Zuzanna Hertzberg, untitled, 2019, acrylic, liquid metal, enamel, glass paint on canvas, 38 x 46 cm

Zuzanna Hertzberg is an interdisciplinary artist, art activist and researcher. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she received her MA in painting and her PhD. Her work includes painting, performance and interventions in public space. She is interested in the intertwining of individual and collective memory and the mechanisms of the marginalization of both female and Jewish historical memory.

She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as “Progress and Hygiene” at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw in 2015, “After the Rally” at Galeria Studio in Warsaw in 2016, and the “Warsaw under Construction” festival organized by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, as well as “Touch Art” at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw in 2019 and “Still Present” as part of the 12th Biennale of Contemporary Art in Berlin in 2022.

In 2023, Galeria Studio hosted her solo exhibition “Woman Fighters. An affective Archive,” which was a visual essay on Jewish activism in the 20th century, based on the experiences of women. Part of this was the installation Mechica. Women’s Individual and Collective Resistance during the Holocaust, dedicated to the women who formed the Jewish resistance movement in the ghettos and camps of the Holocaust.

Hertzberg is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, including The Vivian J. Prins Foundation Artistic Residency at the Center for Jewish History in New York in 2021. Her untitled painting entered the Studio Gallery Collection in 2022.

Dorota Jarecka