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.
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.
Ewa Axelrad, Breakblood Breaksoil Breakwater II, 2018, Soft silicone filled with air, 70 x 50 x 50 cm overall
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
Ewa Axelrad, Shtamah #1, 2017, Still frame from video, 4K resolution video, 4’ 35’’
Ewa Axelrad, Anomalia. From the series Minimum, Necessary, Objectively Reasonable, 2015 Resin, 100 x 100 x 75cm
Ewa Axelrad, Warm Leatherette, 2012, vinyl, steal, foam, 120cm x 60cm x 60cm
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 |