Dimensions: 180 x 265 cm
Origin
Visiting Gallery, Warsaw
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
"Views 2017 - Deutsche Bank Award," Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 9.09-12.11.2017.
Agata Kus. "Flammable Hydrogen," Visiting Gallery, Warsaw, 21.09-30.10.2018.
"Agata Kus Horror Picture Show", Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, 7.12.2019-19.01.2020
Literature
Juliusz Galkowski, Spojrzenia'17 - still in the right direction, "Teologia Polityczna," 15.10.2017 (il.), online: https://teologiapolityczna.pl/spojrzenia%E2%80%9917-nadal-w-dobrym-kierunku [accessed 25.10.2024].
Artist's Studio. Views, "Shum," 8.09.2017 (il.), online: https://magazynszum.pl/studio-artysty-spojrzenia/ [accessed 25.10.2024]
Zachęta - November, December 2017, January 2018, edited by Dorota Karaszewska et al, Warsaw 2017, nlb. (il.), online: https://zacheta.art.pl/public/upload/mediateka/pdf/59f8489a01122.pdf [accessed: 25.10.2024].
Stach Szabłowski, Reżysując obrazy, czyli malarstwo niewinnych czarodziejów, "Przekrój", 14.01.2020 (il.), online: https://przekroj.org/sztuka-opowiesci/rezyserujac-obrazy-czyli-malarstwo-niewinnych-czarodziejow/ [accessed 25.10.2024].
Art Bunker. Agata Kus Picture Horror Show, interview by Marta Dylich, "Wyborcza.pl (Kraków)," 21.12.2019 (ill.), online: https://krakow.wyborcza.pl/krakow/7,44425,25533047,kobiety-na-plotnie.html [accessed 25.10.2024].
Agata Kus Horror Picture Show, exhibition catalog, Bunkier Sztuki, ed. by Delfina Yalowik, Kraków 2020, pp. 7, 92-93 (ill.).
Biography
Agata Kus works in painting, drawing, ceramics and video. She is a graduate and PhD student of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. In 2012 she defended her diploma in Prof. Leszek Misiak's studio, and in 2018 she received her PhD. She has received numerous awards and scholarships. She is a winner of the 2015 WRO International Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw. In 2017, she was nominated for the Deutsche Bank and Zacheta "Views" Award. In 2011 and 2018, she was a finalist for the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation Prize. In 2021, she won first place in the Kompas Młodej Sztuki ranking published in "Rzeczpospolita". Her works are in public collections including the National Museum in Gdansk, the Museum of Contemporary Art MOCAK in Krakow or the collection of the Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, as well as in numerous private collections in Poland and abroad.
