Agnieszka Mastalerz is a visual artist and a graduate of Mirosław Bałka’s Studio of Spatial Activities at the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She also studied in the studios of Candice Breitz and Eli Cortiñas at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig, as well as under Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. She has been a resident at institutions such as Hospitalfield in Scotland, the Museum Susch in Switzerland, the Artist Development Program at the EIB Institute in Luxembourg, and Futura Gallery in Prague.

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Her works are included in the collections of Fondazione In Between Art Film Beatrice Bulgari, the Ergo Hestia Group, the European Investment Bank, the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, as well as in private collections. Since 2021.

She has been collaborating with the eastcontemporary gallery in Milan.

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I invited Agnieszka to the 3 ELEMENTS project due to her long-standing and multi-threaded relationships with non-human beings: animals and plants. This is where my first question arose: are these truly collaborations, or are they observations, or perhaps even acts of use for artistic purposes? The issue of ethics becomes the focal point of our conversation. We examine Agnieszka’s working methodology, her approaches to establishing relationships with non-human beings, and the mechanisms of control and production systems imposed on plants and animals. I also inquire about the artist’s intentions toward her audience and the responsibilities stemming from working with non-human entities.​​

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