Alicja Karska (1978), Aleksandra Went (1976)
The artists have worked together since their studies at the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in Poland (2003).
They live and work in Gdańsk and Warsaw (Poland).
Residencies
2017 AIR Krems, Austria
2009 Futura, Prague, Czech Republic (Visegrad Fund)
2008 Academie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany (Młoda Polska Scolarship)
2006 MapXXL Pepinieres Europeenes pour jeunes artistes, Stanica, Żilina, Slovakia
2005 Bremer Kunststipendium, Bremen, Germany (Alicja Karska)
Prizes
2017 Kulturalne Miasto Gdańsk grant
2016 Six-month Scholarship Granted by Minister of Culture and National Heritage (Aleksandra Went)
2012 Kulturalne Miasto Gdańsk grant
2011 The Marshal Office of the Pomeranian Voivodship in Gdansk grant
2007 Sittcomm. Award. (final competition)
2006 3rd award, First Polish Edition of The One Minutes Festival
2006 Six-month Scholarship Granted by Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2004 2nd award, 14th Film-Video Competition – 48th IFHP World Congress, Oslo, Norway
2003 Major of Gdańsk Award for Young Artists in the Field of Culture (Alicja Karska)
2003 Grand Prix w Konkursie Prezydenta RP na najlepszy dyplom ukończenia studiów w zakresie Sztuk Pięknych (Aleksandra Went)
2002 Minister of Culture Scholarship 20012002, 20022003 (Alicja Karska)
2022
Fields, Profile Foundation, Warsaw
2018
Tła/Backgrounds, The Library of the University of Gdańsk
2017
Absenteeism, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems
2015
Sculpture, Profile Foundation, Warsaw
Młyniska, Profile Foundation, Warsaw
2013
Franciszek Duszeńko – Monuments, PGS, Sopot
Exercising the Future Profile Foundation, Warsaw
2012
Memory of Images, Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań, Poland Scenerie, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław
Wrzeszcz Art!, Kolonia Artystów, Gdańsk
Memory of Images, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin
2011
Memory of Images,BWA Olsztyn
Delay, Profile Fundation, Warsaw
2010
Memorabilia, Galeria Sztuki Najnowszej, Gorzów Wielkopolski
Minimal Corrections, BWA Katowice
Dialogue 4 (with Mariną Steinacker, Susanne K. Willand), Gdańsk City Gallery
2009
Forever, Gdansk Photo Gallery, Gdańsk
Sumbles of time, Profile Fundation, Warsaw
Two drops of water, (with Liav Mizrahi), Artistic House, Tel Aviv
2006
Summer Gallery, Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań
2005
There Are No Complete Things, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk
Sandboxes, Projekt_1, Gdańsk
Space Commitments, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw
Mo-je po-ko-je, , Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk
(Aleksandra Went) 2004
Nie pokoje, Królikarnia, Warsaw
(Aleksandra Went) 2003
Laboratory, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2023
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, Profile Foundation, Warsaw
2022
DEDICATIONS, Profile Foundation, Warsaw
2021
On Paper, Profile Foundation, Warsaw
Women’s Business, Profile Foundation, Warsaw
2020
Disegno, Profile Fundation, Warsaw, Poland
Gdańsk 2020, online exhibition, www.gdansk2020.eu
2019
NARRACJE 11, Field Actions, Gdańsk-Siedlce
Entropie, j’écris ton nom, Magasin des horizons, Grenoble
NOMUS. Kolekcja w budowie, NOMUS New Art Museum, Gdańsk
2018
Kościotrupy muszą wstawać, GGM, Gdańsk
2017
Life. A manual, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Avant-garde/ Paradoxical Sleep, Museum of Sopot, Sopot
2016
Conceivable but not yet created, Gdańsk City Gallery
Friends from the seaside, Rynek 25, Wrocław
Submission/Rage/Freedom, Opening Forum, The Nowy Teatr, Warsaw
2015
Friends from the seaside, Gdańsk City Gallery
Let’s dance, Art Stations gallery, Poznań
Tücken, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg
Władcy much, MONA Inner Spaces, Poznań
We rather look back to futures past, Lajevardi Collection, Tehran
Who makes Europe, Gdańsk City Gallery
2014
Survival Kit: Utopian City, The former Boļševička Textile Factory, Riga
Alternativa: Everydayness, Hala 90B, Gdańsk
2013
Made in…national architecture?, Trafostacja Sztuki, Szczecin
homeMADE, constructing substitute worlds, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk
Freelancer trophy, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Testing (Re-)Production, MS2, Łódź
2012
Test run, Kunsthaus Dresden
Buildings and Remnants, Guimarães
City States, Liverpool Biennal, Liverpool
Crosstime Stories, Miriam and Ira D.Wallach Art Gallery, Nowy Jork
The combed thunderclap, Ve.Sch, Wiedeń
2011
Looking into Neighbourship,uqbar, Berlin
Please, step forward to the rear, Apollonia, Strasbourg
Performing architecture, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Solidaryty Camp, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk
Urban Tales, ul. Haffnera, Sopot
Not in Place, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2010
Performing Memory, Astana Municipal Modern Art Museum, Astana
Grass-mania, Former Department Store,Gdańsk
736km, Mobile Festival, Gdańsk-Praga
Bez tytułu, Profile Fundation, Warsaw
The small improvisation, Stadtgalerie Kiel
Fitting in Space Zico House and 98weeks Project Space, Bejrut
2009
Hanukah, New Synagogue, Gdańsk
Residence 09, Futura, Prague
promise, practice, protocol, Akademie Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart
Over and Over Again 1989-2009, Centennial Hall, Wroclaw
2008
Stay, stay, stay, Former Mineral Bathhouse, Sofia
Anxiety Syndrome, Transvizualia 008, PPNT Gallery, Gdynia
Licht(h)aus, Lichthaus, Bremen
06 Survival, Wrocław
Grannar, Karlskrona, Sweden Zdzisław Pidek. We remember, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk
2007
Agorafolly Inside, La Centrale Electrique, European Cetre for Contemporary Art, Brussels
Agorafolly Outside, Europalia, Place de la Monnaie, Brussels
Model Ad Hoc, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk
Trading Places: Back + Forth, Nieuwe Vide, Harlem
Trading Places: Back + Forth, Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn
The Freshness Effect, Pocztowa Street, Racibórz
Art-Space-City, Schwankhalle, Bremen
From Poland, Kasia Kay Art Project Galery, Chicago
Reality Effect, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2006
In Poland, That Is Where?, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Hansepol, Altonale, Hamburg
Correspondances, Hall des Chars, Strasbourg
2005
Absolwent, Wyspa Institute of Arts, Gdańsk
Wall to be destroyed, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France Egocentric, Immoral, Outmoded, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Poland Overview, Prague Biennale 2, Prague
Impulse, Instytut Polski, Dusseldorf
2004
Acquaintances from the Seaside, Aula Gallery, Poznań
Proximum, El Gallery, Elbląg
Fish Eye 3, Young Art Biennal, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk
Made in, Foire d’art contemporain de Strasbourg St’art 2004, Strasbourg
Public Spaces, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk
2003
Supermarket of Art IV – Global Attraction, , DAP Gallery, Warsaw
Proximum, , PGS, Sopot
WRO’03 Globaltica, 10th International Media Art Biennale, Wrocław
2002
Mode, Wyspa Progress Foundation, Gdańsk
