Agnieszka Szczotka

April–May 2025
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This spring, we have invited Agnieszka Szczotka to the Roberts Institute of Art Residency in Scotland.

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Agnieszka Szczotka is a Polish-born performance artist based between the UK and Poland. Concerned with the politics and potentialities of the body, Szczotka’s carefully staged work contests the stability of narrative, whether personal or sociohistorical. Her writing carries layers of translation, memory and tradition through which language becomes a supple, absurdist plaything.

Mining the grotesque, erotic, quotidian and transcendent, Agnieszka’s personas channel varied spirits, from the artist’s grandmother and her beloved Western-imported romance novellas to the decapitated head of Lady Jane Grey.
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While in residence, Agnieszka will further develop her writing and performance practice, and will aim to draw on the rural surroundings as she reflects on possible new directions in her work.

Agnieszka Szczotka

Agnieszka Szczotka (b. Lubaczów, Poland) lives and works between the UK and Poland. She studied Sculpture at Camberwell College of Arts and completed a postgraduate diploma at the Royal Academy Schools in 2021. Recent projects and performances have been presented at Mare Karina, Venice; FACT, Liverpool; New Contemporaries, Firstsite, Colchester, as well as South London Gallery; Studio Voltaire; Workplace; Copperfield; Cooke Latham Gallery and CIRCA, London. Residencies include Palazzo Monti; New Writing with New Contemporaries and Hospitalfield and Xenia Residency. Szczotka has been published in English and Polish in titles including Fieldnotes, Prototype and Zwykłe Życie.

Image Credits

Portrait by Peter Mallet

Agnieszka Szczotka, Review, 2021. Performance. Photo: Katarzyna Perlak

Agnieszka Szczotka, Władysław's Teeth, 2019. Archival pigment print mounted on aluminium

Cathie Pilkington Selects
Agnieszka Szczotka, Just because your chicken dances upon impact it doesn’t mean it is still alive, 2021

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Martyn Cross

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Clare Woods

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Des Hughes

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