Iza Tarasewicz (born 1981 in Białystok) graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture and Performing Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań in 2008, and her works have gained significant recognition both in Poland and abroad. She lives and works in Kolonia Koplany, a small village near Białystok, where she grew up. She deals with sculpture, installation, drawing and performance, often inspired by rituals of rural labor and community. She has participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions internationally. In 2016, she took part in the 32nd Biennale de São Paulo, the 5th International Biennale of Young Art in Moscow and the 11th Biennial in Gwangju, and in 2018, in cooperation with Centrala, she represented Poland at the 16th Architecture Biennale in Venice. She recently took part in the 40th EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art in Limerick. She is the winner of the Bayerischen Kunstförderpreise in the field of fine arts 2019 and the winner of the 2015 Spojrzenia Views Award of the Deutsche Bank Foundation, co-organized with Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. In 2013, she was nominated for the Polityka Passport in the field of visual arts. Her sculptural installations take the form of modular, flexible, mobile, and reconfigurable display systems that combine a raw and modest functionalism with formal logics found in the natural world, agriculture, folk practices, and scientific experimentation, generating systems of material and energetic flows.
