Zuzanna Hertzberg

Zuzanna Hertzberg is an interdisciplinary artist, artivist, and researcher. Her art includes painting, performance, textiles, and assemblage. She is the author of installations and collages using archival materials. She earned her PhD degree at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (Spaces of Ignorance, 2018). Doctoral Studies at the New Media Department: Painting Studio and Public Domain Art Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (supervised by Professor Leon Tarasewicz and Professor Krzysztof Wodiczko). She graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2011 with a Master’s Degree in Painting (Professor Leon Tarasewicz and PhD Paweł Susid Painting Studio). She is also a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Painting and Graphic Design Department.

She participated in a number of exhibitions in Poland and abroad, among them (some of them solo shows):, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga. Organized by The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (2020/21); POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw (2019); Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2019); National Museum in Gdansk (2019); Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2018/2019); Lviv Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine (2018); Museum of Warsaw (2017/18); Kubik Gallery, Litomysl, Czech Republic (2016); Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2014).

She was a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including: The Vivian J. Prins foundation artistic residency at the center for jewish history, New York (2020-21); Building memory within ‘a city of rifts’ // Facing political collaborationism, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020-21; Tarbut, a scholarship program organized by the joint distribution committee (2019-2020); Kavaleridze. RE:VISION international art residency, Kiev, Ukraine (2018); The Retreat for Jewish Artists organized by Asylum Arts and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw (2017), Innovating Science Communication at Medical Museums 2014 in Leiden – Netherlands with the art project Eugenics and Euthanasia. Representative of Poland in the 4th edition of UNESCO Art Camp Biennial - Colors of the Planet 2014 in Andorra.

She is the co-founder of the Jewish Antifascist Block, a member of the Antifascist Coalition, and a member of the board of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.

Web: www.zuzannahertzberg.com

Exhibitions in the gallery: Unknown Variable

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