Agnieszka Kurant

Agnieszka Kurant (born 1978) is a Polish interdisciplinary conceptual artist. She examines how economic, social, and cultural systems work in ways that blur the lines between reality and fiction.

Biography Kurant was born in 1978 in Łódź, Poland. She is of Jewish heritage, although was raised Catholic. Kurant only found out that her mother was Jewish and that her grandparents were Holocaust survivors when she was a teenager. 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.

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. Her work has been reviewed in major publications such as The New York Times, Art in America, frieze and Artforum, where she also has been featured as a contributing writer. She is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, where she lives and works. In 2010, Kurant represented Poland (along with the architect Aleksandra Wasilkowska) with the presentation Emergency Exit at the Venice Biennale 12th International Architecture Exhibition.

In 2020, Kurant was a recipient of 2020 Art + Technology Lab grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions 2017: Assembly Line, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv 2017–2018: Collective Intelligence, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah 2025: Collective Intelligence, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Group exhibitions 2019:16th Istanbul Biennial 2019: XXII Milan Triennial, Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival 2020–2021: Broken Nature, MoMA, New York 2020–2021: Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, De Young Museum, San Francisco