Katarzyna Kozyra

Katarzyna Kozyra (born 1963 in Warsaw) is one of Poland’s most renowned contemporary artists, known for breaking social taboos through her work in sculpture, photography, performance, video, and installation art. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, she later studied New Media at the Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Her 1993 work Pyramid of Animals marked the beginning of Poland's "critical art" movement, addressing themes of nudity, old age, and death—topics often considered controversial in Polish society. Kozyra gained international recognition with her 1999...