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Anna Raczyńska is a visual artist, born in 1990 in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, currently living and working in Leipzig, Germany. 

Her extensive portfolio encompasses a variety of artistic forms, including objects, digital prints, 3D animations, sculptures, and immersive installations. Raczyńska has a remarkable ability to transform everyday objects into profound forms of expression by reshaping their form, materiality, and scale. In her creative process, she masterfully balances ironic gestures with profound explorations of materials, weaving a narrative that continually engages and challenges the viewer. 

As an artist she has increasingly devoted herself to socially relevant themes, thus also making direct autobiographical references: themes – which are specific in Poland due to the ongoing transformation of former socialist structures into neoliberal capitalism. Contradictions such as „East vs West”, “Analog vs Digital” or „Countryside meets City”, but also reinterpret traditions and semiotics in the Digital Age, are the formal and thematic focus of the examination of the installation’s materials. 

In addition to numerous group exhibitions among others in Germany, Poland, England, the Netherlands and France, and solo and duo exhibitions in Leipzig, Deventer, Paris, Braunschweig and Wrocław, recent purchases of her work by the The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art Republic of Germany (Bundeskunstsammlung) and the the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (KDFS). She has been awarded international residencies in France, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Bulgaria. Since October 2021, she has been working as an artistic associate at the HGB Leipzig, where she co-teaches the class for installation and space with Prof. Joachim Blank.

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