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ANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA is a Polish artist whose work spans photography, film, sculpture, and performance. She is internationally recognized for her long investigation of identity, disappearance, and the unstable boundary between the self and its representations. Grzeszykowska studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she became a central member of the Azorro Collective, an influential group known for its conceptual critique of artistic institutions. Since the early 2000s she has developed a body of solo work that examines the image as both evidence and fiction, often placing her own body at the center of a process that dissolves fixed ideas of identity.

Her series include bold experiments with presence and absence. “Album” recreates childhood photographs in which she removes herself digitally, turning memory into an uncanny archive. “Untitled Film” and “Black” fracture identity through repetition and multiplication, while “Selfie” examines the face as a constructed surface rather than a stable truth. Her ongoing work with photograms extends this inquiry into questions of trace and disappearance, presenting the self as a flicker of contact rather than a fixed form.

Grzeszykowska’s practice has been shown widely in Europe and the United States, with major exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, the National Gallery in Prague, and the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, among others. Her works are held in numerous public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and the ING Polish Art Foundation.

She has received the Paszport Polityki Award for Visual Arts and has represented Poland in multiple international exhibitions and biennials. Her films have been screened at prominent festivals, and her collaborations with choreographers and performers continue to expand the boundaries of her visual language.

Across media Grzeszykowska treats identity as a set of experiments rather than a finished form. Her work reveals the self as something that appears, vanishes, repeats, fractures, and reforms. She lives and works in Warsaw.