Joanna Piotrowska (born 1985) is a Polish photographer based in London.[1] She works primarily with black and white photography, focusing on themes of history, memory, and repetition.[2]

Education

Piotrowska earned an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2013.[2]

Career

Piotrowska's 2014 series "FROWST" is a series of staged family portraits. The photos were published in a book by the same name, which won the First Book Award in 2014.[3]

After winning one of the three Jerwood/Photoworks Awards in 2015,[4] Piotrowska focused on photographing teenage girls in self-defense poses. She shot the series in Poland, finding subjects through friends and casting agencies that worked with aspiring actresses.[5]

In 2016, she began her "Frantic" series, in which she asked adults to construct homemade forts from their personal belongings. She traveled to Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro, photographing her subjects in their homes.[6]

In 2018, a selection of Piotrowska's photographs were shown with 16 other contemporary artists in the Museum of Modern Art's Being: New Photography 2018 exhibition.[7]

Exhibitions

• 2018 – Being: New Photography 2018, organized by Lucy Gallun, at MoMA, New York City, NY, USA[8]
• 2018 – 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, curated by Gabi Ngcobo, at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany[9]
• 2019 – Art Now: Joanna Piotrowska – All Our False Devices, curated by Sofia Karamani and Zuzana Flaskova, at Tate Britain, London, UK[10]
• 2019 – Hotel Europa: Their Past, Your Present, Our Future, curated by Théo-Mario Coppola with associate curator Livia Tarsia in Curia, at Open Space of Experimental Art, Tbilisi, Georgia[11]
• 2019-2020 – Joanna Piotrowska: Stable Vices, curated by Elena Filipovic, at Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland[12]
• 2020 – Joanna Piotrowska: FROWST, curated by Magdalena Komornicka, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland[13]

Books

• Joanna Piotrowska: FROWST, London: Mack, 2014, 48 p., ISBN 978-1-910164-10-5[14]
• Joanna Piotrowska: Stable Vices, with essays from Sara De Chiara, Joanna Bednarek and Dorota Masłowska, London: Mack, 2021, 176 p., ISBN 978-1-912339-39-6[15]

References

External links

• Official website
• Alexander García Düttmann, Joanna Piotrowska: In the Contemporary for the Contemporary, Camera Austria International 146 | 2019