JAGODA BEDNARSKY

Throughout her practice, themes of self-image, wellness culture, motherhood, voyeurism, and femininity often intersect with design elements and theatrical fragments that suggest incomplete or imagined narratives. Across this new body of work, Bednarsky transforms the apparent excess of contemporary visual culture into a painterly language of repetition, variation, and reinvention. At once playful and analytical, the works probe the potential of images and their role in the construction of identity, while remaining infinitely open to reinterpretation.

Jagoda Bednarsky (b. 1988, Zlotoryja, Poland) studied at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria before graduating from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany in 2014. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Europe and the United States, including institutional exhibitions at Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany; Museum Wiesbaden, Germany; Kunstverein Oldenburg, Germany; Kunstverein Heppenheim, Germany; Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany; Museum für Moderne Kunst Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Kunsthalle Lingen (Ems), Germany; and Kunstverein zu Assenheim, Assenheim-Niddatal, Germany. Bednarksy’s work is featured in the permanent collections of the DekaBank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; and Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku, Danzig, Poland.