Sara Piotrowska (1989) and Maciej Szczęśniak (1989) visual artists, alleged cousins, academics, live and works in Cracow and Warsaw. Graduates of Cultural Studies (BA, Jagiellonian University), Intermedia (BA, Cracow Art Academy) and New Media Arts (MA, Warsaw Art Academy). They mostly work site-specific, conducting long-term case studies. They use object, installation, performance, text, process – rarely concluding searches with single art pieces. The subsequent projects form multi elemental stories, monographies – ever evolving collections of findings or questions. They consider themselves scholars; naturally prone to partisan methodologies. They have been cooperating since 2015, after discovering the kinship of interests and blood. They have been running an artist-run-space Piotrowska/Szczęśniak atelier in Cracow since 2019.
Selected individual exhibitions:
2023 Eating Szumin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
2022 Game of risk, Nowy Złoty Gallery, Wrocław
2020 Chorus 2.0, KRAKERS, Cracow Artweek, online
2020 Gentle way, Automat Artspace, Saarbrucken
2019 Artwork of the future, KRAKERS, Cracow Artweek, Cracow
2019 When the incentive comes, we are already working, Piotrowska/Szczęśniak atelier, Cracow
2018 Impetuous, rough in manners, prone to authoritarianism, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk
2017 12 minutes to symmetry, CLB Gallery, Berlin
2016 Things that need to be explained, Tamex pop-up Gallery, Warsaw
Selected group exhibitions:
2021 Peaks and pics, and other inconsistencies, Galéria Petra Michala Bohúňa, Liptovsky Mikulas
2021 Ultimate Hits for Apocalypse, Program Główny Cracow Art Week KRAKERS, galeria Kiosk
2020 Ssssssss, Galeria Olympia, Cracow
2020 Pochwała przemijalności, 01 gallery, online
2020 Show-off 2, Matca Artspace, Cluj-Napoca
2019 Humanist greets a day with no smile, Piotrowska/Szczęśniak atelier, Cracow
2019 Krakowski Salon Sztuki, Pałac Sztuki, Cracow
2018 Dolers, Land Art Festival, Kultuurcentrum Belgica, Dendermonde
2017 Myths and harlots, L14 Gallery, Cracow
2017 Carpathian Downhill, HBK Gallery, Saarbrucken
2017 Young Art Biennale Exhibition, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk
2016 Team, Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw
2016 The Artists Festival, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw
2015 Lectures, Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw
Residencies, awards, projects:
2022 Finalists of Young Art Biennale Rybie Oko X
2020 Enklawa, Propaganda Gallery, Warsaw
2020 Węzły. Wiedze asystemowe, residency, Elementarz dla mieszkańców miast, Cracow
2020 Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship
2019 Laureates of Zakłócenia/Apoptoza – National Polish Art Competition, Cracow
2019 Zone C, Site-Specific Ideas, Projekthouse Potsdam
2017 Sejsmograf 3 – Young Polish Art Review, Cracow, Katowice, Tarnów
2017 Laureates of Biennale of Young Polish Art Rybie Oko, Slupsk
2013 European Forum of History and Arts, Liege