Agata Bogacka's abstract paintings are characterised by competing planes of colour in constant states of transition, creating formal imbalances and tensions. The compositions enact dialogues, negotiations and conflicts by visualising the structural dynamics that underpin all levels of human experience. Bogacka's mesmerising abstraction developed from the Post-Pop figurative approach of her early career, that entailed a dissolving of boundaries between figure and space, or signifier and signified, in a methodology that found a broad context with the practices of the Grupa Ładnie and Wilhelm Sasnal. Although Bogacka's vocabulary became increasingly abstract and reduced over time, traces of earlier work are perceptive in her concise use of colour and suffusion with concerns that are both profoundly personal and sociopolitical.
Agata Bogacka (b. 1976, Poland) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2001. Recent exhibitions include Conflict Enabler, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznań, Poland (2024); Stories of Lasting (with Iza Tarasewicz), Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2023); Fields of Conflict, Edel Assanti, London, UK (2022); Divided View, BWA Tarnów, Tarnów, Poland (2021); Do You Realise There is a Rainbow Even if it’s Night? City Art Centre (MOS), Gorzów, Poland (2021); Instant Archives. Instant and Instax in Poland, National Museum, Gdańsk, Poland (2021); Paint Also Known as Blood. Women, Affect and Desire in Contemporary Painting, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland (2019). Her work is held in public collections including, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland; National Museum, Gdańsk, Poland; The ING Polish Art Foundation, Warsaw, Poland; Museum Jerke, Recklinghausen, Germany. Bogacka lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
