_bio
Iza Koczanowska is an artist, researcher and interior architect based between Amsterdam and Warsaw. She approaches beaches, coastlines, tourist sites and post-mining landscapes as interiors, asking who, human and more-than-human, inhabits and shapes them, and examining their geopolitics. Her fieldwork is a practice of walking, listening and performing, a form of tourism built on proximity, care and material borrowing. Through satire and poetics, she and the matter she works with unsettle the human fantasy of conquest while taking seriously the longing for escape, her own included.
Their work is site- and context-specific, drawing on the materiality and memory of the places she researches: sound, biomaterials and stories. The installations, often unstable and opaque, respond to the complexity of the ground they come from. Combined with speculative technologies, they renegotiate how places are inhabited, narrated and remembered, and by whom.
She studied Intermedia Arts and Interior Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, including an Erasmus exchange at ENSAPC Paris-Cergy, and holds an MA cum laude from MIARD at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. She has been an artist in residence at Arcus Project in Japan, Snehta in Athens and Sesama in Yogyakarta. Her works have been exhibited at Dutch Design Week, the Festival Law of the Desert and the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, as well as in solo exhibitions at the Living Room Gallery in Athens. Alongside her artistic practice, she designs stage sets, interiors and environments for new media.
Iza Koczanowska is an artist, researcher and interior architect based between Amsterdam and Warsaw. She approaches beaches, coastlines, tourist sites and post-mining landscapes as interiors, asking who, human and more-than-human, inhabits and shapes them, and examining their geopolitics. Her fieldwork is a practice of walking, listening and performing, a form of tourism built on proximity, care and material borrowing. Through satire and poetics, she and the matter she works with unsettle the human fantasy of conquest while taking seriously the longing for escape, her own included.
Their work is site- and context-specific, drawing on the materiality and memory of the places she researches: sound, biomaterials and stories. The installations, often unstable and opaque, respond to the complexity of the ground they come from. Combined with speculative technologies, they renegotiate how places are inhabited, narrated and remembered, and by whom.
She studied Intermedia Arts and Interior Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, including an Erasmus exchange at ENSAPC Paris-Cergy, and holds an MA cum laude from MIARD at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. She has been an artist in residence at Arcus Project in Japan, Snehta in Athens and Sesama in Yogyakarta. Her works have been exhibited at Dutch Design Week, the Festival Law of the Desert and the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, as well as in solo exhibitions at the Living Room Gallery in Athens. Alongside her artistic practice, she designs stage sets, interiors and environments for new media.
_contact
@islaparadis
izakoczanowska@gmail.com
+31 6 29798724
_sound, video, places
soundcloud.com/izakoczanowska
vimeo.com/izakoczanowska
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_writings
Sanatorium
Bulky Waste Unit
Ugly Beach
@islaparadis
izakoczanowska@gmail.com
+31 6 29798724
_sound, video, places
soundcloud.com/izakoczanowska
vimeo.com/izakoczanowska
︎
_writings
Sanatorium
Bulky Waste Unit
Ugly Beach
