Krystyna Ziach

Work of Krystyna Ziach consists of autonomous conceptual photo works, photo sculptures (monumental spatial constructions or installations in which photos are incorporated) and video sculptures. From the start her work has mostly been a quest for the coherence between the arts of photography, painting, sculpture and video, this consistent with the disciplines she studied earlier. Krystyna Ziach works mainly in series with different themes and points of departures. Within the conceptual framework she gives free reing to her intuition and her emotion. Her work of recent years centers on human vulnerability and transience.

Academy of Fine Arts (AKI), The Netherlands
diploma photography, graphics

Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
diploma sculpture

Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
history of art

Krystyna Ziach was born in Poland, where she studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and art history at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In 1979 she moved to Holland, where she studied photography and video at the Academy of Fine Arts (AKI Enschede.
Since 1982 she lives and works in Amsterdam. 
From 1984 on she exhibits in Europa, USA and Japan a.o. at the Camden Arts Centre and at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston Texas USA, at the Netherlands Photography Museum Rotterdam at the Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf. In 2008 she participated with a solo show Infinity & Inner Eye at the Photoquai-1ère Biennale des Images du Monde in Paris and in 2008-9 at the Water-Currents at the Museum of Photography in Thessaloniki GR. In 2015 she had a solo exhibition Space of Imagination / Krystyna Ziach at the Museum Beelden aan Zee (Sculpture by the Sea) in The Hague NL, curated by Hans Rooseboom (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam).

Works of Krystyna Ziach are a.o. in the collections of Centre Pompidou / Bibliothèque Kandinsky Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Museum of Contemporary Art MuHKA Antwerp, Maison ...