Joanna Piotrowska

Stable Vices

Joanna Piotrowska, installation view, Stable Vices, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Joanna Piotrowska, installation view, Stable Vices, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Joanna Piotrowska, installation view, Stable Vices, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Joanna Piotrowska, installation view, Stable Vices, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Joanna Piotrowska, installation view, Stable Vices, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Joanna Piotrowska, installation view, Stable Vices, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019, view on, Little Sunshine, 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Joanna Piotrowska, installation view, Stable Vices, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019, view on, Untitled, 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Joanna Piotrowska, installation view, Stable Vices, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019, view on, Untitled, 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Joanna Piotrowska, installation view, Stable Vices, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019, view on, Untitled, 2014. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2019

Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2014

Joanna Piotrowska, poster for the exhibition, Stable Vices, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019. Design: Lena Lüem

Exhibition text and related events (PDF)
➔ Press images (ZIP)

The black-and-white photographs and films by Joanna Piotrowska (*1985) capture the everyday drama of human relations. The Polish artist creates inexplicably strange and touching images, whose recording of gestures of care, self-protection, or control are as deftly composed as they are psychologically charged. For her first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland, the artist presents a new series of photographs, alongside recent photographs and films.

Press clippings:
Wohin am Wochenende?, Monopol (10/2019)
Fotografien von Joanna Piotrowska in der Kunsthalle Basel, Deutschlandfunk (10/2019)
Bilder aus dem polarisierten Polen, Basellandschaftliche Zeitung (10/2019)
Joanna Piotrowska, RadioX (11/2019)
Das Leben ist ein absurdes Theater, unser Körper ein unsicherer Ort, NZZ (12/2019)