The Book of Flowers

6 March – 10 April 2025
15 West Central St

Preview: 6 March 2025, 6-8pm

Agnieszka Polska (b. 1985, Lublin, Poland) uses cinematic storytelling and affective technologies to address the perpetually negotiated relationship between human and technology, examining the processes that mutually influence and legitimate this relationship in language, history and consciousness. She is interested in the question of individual social responsibility against the background of technology-driven disorientation and ideologies of technological determinism. Polska’s works combine historical research, cinematic storytelling and affective communication technologies, seeking new narrative formats at the intersection of poetry and narration, art and cinema, that correspond with the rapidly changing requirements of information-driven societies.

Polska studied at the Faculty of Arts of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, at Faculty of Graphic Arts of Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, and in the class of Hito Steyerl at University of the Arts in Berlin.

Selected solo exhibitions include: Flowers on the Sun, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium (2024), The New Sun, Lawson Gallery, Perth, Australia (2024), A Bonobo Looks at a Butterfly, a Black Moon Eclipses the Sun, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw (2023), The Thousand-Year Plan, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (2021), Perfect Lives, Union Pacific, London, UK (2020), The Burrow, Neuer Kunstverein, Vienna, Austria (2019) and The Demon’s Brain, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, Germany (2018).

Exhibition History for 'The Book of Flowers':

Flowers on the Sun, MKHA, Antwerp, BE

Subterranean Sky, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE

Science/Fiction, a non-history of plants, MEP, Paris, FR

Outraged by Pleasure, Nobel, City of Chalandri, GR

An Act of Wonder and Gratitude, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK

The Book of Flowers, Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Florence/Palazzo Grassi, Venice, IT

Speculative Archives, Yale University, USA

Agnieszka Polska at e-flux Screening Room, New York, US

Chronic Desire, European Capital of Culture Timisoara, RO

Pictured: 'The Book of Flowers' (still), 2023, HD video, 9 min. 38 sec