Magdalena Lazar

born 1965, Ruda Śląska.

Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. Lives and works in Kraków.

Lazar is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the archaeology of the present, failed utopias, and the cultural codes imposed on natural forms. She draws attention to what is usually marginalized or hidden. Her practice often combines delicate, intuitive observation with physically demanding techniques such as metallurgy and welding. Through materiality and meticulous craft, Lazar examines the tension between destruction and regeneration, between sterility and contamination. She is interested in non-systematic, sensory forms of knowledge: intuition, corporeality and embodied memory.

Her work suggests that real transformation begins where we dare to look into the overlooked and to immerse ourselves in what seems fragile, messy, or impure.

Selected solo exhibitions

2024, Luminous Barters, Moist Coalitions, BWA Krosno, Krosno,

2023, COCO DE MER, as part of Cracow Art Week Krakers, BWA ZBK, Cracow,

2019, Laboratory of Living Sentiments, MeetFactory, Prague,

2019, Silver – White Inhale / Cobalt Exhale, Art Agenda Nova, Cracow,

2017, ASMR, Śmierć Człowieka Gallery, Warsaw,

2014, Very Low Frequency, The Grey House Gallery, Cracow,

2013, Something Remained, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow,

2012, Without Us, Photomonth in Krakow Festival, Kathedra Gallery, Cracow,

Selected group exhibitions

2025, Do Not Fear the Shadows, Art Agenda Nova, Cracow,

2025, Bliss, bliss gallery, Warsaw,

2025, Merging, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw,

2024, Bodies On The Edge Of The Echo Chamber, Prague,

2024, FLOW/PRZEPŁYW, EL Gallery, Elbląg,

2024, Every Stream, Every Pulse, Every Vein, Jak zapomnieć Gallery, Cracow,

2023, Apparently Small Significance of Puddles, Art Walk Gallery, Warsaw,

2023, Bodies On The Edge Of The Echo Chamber, Jedna Dva Tři Gallery, Petrohradská kolektiv, Prague,

2022, Wawel Castle Centre for Contemporary Art: The First Decade, Temporary Gallery, Cologne,

2022, There Used to Be a River Here, Piana Gallery, Cracow,

2021, Sabat, (as artist and curator), Podbrzezie Gallery, Cracow,

2021, Songs of Puddles, Małachowski Square 2021, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw,

2021, Narracje Festival 12: Gdańsk 2080. Futurological Congress, Gdańsk,

2021, Unrealised Projects of “Polish Art” of the Last Decade, Cricoteka, Cracow,

2021, Guilty Pleasure – Hidden Pleasures in Music, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice,

2020, Frieze and Emblem. A Practical Manifesto of New Art Forms in Polish Schools, Pamoja Foundation, Warsaw,

2020, Pandemic Consequence: Dreams, Serce Człowieka Gallery, Warsaw,

2020, The Vistula is Burning, (as artist and curator), National Museum in Cracow, Cracovia Hotel, Cracow,

2019, Most of All, Don’t Go into the Forest, Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin,

2018, Award of the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Cracow,