Alicja Pakosz

Born in 1996 in Tychy (Poland). Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (diploma in 2020 in the atelier of Prof. Andrzej Bednarczyk). In 2018-2019 she studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg.

Currently she is a first year PhD student at the Doctoral School of the Pedagogical University of Cracow in the discipline of Fine Arts and Conservation of Works of Art. The topic of her doctoral dissertation, carried out under the supervision of dr hab. Michał Zawada, prof. ASP, is An unrealized fantasy. The political potential of imaging individual and collective fantasy.

The topics she explores are: the gap between collective memory and history, politics of memory and its impact on the present and future, national identity (the emergence of the concept of nation), attempts to predict the future and labour and its relationship with the individual. She works in the technique of painting, sculpture and large-format diorama.

Portfolio: https://alicjapakosz.pl/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alicja.pakosz/