, memory, gender, feminism, ecology, and identity. We engage with language and voice, using well-known songs as tools for social change. In our first project, The New Patriotic Songbook, we rewrote the lyrics of patriotic songs, replacing misogynistic, racist, classist, and pro-war fragments with feminist, pacifist, inclusive, and community-empowering messages. Since 2018, our projects has been showcased at over 30 exhibitions and events worldwide, and is proud to be a part of the Secondary Archives.

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kwiatkowska91@gmail.com

Exhibitions and shows:

 

  • Mindfulness, Periscope Gallery, Salzburg, Austria, 2024.

  • Ephemerality Residency, Co-Labs Cultural Center, Brno, Slovakia, 2024.

  • Welcome to Earth, European Space Agency, Center of culture meetings, Lublin, Poland, 2023.

  • Cope, not perish, MAERZ Gallery, Linz, Austria, 2023.

  • The Blue Humanities Archive, Nuremberg House, Krakow, Poland 2023.

  • Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival, Osaka, Japan, 2023.

  • N:ear experimental and improvised music festival, Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia, 2022.

  • Secondary Archives, Manifesta 14, National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina, Kosovo, 2022.

  • Greener and greener! Projects by Alina Scholtz (side event), Wola Museum of Warsaw, Poland, 2021.

  • Lost in Translation, @KCUA Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2021.

  • History will pervert you all!, The Lucky Jewathon, FestivALT, Cracow, Poland, 2021.

  • Koyaanisqatsi Project, Studio Theatre, Warsaw, Poland, 2021.

  • Solidarność in Progress (part of Jana Shostak show), Art City Center, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland, 2021.

  • Milk Me Sugar, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland, 2021.

  • Recovery After Injury, Art City Gallery, Częstochowa, Poland, 2020.

  • The Future of Culture, Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw, Poland, 2020.

  • Open Antifascist Studio OSA, Lublin, Poland, 2019.

  • Retake, JEST Gallery, Wrocław, Poland, 2019.

  • What do you do?, vol. 3, Galeria Salon Akademii, Warsaw, Poland, 2019.

  • Generator MALTA, MALTA FESTIVAL, Poznań, Poland, 2019.

  • Action Lublin! Chapter 2, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland 2018.

  • Videonews, review, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland, 2018, 2017, and 2016.

  • Kolejna Wystawa Patriotyczna, MEWKA Open Studio, Gdańsk, Poland, 2018.

  • 100 FLAGS, Biuro Wystaw, Warsaw, Poland 2018.

  • Decydentki, The Nuremberg House, Kraków, Poland, 2018.

  • How it is?, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland, 2017.

  • Sprawdzam! , BWA Jelenia Góra, Poland, 2017.

  • Nothing is happening, Institute of Photography Fort, Warsaw, Poland, 2017.


Awards, grands:

 

  • Allegro Prize, Contemporary Lynx Magazine, distinction, PL/UK, 2021.

  • Secondary archive, Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation, on-line platform, 2021.

  • ZAIKS Creative Support Fund Scholarship, 2021.

  • So Long as We Still Live, The 9th Young Triennale, The Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Poland, 2020.

  • Residency, Department of Presence, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, 2020.

  • Młode Wilki, TRAFO, Trafostacja Sztuki, Szczecin, Poland, 2017.

  • InSpiracje, TRAFO, Trafostacja Sztuki, Szczecin, Poland, 2017.

  • Euroshorts, Luna, Warsaw, 2015.


Residences:
 

  • Second Climate Plateau of Contemporary Art, Propaganda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2021.

  • The Forest of Things, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2021.

  • #karaokeforclimate, Department of Presence, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, 2020.

  • More woman on the streets, BWA Tarnów, Poland, 2017.

  • Deep Water, Art City Center, Gdańsk, Poland, 2017.

  • S1_92537, VI season of project Otwock Studio, Otwock, Poland, 2017.


Conference, guest Lectures and workshops:
 

  • Festiwal Przyszłości, Bomba Megabitowa 2, Fundacja Rzecz Społeczna, Kraków, 2022.

  • Retake, Relax Art Space, Częstochowa, Poland, 2019.

  • New Patriotic Exercises, workshops, Biuro Wystaw, Warsaw, Poland, 2019.

  • There is no fascism in Poland, workshops, Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw, Poland, 2019.

  • Female Utopias in Action: 100 Years of Female Voting Rights, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, 2018.

  • Macierz/Matrix, as part of Cracow Gallery Weekend KRAKERS, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, 2018.

  • Remember everything, Grassomania, Gdańsk, Poland, 2017.
     

Press:

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  • I pray every single day for a revolution! Climate Protest Karaoke, Radio Kapitał.

  • Experts Launch a Massive New Wikipedia-Style Archive to Address the Lack of Research on Women Artists From Central Europe, ArtNews.

  • Póki my żyjemy, Trennale Młodych w Orońsku, Radio Kapitał.

  • „Próba 2020” w Galerii Sztuki im. Jana Tarasina w Kaliszu, Szum Magazine.

  • ‘Milk Me Sugar’ w Galerii Arsenał w Białymstoku, Blok Magazine

  • Jak świętować w tym roku 11 listopada? Ofeminin.pl

  • Polski patriota zajmuje się głównie patrzeniem w przeszłość. Byłoby łatwiej, gdybyśmy nie myśleli wciąż jak kadeci. Michał Rusinek, Wysokie Obcasy

  • Wierzymy, że możliwy jest patriotyzm wolny od rasizmu i homofobii, Katarzyna Seiler, Wysokie Obcasy

  • Póki my żyjemy, Magazyn Szum

  • Cytują Britney Spears i Jeden Osiem L jako manifest. "Codziennie modlimy się o rewolucję" Ofeminin

  • NIETOKSYCZNE I BIODEGRADOWALNE, Stach Szabłowski dla Dwutygodnik

  • Reforma edukacji. „Poprawka” w galerii JEST, Magazyn Szum

  • Poprawka, czyli odczarowanie symboli zawłaszczonych, Kultura Liberalna

  • Póki my żyjemy #1 Narzędzia współpracy, RADIO KAPITAŁ

  • More woman in the streets, Radio Kraków

  • More women in the streets, Gazeta Wyborcza

  • Thinking Is A Piece Of Craftsmanship; I Teach People To Think, LYNX Contenporary Arts

  • Klub 27. „Jak jest?”, Magazyn Szum

  • Fajne jest fajne, ale niefajne może być fajniejsze. Performans w galerii Labirynt, Magazyn Szum

  • Nie każda panienka poleci za ułanem. Nowy śpiewnik pieśni patriotycznych, Gazeta Wyborcza

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