Kasia Fudakowski

Kasia Fudakowski (1985, London, England) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, graduating in 2006 before moving to Berlin. Her diverse and playful practice, which includes sculpture, film, performance, and writing, explores social riddles through material encounters, surreal logic and comic theory. Often referring to the allure and danger of binary categorisation and the subsequent absurdity that it unfolds in our political and social climate, her work reveals the discrepancies amongst cultural norms. Much of her work is also concerned with limitations, both real and invented, and explores how our human ability to adapt is both the reason for our survival, and for our current predicament. Where she employs comic mechanisms, the tragic is never far behind, so that her work often hovers between the horrific and the comic. Frequently the target of her own attacks, she explores her own role as an artist and the stereotype thereof with both a seriousness and irreverence typical of her approach. Her long-term infatuation with failure, and motivation to redefine success, has resulted in a number of tragi-comic performances and pieces of writing. Her first book 'The Roll of the Artist', published by Strzelecki Books in 2020. She was also a recipient of the Günther Peill Foundation grant from 2018 to 2020. Between 2019 – 2020 she participated in The Arts Maebashi residency in Japan, as well as in the BMCT residency at IKSV, Istanbul. She received the Villa Romana Fellowship in 2017 and the Fürstenberg Contemporary residency in 2016.

Fudakowski’s work has been exhibited in venues such as 25th Biennial in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, Venice; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Sprengel Museum Hannover; LOKremise – Kunstmuseum, St.Gallen; Deutsches Hygiene- Museum, Dresden; 15th Istanbul Biennial; SALTS, Basel; Kunstverein Braunschweig; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen; Museo Marino Marini, Florence; 1646, The Hague, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague; Max Pechstein Museum, Zwickau; GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin