Aleksandra Karpowicz is an award winning artist primarily working in video, photography and performance. Born in communist Poland, and currently living and working in London, her practice is based on critical research and personal life experiences.
In her art she explores themes of relationship to body, psychology, sexuality, and identity, and how those aspects of human nature are expressed and oppressed in our society and politics.
A great diversity of over 800 people from a range of social backgrounds, genders, sexuality, and ages appear in her work. She sees her art as an empowering platform of expression for both herself and the communities she works with.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo:
2026 – Remember What Your Forgot, Felstead Art, London (UK)
2023 – New Human Identity, The Producers Club, New York (USA)
2023 – New Human Identity, These Days LA, Los Angeles (USA)
2019 – Body As Home, Giudecca Art District ,Venice, (Italy)
2018 – Let’s Talk About Sex, Castello Gallery, Venice (Italy)
2018 – The Subconscious Body, Youngblood, Cape Town (South Africa)
2017 – Definition of Sex, By Other Means Gallery, London (UK)
Group:
2024 – Other Geographies, Other Stories, Polish Pavilion at the Malta Biennale (Malta)
2022 – Invisible Goddess, Magazzino Gallery, Venice (Italy)
2021 – Forging the Self, Koppel Project, London (UK)
2022 – Mars & Beyond, Bargehouse, London (UK)
2019 – Merdelamerdelamerdelamerdelamer, Mario Mauroner Gallery, Vienna (Austria)
2019 – Still/Moving, Youngblood, Cape Town (South Africa)
2018 – Hot, red, wicked, Gallery C, Los Angeles (USA)
2017 – Nasty Women, Black and White, London (UK)
2017– KillingIt, By Other Means Gallery, London (UK)
2017 – Wallpaper, Mama Gallery, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
2016 – It’s Art, D-Contemporary Gallery, London (UK)
2016 – Tomorrow’s Child, Westminster Houses of Parliament, London (UK)
2016 – Emerald Pride Art Awards, Islington Arts Factory, London (UK)
2015 – National Open Art, Winners, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (UK)
2015 – National Open Art, Royal Collage of Art, London (UK)
2015 – Works on Paper, Science Museum, London (UK)
2014 – A Taste of Our Creativity, Chelsea Gallery, London (UK)
2013 – 24Photography, Berkeley Square, London (UK)
SELECTED AWARDS, COMMISSIONS & ART RESIDENCIES
2024 – Before The Scream There Was A Whisper, Commissioned performance at the opening of the Polish Pavilion at the Malta Biennale (Malta)
2021 – Art Residency at the Servais Family Art Collection in Brussels (Belgium)
2019 – In the Name of the Mother, and of the Daughter, and of the Holy Spirit, Commissioned performance at the opening of the exhibition curated by Kendell Geers, alongside Marina Abramovic, Betty Tompkins, Gilbert & George etc.,Vienna (Austria)
2019 – Art Residency at the Palazzo Monti, Brescia (Italy)
2019 – Body as Home (3-channel video) selected as a flagship project of the Giudecca Art District, a new district in Venice dedicated to contemporary art launched during 58th Venice Biennale (Italy)
2019 – Co-founded the female-led October! Collective, launched during 58th Venice Biennale with the performance ‘Rhythm of Dissent’ (Italy)
2019 – Created and directed the commissioned photography project Seidr at the Arctic Circle in Tromso (Norway)
2016 – Emerald Pride Art Awards, Finalist (UK)
2016 – We were born upside down, Commissioned photograph for the exhibition Tomorrow’s Child at the Houses of Parliament, Westminster (UK)
2015 – Let’s Talk About Sex, Best Portrait Award, National Open Art Competition (UK)
2015 – Let’s Talk About Sex, Visitors Choice Award, National Open Art Competition (UK)
2015 – Shortlisted as TOP 5 Women in arts & culture at the Women of the Future Awards (UK)
SELECTED PRESS
BBC
Forbes
Dazed
Artnet
TVN
Evening Standard
Vogue Polska
Yahoo!
Contemporary Lynx
The Art Newspaper
Artforum
Wallpaper*
K-MAG
Gazeta Wyborcza
Artribune
Rzeczpospolita
La Republica
BBC Arts
It’s Nice That
Artlyst
Financial Times
Art Forum
Artsy
Elle Decor Italy
La Vanguaria
Arts and Collections
Cornucopia
Roma Today
Art News
Culture Whipser
Exibart
The Atlantic
Forum
Thiiird Magazine