Joanna Piotrowska, ‘Untitled’, 2026, collage, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Phillida Reid.
Join us for an artist talk in our Library with Joanna Piotrowska on the opening day of her first exhibition in Scotland, ‘A moment of darkness at noon’. Piotrowska will discuss her new exhibition, alongside her broader practice.
Piotrowska utilises photography, performance and film to examine the human condition. Her psychologically charged compositions often take place in domestic spaces and constructed environments. These ‘social landscapes’ probe unconscious actions and behavioural responses, addressing the dynamics of familial relations to explore personal expression, childhood memory, and practices of intimacy.
About the artist /
Joanna Piotrowska (b. 1985, Warsaw, Poland) lives and works in Porto, Portugal. She studied Photography at the Royal College of Art in London and Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
Recent solo exhibitions include ‘unseeing eyes, restless bodies’, ICA Philadelphia, USA (2024); ‘Entre nous’, LE BAL, Paris, France (2023); ‘Sub Rosa’, with Formafantasma, Phillida Reid, London; ‘Dreams Are The Facts From Which We Must Proceed’, Galeria Kaufhof, Urbane Kunste Ruhr, Witten, Germany (2023); ‘Sleeping Throat, Bitter Thirst’, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (2022); ‘FROWST’, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (2020); ‘Stable Vices’, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; ‘All Our False Devices’, Tate Britain, London (2019). Piotrowska’s work was included in ‘The Milk of Dreams’ at the Venice Biennale 2022 and ‘manifesto of fragility’, 16th Lyon Biennale 2022.
Event Details
Saturday 23 May 2026, 2.30–4pm
It will be followed by a preview of ‘A moment of darkness at noon’ from 4–6pm. All are welcome.
Tickets
Free. Booking is recommended to ensure a place.
Access
This event takes place in the Library and event space on the ground floor and the exhibition spaces on the second floor of 5 Florence Street.
The building has step free access and a lift to the second floor.
Accessible toilets are available.
The nearest subway station is Bridge Street, a 14 minute walk away.
