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Agnieszka Kurant (Łódź, Poland, 1978) is a conceptual artist investigating collective and nonhuman intelligences and the exploitations present in digital surveillance capitalism.
Kurant is the recipient of the 2020 LACMA A+T Award, the 2019 Frontier Art Prize, and the 2021 Google AMI Award. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including Crowd Crystal at Castello di Rivoli (2021-22), Uncomputables at Hannover Kunstverein (2023), Exformation at Sculpture Center (2013) and Errorism at Kunsthal Gent and Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz (2021). In 2015 she realized a commission for the façade of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and in 2021-22 a permanent commission for the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. In 2010 she co-represented Poland in the Polish Pavilion at the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture (with A. Wasilkowska). Kurant’s works were also exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Pompidou Center and Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Istanbul Biennial; the SFMOMA, Kunsthalle Wien, Witte de With; Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Kitchen, the De Young Museum, Gamec, Bergamo, CAPC Bordeaux, Moderna Museet; Louisiana Museum, Denmark; Villa Medici, Rome; Milano Triennale; Bonner Kunstverein; Kunstverein in Hamburg; Mumok, Vienna, Mamco, Geneva;Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw; Frieze Projects, Performa Biennial and FRONT Triennial, Cleveland, among other institutions. Kurant was an artist in residence at the Berggruen Institute (2019-2021), a visiting artist at MIT CAST (2017-2020), and held a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institute (2018).
Her work will be featured in the upcoming Sydney Biennial (March 2024). Kurant’s upcoming solo exhibitions and projects include a solo show at Mudam Luxemburg (June 2024), as well as commissions for the Pompidou Center (June 2024), and for Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection in Paris (October 2024). Kurant’s monograph Collective Intelligence, co-edited by Stefanie Hessler and Jenny Jaskey will be published by Sternberg Press/ MIT Press in March 2024.