Zuzanna Czebatul

Zuzanna Czebatul (born in 1986, Poland) lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the Städelschule Frankfurt in 2013, and later attended the MFA Program at Hunter College, New York as Fulbright Fellow.

By deploying monumental relics, commemorative infrastructure and architectonic interventions, Zuzanna Czebatul questions how political ideology produces an aesthetics of power and how it can be altered. Her sculptural work takes the form of columns, obelisks, tapistry, archeological remnants and other architectural displays that undo, twist or renegotiate the values they traditionally harness. “Building up to better break down,” is the motto under which she remodels the aesthetics of power into a powerful aesthetic that sparks a transformative potential for a coming society.
Wielding together a wide range of self-produced materials and tongue-in-cheek formats, Czebatul’s work sits between the solemn and the playful, the immaculate and the grubby, the sober and the erotic: styrofoam sphinxes protecting their riddle, inflatable columns standing their ground, hand-poured concrete passing as marble, diabolic carpets to be treaded. Such propositions manipulate the dominant matrix of power articulations, traditionally expressed through myths of persistence, creation and stability, and juxtaposes such principles with ephemerality, decay and fluidity to better approximate the precariousness of lived experience.
Czebatul’s work doesn’t transmit or propagate transparent messages about the state of our world. Instead, it aims at a momentary irritation that shakes one’s opinions, dreams up and re-assembles the driving and relevant questions of our times.

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Zuzanna Czebatul is one of the winners of the Allegro Art Prize 2022. She received the Werkstattpreis 2022 - Kunststiftung Erich Hauser and the Hessische Kulturstiftung Travel Grant in 2020.

Czebatul’s solo exhibitions include Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin (2025); Sans titre, Paris (2023); Kunsthal Thy, Stenbjerg (2023); Rosa Stern Space, Munich (2023); FKA SIX, Berlin (2022); Import Export, Warsaw (2022); M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt (2022); Kunstpalais Erlangen (2021); EXILE Gallery, Vienna (2022 & 2021); CAC Synagogue de Delme (2020); Sans titre, Paris (2020); GGM1 Municipal Gallery, Gdansk (2019); Futura, Prague (2018); CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2017); 83 Pitt Street, New York (2017); Piktogram, Warsaw (2016); Gillmeier Rech, Berlin (2015); Bad Reputation, Los Angeles (2015) as well as at MINI/Goethe-Institut Ludlow 38, New York (2015).

Selected group exhibitions include Power Station of Art, Shanghai (upcoming, 2026); Sadie Coles HQ, London (2026); MACA Art Center, Beijing (2025); Haus Der Visionäre, Berlin (2025); Remise im Wrangelkiez (2025); Kunstverein Ludwigshafen (2025); Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (2025); Kunstpalais Erlangen (2025); CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel (2024); KH Künstler:innenhaus, Bremen (2024); Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (2024); Lantz’scher Skulpturenpark, Dusseldorf (2024); Bally Foundation, Lugano (2024); 5th Kyiv Perennial, Berlin (2024); Kunst Meran Merano Arte, Merano (2024); Kunstverein Hildesheim (2023); Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin (2023); Neuer Kunstverein Mittelrhein, Neuwied (2023); Hessische Kulturstiftung, Wiesbaden (2023); Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim (2023); Galerie Anton Janizewski, Berlin (2023); Geneva Biennale: Sculpture Garden (2022); Paris+ par Art Basel | Sites, Tuileries Garden (2022); Les Champs Libres, Musée des beaux-arts, Frac Bretagne, Rennes (2022); Athens Biennale (2021); Baltic Triennale, Vilnius (2021); Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2021); Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2021); Polana Institute, Warsaw (2021); Wroclaw Biennale (2021); CAC Synagogue de Delme (2021); CAN Centre d’art Neûchatel (2020); Studio Berlin, Berghain, Berlin (2020); PiK Deutz, Cologne (2020); Somerset House, London (2019); Muzeum Slaskie, Katowice (2019); Kunsthalle Lingen (2019); Kunsthalle Bratislava (2019); BWA Lublin (2018); Fondazione Baruchello, Rome (2017); Museum Of Modern Art, Warsaw (2017); Kevin Space, Vienna (2017); UMAM Beirut (2017); Contemporary Art Museum St.Louis (2016) amongst others.

Czebatul’s works are featured in the collections of significant institutions and museums, including Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn, Germany); Kunstsammlung Erlangen (Erlangen, Germany); Braunschweiger Family Collection (Germany); Jakob Collection (Freiburg, Germany); Sammlung Philara (Dusseldorf, Germany).