Kinga Michalska is a queer Polish artist who uses mediums of photography, film and video installation. Their work examines issues of identity, memory, displacement, and hauntings. Their practice looks at shared cultural spaces such as home, kinship, land, and memory through a queer feminist sensibility. They are interested in the periphery of who and what makes history: queer intimacies, amateur historians, geological processes, personal archives, oral history and speculative fictions. They create intimate, bold, visceral images with playful and sensual undertones. Their work is collaborative and rooted in informed consent with the participants. As questions of relations of power are at the core of their work, they are committed to questioning their own position within stories they tell and communities they represent in their work.
Kinga Michalska is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Tiohtiá:ke, Mooniyang, Montreal. They hold a BA in Cultural Studies from University of Warsaw and an MFA in Photography from Concordia University (2022). Their work has been presented in Canada, Poland, UK, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. Their projects have been supported by Canada Art Council, Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, Telefilm Canada, FRQSC and Catapult Film Fund. They are currently directing their first feature documentary Nolandia.
