Iza Tarasewicz Studio (@izatarasewicz)

Happy to share existing news. My solo show in the ground floor at Secession is planned on 4.12.2026 – 21.2.2027 Curated by Bettina Spörr#secessioneviennese #izatarasewicz #

Planetary Peasants 23.05-14.09.2025, Moritzburg Art Museum Halle, Germany In 2025, the end of the German Peasants’ War marks its 500th anniversary. This serves as the occasion for a contemporary artistic exploration. Based on the conditions and unresolved questions of the historical events, the project examines the state of globalized agriculture, the realities of farmers’ lives today, and the relevance of the demands made in 1525. The exhibition Planetary Peasants, a collaboration between the Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and Werkleitz, presents 30 contemporary artistic positions from May 23 to September 14, 2025, at Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale). Cooperation
Saxony-Anhalt Cultural Foundation, Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale)
Werkleitz Artists:  Lara Almarcegui (Spain/Netherlands), Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán (Romania/Austria), Mabe Bethônico (Brazil/Switzerland), Tega Brain (Australia/US) & Sam Lavigne (US), Viktor Brim (Germany), Enzo Camacho (Philippines/Germany) & Ami Lien (US), Chto Delat (Russia/Germany), Liu Chuang (China), Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann (Germany), Fernando García-Dory & INLAND (Spain), Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad (India), Olivier Guesselé-Garai (France/Germany), Tamás Kaszás (Hungary), Luisa Keintzel (Germany), Yelta Köm (Turkey/Germany), Ulrike Kuschel (Germany), Lutz & Guggisberg (Switzerland), Antje Majewski (Germany), Edgardo Navarro (Mexico/Germany), Ilona Németh (Hungary/Slovakia), Elske Rosenfeld (Germany), Dread Scott (US), Mikołaj Sobczak (Poland/Germany), Åsa Sonjasdotter (Sweden/Germany) & Daniela Zambrano Almidòn (Peru/Germany), Iza Tarasewicz (Poland), Total Refusal, Sarah Fichtinger & Nikola Supukovic (Austria), Helena Uambembe & Lindokuhle Nkosi (South Africa), Waman Wasi (Peru), Michael Wang (US). Artistic Directors
Thomas Bauer-Friedrich, Daniel Herrmann Curators
Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale): Övül Ö. Durmusoglu, Joanna Warsza
Werkleitz: Daniel Herrmann, Alexander Klose, Edit Molnár, Marcel Schwierin @werkleitz @kunstmuseum_moritzburg Iza Tarasewicz Ruins and Promises, 2022, installation view, 2025 © Iza Tarasewicz, Photo: Michel Klehm

Laguna Body horror TR, Warsaw I had chance to collaborate few months ago with talented Paweł Sakowicz @pawelsakowicz as a director and choreographer, Ania Herbut @ankaherbut as author of a text and dramaturgy, Justyna Stasiowska as sound designer, Jacqueline Sobiszewski @jacwarsaw as a lights director, Milena Liebe @milenaliiiebe as a costumes designer and absolutely extraordinary actors Dobromir Dymecki @dobromirdymecki as a Norman, Mateusz Górski @tadevszz as a Roman , Natalia Kalita @nastkakalita as A Harper, Rafał Maćkowiak @rafalmackowiak_official as a JJan, Sebastian Pawlak @sebastian_pawlak_official as XX, Agnieszka Żulewska @mniam_mniam_kid as a Debora. Why invent monsters when fear is everywhere? Why be afraid of things that you know don’t exist? What do you really enjoy when you see fictional worlds crumble right before your eyes and how does this relate to your own sense of danger? “Laguna“ grows out of a fascination with horror and its cathartic potential. It takes advantage of your weakness for stories and images that attract and repel at the same time, making your heart beat faster and your neck tingle.——— direction and choreography: Paweł Sakowicz text and dramaturgy: Anka Herbut stage design: Iza Tarasewicz costumes: Milena Liebe sound design: Justyna Stasiowska lights director: Jacqueline Sobiszewski director’s assistant: Piotr Piotrowicz stage managers: Wojciech Sobolewski, Alicja Zalewska production manager: Aleksandra Szklarczyk cast: Dobromir Dymecki, Mateusz Górski, Natalia Kalita, Rafał Maćkowiak, Sebastian Pawlak, Agnieszka Żulewska Photography by @filippreis Last chance to see theatre performance in the fall in TR Warsaw and then in Scotland @trwarszawa

🌾🛰️ »There are more questions than answers.« 
Iza Tarasewicz stellt mit Ruins and Promises eine grundlegende Frage: Was passiert, wenn traditionelle landwirtschaftliche Praktiken und neue Technologien aufeinanderprallen?
Die Arbeit denkt über das Verhältnis von Mensch, Natur und Fortschritt nach – über Zukunftsversprechen, die oft den Kontakt zur Gegenwart verlieren. / What happens when traditional farming practices collide with satellite-driven futures?
In Ruins and Promises, Iza Tarasewicz explores the tensions between memory, land, and technological ambition—questioning what is gained and what’s forgotten in the name of progress. 📍 Laufzeit / On view: bis / until 14.09.2025 Aufnahme & Schnitt: @timnowitzki_cc Sound Design: @avw.289 Mehr Infos / more information: planetarische-bauern.de (link in bio @werkleitz @kunstmuseum_moritzburg) Kooperation @kulturstiftung_sachsenanhalt @kunstmuseum_moritzburg @werkleitz Teil der Landesausstellung Sachsen-Anhalt Gerechtigkeyt 1525 / Part of the state exhibition Saxony-Anhalt Gerechtigkeyt 1525 #Gerechtigkeyt #Gerechtigkeyt1525 #planetarischebauern #planetarypeasants

Laguna Body horror TR, Warsaw I had chance to collaborate few months ago with talented Paweł Sakowicz @pawelsakowicz as a director and choreographer, Ania Herbut @ankaherbut as author of a text and dramaturgy, Justyna Stasiowska as sound designer, Jacqueline Sobiszewski @jacwarsaw as a lights director, Milena Liebe @milenaliiiebe as a costumes designer and absolutely extraordinary actors Dobromir Dymecki @dobromirdymecki as a Norman, Mateusz Górski @tadevszz as a Roman , Natalia Kalita @nastkakalita as A Harper, Rafał Maćkowiak @rafalmackowiak_official as a JJan, Sebastian Pawlak @sebastian_pawlak_official as XX, Agnieszka Żulewska @mniam_mniam_kid as a Debora. Why invent monsters when fear is everywhere? Why be afraid of things that you know don’t exist? What do you really enjoy when you see fictional worlds crumble right before your eyes and how does this relate to your own sense of danger? “Laguna“ grows out of a fascination with horror and its cathartic potential. It takes advantage of your weakness for stories and images that attract and repel at the same time, making your heart beat faster and your neck tingle.——— direction and choreography: Paweł Sakowicz text and dramaturgy: Anka Herbut stage design: Iza Tarasewicz costumes: Milena Liebe sound design: Justyna Stasiowska lights director: Jacqueline Sobiszewski director’s assistant: Piotr Piotrowicz stage managers: Wojciech Sobolewski, Alicja Zalewska production manager: Aleksandra Szklarczyk cast: Dobromir Dymecki, Mateusz Górski, Natalia Kalita, Rafał Maćkowiak, Sebastian Pawlak, Agnieszka Żulewska Last chance to see theatre performance in the fall in TR Warsaw and then in Scotland @trwarszawa photography by @filippreis

Summer #baselsocialclub2024

THE OLDENBURG GLEANERS SOCIETY CLUB 30.04.2025 - 09.06.2025 “Gleaning” traditionally refers to the practice of collecting surplus crops following a harvest and redistributing them to people in need. The act of gleaning was common from biblical times up until the eighteenth century. It was a strategy of survival and resourcefulness, essential to those marginalized by the emerging forces of capitalism: widows and orphans, the poor and the expropriated, newcomers and exiles. The Oldenburg Gleaners Society Club,curated by Sebastian Cichocki – building on his experience curating the 40th EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art – extends this idea of “gleaning,” which alternately serves as an artistic subject, a metaphor, and a curatorial methodology.    With works by: Orla Barry, Kim Beom, Kasper Bosmans, Jeamin Cha, Mitsutoshi Hanaga, Tamás Kaszás, Krisztián Kristóf, and The Randomroutines, Eustachy Kossakowski, Sharon Lockhart, Deirdre O’Mahony, Peter Nadin & Natsuko Uchino & Aimée Toledano, Rory Pilgrim, Iza Tarasewicz, Natsuko Uchino, Jennifer Walshe. Curated by Sebastian Cichocki @sebastian.cichocki @o_o_o_r_l_a @uchinonatsuko

“The Neurobiology of Love” group show at Krupa Art Foundation curated by Boris Ondreička I am showing „The Means, The Milieu III” , 2014-2015 415 cm x 225 cm x 170  cm March 14 – June 1, 2025 Krupa Art Foundation | Rynek 27/28, Wrocław Artists: Szilvia Bolla, Joey Holder, Denisa Lehocká, Ursula Mayer, Luboš Plný, Iza Tarasewicz “The Neurobiology of Love” merges art and science, exploring the intersections of neuroaesthetics, corporeality, and the emotional processes of perception. At the same time, “Struck” focuses on power, ritual, and control embedded in the experience of love. Complementing “The Neurobiology of Love,” the immersive experience “In the Dark Depths of Love” uses film projections to examine love as a strategy for protection against trauma and a world in crisis. Photography taken by Alicja Kielan, Krupa Art Foundation. @alicja.kielan @krupa_art_foundation @borisondreicka @gunianowikgallery

Yellow Coal 2016-2024 Iza Tarasewicz Site specific installation Clay, ochre pigment, steel CK Zamek, Poznan, Poland from 19.10.2024 to 9.02.2025 Titled Yellow Coal installation references a short story by the Polish-Ukrainian author Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky from 1939, where a society channels bad feelings, anger, suffering, and negativity into a limitless energy resource. This work is perhaps the most political in my oeuvre and describes in a metaphorical way the chaos and turbulence we are in today, in many dimensions, be it private or public. Part of historical show Illusions of Omnipotence: Architecture and Daily Life under German Occupation curator: Aleksandra Paradowska exhibition design: Wojciech Luchowski visual identity: Piotr Kacprzak curatorial cooperation: Annika Wienert historical consultation: Christhardt Henschel,Katarzyna Woniak production: Bartosz Wiśniewski organiser: ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznań partners: German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Max Weber Foundation @ckzamek @ola.paradowska @izatarasewicz. documentation Tomek Koszewnik The Polish-Ukrainian writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s 1939 short story Yellow Coal describes a world stricken with a climate and energy crises and recounts the discovery of a new global energy source, cheaper and more plentiful than anything else: human spite, anxiety, hatred, aggression, and suffering, the immaterial residue of nasty interactions concentrated into limitless power. To tap this energy, society redesigns private and public space and social interactions to induce bad feelings and proliferates “absorberators” to channel these streams of animosity and anger on local and global scales. Given the reality that, at many different and enmeshed levels, the world today is in a state of continuous crisis, this prognosticating satire offers a unique solution to our own political and ecological emergencies. Tapping into the infinite, sustainable, and renewable resource of socio-psychic trauma, the story turns our excess of hardship into an optimistic one and imagines new socio-technical arrangements within an increasingly nervous world. Post Brothers

Planetary Peasants 22.05-14.09.2025 In 2025, the 500th anniversary of the end of the German Peasants’ War provides an opportunity for a contemporary artistic exploration. This project examines the historical context and unresolved questions of the events of 1525, reflecting on the state of globalized agriculture, the lived realities of farmers today, and the continuing relevance of the demands made in 1525.The special exhibition Planetarische Bauern (Planetary Peasants), a collaboration between the Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and Werkleitz, presents 30 international artistic positions from May 23 to September 14, 2025 at the Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale). Participating artists and collectives: LARA ALMARCEGUI (ES/NL), ANCA BENERA & ARNOLD ESTEFÁN (RO/AT), MABE BETHÔNICO (BR/CH), ENZO CAMACHO (PH/DE) & AMI LIEN (US), TEGA BRAIN (AU/US)& SAM LAVIGNE (US), VIKTOR BRIM (DE), LIU CHUANG (CN), CHTO DELAT(RU/DE), ALICE CREISCHER & ANDREAS SIEKMANN (DE), FERNANDO GARCÍA-DORY (ES), GAURI GILL & RAJESH VANGAD (IN), OLIVIER GUESSELÉ-GARAI (FR/DE), TAMÁS KASZÁS (HU), LUISA KEINTZEL (DE), YELTA KÖM (TK/DE), ULRIKE KUSCHEL (DE), LUTZ & GUGGISBERG (CH), MADEYOULOOK (ZA), ANTJE MAJEWSKI (DE), EDGARDO NAVARRO (MX/DE), ILONA NÉMETH (HU/SK), ÅSA SONJASDOTTER (SE/DE) & DANIELA ZAMBRANO ALMIDÒN (PE/DE), IZA TARASEWICZ (PL), TOTAL REFUSAL & SARAH FICHTINGER (AT), ELSKE ROSENFELD (DE), DREAD SCOTT (US), MIKOŁAJ SOBCZAK (PL/DE), HELENA UAMBEMBE (ZA), MICHAEL WANG (US), WAMAN WASI (PE) Cooperation Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale) Werkleitz Artistic Director Thomas Bauer-Friedrich Daniel Herrmann Curatorial team Werkleitz Alexander Klose, Edit Molnár, Marcel Schwierin Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale) Övül Ö. Durmusoglu, Joanna Warsza Kuratiertes Begleitprogramm Maximilian Lehner @werkleitz @kunstmuseum_moritzburg #planetarypeasants, #planetarischebauern, and #gerechtigkeyt

ARENA III, Iza Tarasewicz, Is it stable? Yes. Is it unstable? Yes, again. Unstable? Yes, again., 2024, Common Arts Foundation, Warsaw, Poland, exhibition view, photo: Franciszek Buchner. Courtesy Common Arts Foundation The title Arena III is a reference to the gathering places known from antiquity – amphitheaters and stadiums, places intended for political activity, entertainment, debates and gatherings. Iza Tarasewicz’s large-scale work premiered in 2018 at the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art. The artist then hung an 800-meter silicone rope on the façade of the Zachęta building, appropriating and rearranging its space. The work was created at a time when subsequent cultural institutions were being taken over by the right-wing government. Although it was not intended to be anyone's voice, it inevitably became a vehicle for the current political turbulence. The subsequent editions of "Arena III" in Poland and abroad were not only an expression of the artist's need to mark her presence and take over the space with the installation, but also of concern about the continuity and safety of culture. Moved from a public institution that was extremely important for Polish culture to city galleries that have a significant impact on the local fabric (State Art Gallery, Sopot; Arsenał Gallery, Białystok; Kaunas Artists House, Kaunas), and then to a place financed from the city budget but run by artists for artists (Skala Gallery, Poznań), the work will ultimately be presented in a private gallery belonging to a foundation supported by private funds. After being moved to the closed rooms of the gallery, the originally monumental, façade work becomes a three-dimensional loop reminiscent of entrails that seize the entire space with their knots. The path that “Arena III” had to take is as important as the work itself – its journey reveals the complexity of the issue of state and private patronage in supporting culture in Poland.

Life on Earth is evil. I did love you once., 2024
hemp fiber dyed with indigo and turmeric natural dye, galvanized steel frame
32 x 22.5 cm Iza Tarasewicz Eternal Machine
Sep 26 – Nov 23, 2024 Gunia Nowik Gallery Bracka 20a, Warsaw, Poland @gunianowikgallery @izatarasewicz