Agata Madejska

 

 

 

Through post-(and)photographic processes, sculptural interventions, and installation, Agata Madejska (b.1979, Warsaw, Poland), delves into the multiple ways in which power can be manifest. With their liquidus feel, her works question the smooth façades of language, architecture, and public agreements – forms that hold associative or symbolic value. In turn, Agata poses deeply philosophical questions which demand viewers to think and re-think how we have come to know not only our world but ourselves in this world-space – how and why.

 

Agata graduated from Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen (Germany) in 2007 and the Royal College of Art, London (UK) in 2010. She lives and works between London and Vienna (Austria) where she is the professor of Art and Time | Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

 

Select exhibitions include 8-8-8 , Fundacja Czas Kobiet, Poznań, Poland (2025); Sensing Matter: From The Infra-thin to the Photographic Object, Punctum Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia (2025 – 26); Zero Stars, Galerie NOD, Praza, Czech Republic (2025); Grand Habitat Horror Vacui, Flat Time House, London (2024);  No Meat Without Bones, Belmacz, London, UK (2022); Modified Limited Hangout, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany (2018); Johanna Jaeger & Agata Madejska, Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg, Germany (2016); Conflict, Time, Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (2015), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany (2015) & Tate Modern, London, UK (2014- 15).

Artworks

  • Housing T (Current Affairs)

    Agata Madejska

    Housing T (Current Affairs), 2024

    organza, steel, aluminium, marbles, lice comb, tweezers, lighter, lipstick, whistles, key, ring pulls, hair pins, coins, pendant
    230 x 190 x 120 cm

  • Technocomplex, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart

    Technocomplex, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, 2017

  • Effort and Outcome (Kickstarting)

    Agata Madejska

    Effort and Outcome (Kickstarting), 2025

    steel box, acetate prints, magnets, carpet, two melamine plinths, aluminium
    128 x 32 x 66 cm

  • Options (Naomi)

    Agata Madejska

    Options (Naomi), 2025

    fluorescent lamp, acetate print
    125x4 x 8 cm

  • Echo Chamber

    Agata Madejska

    Echo Chamber, 2022

    oxidised aluminium, steel
    150 x 30 x 150 cm

  • Modified Limited Hangout, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven

    Modified Limited Hangout, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 2018

  • Essentials

    Agata Madejska

    Essentials, 2024

    site-specific flooring installation, dimensions variable. Leatherette, plywood, carpet underlay, steel, ring pulls, marbles, money, glitter, keys, whistles, toy cars, personal and found objects
    dimensions variable

  • Essentials

    Agata Madejska

    Essentials, 2024

    site-specific flooring installation, dimensions variable. Leatherette, plywood, carpet underlay, steel, ring pulls, marbles, money, glitter, keys, whistles, toy cars, personal and found objects.
    dimensions variable

  • Socle du Monde (Second)

    Agata Madejska

    Socle du Monde (Second), 2024

    perspex box, steel, rubber hose, cable, led lights, resistors, smoke generator, glycerine, propylene glycol, batteries
    30 x 30 x 30 cm

  • 81-86

    Agata Madejska

    81-86, 2010

    digital C-type print on Forex and waxed black MDF
    119 x 162.7 cm

  • 81-86

    Agata Madejska

    81-86, 2010

    digital C-type print on Forex and waxed black MDF
    119 x 162.7 cm

  • The End of It

    Agata Madejska

    The End of It, 2022

    cigarette prop, ash, aluminium ashtray, smoke generator, mineral oil, silicone, power adapter, cables
    8x8x8.5cm

  • Modified Limited Hangout, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven

    Modified Limited Hangout, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 2018

  • Factum

    Agata Madejska

    Factum, 2014

    UV-print on perspex, paper, powder-coated steel frame
    50 x 100 x 60 cm

  • Kingly Things, Chandelier Projects, London

    Agata Madejska

    Kingly Things, Chandelier Projects, London, 2015

    installation view
    50 x 100 x 60 cm, ed.3 + 1 AP

  • Technocomplex 010 & Technocomplex 011

    Agata Madejska

    Technocomplex 010 & Technocomplex 011, 2017

    light sensitive coating on pewter
    approx. 50 × 64 cm

  • From Now On (Folly)

    Agata Madejska

    From Now On (Folly), 2014

    photosensitive emulsion, jesmonite
    160 x 250 cm

  • Space I

    Agata Madejska

    Space I, 2011

    digital C-type print
    ed.5 + 2 AP

  • Ideogram 004

    Agata Madejska

    Ideogram 004, 2008

    lightjet C-print, aluminium
    60 x 46 cm, edition 5 + 2 AP

  • Options (Sophia)

    Agata Madejska

    Options (Sophia), 2025

    fluorescent lamp, acetate print
    125x4x8cm

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