Agnieszka Kurant

Kurant was born in 1978 in Łódź, Poland.{{cite book|title=Great women artists |year=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0714878775 |page=227}} She studied at the University of Łódź and holds an MA in Curating from Goldsmiths College in London.{{cite web|url=http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artists/agnieszka-kurant/series-works_10|title=Agnieszka Kurant – Artists – Tanya Bonakdar Gallery|last=exhibit-e.com|website=tanyabonakdargallery.com}} Kurant is particularly interested in “the economy of the invisible,” which she explores in her work by creating imaginary locations, information systems, facts, and realities.{{cite web|url=http://bombmagazine.org/article/171633/agnieszka-kurant|title=BOMB Magazine – Agnieszka Kurant by Sabine Russ|website=bombmagazine.org}} Her work has been exhibited widely, including the Venice Biennale 12th International Architecture Exhibition, and is in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.{{Cite news|url=https://www.designboom.com/architecture/polish-pavilion-at-venice-architecture-biennale-emergency-exit/|title=polish pavilion at venice architecture biennale: emergency exit|date=2010-08-31|work=designboom|access-date=2017-11-25}}{{cite web |title=Agnieszka Kurant: The End of Signature |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/33834 |website=Guggenheim |accessdate=28 December 2019 |date=1 January 2015}} Her work has been reviewed in major publications such as The New York Times,{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Ken|title=Agnieszka Kurant: 'Variables'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/arts/design/agnieszka-kurant-variables.html|website=The New York Times|date=9 October 2014 |accessdate=October 9, 2014}} Art in America,{{cite web|last1=Considine|first1=Austin|title=Agnieszka Kurant at Tanya Bonakdar|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/agnieszka-kurant/|website=Art in America|date=29 November 2014 |accessdate=December 3, 2014}} frieze{{cite journal |last1=Gratza |first1=Agnieszka |title=Exit Ghosts |url=https://frieze.com/article/exit-ghosts |journal=Frieze |date=21 March 2014 |issue=162 |accessdate=28 December 2019}} and Artforum,{{cite web |title=Agnieszka Kurant: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery |url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/agnieszka-kurant-48379 |website=Artforum |accessdate=28 December 2019}} where she also has been featured as a contributing writer.{{cite web|last1=Kurant|first1=Agnieszka|title=Dispatch: Art in Warsaw|url=https://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=201705&id=67927|website=Artforum}} She is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, where she lives and works.

In 2015, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum commissioned her work The End of Signature to be projected onto the outside facade of the building and accessioned it to be part of the museum's permanent collection. Her first solo exhibition in the United States, exformation, was featured at SculptureCenter in 2013 and she had a solo exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv in 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitionsExhibition.htm?id=107075|title=SculptureCenter Exhibition – Agnieszka Kurant: exformation|last=SculptureCenter|website=sculpture-center.org|access-date=2017-11-25}}{{cite web |title=Agnieszka Kurant: Assembly Line|url=https://cca.org.il/agnieszka-kurant-assembly-line-coming-soon/ |website=The Center for Contemporary Art |accessdate=28 December 2019}} In 2010, Kurant represented Poland (along with the architect Aleksandra Wasilkowska) with the presentation Emergency Exit at the Venice Biennale 12th International Architecture Exhibition. Kurant was the 2017 visiting artist at MIT.{{cite web |title=Agnieszka Kurant |url=https://arts.mit.edu/artists/agnieszka-kurant/ |website=Arts at MIT |accessdate=28 December 2019}}

In 2020, Kurant was a recipient of 2020 Art + Technology Lab grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.{{Cite web|title=2020 Art + Technology Lab Grant Recipients {{!}} Unframed|url=https://unframed.lacma.org/2020/08/13/2020-art-technology-lab-grant-recipients|access-date=2021-03-10|website=unframed.lacma.org}}

• 2017: Assembly Line, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv{{Cite web|title=Agnieszka Kurant: Assembly Line {{!}} CCA {{!}} המרכז לאמנות עכשווית|url=http://cca.org.il/agnieszka-kurant-assembly-line-coming-soon/|access-date=2021-03-10}}
• 2017–2018: Collective Intelligence, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah{{Cite web|title=Collective Intelligence|publisher=SCAD Museum of Art|url=https://www.scadmoa.org/exhibitions/2017/collective-intelligence|access-date=2021-03-10|website=scadmoa.org}}

• 2019:16th Istanbul Biennial{{Cite web|title=Agnieszka Kurant|url=https://bienal.iksv.org/en/bienal-artists/agnieszka-kurant|access-date=2021-03-10|website=bienal.iksv.org}}
• 2019: XXII Milan Triennial, Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival{{Cite web|title=Checklist|url=http://www.brokennature.org/checklist/|access-date=2021-03-10|website=brokennature.org}}
• 2020–2021: Broken Nature, MoMA, New York{{Cite web|title=Broken Nature {{!}} MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5220|access-date=2021-03-10|website=The Museum of Modern Art}}
• 2020–2021: Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, De Young Museum, San Francisco{{Cite web|date=2019-08-01|title=Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI|url=https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/uncanny-valley|access-date=2021-03-10|website=de Young}}

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