Kinga Michalska CV 

Education:

2017-2022 MFA in Photography, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

2009-2012 BA in Cultural Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland                                    

2008-2010  Warsaw School of Photography, Warsaw, Poland  


Filmography:

BEDROCK, 102 min, Canada

2025 Berlinale, Panorama, Berlin, Germany, Nominations: Best Documentary Award

2025 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, Nominations: Colin Low Award

2025 Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Warsaw, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Katowice, Bydgoszcz, Gdynia, Poland, Nominations: Best Polish Documentary, Best Cinematography


VAMPIRES, IT’S NOTHING TO LAUGH AT, 36 min, Canada

2023 Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland, Awards: Special Mention, International Medium Format Competition

2023 Short Waves Film Festival, International Competition, Poznań, Poland

2023 Festival de Nouveau Cinéma, National Short Film Competition,  Montréal, Canada

2023 DMZ DOCS International Film Festival, Official Selection, Goyang-si, South Korea

2023 30_____70 DOC FEST, International Competition,  Lago, Italy

2023 Muzeum Piśmiennictwa i Muzyki Kaszubsko-Pomorskiej, Wejherowo, Kaszëbë

2024 Diffusions Film Festival, Toronto, Canada

2024 Pariscience Film Festival, Paris, France

2024 InScience Film Festival, International Competition, Nijmegen, Netherlands

2025 Guerrilla Collective, Developing the Vanished, Beijing, China 


PASTORAL FUCK, 6min, Canada

2023  Post P_rn Arts Fest, Official Selection, Warsaw, Poland

2023 FALa, video program curated by Elżbieta Zasińska, Kacze Bagno, Poland

2022 Avvistamenti Festival, Made in PL video program curated by Marta Miastkowska, Bisceglie, Italy

2020 TIDES: POST IMAGE SCREENING, video program curated by Jinyoung Kim and Zinnia Naqvi, Post Image Cluster, Montreal, Canada


Selected solo exhibitions:

2025 Hungry for community, AXENÉO7, Gatineau, Canada  (coming)

2023 Upiór and Guests, La Bande Vidéo, Québec City, Canada

2023 Diary, FOFA Gallery, Montreal, Canada

2022 Vampires, It’s Nothing to Laugh At, MFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

2017 Slightly Erotic Ballads, curated by Fundacja Nośna, Galeria Opcja, Cracow, Polans


Selected group exhibitions:

2025 Queer w czasach dobrej zmiany, curated by Gabi Skrzypczak and Tomek Pawłowski-Jarmołajew, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań, Poland

2023 Have You Ever Seen a Ghost?, curated by DMZ Festival, Camp Greaves DMZ Art, Goyang-si, South Korea

2023 Tender Debauchery, curated by Agnieszka Rajzacher, lokal_30, Warsaw, Poland

2023 Launch Exhibition of the Art Volt Collection, Le Livart, Montreal, Canada

2022 Discomfort of Evening, curated by Magdalena Komornicka, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2021 Poganki / Heathens, lokal_30, curated by Agnieszka Rayzacher, Warsaw, Poland

2020 The Kitchen, curated by Polana Institute, The Clay, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Warsaw, Poland

2019 La présence de l’absence, curated by Virginie Jourdain, Veronique Boilard, Never Apart, Montreal, Canada

2018 Sights of Feeling, curated by Treva Michelle Legassie,  The Milieux Institute, Montreal, Canada

2018 Queer Gaze From Poland: Portrait of Love and Desire, curated by Grażyna Siedlecka, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK

Selected Residencies:

2024 AXENÉO7, Gatineau, Canada

2022 VU Photo, Quebec City, Canada

2019 Gay Archives of Quebec, Montreal, Canada


Curatorial experience:

2017-2019 Rabarbar: Queer Porn Festival in collaboration with Martyna Tokarska and Zofka Jabłońska, presented at Queerowy Maj, Spółdzielnia Ogniwo in Cracow, Madame Q, Ada Puławska and Anarchist Film Festival in Warsaw, Poland

Selected conferences:

2024 International Conference of Young Folklorists: Dark Side of Folklore & Folkloristics, Vilnius, Lithuania (coming)

2021 Living a Feminist Life - Otwarte Seminarium Siostrzano-Piknikowe, curated by Magdalena Komornicka, Agnieszka Różyńska and Liliana Zeic, Zachęta, Warsaw

2020  15th Feminist Seminar: “The Spirit of Otherness. Artists and Sexual Minorities”, curated by Agnieszka Rayzacher, lokal_30, Warsaw

2019  Regarding Uncertainty Conference, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Qc

Affiliations:

Women Photograph
Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University

Collections:

Art Volt Collection, Montreal, CA


Commissioned work, selected clients:

Danse-Cité, Parbleux, Je Suis Julio, Tengante, Ebnflōh Dance Company, Studio 303, Concordia University, Vice Magazine, Speciwomen Magazine.