Anna Jarosz (b. 1996)
visual artist, filmmaker and producer based in Buenos Aires, Argentina & Cieszyn, Poland. Her main mediums are traditional textile work (lacemaking, weaving and embroidery), painting, video and sculpture.
She creates site-specific installations which transform spaces into abstract universes.
Jarosz’ work brings back to life forgotten stories of women and addresses themes related to intergenerational movement of trauma, emotional chaos and sexuality. In her latest projects, she draws from traditional Slavic folklore, mythology, and cosmology. She explores rituals passed down through generations by women in her family.
She graduated FAMU in Prague and HDK-Valand in Gothenburg. She is the initiator and curator of the GÁTT Nordic Arts Festival biennale. Together with Sanna Hirvonen she co-founded the artistic duo care and chaos whose activities focus on interspecies ecology, proposing forest as an utopian home and a space of interdependence. She has participated in the production of exhibitions and national pavilions at Venice Biennale of Art and Architecture (2022-2024).
She is a two-time recipient of the Konstnärsnämnden grant (2020, 2021), a laureate of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s Polish Culture Worldwide scholarship (2022–2024), a recipient of the Mayor of Cieszyn Scholarship (2023), a Goethe Institute residency receiver in Spain (2023), and the winner of the main prize in the visual arts category at the 17th Mobile Film Festival in Paris (2021). She is the author of exhibitions and creative projects in Europe and globally, including at MUU Contemporary Art Centre in Helsinki (2024), and City Gallery 12 in Cieszyn (2024), OKAY Space in Athens (2023), Fabrica Research Centre in Treviso (2022), International Sámi Film Institute in Venice (2022), Autograph Gallery in London (2021), Landskrona Foto Festival (2020), Helsinki Festival (2020), International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg (2020), Gallery Format in Goteborg (2019), Artsadmin London (2019), Nida Art Colony (2019), Düsseldorf Photo Weekend (2018).