Joanna Piotrowska

Joanna Piotrowska (born 1985) is a Polish artist based in London.[1] She examines the human condition through performative acts and the construction of multiple ‘social landscapes’ using photography, performance and film. Family archives, self-defence manuals and psychotherapeutic methods are used as reference points as Piotrowska explores the complex roles which play out in everyday performance. [2] Her psychologically charged photographs probe human behaviour and the dynamics of familial relations, exploring intimacy, violence, control, and self-protection. The artist reveals moments of care as well as hierarchies of power, anxieties, and imposed conventions that play out in the domestic sphere.[3]

Joanna Piotrowska
Born1985 (1985)
Warsaw, Poland
NationalityPolish
Known forPhotography
Websitejoannapiotrowska.com

Her work has been exhibited at Le BAL, Paris (2023),[4] Tate Britain (2019),[5] Kunsthalle Basel (2019)[6] and MoMA, New York (2018).[7] She was also included in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022),[3] The 16th Lyon Biennale (2022)[8] and the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018).[9]

Education
Installation view, Art Now. Joanna Piotrowska: All Our False Devices (2019)

Piotrowska earned an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2013.[10]

Career

Piotrowska's 2014 series "FROWST" is a series of staged family portraits. The photos were published in a book by the same name, which won the First Book Award in 2014.[11]

After winning one of the three Jerwood/Photoworks Awards in 2015,[12] Piotrowska focused on photographing teenage girls in self-defense poses. She shot the series in Poland, finding subjects through friends and casting agencies that worked with aspiring actresses.[13]

In 2016, she began her "Frantic" series, in which she asked adults to construct homemade forts from their personal belongings. She traveled to Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro, photographing her subjects in their homes.[14]

Installation View, Joanna Piotrowska: Stable Vices, Kunsthalle Basel (2019).

Exhibitions
Installation Views, Joanna Piotrowska: Entre Nous, Le Bal, Paris (2023)

Publications
  • Joanna Piotrowska: FROWST, London: Mack, 2014, 48 p., ISBN 978-1-910164-10-5
  • Joanna Piotrowska: Frantic, with texts by Sara De Chiara, Anouchka Grose, Pier Paolo Tamburelli. Milan: Humboldt Books, 2017. 108p. ISBN 9788899385354
  • Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2017. Silver gelatine hand print, 21 x 27cm.
    Joanna Piotrowska: Stable Vices, with essays from Sara De Chiara, Joanna Bednarek and Dorota Masłowska, London: Mack, 2021, 176 p., ISBN 978-1-912339-39-6
Installation Views, Joanna Piotrowska: Entre Nous, Le Bal, Paris (2023)

References
  1. "Southard Reid". frieze. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  2. Phillida, Reid. "Joanna Piotrowksa CV, Phillida Reid" (PDF).
  3. "Biennale Arte 2022 | Joanna Piotrowska". La Biennale di Venezia. 4 April 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  4. "Joanna Piotrowska – Entre nous". LE BAL. 3 February 2023. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  5. Tate. "Joanna Piotrowska | Tate Britain". Tate. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  6. "Stable Vices • Kunsthalle Basel". Kunsthalle Basel. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  7. "Being: New Photography 2018 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  8. "Joanna Piotrowska". Biennale de Lyon. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  9. "Joanna Piotrowska". bb10.berlinbiennale.de. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  10. Woodward, Daisy. "The Talented Photographer Using Gesture to Empower Women". AnOther. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  11. "Winner: FROWST by Joanna Piotrowska". First Book Award. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  12. "Winners of the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 announced". Photoworks. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  13. Fedorova, Anastasiia. "Black and White Photos That Show the Disturbing Side of Being a Teenage Girl". Broadly. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  14. Lesser, Casey. "15 Artists to Watch at SP-Arte". Artsy. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  15. "Joanna Piotrowska: FROWST". Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  16. "Our Red Sky".
  17. "Joanna Piotrowska". kestnergesellschaft.de. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
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