Zuzanna Hertzberg
Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland | +48 796 058 628 | zuzanna.hertzberg@gmail.com
Languages: Polish, English, basic Yiddish and Spanish
Education
2018 PhD, Graphic Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
2012-2015 Doctoral Studies, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland (supervised by prof. Leon Tarasewicz and prof. Krzysztof Wodiczko)
2007-2011 MFA with honours, Painting Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
2005-2007 BFA, Painting and Graphic Design Department, W. Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts, Łódź, Poland queer
Exhibitions
2024:
Tribute to Ruchla, Lea, „Ziula” Pacanowska, series Jewish Shmates, 29.08.2024, the artivist action on the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, Lodz, Poland.
Summoning Lilith, Pro Choice / Pro Abo artivist action in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland.
Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn (curators Margaret Tali, Ieva Astahovska);
Seeing with the Body. Studio Gallery Collection, Studio Gallery (curators Natalia Andrzejewska, Dorota Jarecka);
2023:
Materializing. Contemporary Art and the Shoah in Poland, Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Germany (curators Piotr Rypson, Anna Straetmans, Mirjam Zadoff)
Mechitza. Individual and Collective Resistance of Women during the Shoah, Mala Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo exhibition in the frame of 29th City of Woman Festival/curator Iva Kovac);
Mechitza, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok (solo exhibition /curator Katarzyna Różniak-Szabelska);
Seeing with the Body. Studio Gallery Collection, OP ENHEIM, Wrocław (curators Natalia Andrzejewska, Dorota Jarecka, Paulina Olszewska);
Heroism of life itself. The other side of the Monument, 16.04.2023, artivist action, Muranów District – Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, Warsaw, Poland (cooperation with Polin Museum, curator Ewa Chomicka);
Women Fighters. An Affective Archive, Studio Gallery (curators Natalia Andrzejewska, Dorota Jarecka / solo exhibition);
2022:
Mechitza. Individual And Collective Resistance Of Women During The Shoah, Center for Jewish History, New York, USA (solo exhibition);
Jewish Anarchist Women Against Hegemony, solo show and talk, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA;
Distant Tolerable Murder, Polish-Ukrainian artistic collaboration presented in Berlin’s urban space.
Still Present, The 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Germany (curators Kader Attia and Ana Teixeira Pinto, Đỗ Tường Linh, Marie Helene Pereira, Noam Segal, and Rasha Salti);
Dififcult Pasts. Connected Worlds, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curators Margaret Tali,Ieva Astahovska, Eglė Mikalajūnė);
2021:
Inscriptions of Identity. Affinity, Difference, Gesture, Biuro Wystaw Gallery, Warsaw (curators Sarmen Beglarian, Andrzej Wajs);
In the beginning was the deed!, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok (curators Katarzyna Różniak, Post Brothers);
Languages of radical sensitivity, queer – feminist poetic slam, Zachęta – National Galery of Art, Warsaw (curators Magdalena Komornicka, Agnieszka Różyńska, Liliana Zeic);
WOMEN’S BUSINESS, Fundacja Profile Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2021, curators Bożena Czubak, Andrzej Wajs);
2020:
Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga (2020-21, curators Margaret Tali,Ieva Astahovska);
Mechitza. Chajka Grossman, artivist action on the anniversary of the outbreak of the Białystok Ghetto Uprising, Bialystok;
Mechitza. Female Fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprisings, artivist action, Ghetto Heroes Monument – Umschlagplatz Monument, Warsaw;
2019:
Individual and Organized Resistance of Women during the Holocaust, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland (curator Ewa Chomicka);
#3 act: FAITH, Love Hope Faith. In Honour of…, Biuro Wystaw Gallery, Warsaw (curators Sarmen Beglarian, Sylwia Szymaniak);
#2 act: HOPE, Love. Hope. Faith. In Honour of…, Biuro Wystaw Gallery, Warsaw (curators Sarmen Beglarian, Sylwia Szymaniak);
Touch the Art, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (curators Joanna Rentowska, Anna Szary);
100 FLAGS, Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz (curator Marta Kowalewska);
100 FLAGS for the century to obtain electoral rights by Polish women, Awangarda BWA Wrocław Gallery, Wroclaw;
#1 act: LOVE, Love Hope Faith. In Honour of…, Biuro Wystaw, Warsaw (curators Sarmen Beglarian, Sylwia Szymaniak);
Young Polish painting, National Museum in Gdansk, Department of Modern Art (curator Wojciech Zmorzyński);
2018:
Niepodległe: Women, Independence and National Discourse, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (curator Magda Lipska);
Kavaleridze. RE:VISION, Ivan Kavaleridze Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine (curator Victoria Danelyan);
Zuzanna Ginczanka. True Life Is Only About Happiness., Lviv Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine curators Sarmen Beglarian, Sylwia Szymaniak);
Flow, W dzikiej kocham się Wiśle, Gdańsk Municipal Gallery, Gdańsk;
68 Workshops of Revolution, Teatr 8 Dnia, Poznań;
2017:
New / Newly discovered, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw;
A Microcosm Of Things: The Public And Private Lives Of Collections, Museum of Warsaw (curator Tomasz Fudala);
The 43rd Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2015, Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko – Biała (curator Grażyna Cybulska);
Plac Defilad: A Step Forward, 9th edition of the Warsaw Under Construction Festival, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (curator Barbara Piwowarska, Dorota Jarecka, Tomasz Fudala, Szymon Maliborski);
Tunnel Below / Skyjacking Above, nGbK, Berlin, Germany;
Women on Women, visual herstory performance during Festivalt, Cracow;
Minimal Impulse, balzer projects Gallery, Basel, Switzerland;
What About Abstractionism?, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw;
Biennale de La Biche, Grand cul de sac marin, 97115, Gwadeloupe, (curators Maess Anand, Alex Urso);
2016:
After The Rally, Studio Gallery, Warsaw (curators Dorota Jarecka, Barbara Piwowarska);
Unknown Variable, individual exhibition, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw (curator Michał Jachuła);
10th Triennial of Small Painting Forms, Wozownia Gallery, Toruń;
Volunteers For Freedom, spoken word performance Zuza Hertzberg with Bozena Keff based on Zuza Hertzberg art project, Center for Jewish Culture and Education in the White Stork Synagogue, Wroclaw;
Dabrowskis – Disavowed Among Disavowed, art action, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw;
2015:
The 42nd Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2015, Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko – Biała;
Czech-Polish Stars, Kubik Gallery, Litomysl, Czech Republic (curator Naomi Smolik);
Order out of Chaos, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw (curator Michał Jachuła);
Colors For The Planet, headquartes UNESCO, Paris, France;
Body and objects, Municipal Gallery, Wroclaw (curator Agnieszka Patała);
2014:
Proposed period of time, Corridor Gallery, Użhorod, Ukraine (curator Petro Ryaska);
Progress and hygiene, Zachęta – National Galery of Art, Warsaw (curator Anda Rottenberg);
Closer to Gaza, Kuhlhaus Berlin, Germany;
שטילקייט, Próżna Street 14, Warsaw (individual exhibition during 11th Singer Festival of Jewish Culture in Warsaw);
Guts, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw;
Jude, Татары,…. site-specific art , Spokojna 15, Warsaw;
Strażnicy Szabatu, Schomre Schabos, Stražci Šábesu, individual exhibition – site-specific art, old synagogue building, Cieszyn, Czech Republic;
2013:
No Budget Show %5, DKK, Lublin (curator Robert Kuśmirowski);
Everywhere is everywhere, individual exhibition, Biała Gallery, Lublin (curator Jan Gryka);
2012:
AAAcupuncture, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw (curator Mirosław Bałka);
Sick art, Jerozolima,Warsaw (curators Agnieszka Sural, Andrzej Pałys);
2011:
COMING OuT-Best 2011 Graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Sinfonia Varsovia space, Warsaw;
Scholarships and Awards
2024 Scholarship of the Fund for the Support of Creative Activity Of The Society Of Authors ZAIKS;
2022 The Vivian J. Prins Foundation Artistic Residency at the Center For Jewish History, New York
2021 Building memory within ‘a city of rifts’ // Facing political collaborationism – curated workshop & artistic think-tank, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020-21;
2020 Scholarship of the Fund for the Support of Creative Activity Of The Society Of Authors ZAIKS
;
2019-2021 Tarbut, a scholarship program organized by the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
2018 Kavaleridze. RE:VISION international program of artistic residences in Kyiv, Ukraine;
2017 Retreat for Jewish Artists organized by Asylum Arts and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland;
2014 Representative of Poland, 4th edition of UNESCO Art Camp Biennial – Colors of the Planet, Andorra;
2014 Workshop Innovating Science Communication at Medical Museums 2014, Leiden, Netherlands (with the art project Eugenics and Euthanasia);
2014 Scholarship of the Fund for the Support of Creative Activity Of The Society Of Authors ZAIKS
;
2013 Scholarship of the Fund for the Support of Creative Activity Of The Society Of Authors ZAIKS;
2012-2013 Scholarship of Inter-University Multimedia Program;
Institutional collections:
Warsaw Ghetto Museum, Warsaw, Poland; Studio Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; National Museum in Gdansk, Poland; Bielsk BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biała, Poland; Art Tank Collection, Warsaw, Poland; UNESCO, Paris, France; FEDA, Andorra; Tutelar Foundation, Andorra; Collection of Modern Art PKO Bank Polski, Warsaw, Poland
Conferences, debates, symposiums, talks and lectures:
2024:
University of Warsaw, Poland;
Panellist in the seminar: Where are the marxist women?
Talk: “I am not to be loved, I am to be understood”. Erased, misunderstood, inconvenient.
Jewish Culture Festival in Grodzisk Mazowiecki
‘Where is the place for Jews? On the rising wave of antisemitism.” | Zuzanna Hertzberg, Konstanty Gebert, Damian Josef Neć, Michał Bilewicz
Library in Grodzisk Mazowiecki;
What harm do I make to you? Talk on Chava Zloczewer alias Eve Adams.
University of Warsaw, Poland;
Panellist in the conference: How to teach about gender and sexuality? Interdisciplinarity, institutionalisation, community engagement.
Krytyka Polityczna, Warsaw, Poland;
Panellist in the discussion: Feminist killjoy. Discussion on the occasion of the Polish edition of Sara Ahmed’s book “The Feminist Killjoy Handbook”.
2023:
Warsaw Ghetto Museum, Warsaw, Poland;
Talk: Jewish Women Fighters – Herstories of Resistance as Message and Strategy for Today;
Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Germany;
Workshop: Crossing Borders. Historical Research and Artistic Practises on the Shoah in Poland; Spoken word performance: Mechitza. Individual and Collective Resistance of Women during the Shoah;
Museum of Mazovian Jews, Płock, Poland;
Panellist in the discussion: Women Fighters from the Warsaw Ghetto with PhD Patrycja Dołowy and Sylwia Chutnik;
29th City of Woman Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia;
Spoken word performance: Mechitza. Individual and Collective Resistance of Women during the Shoah;
Brama Cukermana Foundation, Będzin, Poland;
SHUL. 80 years after the end of the world. A series of events related to the anniversary of the liquidation of the ghetto in Będzin and Sosnowiec;
Talk: A Matter of Character. Women Fighters from the Warsaw Ghetto with PhD Patrycja Dołowy i PhD Karolina Szymaniak;
Arsenał Gallery, Bialystok, Poland;
Spoken word performance: Mechitza. Individual and Collective Resistance of Women during the Shoah;
Studio Gallery, Warsaw, Poland;
Spoken word performance: Mechitza. Individual and Collective Resistance of Women during the Shoah; Spoken word performance: Volunteers of Freedom. Jewish Women in International Brigades;
The Marek Edelman Dialogue Center, Lodz, Poland;
Talk: Women Fighters from the Warsaw Ghetto with Ph.D. Natalia Judzińska;
Forum for Dialogue, Webinar;
Lecture: Herstories of Jewish Women Fighters – From the Late 19th Century to the Present Day. Education Through Art and Activism;
Sopot by the Book Festival, Sopot, Poland;
Talk: A Matter of Character. Women Fighters from the Warsaw Ghetto with Ph.D. Joanna Ostrowska and Ph.D. Agnieszka Dauksza;
32nd Jewish Culture Festival in Kazimierz, Krakow, Poland;
Talk: A Matter of Character. Women Fighters from the Warsaw Ghetto with Ph.D. Patrycja Dołowy
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany;
CARMAH | Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Germany; Seminar: Material Knowlegge;
Talk: Jewish Women Fighters – Herstories of Resistance as Message and Strategy for Today;
Jewish Women’s Archive and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw; Online History Course: Women and Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto;
Lecture: Herstories of Resistance;
Taube Center for Jewish Life & Learning Foundation, Webinar;
Talk: Jewish Woman’s Resistance in the Holocaust with Shana Penn, Sylwia Chutnik and Sheri Rosenblum;
2022:
Center for Jewish History, New York, USA;
Spoken word performance: Mechitza. Individual and Collective Resistance of Women during the Shoah;
Residency Unlimited, New York, USA;
Conversation between Zuzanna Hertzberg and Shira Backer;
Jadavpur University in collaboration with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata; Seminar: Lessons from Germany’s Past: Fascism as a Historical Experience;
Lecture: Mechitza. Individual and Collective Resistance of Women during the Shoah;
Center for Jewish History, New York, USA;
Talk: Recovering Memory: Artistic and Artivist Interventions into Historic Silences. From the Archives to the Streets.
CUNY, New York, USA;
The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center;
Yiddishland Pavilion at The James Gallery: Transnationality, Memory and Museology;
Talk and discussion: Herstories, Uncomfortable Narratives, and Power Asymmetries;
Neue Nachbarschaft, Berlin, Germany;
Talk and discussion: Calling Justice. War between Russia and Ukraine – Western and Eastern Perspectives with Yelena Jeremejeva, Marina Naprushkina, Anna Schapiro, Agnieszka Kiljan;
The 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Germany;
Spoken word performance: Jewish Anarchist Women Against Hegemony; The 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Germany;
Spoken word performance: Mechitza. Individual and Collective Resistance of Women during the Shoah
Taube Center for Jewish Life & Learning Foundation, Webinar;
Talk: Herstories of Resistance – Jewish Women Fighters in the Territories of the Former Pale of Settlement;
International Summer Seminar in Yiddish Language and Culture, Warsaw, Poland;
Center for Yiddish Culture;
Workshop: Jewish Heroines – Anti-fascists. Visual Stories of Women Resisting during the Shoah;
National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania;
Spoken word performance: Volunteers of Freedom. Jewish Women in International Brigades; •
Universität Greifswald, Germany;
Public Talk in the Joint Lecture Series: Irreversible – The Manifestations of Change;
International Research Training Group Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes;
Talk and workshop with PhD students: Recovering Nomadic Memory of the Ignitions of the Revolution as a Spark for Embodiment of Utopia Today;
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland;
Seminar: Traces of sisterhood. Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice; Lecture: Practicing Sisterhood in the Field of Artivism;
Zygmunt Hubner Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw, Poland;
Author of a series of podcasts Radical Imagination – fictional radio auditions interviews with invited guests which accompanied the theatre play titled Radio Maria;
2021:
Zygmunt Hubner Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw, Poland; Consultant for the theatre play titled Radio Maria;
Yiddish Culture Center;
Jewish Open University, Warsaw, Poland;
Lecture: Nomadic Memory. Artivism (Activism + Art) as a Practice of Recovering Memory and Building Utopia, Which is a Task for Today;
30th Jewish Culture Festival in Kazimierz, Krakow, Poland;
Panellist in the debate: Sisterhood – Fire in the Heart – A Creative Fire;
Zachęta – National Galery of Art, Warsaw, Poland;
Living the feminist life, open sisterhood seminar: Languages of Radical Sensitivity, Queer – Feminist Poetic Slam; Speech;
Izabela Jaruga Nowacka Foundation, Warsaw, Poland; Seminar: Gender Democracy II;
Panelist: Do I have to go mad to speak?;
The Zuzanna Ginczanka Jewish High School;
Lecture: Artivism;
Forum For Dialogue, Webinar;
Lectures in Polish and English for participants in The Leaders of Dialogue Program;
Polin – Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland;
If it exploded, it would explode with me. And that’s it;
Talk with presentation of my art practice followed by discussion with Ph.D. Karolina Szymaniak, moderated by Sylwia Chutnik;
Zygmunt Hubner Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw, Poland;
Forum of Future of Culture – Solidarity and Care;
Panelist in the debate;
Online conference held in the framework of the project Nationality, Ethnicity, and Coalition Building: Agenda Setting as a Mechanism for Collabora- tion Among Minority Groups;
About us is worth, worth with us – 15 years of the Law on National and Ethnic Minorities and Regional Language. Conclusions, recommenda- tions and new challenges for the future,
Talk: Art – Heritage;
JCC Warszawa – Jewish Community Center of Warsaw, Poland;
Shavuot Cultural and Educational Marathon;
Artist talk;
2020:
Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia;
International Symposium Prisms of Silence;
Institute of Art History and Visual Culture;
Talk: Nomadic Memory: Artivism as Everyday Feminist Antifascist Practice
Centre for East European and International Studies and Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin, Germany;
Talk and pannelist in the debate: Urban Activism in Eastern Europe;
The Batory Foundation, Warsaw, Poland;
Talk and pannelist in the debate: The Language of the Revolution;
D66 international, Netherlands;
Talk and pannelist in the discassion: Political Art as a Political Act;
Sisters of Europe – Warsaw, Poland,:
Panelist in the discussion: Getting To Know Oneself Through Creativity;
Wolskie Cultural Centre, Warsaw, Poland;
Discussion about the book The Running Line with Michał Zawada, Paweł Brożyński and Franciszek Orłowski;
Polin – Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland;
Talk and workshop: Emancipation within Minority Groups – Jewish Herstories;
Consultative Council of the All-Poland Women’s Strike;
Representative and moderator of the group ¡No pasarán! – Against the Fascistisation of Poland;
2019:
Goethe-Institut Warsaw in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland;
Talk and panelist in the debate A(r/k)tywizm with Jean Peters/ Peng! Kollektiv moderated by Kuba Szreder;
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland;
International conference held as part of Our Many Europes, a project of L’internationale, a Confederation of European Museums Internationalism After the End of Globalisation;
Panel: Forms of Action/Forms of Connection;
Talk: Artivism as Every Day Antifascism;
Katowice City of Gardens, Krystyna Bochenek Cultural Institution;
Panelist in the debate: Jews Today – about the Jewish Community Today Without Trauma and Stigma with Gabi von Seltman moderated by Karolina Sulej;
The European Conference On The Rise Of Far-Right;
Panel: ¡No Pasaran! Confronting the Rise of the Far-Right;
Talk and panelist in the discussion: Far-right Attacks on Woman’s Rights;
JCC Warszawa – Jewish Community Center of Warsaw, Poland;
Panelist in the debate: Contemporary Judith’s – about Jewish Activists;
Zygmunt Hubner Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw, Poland;
Forum for the Future of Culture 2019
Talk
JCC Krakow – Jewish Community Center, Krakow, Poland;
Talk: Artivsim as a Tool for Memory Recovery and a Method for Healing the Spaces of Oblivion (Non-Memory Spaces);
2018:
Zygmunt Hubner Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw, Poland;
Forum for the Future of Culture 2018, Feminism, not fascism;
Artist talk: Until We See the Effects: a Slam Focused on Exploring the Effects of Art in Every Day Life;
Zygmunt Hubner Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw, Poland; Forum for the Future of Culture 2018,
Feminism, not fascism; Antifascist Workshop;
Consortium for Postartistic Practices (KPP);
Talk and panelist in the discusson: Towards the Anti-Fascist Year 2019;
Social Thought Exchange Forum, Warsaw, Poland;
Panellist in the debate: What is decommunization?;
Museum Of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland;
Panellist in the debate: Art Workers Against Fascism;
The International Council of Jewish Women Conference Paris, France;
Talk: Anti-Semitism in Poland;
2017:
• Social Science Department, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland; Conference: No pasaran! Dąbrowszczacy Remembrance Day;
Talk: Jewish Polish Women in the International Brigades;
2016:
• Institute of History, University of Warsaw; Institute of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies, University of Warsaw; POLIN – Museum of the History of Polish Jews; Mordechaj Anielewicz Centre for Research and Teaching Jewish History and Culture in Poland;
Conference: Jews and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939);
Lecture: Volunteers for Freedom. Private Domain, the Domain of Art and Reality;