Kinga Kiełczyńska is a visual artist that often works with moving image.
She studied Spanish philology at the Warsaw University before graduating in fine arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (BA) and the Sandberg Institute (MA) in Amsterdam.
In her multidisciplinary practice, she reflects on the relationship between humans and the environment. The starting point is the artist’s ecological commitment. Her mediums include video, installation, text, drawing and performance. She calls her works "environments" to underline the works' physical extension into their context and modes of production. She frequently shows her works outside of the gallery setting. A nudist beach, a nightclub, and a forest have all been used in the past. In 2009, she wrote a "Reductionist Art Manifesto," a humorous declaration of reduction rather than production, which questioned the paradigm of art creation in times of overproduction. She created several pieces centered around the Białowieża primeval forest, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Poland.
Her work has been shown at Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Exile Gallery, Berlin, Manifesta 12, Palermo, MoCAB, Belgrade, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Aether, Sofa, SAVVY, Berlin, FOAM, Amsterdam, De Appel, Amsterdam, among others.
Represented by Exile Gallery
Press links:
Mythical Forest: An Interview with Kinga Kiełczyńska
Respect What You Have THE NEW INSTITUTE
Interview on Bęc Radio (in Polish)