In February, the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute invited artists from Poland to apply for artistic residencies of the Solitude Exchange Network. The host curatorial jury has made its selection. We are pleased to announce the results of the recruitment.
Artistic Residencies for Polish Artists
The Solitude Exchange Network is dedicated to creators representing a transdisciplinary approach. Three artistic residencies for Polish artists have been prepared for 2025:
- at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany,
- at ARC Bucharest in Bucharest, Romania,
- at Station Service for Contemporary Dance in Belgrade, Serbia.
From among the submitted applications, curators and representatives of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art prepared shortlists, which were then presented to the host teams. The residents were selected by the host curatorial jury based on an assessment of the applications and the participants’ portfolios.
Agnieszka Mastalerz in Artistic Residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart
Agnieszka Mastalerz is a visual artist and a graduate of the Mirosław Bałka Spatial Activities Studio at the Faculty of Media Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In her practice, she focuses on mechanisms of control and processes that influence and exploit the individual. She employs a poetic visual language to explore restrictive rules established within intimate relationships, communities, states, corporations, and in relation to the natural environment. She primarily creates video works, often combining scientific imaging techniques with performative elements. Her works have been exhibited both in Poland and internationally.
Agnieszka Mastalerz, photo: David Laurent
Andrii Dostliev in Residency at ARC Bucharest
Andrii Dostliev is a Ukrainian-Polish artist, curator, and photography researcher. His main areas of interest include memory, trauma, decolonial practices in Eastern Europe, queer histories, and the boundaries of photography as a medium. In his artistic practice, he works with photography, video, drawing, performance, and installation. He was a participant in the National Pavilion of Ukraine at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
Andrii Dostliev, photo: Lia Dostlieva
Bartosz Ostrowski in Artistic Residency at Station Service for Contemporary Dance in Belgrade
BAXI Ostrowski is a choreographer engaged in transdisciplinary dialogue, developing queer and collective working methods. He is a graduate of AST in Kraków, the Warsaw Dance Department, Forum Dança in Lisbon, as well as numerous international training programmes, workshops, and symposia. He is oriented towards research in practice. He works mainly in Portugal and the Visegrad countries, dedicating himself to the interplay between art and science. He has been a resident of projects such as Nature of Us, Visegrad Fund, PLaST, and SE.S.TA. He is also the co-author of Blurrylingualism, a project at the intersection of linguistics and choreography, and Don’t pressure we already lack oxygen, a speculative exploration of post-Sovietism.
