C Ø P P E R F I E L D
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Contact
Ewa Axelrad
b.1984, Gliwice, Poland.
Lives and works in London (UK) and Silesia (Poland).
 
 
IMAGES          CV
Ewa Axelrad’s practice comprises predominantly of installation, photography and moving image. Among the recurring subjects in her practice violence is explored in interpersonal and collective relations, and its manifestations in everyday objects and architectural settings. It is the very potential for a shift in power that lies at the heart of these interests, the possibility that the current dynamics of power may change from one moment to the next. Axelrad’s research is informed mainly by specific events from the past, from personal recollection to collective memory. She is also interested in the role of aesthetics and design in the interplay of certain social dynamics. Several of her projects concentrate on the ambiguous relationships in which an attractive surface misleads the attention to the point of revealing its underlying opposite. Her works are often confrontational, full of tension and simultaneously evoke both allure and repulsion.

​
For her most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.

To view the most recent group show with the gallery including work by Eve Axelrad click here.

Picture
Ewa Axelrad, Breakblood Breaksoil Breakwater II, 2018, Soft silicone filled with air, 70 x 50 x 50 cm overall
Picture
Ewa Axelrad, Let’s go. Yes, let’s go (They do not move), 2017, Black aluminum foil, mixed media site-specific installation at Bold Tendencies
Picture
Ewa Axelrad, Shtamah #1, 2017, Still frame from video, 4K resolution video, 4’ 35’’
Picture
Ewa Axelrad, Anomalia. From the series Minimum, Necessary, Objectively Reasonable, 2015 Resin, 100 x 100 x 75cm
Picture
Ewa Axelrad, Warm Leatherette, 2012, vinyl, steal, foam, 120cm x 60cm x 60cm
Picture

Solo Exhibitions
2017
Shtamah, Copperfield, London, UK
Shtamah, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland
Satis, The Ryder, London, UK
 
2015
Minimum, Necessary, Objectively Reasonable, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland
 
2013
Warm Leatherette, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland
 
2012
Plague: Description, BWA Warszawa at Winter Salon, Warsaw, Poland
Vk, Czytelnia Sztuki, Museum in Gliwice, Poland
 
2011
ORANƵ, Ende Neu in Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland
SUCHE, Arsenal Gallery, Poznan, Poland
 


Group Exhibitions
2022
Statecraft, EMST, Greece
 
2021
D92-anser sur un volcan Frac, Franche-comté, Besançon, France 
 
2020
Hazard Profile, Copperfield London, UK
 
2019
Olaph the Oxman, Copperfield London, UK
‘Three Plagues’, Galeria La birynt, Lublin, Poland
 
2018
Waiting for Another Coming, Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
Artistry, Art Collection of Orońsko, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Orońsko, Poland
Waiting for Another Coming, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania
Stand-off, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland
British Summer Time (BST), Copperfield Gallery, London, UK
Beyond the River, Albertinum Dresden at Neues Schloss und Park, Bad Muskau
The State is Not a Work of Art, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
Ideal –Types, HE.RO Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Artistry – 100 Years of Polish Sculpture, Art Museum Bourse, National Museum, Riga, Latvia
 
2017
White Memory – 1989/2018 in Malta and Poland, St James Cavalier, Valletta 
VIEWS 2017, Deutsche Bank Foundation Award, exhibition of nominated artists, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Let's go. Yes, let's go. (They do not move), site-specific commission for Bold Tendencies, London, UK
We have the weights, we have the measures, Copperfield London, London, UK
The Dynamics of Decline, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland
 
2016
After the Rally, Studio Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Money to Burn, Zacheta National Gallery  of Art, Warsaw, Poland
The Touch,  Centre of Polish Sculpture in Oronsko at BWA Kielce, Poland
Members' Show, selected by Lynda Morris and Chris Rawcliff, Outpost, Norwich, UK
Rozproszone Widownie, Galeria Art Stations, Stary Browar, Poznań, Poland
Labour Relations, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland
Memory At Last. Art in Poland: 1989-2016, Galleria civica di Modena, Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, Italy
The Silence of Sounds, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland
Contemporary Art from Poland, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Mein
Art at first sight, FWD: gallery, Poznań, Poland
 
2015
Myth, Europe House Georgia and Center for Contemporary Art Tbilisi, Georgia
Love Me Tender, BWA, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland 
Crisis is Just a Beginning, SIC! BWA Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
State of Life. Polish Contemporary Art within a Global Circumstance, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Prohibited Acts, SURVIVAL 13. Art Review, Wrocław, Poland
Procedures for the head. Polish Art Today, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
 
2014
Diabły, Ende Neu, Galeria Biała, Centre for Culture, Lublin, Poland
People Are Strange, BWA, Olsztyn, Poland
Mediations Biennale, CK Zamek, Poznań, Poland
Wracając do Źródeł, Galeria Arsenał, Poznań, Poland
Czech Pope, Małopolski Ogród Sztuki, Kraków, Poland
As You Can See. Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
On Generation and Corruption, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice, Poland 
Czech Pope, Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic
 
2013
What Can Be Described Can Also Take Place, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Epidemic, Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland 
The Handy Ones, Arsenal Gallery, Poznań, Poland
Withered, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Warsaw: The Day After…, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania  
 
2012
Alphaville, Griffin Art Space and BWA Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland
The Impossible Heap, Galerie8, London, UK
Aaakupunktura, Kordegarda, Warsaw, Poland
Arbeitsdisziplin, Arsenal Gallery, Poznań, Poland
 
2011
Anti-Library, [ S P A C E], London, UK
The Institute of Mental Health is Burning, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport
Guerrillas, Arsenal Gallery, Poznań, Poland
MIR, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
 
2010
SHOW One, Royal College of Art, London, UK
 
2009
EASTinternational, Norwich, UK
The Voies Off Festival, Arles, France
I Like All These Pictures, Starter Gallery, Poznań, Poland
 

​
Awards
2017
Nominated for 2017 edition of the biannual Deutsche Bank Foundation Award Views 2017 for Polish artists under 36
Selected to participate in the 8th edition of Views 2017 - Deutsche Bank Award, Zachęta  National Gallery of Art