Antonina Gugała – artist and researcher living and working in Warsaw, Poland
My practice explores photography as image and object as well as an agent, record and source of social practices ingrained in everyday life. Projects in this vein have included Warsaw Photographer, at the Archeology of Photography Foundation (2016), and Celina Osiecka: Photographic Services, at the Praga Museum of Warsaw (2022). My photography book titled Running to the Sun was published in 2025 by Bored Wolves. I am a recipient of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Stipend (2026) and the City of Warsaw Artistic Scholarship (2021; 2016). I am currently developing my PhD thesis on professional family photography (Doctoral School of Humanities, University of Warsaw).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Antonina Gugała. Paper, Scissors, Stone, Alina Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2022
Photography Studios, The Praga Museum of Warsaw (Museum of Warsaw), Warsaw, Poland
2018
Photography Studios, Festival Images - Biennale des arts visuels de Vevey, Switzerland
Histories, Photometria International Photography Festival, Ioannina, Greece
2016
Photography Studios, Archeology of Photography Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Part I, Galeria XS, Warsaw, Poland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
From Where You Stand, Gdańsk Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland
2025
Mine Eyes Bees Deceive, Ujazdowski Castle. Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2024
Północ, FFWRS Photography Festival, National Art Gallery Sopot, Sopot, Poland
Matki twórczynie, Dom Kultury Śródmieście, Rotacyjny Dom Kultury
2023
Warsaw: 1945–1949. Rising from Rubble, Museum of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
2020
Polish Paradise, Nida International Photography Symposium, Nida, Lithuania
2018
The Future is Ours. Visions of the Future by Seven Young European Photographers, Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona, Sweden
Show OFF, Kraków Photomonth, Kraków, Poland
2017
Blocked, TIFF Festival, Wrocław, Poland
Photography Services, Galeria Oficyna, Poznań, Poland
2016
Visual SPA. Art Dissolved in the Contemporary, Błekitny Wieżowiec, Warsaw, Poland
BOOKS PUBLISHED
2025
Running to the Sun, Antonina Gugała (translated to English by Magda Tchorek-Bentall), design by Nicole Salnikov, Bored Wolves (edition of 500)
2022
Celina Osiecka. Usługi fotograficzne, Antonina Gugała, ed., Museum of Warsaw (edition of 650)
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, SCHOLARSHIPS
2026
Shortlisted for Les Rencontres d’Arles Book Award in the Photo-Text Award category, France
Winner of the 2025 Polish Photographic Publication of the Year, Poland
Special Mention × Pix.House Talent of the Year Award, CuratorLab,
Poland
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship, Poland
2024
Art Residency at FWRS Festival, Sopot, Poland
2023–24
Home Art Residency Programme „Matki Twórczynie”, Warsaw Observatory of Culture, Warsaw, Poland
2023
ING Polish Art Foundation Summer School, Sokołowsko, Poland
2021
City of Warsaw Art Scholarship, Warsaw, Poland
2018
SHOW OFF, Kraków Photomonth, Kraków, Poland
2017
ISSP Photography Residency, Kuldiga Latvia
Meliggoi Residency Program, Meliggoi, Greece
Shortlisted for Polish Photographic Publication of the Year, Poland
2016
City of Warsaw Art Scholarship, Warsaw, Poland
2013
Shortlisted for Polish Photographic Publication of the Year, Poland
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Warsaw's Contemporary Photography Collection, City of Sopot Art Collection