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ALEKandra Sarna (leads a nomadic lifestyle between Łódź [PL], Newcastle [UK] and Berlin [DE]. )
Simulation artist creating site-specific virtual worlds, performances using VR/gaming technology, speculative CGI films often in the form of multimedia installations incorporating physical elements. Studies the spaces between reality, 2D and virtual 3D representation. Often rendering digital environments constructed from alternative objects within fictional or real scenarios. Her visual narratives are built on the basis of subjective perception, organization and interpretation of impressions in order to understand the surroundings in an era in which nature, humanity and technology overlaps.
At the end of 2019, together with Tommy Otonoke co-founded the performative collective at the junction of the visual and sound arts - Mŏk_pang_.
Her works are shown at exhibitions and festivals such as: Art Museum MS1 in Łódź, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Labirynt Gallery, TRAFO Trafostation of Art, Formatova Intercultural Visual Form #3, Obrońców Stalingradu 17, Agora Arts Circle, Poleski Punkt Odbioru Sztuki,, Parallel Photo Platform, 9th YYoung Triennale.
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2020 "So Long As We Still Live", 9TH Young Triennale in Oronsko, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Oronsko
2019 Videonews, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin
2019 Future Dust, Punkt Odbioru Sztuki and Poleski Ośrodek Sztuki, WI-MA, Lodz
2019 48k możliwości: lecture and performance, The Foundation of Cultural Education Ad Arte,Pawilon, Poznan
2019 Foreign Bodies, Stroboskop Art Space and Carnation Contemporary at Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2019 Screeing VIDEO IDIOM, Wet film coop and Lodz Czterech Kultur, Łódź of Four Cultures Festival, Lodz
2019 “No Budget Show” Fundacja Towot Squat, Kazimierz Dolny
2019 "CINÉ OPEN BAR avec Formatova Chez Les Grands Voisins", Intercultural Visual Form #3, Formatova, Les Grands Voisins, Paris
2019 “Commotion”, Art Museum MS1, Lodz
2019 “Hotspot_JEST”, JEST Gallery, Wroclaw
2019 “Bez Obaw i Nienawiści”, Poleski Punkt Odbioru Sztuki, Lodz
2019 "Borders of (im)materiality", Art Incubator, The Art Factory, Lodz
2018 Videonews, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin
2018 Young Wolves 18 Art Festival , TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin
(Collective Everybody Loves Somebody - Marta Krześlak, Małgorzata Pawlak, Kornel Kowalski, Alek Sarna)
2018 „Hommage á la liberté”, The Strzemiński Academy of Art Łódź, Lodz
2018 Brutal Movie Night vol. I, The Primal Uproar selection, LOOPHOLE, Berlin
2018 “The Hidden Light”, Intercultural Visual Form #3, Formatova & Kino Bodo, TU, Lodz
2018 “The Hidden Light”, Intercultural Visual Form #3, Formatova, Kino Eufemia, Warszawa
2018 “The Hidden Light” Intercultural Visual Form #3, Formatova, Projection à la Trockette, 125, Rue du Chemin Vert, Paris
2018 Primal Uproar vol. III, MS Stubnitz, Hamburg
2018 Intercultural Visual Form #3, Formatova, Paris Salon Art Contemporian & Street Art, Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris
2018 “The Hidden Light” Intercultural Visual Form #3, Cafe de la Commune Libre d’Aligre, Paris
2018 “Witamy w krainie piękna i prawdy”, Galeria ASP Piotrkowska 68, Lodz
2018 “A Łódź?”, Obrońców Stalingradu 17, Szczecin
2018 “The Hidden Light”, Intercultural Visual Form #3, Formatova, Institut français de Pologne à Cracovie, Krakow
2018 “Missing Element”, Agora Art Circle, Art Lacuna - Project Space, Wandsworth Arts Fringe, London
2018 “SNAP out of it!” Kolonia Artystów - Dolne Miasto, Gdansk
Workshops
2019 “We need mirrors” workshops on 3D and photogrammetry techniques with Philo van Kemenade, Digital Cultures - LIVING ARCHIVES, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw
2019 Welcoming New Art Forms (I was trendy once) with Joseph Cutts, Digital Cultures - LIVING ARCHIVES, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw
2019 48k możliwości with Szymon Kaliski, Marek Straszak and Ella Zwietnig, The Foundation of Cultural Education Ad Arte,
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center PSNC, Poznan
2019 VIDEO IDIOM. Summer School, Wet film coop and Lodz Czterech Kultur, Łódź of Four Cultures Festival, Lodz
2019 Performativity, choreography and carnality in the practice of visual arts. Workshops of the Art Museum at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź
with Iza Szostak, Katarzyna Słoboda, Łukasz Ogórek and Daniel Muzyczuk.
2018 Workshops: Masterclass for curators and photographers with Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger and Federico Clavarino, PARALLEL - European Photo Based
Platform & Fotofestiwal - International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Lodz
2018 “Między Zabawą, a Performancem”, 17.Międzynarodowe Warsztaty Niepokoju Twórczego Kieszeń Vincenta, Poznan
2018 Workshops with Ewa Zarzycka, Lodz
2018 OPWA Ogólnopolskiej Płaszczyzny Współpracy Akademickiej, „Intervention in the public space of the Polish Center of Sculpture in Oronsko as
a result of motivating activities in the post-avant-garde era”, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Oronsko
2018 “Warsztat Pracy” Curating workshops by Art Museum MS1 with Joanna Rajkowska, Lodz
2018 “Perform_tech” with Laura Netz, The Art Factory, Lodz
Internships
2018 Anna Uddenberg, Berlin
Scholarships
2020 Mayor of Lodz Artistic Scholarship
2019 Marschal of Lodz Artistic Scholarship
2019 Culture and National Heritage Scholarship
2018 Rector Academy of Art Scholarship
Education
2017-now MA, Visual Projects, Faculty of Visual Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz
2011-2014 First-class honours BA(Hons) of Arts in Fashion, University of Derby, United Kingdom