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Justina Los, born 1986, lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

She studied at the Akademie für Kommunikationsdesign Köln and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where she obtained her bachelor’s degree at the studio of Grzegorz Kowalski (2014) and her master’s diploma under the supervision of Mirosław Bałka and Krzysztof Wodiczko (2016). She works in sculpture, video, and performance.

Her works are homages to a globally non-functioning social and economic system in which the future belongs only to those who can afford it. Fascinated by hyper-capitalistic machinery of exploitation, she currently addresses mechanisms of dependency and the illusion of freedom in our society in her work. Throughout her practice, dystopia has become a motivating force, while humor and resilience remain her preferred survival methods.

Her work was presented, amongst others at super bien!, Berlin (2023), Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (2022), Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw (2019), Municipal Gallery Arsenal Poznan (2018), the National Sculpture Center in Oronsko, Poland (2017), at the British Art Show 8 in Courtyard Theater in London (2016), at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, BWA Zielona Góra, at the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabrück (2015) and the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome (2014). In the years 2015-2018 she co-founded Polen Performance duo with Mikołaj Sobczak, a contracted service provider mainly for artistic institutions, recently at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw (2018), Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, the Zachęta Project Space in Warsaw, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (2016), lokal_30 in Warsaw and WRO Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw (2015).

Lecturer at Aesthetics & Bias conference organized by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem in Tel Aviv (2017) and the Open Triennale symposium at the National Sculpture Center in Oronsko in Poland (2017).