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Agnieszka Polska

Background Evening

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11/12/2025
19:00:00

Agnieszka Polska’s Background Evening will be an open dialogue about Orange, a new film commissioned by 1646. The footage of Orange was shot amid the crowd in Amsterdam celebrating King’s Day, the annual Dutch celebration of the monarch’s birthday.

For Thursday the 11th of December, the artist invited Wietske Maas and Sam Samiee to reflect on this work and how it functions within the local context of the Netherlands.

Wietske Maas is a curator, artistic researcher, and editor currently based in Venice whose practice grapples with art’s part in transformative social-ecological imaginaries. She most recently worked as a curator at BAK, Utrecht, convening exhibitions, public programs, collective study, and publishing. Co-edited anthologies include Fragments of Repair (Jap Sam Books, 2025), Propositions for Non-Fascist Living (MIT, 2019), Courageous Citizens (Valiz, 2018), and Former West (MIT, 2017).

Sam Samiee is a multidisciplinary artist, essayist, and researcher whose work spans painting, installation, and curatorial practice. His practice intersects painting, psychoanalysis, and cultural history, demonstrating a conceptual engagement with both Western and non-Western art traditions. Samiee’s work has been featured in the 10th Berlin Biennale, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, and Manchester Art Gallery. He is a recipient of the Royal Dutch Painting Prize and the Wolvecamp Prize, both of which he has also served as a jury member. Samiee is a co-founder of Masir Curatorial, an initiative based in Iran.

19:00 doors open
19:30 programme starts

Each Background Evening offers a unique opportunity to gain deeper insight into the ideas and personal histories that shape the exhibition. Visitors are invited not only to listen, but also to ask questions and engage in dialogue with the artist.

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Agnieszka Polska (b. 1985, Lublin, Poland) is a visual artist and film director based in Berlin. Polska employs computer-generated media to explore themes of individual agency, social responsibility, and the shaping of historical narratives within environments driven by rapid technological changes and the flow of information. Her work bridges the past and the digital present, using hallucinatory animations and poetic storytelling to delve into the ethical ambiguities of contemporary society.

Polska’s art has been showcased internationally, including exhibitions at the New Museum and MoMA in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. She has held solo exhibitions at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, M HKA in Antwerp, Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Nottingham Contemporary, and Salzburger Kunstverein.  She participated in the 57th Venice Biennale, 11th Gwangju Biennale, 19th and 24th Biennale of Sydney, 14th Shanghai Biennale, and 13th Istanbul Biennial. In 2017, she was awarded the Preis der Nationalgalerie.

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