Joanna ZastróżNa

Zastróżna started exhibiting in 1999, showing the series "Messenger" which was her graduation project. Two more series, "Condensation" and "Marocco", followed. Her distinctive technique is to paint over negatives, with extensive usage of color. Sometimes she uses negative montage as well. The style has been described as "an ambience of surrealism" and "artificial reality". The subjects are typically human figures, and Zastróżna is not interested in their realistic depiction but rather in psychological analysis. Her works was publishing in Le Monde Diplomatique.

Zastrozna participated in a number of major photographical group exhibitions in Poland in the 2000s and the 2010s. Her works are in the collection of The Museum of Art in Łódź, CSW Warsaw.

In 2013, she directed a short film "Molehill". It was presented at the 19th Busan International Film Festival.

She is currently working on movie "Las" /2015-2025/

Joanna Zastróżna is a Polish artist, photographer and filmmaker. She graduated in 1997 from the Arts Academy (ASP) in Gdańsk. Zastróżna resides in Sopot /Poland/ and in Sidi Ifni /Marocco/.

Exhibitions:
Personal:
Messenger, Mała Galeria ZPAF, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland (1999)
Buby, Messenger, Nadbałtyckie Centrum Kultury, Gdańsk, Poland (2000)
NR2, Replica Art Center, Stockholm, Sweden (2000)
NR3, Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot, Poland (2001)
NR3 Mała Galeria ZPAF, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland (2001)
NR3, BWA, Bydgoszcz, Poland (2002)
NR3, FF Gallery, Łódź, Poland (2002)
NR3, Leigh on Sea, Art Trail, the UK (2003)
NR3, Druskininkai, Lithuania (2003)
NR3, Month of Photography, Kraków, Poland (2003)
Zagęszczanie, Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot, Poland (2004)
Zagęszczanie, Wizytująca Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2006)
Zagęszczanie, Photography Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia (2008)
MMK, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland (2010)
MMK, Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot, Poland (2011)[6]
MMK, Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Galeria PF, Poznań, Poland (2013)

The movie: LAS, work in progress 2015-2020

Collective
Jutro jest dziś, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto, Japan (1999)
Relacje, House of Photography, Poprad, Slovakia (1999)
7th Courant D’Art, Deauville, France (2000)
Przenikanie, Month of photography, Bratislava, Slovakia (2000)
Archipelag, Month of photography, Herten, Germany (2001)
Fotografia...