Trojanowska Aleksandra
Basics of bio- and ecoart
Video
Intermedia Graphics
Time-based and Interactive Media
In 2020 she graduated from the University of Life Sciences in Wrocław with a Bachelor's degree, majoring in General Biology. In 2016 she completed a two-level study programme at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, majoring in Media Art, and in 2019 she completed the Interdepartmental Doctoral Study Programme at the same university.
I work on the border of science and art. I focus on moving away from anthropocentrism and promoting biocentric phenomena. My projects and interactive bio-audiovisual installations revolve around the degradation of ecosystems due to human activity and the search for altruism in an egocentric world. Social activism and natural education are an important part of my work. In the Studio I develop a bio-workshop, encouraging students to perform mini-experiments and be inspired by biology.
Awards and scholarships
2025 Second-Degree Individual Rector's Award for Artistic and Teaching Achievements, Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław (PL)
2025 Silesia award nomination, The Cultural Award of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship Assembly (PL)
2023 Iuvenes Wratislaviae award nomination, Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)
2018 Jerzy Grotowski Scholarship in Arts for the best PhD Students, President of Wrocław (PL)
2017 - 2019 Scholarship for the best PhD Students; Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław (PL)
2015 Scholarship of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage; Warsaw (PL)
Exhibitions
2025
- in vacuo (in a void), international exhibition during the ALife 2025 - Ciphers of Life; the Premier Conference on Artificial Life, Kyoto (JP)
- Plants Communication + The Process, lectures; University of the Basque Country, Bilbao (ESP)
- The Process; lecture, guest of honor; Krucza Universitas, Wrocław (PL)
- Your homes hum our songs, international exhibition Kansai Yoshida Gallery + Nipponia (Collage Gallery and Daigokuden) + Matsuhisa House, Mino, Gifu (JP)
- art workshops, Poland Pavilion, EXPO 2025 OSAKA KANSAI (JP)
2024
- apomorphic; Festival Warsaw Autumn; Polish Creative Industries Development Center, Warsaw (PL)
- creaturae, Festival Ritual - Tension; Wrocław Polytechnics (PL)
- orbem novis (strange world), Spectral Imprints: Sentient Pluralities and Unhuman Art, curated by Paul Catanese; Sztuka Na Miejscu Gallery, Wrocław (PL)
2023
- BABEL; Festiwal Ritual: Wieża Babel; Museum of Architecture (National Museum) in Wrocław (PL)
- other; Random Check V - Overwriting; WRO Media Art Biennale (international); live performance at MiserArt, Wrocław (PL) + concert at Studio Eksperymentalne Radia Kapitał, Warszawa (PL)
- detached from you; The Best of - compilation; Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdańsk (PL)
- RE/; Random Check IV - Second Nature; Four Domes Pavilion (National Museum) in Wrocław (PL)
2022
-
RE; International Competition for Intermedia Artwork - CAVE; Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (PL)
- Animalia; BWA Gallery, Wałbrzych(PL)
- Correlations; festival Musica Polonica Nova; live performance, National Music Forum, Wrocław (PL)
2021
- be(e); Invisible (curating and organizing); C Te Ara Hihiko Gallery, Wellington (NZ)
- Animalia; Syntezy exhibition; NEON Gallery, Wrocław (PL)
- Climax; AudioArt Festival; live performance at Hevre, Cracow (PL)
- LUCA; A!Symmetry exhibition, Sztuka na Miejscu, Wrocław (PL)
2020
- be(e); Invisible (curating and organizing); BWA Studio Gallery, Wrocław (PL)
- presentation of an artistic figure, monograph A WIDER PICTURE
2019
- bee visible; individual exhibition with Sarah Epping; Nau Gallery, Prague (CZ)
- Emerging Lines #1; the best PhD students exhibition; Galerie du Crous, Paris (FR)
- be(e); Invisible (curating and organizing); Broadway Gallery, Detroit (USA)
- I SEE YOU; Festival Survival: Utajone; Szpital Kolejowy, Wrocław (PL)
2018
- Questions for All The Answers; individual exhibition; Wrocław Contemporary Museum (National Museum), Wrocław (PL)
- I. My blood; Punto y Raya International Festival of abstract films; Audiovisual Technology Center (Wrocław, PL)
- IT'S JUST ME, individual exhibition; Lower Silesian Film Center, Galeria KINO, Wrocław
Conferences
2024 - nature - art - etics, seminarium Dzień Ziemi; Polskie Towarzystwo Filozoficzne, Instytut Filozofii, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
2023 - Nature + art = ethics?, 1st International Conference Methodological and Cognitive Aspects of Visual Arts; CSU CI ASP Wrocław
2022 - Nature in Media Art, Dolnośląski Festiwal Nauki; Wydział Fizyki i Astronomii, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
2018 - Biocentryzm-antropocentryzm, Ogólnopolska Konferencja Sztuki Mediów: Układy Dynamiczne; CSU CI ASP Wrocław
Publications
2025 - Artistic Profile Presentation, Rita Baum (Art Journal), Issue 69/7
2025 - Article and Presentation of Artistic Project, Rita Baum (Art Journal), Issue 71/72
2024 - Artistic Profile Presentation, book Co Pan na to, Panie P?, Wydawnictwo UWr
2021 - Artistic Profile Presentation; monografia BEZ RAM, Katedra Sztuki Mediów, ASP Wrocław
2017 - Artistic Profile Presentation; monografia A picture set in motion, Katedra Sztuki Mediów, ASP Wrocław
