Zuzanna Hertzberg

Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland | +48 796 058 628 | zuzanna.hertzberg@gmail.com
Languages: Polish, English, basic Yiddish and Spanish

Education

2018 PhD, Graphic Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
2012-2015 Doctoral Studies, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland (supervised by prof. Leon Tarasewicz and prof. Krzysztof Wodiczko)
2007-2011 MFA with honours, Painting Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

2005-2007 BFA, Painting and Graphic Design Department, W. Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts, Łódź, Poland queer

Exhibitions

2023:
Materializing. Contemporary Art and the Shoah in Poland, Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Germany (curators Piotr Rypson, Anna Straetmans, Mirjam Zadoff)
Mechitza. Individual and Collective Resistance of Women during the Shoah, Mala Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo exhibition in the frame of 29th City of Woman Festival/curator Iva Kovac);
Mechitza, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok (solo exhibition /curator Katarzyna Różniak-Szabelska);
Seeing with the Body. Studio Gallery Collection, OP ENHEIM, Wrocław (curators Natalia Andrzejewska, Dorota Jarecka, Paulina Olszewska);
Heroism of life itself. The other side of the Monument, 16.04.2023, artivist action, Muranów District – Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, Warsaw, Poland (cooperation with Polin Museum, curator Ewa Chomicka);
Women Fighters. An Affective Archive, Studio Gallery (curators Natalia Andrzejewska, Dorota Jarecka / solo exhibition);

2022:
Mechitza. Individual And Collective Resistance Of Women During The Shoah, Center for Jewish History, New York, USA (solo exhibition);
Jewish Anarchist Women Against Hegemony
, solo show and talk, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA;
Distant Tolerable Murder, Polish-Ukrainian artistic collaboration presented in Berlin’s urban space.
Still Present, The 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Germany (curators Kader Attia and Ana Teixeira Pinto, Đỗ Tường Linh, Marie Helene Pereira, Noam Segal, and Rasha Salti);
Dififcult Pasts. Connected Worlds, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curators Margaret Tali,Ieva Astahovska, Eglė Mikalajūnė);

2021:
Inscriptions of Identity. Affinity, Difference, Gesture, Biuro Wystaw Gallery, Warsaw (curators Sarmen Beglarian, Andrzej Wajs);
In the beginning was the deed!, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok (curators Katarzyna Różniak, Post Brothers);
Languages of radical sensitivity, queer – feminist poetic slam, Zachęta – National Galery of Art, Warsaw (curators Magdalena Komornicka, Agnieszka Różyńska, Liliana Zeic);
WOMEN’S BUSINESS, Fundacja Profile Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2021, curators Bożena Czubak, Andrzej Wajs);

2020:
Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga (2020-21, curators Margaret Tali,Ieva Astahovska);
Mechitza. Chajka Grossman, artivist action on the anniversary of the outbreak of the Białystok Ghetto Uprising, Bialystok;
Mechitza. Female Fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprisings, artivist action, Ghetto Heroes Monument – Umschlagplatz Monument, Warsaw;

2019:
Individual and Organized Resistance of Women during the Holocaust, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland (curator Ewa Chomicka);
#3 act: FAITH, Love Hope Faith. In Honour of…, Biuro Wystaw Gallery, Warsaw (curators Sarmen Beglarian, Sylwia Szymaniak);
#2 act: HOPE, Love. Hope. Faith. In Honour of…, Biuro Wystaw Gallery, Warsaw (curators Sarmen Beglarian, Sylwia Szymaniak);
Touch the Art, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (curators Joanna Rentowska, Anna Szary);
100 FLAGS, Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz (curator Marta Kowalewska);
100 FLAGS for the century to obtain electoral rights by Polish women, Awangarda BWA Wrocław Gallery, Wroclaw;
#1 act: LOVE, Love Hope Faith. In Honour of…, Biuro Wystaw, Warsaw (curators Sarmen Beglarian, Sylwia Szymaniak);
Young Polish painting, National Museum in Gdansk, Department of Modern Art (curator Wojciech Zmorzyński);

2018:
Niepodległe: Women, Independence and National Discourse, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (curator Magda Lipska);
Kavaleridze. RE:VISION, Ivan Kavaleridze Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator Victoria Danelyan);
Zuzanna Ginczanka. True Life Is Only About Happiness., Lviv Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine curators Sarmen Beglarian, Sylwia Szymaniak);
Flow, W dzikiej kocham się Wiśle, Gdańsk Municipal Gallery, Gdańsk;
68 Workshops of Revolution, Teatr 8 Dnia, Poznań;

2017:
New / Newly discovered, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw;
A Microcosm Of Things: The Public And Private Lives Of Collections, Museum of Warsaw (curator Tomasz Fudala);
The 43rd Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2015, Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko – Biała (curator Grażyna Cybulska);
Plac Defilad: A Step Forward, 9th edition of the Warsaw Under Construction Festival, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (curator Barbara Piwowarska, Dorota Jarecka, Tomasz Fudala, Szymon Maliborski);
Tunnel Below / Skyjacking Above, nGbK, Berlin, Germany;
Women on Women, visual herstory performance during Festivalt, Cracow;
Minimal Impulse, balzer projects Gallery, Basel, Switzerland;
What About Abstractionism?, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw;
Biennale de La Biche, Grand cul de sac marin, 97115, Gwadeloupe, (curators Maess Anand, Alex Urso);

2016:
After The Rally, Studio Gallery, Warsaw (curators Dorota Jarecka, Barbara Piwowarska);
Unknown Variable, individual exhibition, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw (curator Michał Jachuła);
10th Triennial of Small Painting Forms, Wozownia Gallery, Toruń;
Volunteers For Freedom, spoken word performance Zuza Hertzberg with Bozena Keff based on Zuza Hertzberg art project, Center for Jewish Culture and Education in the White Stork Synagogue, Wroclaw;
Dabrowskis – Disavowed Among Disavowed, art action, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw;

2015:
The 42nd Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2015, Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko – Biała;
Czech-Polish Stars, Kubik Gallery, Litomysl, Czech Republic (curator Naomi Smolik);
Order out of Chaos, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw (curator Michał Jachuła);
Colors For The Planet, headquartes UNESCO, Paris, France;
Body and objects, Municipal Gallery, Wroclaw (curator Agnieszka Patała);

2014:
Proposed period of time, Corridor Gallery, Użhorod, Ukraine (curator Petro Ryaska);
Progress and hygiene, Zachęta – National Galery of Art, Warsaw (curator Anda Rottenberg);
Closer to Gaza, Kuhlhaus Berlin, Germany;
שטילקייט, Próżna Street 14, Warsaw (individual exhibition during 11th Singer Festival of Jewish Culture in Warsaw);
Guts, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw;
Jude, Татары,…. site-specific art , Spokojna 15, Warsaw;
Strażnicy Szabatu, Schomre Schabos, Stražci Šábesu, individual exhibition – site-specific art, old synagogue building, Cieszyn, Czech Republic;

2013:
No Budget Show %5, DKK, Lublin (curator Robert Kuśmirowski);
Everywhere is everywhere, individual exhibition, Biała Gallery, Lublin (curator Jan Gryka);

2012:
AAAcupuncture, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw (curator Mirosław Bałka);
Sick art, Jerozolima,Warsaw (curators Agnieszka Sural, Andrzej Pałys);

2011:
COMING OuT-Best 2011 Graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Sinfonia Varsovia space, Warsaw;

Scholarships and Awards
2021 The Vivian J. Prins Foundation Artistic Residency at the Center For Jewish History, New York
2021 Building memory within ‘a city of rifts’ // Facing political collaborationism – curated workshop & artistic think-tank, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020-21;
2020 Scholarship of the Fund for the Support of Creative Activity Of The Society Of Authors ZAIKS
;
2019-2021 Tarbut, a scholarship program organized by the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
2018 Kavaleridze. RE:VISION international program of artistic residences in Kyiv, Ukraine;
2017 Retreat for Jewish Artists organized by Asylum Arts and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland;
2014 Representative of Poland, 4th edition of UNESCO Art Camp Biennial – Colors of the Planet, Andorra;
2014 Workshop Innovating Science Communication at Medical Museums 2014, Leiden, Netherlands (with the art project Eugenics and Euthanasia);
2014 Scholarship of the Fund for the Support of Creative Activity Of The Society Of Authors ZAIKS
;
2013 Scholarship of the Fund for the Support of Creative Activity Of The Society Of Authors ZAIKS;
2012-2013 Scholarship of Inter-University Multimedia Program;

Institutional collections:

Warsaw Ghetto Museum, Warsaw, Poland; Studio Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; National Museum in Gdansk, Poland; Bielsk BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biała, Poland; Art Tank Collection, Warsaw, Poland; UNESCO, Paris, France; FEDA, Andorra; Tutelar Foundation, Andorra; Collection of Modern Art PKO Bank Polski, Warsaw, Poland