Alicja Rogalska is an interdisciplinary artist based in London and Berlin. Her practice is research-led and focuses on social structures and the political subtext of the everyday; she mostly works in specific contexts making situations, performances, videos and installations in collaboration with other people to collectively search for emancipatory ideas for the future. She has previously set up a speculative dinner serving fossil fuels, staged a progressive hypnosis session for activists, asked a Georgian polyphonic choir to comment on the digital divide, co-organised a post-patriarchal Live Action Role Playing session and a temporary high street shop where people could cry and sell their tears for cash, designed a potato prize with agricultural migrant workers and asked lawyers who were refugees and asylum seekers to discuss legal fictions in immigration law.
Rogalska graduated with an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw and an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, where she is currently a PhD researcher.
She was a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin fellow (2020-21) and Artist in Residence at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Essex University (2019-22), City of Women Festival (Ljubljana, 2019), Stuart Hall Library (London, 2019), PARADISE AIR (Matsudo, 2018), MuseumsQuartier (Vienna, 2018), IASPIS (Stockholm, 2017), MeetFactory (Prague, 2017), the National University of Colombia (Bogota, 2014) and the learning department at TATE (London, 2011-12).
She has presented her work at Berlin Art Prize (2022, winner), Manifesta 14 (Prishtina, 2022), Temporary Gallery (Cologne, 2021-22), Kunsthalle Bratislava (2021), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, 2020-21), OFF Biennale (Budapest, 2020-21), VBKÖ (Vienna, 2019), Škuc Gallery (Ljubljana, 2019), Art Encounters Biennale (Timișoara, 2019), Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2019), Biennale Warszawa (2019), Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw, 2019), Kyoto Art Centre (2019) and Muzeum Sztuki (Łódź, 2019), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rijeka, 2018-19), nGbK (Berlin, 2017), Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst (Oldenburg, 2017-18), CCA U-jazdowski Castle (Warsaw, 2017), National Gallery of Indonesia (Jakarta, 2016) and Muzeum Sztuki (Łódź, 2016), amongst others.
