Alicja Karska (1978), Aleksandra Went (1976)
The artists have worked together since their studies at the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in Poland (2003).
Live and work in Gdańsk and in Warsaw (Poland)
Solo exhibitions
2015
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2006
2005
2004
2003
Sculpture, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Młyniska, Profile Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Franciszek Duszeńko – Monuments, PGS, Sopot, Poland
Exercising the Future Profile Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Memory of Images, Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań, Poland
Scenerie, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
Wrzeszcz Art!, Kolonia Artystów, Gdańsk, Poland
Memory of Images, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
Memory of Images,BWA Olsztyn, Poland
Delay, Profile Fundation, Warsaw, Poland
Memorabilia, Galeria Sztuki Najnowszej, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
Minimal Corrections, BWA Katowice,Poland
Dialogue 4 (with Mariną Steinacker, Susanne K. Willand), Gdańsk City Gallery, Poland
Forever, Gdansk Photo Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland
Sumbles of time, Profile Fundation, Warsaw, Poland
Two drops of water, (with Liav Mizrahi), Artistic House, Tel Aviv, Israel
Summer Gallery, Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań, Poland
There Are No Complete Things, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, Poland
Sandboxes, Projekt_1, Gdańsk, Poland
Space Commitments, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Mo-je po-ko-je, , Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland (Aleksandra Went)
Nie pokoje, Królikarnia, Warsaw, Poland, (Aleksandra Went)
Laboratory, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Group exhibitions
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
Life. A manual, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Avant-garde/ Paradoxical Sleep, Museum of Sopot, Sopot, Poland
Conceivable but not yet created, Gdańsk City Gallery, Poland
Friends from the seaside, Rynek 25, Wrocław, Poland
Submission/Rage/Freedom, Opening Forum, The Nowy Teatr, Warsaw, Poland
Friends from the seaside, Gdańsk City Gallery, Poland
Let’s dance, Art Stations gallery, Poznań, Poland
Tücken, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg, Germany
Władcy much, MONA Inner Spaces, Poznań, Poland
We rather look back to futures past, Lajevardi Collection, Tehran, Iran
Who makes Europe, Gdańsk City Gallery, Poland
Survival Kit: Utopian City, The former Boļševička Textile Factory, Riga, Latvia
Alternativa: Everydayness, Hala 90B, Gdańsk, Poland
Made in…national architecture?, Trafostacja Sztuki, Szczecin, Poland
homeMADE, constructing substitute worlds, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland
Freelancer trophy, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Testing (Re-)Production, MS2, Łódź, Poland
Test run, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
Buildings and Remnants, Guimarães, Portugal
City States, Liverpool Biennal, Liverpool, UK
Crosstime Stories, Miriam and Ira D.Wallach Art Gallery, Nowy Jork, USA
The combed thunderclap, Ve.Sch, Wiedeń, Austria
Looking into Neighbourship,uqbar, Berlin, Germany
Please, step forward to the rear, Apollonia, Strasbourg, France
Performing architecture, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Solidaryty Camp, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk, Poland
Urban Tales, ul. Haffnera, Sopot, Poland
Not in Place, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Performing Memory, Astana Municipal Modern Art Museum, Astana, Kazakhstan
Grass-mania, Former Department Store,Gdańsk, Poland
736km, Mobile Festival, Gdańsk-Praga, Poland-Czech Republic
Bez tytułu, Profile Fundation, Warsaw, Poland
The small improvisation, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
Fitting in Space Zico House and 98weeks Project Space, Bejrut, Lebanon
Hanukah, New Synagogue, Gdańsk, Poland
Residence 09, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
promise, practice, protocol, Akademie Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart, Germany
Over and Over Again 1989-2009, Centennial Hall, Wroclaw, Poland
Stay, stay, stay, Former Mineral Bathhouse, Sofia, Bulgaria
Anxiety Syndrome, Transvizualia 008, PPNT Gallery, Gdynia, Poland
Licht(h)aus, Lichthaus, Bremen, Germany
06 Survival, Wrocław, Poland
Grannar, Karlskrona, Sweden
Zdzisław Pidek. We remember, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland
Agorafolly Inside, La Centrale Electrique, European Cetre for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
Agorafolly Outside, Europalia, Place de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium
Model Ad Hoc, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk, Poland
Trading Places: Back + Forth, Nieuwe Vide, Harlem, Holland
Trading Places: Back + Forth, Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn, Holland
The Freshness Effect, Pocztowa Street, Racibórz, Poland
Art-Space-City, Schwankhalle, Bremen, Germany
From Poland, Kasia Kay Art Project Galery, Chicago, USA
Reality Effect, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
In Poland, That Is Where?, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Hansepol, Altonale, Hamburg, Poland
Correspondances, Hall des Chars, Strasbourg, France
Absolwent, Wyspa Institute of Arts, Gdańsk, Poland
Wall to be destroyed, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
Egocentric, Immoral, Outmoded, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Poland Overview, Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic
Impulse, Instytut Polski, Dusseldorf, Germany
Acquaintances from the Seaside, Aula Gallery, Poznań, Poland
Proximum, El Gallery, Elbląg, Poland
Fish Eye 3, Young Art Biennal, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, Poland
Made in, Foire d’art contemporain de Strasbourg St’art 2004, Strasbourg, France
Public Spaces, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland
Supermarket of Art IV – Global Attraction, , DAP Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Proximum, , PGS, Sopot, Poland
WRO’03 Globaltica, 10th International Media Art Biennale, Wrocław, Poland
Mode, Wyspa Progress Fundation, Gdańsk, Poland
Residences
2017
2009
2008
2006
2005
AIR Krems, Austria
Futura, Prague, Czech Republic (Visegrad Fund)
Academie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany (Młoda Polska Scolarship)
MapXXL Pepinieres Europeenes pour jeunes artistes, Stanica, Żilina, Slovakia
Bremer Kunststipendium, Bremen, Germany (Alicja Karska)
Prizes
2013
2012
2011
2007
2006
2004
2003
2002
Six-month Scholarship Granted by Minister of Culture and National Heritage (Aleksandra Went)
Kulturalne Miasto Gdańsk grant
The Marshal Office of the Pomeranian Voivodship in Gdansk grant
Sittcomm. Award. (final competition)
3rd award, First Polish Edition of The One Minutes Festival
Six-month Scholarship Granted by Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2nd award, 14th Film-Video Competition – 48th IFHP World Congress, Oslo, Norway
Major of Gdańsk Award for Young Artists in the Field of Culture (Alicja Karska)
Grand Prix w Konkursie Prezydenta RP na najlepszy dyplom ukończenia studiów w zakresie Sztuk Pięknych (Aleksandra Went)
Minister of Culture Scholarship 2001\2002, 2002\2003 (Alicja Karska)