Agnieszka Kurant

Agnieszka Kurant (b. 1987, Łódź), whose works explore contemporary phenomena such as artificial intelligence and the relationship between the digital and biological worlds, has been invited to produce a new installation for the Henry J. and Erna D. Leir Pavilion. The exhibition gathers a series of new and existing works, such as Alien Internet (2023), a piece composed of ferrofluid – a black inorganic substance invented by NASA in 1963 – suspended in an electromagnetic field, whose shape changes in response to data collected by digital technologies on the migration and interactions of animals in the world.

Biography

Agnieszka Kurant (b. 1978, Łódź, Poland) has presented solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover (2023); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2022); Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (2021); Design Museum Gent, Ghent (2019); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2017); SculptureCenter, New York (2013) and Stroom den Haag, The Hague (2013). In 2015, she was invited to create a work for the façade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Her works have recently been shown in group exhibitions at the Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles (2023); Palazzo Bollani, Venice as part of the 59th Venice Biennale (2022); Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg (2021) and Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020). The artist participated in residencies at the Berggruen Institute, Los Angeles, in 2020–21 and the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, Cambridge, from 2017 to 2019. She lives and works in New York.