Adrianna Gajdziszewska – ARTIST STATEMENT
Polish artist working with sculpture, installation, and ceramics. Her art is an attempt to reach the core of human experience, often addressing themes related to psychology, pseudoscience, the cosmos, ecology, and transhumanism. Her recent works explore the condition of modern humanity. In her practice, she uses art as a tool to explore the complexity of our universe and to better understand the world.
She does not assume she will find clear answers — instead, she strives to create a „formula for a shared world” that embraces diversity and incorporates multiple perspectives, methods, and forms of expression. Seeking cultural, social, political, religious, sociological, biological, and media-related connections, she merges her artistic practice with methodologies of both natural and human sciences.
Out of fairness toward nature, she increasingly revisits earlier works — some are dismantled, others transformed, revealing new meanings. She treats material as living tissue: bearing the traces of previous ideas, gestures, and decisions that now require reconsideration. She is also increasingly inspired by biomimicry strategies, translating nature’s mechanisms of adaptation, coexistence, and regeneration into an artistic language that not only comments but also empathizes.
AWARDS
Cultural Animator of the Year 2025, awarded by the City of Kraków
KPO Scholarship, Poland, 2025
Santander Bank Scholarship, 2025
22nd place in the “Compass of Young Art” ranking, Poland, 2023
21st place in the “Compass of Young Art” ranking, Poland, 2022
Scholarship from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, 2020
RESIDENCIES
BWA Krosno, 2025
Seeds in the Snow, Niguelas, Spain, curated by Seila Fernandez Arconada, 2024
Seeds in the Snow, Niguelas, Spain, curated by Seila Fernandez Arconada, 2024
Post-Truth. Countering Disinformation Narratives, LernLabor, Poznan–Berlin, 2023
Art Lives Here, curated by Jacek Sosnowski, NYX Hotel, Warsaw, 2022
education
Graduated in Fine Arts with a specialization in sculpture (2015), and in Contemporary Art and Art History (2015). Since 2025, she has been a PhD student at the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź..
Selected exhibitions
SOLO:
I’m fine, Pałac Potockich, Kraków, 2025
Please wait while i disappear, Rzeszowski Inkubator Kultury, 2025
I Think I Am Mad Sometimes, Zwierzyniecka, Krakow, 2022/2023
Please wait while i disappear, Rzeszowski Inkubator Kultury, 2025
I Think I Am Mad Sometimes, Zwierzyniecka, Krakow, 2022/2023
GROUP:
Localize Festivall, Potsdam, Germany, 2025
Xenex, Mosaic, Cracow Art Week Krakers, Krakow, 2025
I think U freaky and I like U a lot, Dworek Białoprądnicki, Cracow Art Week Krakers, Krakow, 2025
Disappointed but Not Surprised, Subteria, Krakow, 2024
T4 Gallery, 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival, Berlin, 2024
III Spring Salon, Operis Artis, Antonin, 2024
2138, Main Post Office, Krakers, Krakow, 2024
Our Garden in Memory of D. Jarman, Cracow Art Week, Krakow, 2024
LOOSTRO, BWA Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, 2024
Post-Truth. Countering Disinformation Narratives, Kunstleben Kreuzberg, Berlin, 2023
III Youth Triennale, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, 2023
U_BAN, Zwierzyniecka, Krakow, 2023
Wrong Answers Only, Subteria, Krakow, 2023
I Think I Am Mad Sometimes, Zwierzyniecka, Krakow, 2022–2023
Urban Neon, Zwierzyniecka 4, Cracow Art Week, 2022
Falling Wall, Hotel Cracovia, Cracow Art Week, 2021
Test 2020, J. Tarasin Art Gallery, Kalisz, 2020–2021
Hyde Park of Art, National Museum in Krakow, 2019
Art Now, National Museum in Krakow, 2018
What Is, Is What It Is, Messier42 Gallery, Krakow, 2017
Localize Festivall, Potsdam, Germany, 2025
Xenex, Mosaic, Cracow Art Week Krakers, Krakow, 2025
I think U freaky and I like U a lot, Dworek Białoprądnicki, Cracow Art Week Krakers, Krakow, 2025
Disappointed but Not Surprised, Subteria, Krakow, 2024
T4 Gallery, 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival, Berlin, 2024
III Spring Salon, Operis Artis, Antonin, 2024
2138, Main Post Office, Krakers, Krakow, 2024
Our Garden in Memory of D. Jarman, Cracow Art Week, Krakow, 2024
LOOSTRO, BWA Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, 2024
Post-Truth. Countering Disinformation Narratives, Kunstleben Kreuzberg, Berlin, 2023
III Youth Triennale, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, 2023
U_BAN, Zwierzyniecka, Krakow, 2023
Wrong Answers Only, Subteria, Krakow, 2023
I Think I Am Mad Sometimes, Zwierzyniecka, Krakow, 2022–2023
Urban Neon, Zwierzyniecka 4, Cracow Art Week, 2022
Falling Wall, Hotel Cracovia, Cracow Art Week, 2021
Test 2020, J. Tarasin Art Gallery, Kalisz, 2020–2021
Hyde Park of Art, National Museum in Krakow, 2019 Art Now, National Museum in Krakow, 2018
What Is, Is What It Is, Messier42 Gallery, Krakow, 2017
Xenex, Mosaic, Cracow Art Week Krakers, Krakow, 2025
I think U freaky and I like U a lot, Dworek Białoprądnicki, Cracow Art Week Krakers, Krakow, 2025
Disappointed but Not Surprised, Subteria, Krakow, 2024
T4 Gallery, 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival, Berlin, 2024
III Spring Salon, Operis Artis, Antonin, 2024
2138, Main Post Office, Krakers, Krakow, 2024
Our Garden in Memory of D. Jarman, Cracow Art Week, Krakow, 2024
LOOSTRO, BWA Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, 2024
Post-Truth. Countering Disinformation Narratives, Kunstleben Kreuzberg, Berlin, 2023
III Youth Triennale, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, 2023
U_BAN, Zwierzyniecka, Krakow, 2023
Wrong Answers Only, Subteria, Krakow, 2023
I Think I Am Mad Sometimes, Zwierzyniecka, Krakow, 2022–2023
Urban Neon, Zwierzyniecka 4, Cracow Art Week, 2022
Falling Wall, Hotel Cracovia, Cracow Art Week, 2021
Test 2020, J. Tarasin Art Gallery, Kalisz, 2020–2021
Hyde Park of Art, National Museum in Krakow, 2019
Art Now, National Museum in Krakow, 2018
What Is, Is What It Is, Messier42 Gallery, Krakow, 2017
Localize Festivall, Potsdam, Germany, 2025
Xenex, Mosaic, Cracow Art Week Krakers, Krakow, 2025
I think U freaky and I like U a lot, Dworek Białoprądnicki, Cracow Art Week Krakers, Krakow, 2025
Disappointed but Not Surprised, Subteria, Krakow, 2024
T4 Gallery, 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival, Berlin, 2024
III Spring Salon, Operis Artis, Antonin, 2024
2138, Main Post Office, Krakers, Krakow, 2024
Our Garden in Memory of D. Jarman, Cracow Art Week, Krakow, 2024
LOOSTRO, BWA Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, 2024
Post-Truth. Countering Disinformation Narratives, Kunstleben Kreuzberg, Berlin, 2023
III Youth Triennale, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, 2023
U_BAN, Zwierzyniecka, Krakow, 2023
Wrong Answers Only, Subteria, Krakow, 2023
I Think I Am Mad Sometimes, Zwierzyniecka, Krakow, 2022–2023
Urban Neon, Zwierzyniecka 4, Cracow Art Week, 2022
Falling Wall, Hotel Cracovia, Cracow Art Week, 2021
Test 2020, J. Tarasin Art Gallery, Kalisz, 2020–2021
Hyde Park of Art, National Museum in Krakow, 2019 Art Now, National Museum in Krakow, 2018
What Is, Is What It Is, Messier42 Gallery, Krakow, 2017