Magdalena Lazar

About:

Magdalena Lazar (1986) born in Poland. Her artistic practice consists in a deep interest both in human motivations for creating inventions and pushing the world forward and in an incessant sense of ‘future shock’, or too many changes in too short a time. An archaeology of the present, failed prognoses and utopian vision as well as initiatives related to post-growth are my main area of interest. The fact that she hase Silesian roots is certainly not without significance. A region, which had once supposed to be a symbol of progress, was undergoing a deep crisis as she was growing up. Magdalena work in animation, video, photography, installation and object. She gives a visual form to true stories which appear to be fictions. I construct fictions on the basis of my intuition, delving into what sociologists term a horizon of the future. Her main medium is video, installation, animation and photography.
From 2014 employed at the Faculty of Art of the Pedagogical University in Krakow.

Education:

2006 – 2012 studied in the graphics department of Academy of Fine Arts, (Class of prof Waldemar Węgrzyn ) Kraków, PL.
2010 – 2011 studied at University of the Arts,(Class of prof Christiane Möbus ), Berlin, D

Selected solo exhibitions:

2018 – Inhale silver-white / exhale cobalt, Art Agenda Nova, Kraków
2017 – ASMR - Śmierć Człowieka, Warszawa
2014 – Very low frequency, The Grey House Gallery, Kraków
2013 – Something remained, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków
2012 – Withoutus, Photomonth in Krakow festival, Kathedra Gallery

Selected group exhibitions:

2018 – Award of the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation 2018, exhibition, MoCAK, Krakow, PL
2018 – KNAF, Leszek Knaflewski Award for young artists, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznan, PL
2018 – Domestic animals, Bunker Gallery, Krakow, PL
2018 – Evil Twin Sister, Botanical Garden, Krakow, PL
2018 – SURVIVAL, Wallenberg-Pachalych Palace, Wrocław, PL
2018 – Inventio: art of machines, Cricoteka, Krakow, PL
2018 – What we do in the shadows, Widna Gallery, Krakow, PL
2018 – Landscapes of the anthropocene, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk/Ustka, PL 
2017 – U-TURN, Hewei Iron Craft Factory, Chongqing, China
2017 – Motion vs Rest vol3, Chongqing Dimensions Art Centre (DAC), China
2017 – Limited Access 7, Teheran, Iran
2016 – Frameless 08,  MUG / Einstein Kultur, Munich, DE
2015 – Yicca, International Contest of Contemporary Art, Album Arte, Rome, I

Date of residency: 2. 5.–31. 5. 2019

https://magdalenalazar.com/