Monika Sosnowska
Born 1972, Ryki; Lives in Warsaw.
Education
| 2004 | Stipendium at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin |
| 2002 | S-air, Sapporo |
| 2000 | Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam |
| 1998 | Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan |
Current & Forthcoming
| 2026 | ‘Weight of Matter’, South London Gallery, London |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2025 | Saarlandmuseum Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken |
| 2024 | ‘Broken Glass Dirt and Dust’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| ‘Ghosts’, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne | |
| ‘An Order Apart’, EMMA, Espoo | |
| 2023 | ‘Fire Escape’, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen |
| Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern | |
| 2022 | ‘Impossible Figures’, Adrastus Collection, Ávila, Spain |
| ‘Fatigue’, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn | |
| ‘Collection Presentation’, MUDAM, Luxembourg | |
| 2021 | ‘Beton’, ACRUSH, Zurich |
| 2020 | Saarlandmuseum Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken |
| ‘Monika Sosnowska’, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw | |
| ‘Facade’, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin | |
| ‘Exercises in Construction, Bending’, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow | |
| 2019 | The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| Capitain Petzel, Berlin | |
| 2018 | ‘Urban Flowers’, Gisela Capitain, Cologne |
| ‘Structural Exercises’, Hauser and Wirth, London | |
| 2017 | Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles |
| ‘Wall’, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City | |
| ‘monographic intervention by Monika Sosnowska, Muzeum Susch’, Muzeum Susch, Engadin, Switzerland | |
| ‘Models 2007 – 2017’, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw | |
| 2016 | ‘Habitat’, The Contemporary Austin, Austin |
| Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis | |
| The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow | |
| 2015 | ‘Still Life’, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw |
| Cahiers D'Art, Paris | |
| ‘The Stairs’, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, (On View at the Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria) | |
| ‘Architectonisation’, Serralves Foundation, Porto | |
| ‘Gate’, Ginza Maison Hermès, Ginza | |
| 2014 | ‘Tower’, Hauser and Wirth, New York |
| Capitain Petzel, Berlin | |
| 2013 | Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami |
| ‘Regional Modernities’, ACCA, Melbourne | |
| Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver | |
| Aspen Art Museum, Aspen | |
| 2012 | The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| ‘FIR TREE’, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, (Public Art Fund) | |
| Gisela Capitain, Cologne | |
| Architectural Association, London, (Artist Talk) | |
| 2011 | ‘El Jardin’, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City |
| 2010 | ‘Monika Sosnowska’, Hauser and Wirth, New York |
| ‘Stairway’, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya | |
| ‘Fire Escape (International Artist-in-residence)’, Artpace, San Antonio | |
| ‘The Staircase’, K21, Düsseldorf | |
| ‘The Staircase’, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya | |
| 2009 | Capitain Petzel, Berlin |
| Stiftung Würth, Berlin | |
| 2008 | The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| ‘1:1’, Schaulager Museum, Basel, (with Andrea Zittel) | |
| ‘Sternennebel’, Gebert-Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil | |
| 2007 | ‘1:1’, The Polish Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice |
| ‘Picture this: Monika Sosnowska’, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium | |
| ‘Loop’, KunstMuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz | |
| Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh | |
| 2006 | ‘Display’, Galeria Kronika, Bytom |
| ‘Projects 83: Monika Sosnowska’, MOMA, New York | |
| ‘Interventions 41’, Sprengel Museum, Hannover | |
| ‘The Corridor’, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, MUSAC, (site-specific installation for Laboratorio 987) | |
| Galeria Arsenał, Białystok | |
| 2005 | ‘Display’, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw |
| Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne | |
| ‘The Tired Room’, The Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna | |
| OPA, Guadalajara, (with Kurimanzutto) | |
| 2004 | The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| De Appel, Amsterdam | |
| Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp | |
| The Serpentine Gallery, London | |
| Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin | |
| 2003 | Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan |
| 2002 | Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw |
| 2001 | ‘Little Alice’, Laboratorium, Centrum Sztuki |
| 2000 | ‘Additional Illumination’, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam |
| ‘Bon Voyage’, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam | |
| ‘Non-existent Room in a Part’, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam | |
| 1999 | ‘Double Reality’, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam |
| ‘The Shift’, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam |
Group Exhibitions
| 2025 | ‘Radio Luxembourg: Echoes across borders. New Collection Display’, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg-Kirchberg |
| ‘The Impermanent: Four Takes on the Collection’, The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw | |
| 2024 | ‘Preview: The MSN Warsaw Collection’, The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw |
| ‘Nairy Baghramian: Pratza ’e Domo. A Semiotic House That Was Never Built’, Museo Nivola, Orani, Italy | |
| ‘8th Beaufort Triennial’, Beaufort Triennial, Koksijde, Belgium | |
| 2023 | ‘Aurora nostri temporis / Jutrzenka naszych czasów’, BWA Tarnów |
| ‘In the garden’, Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, Mexico | |
| ‘Out Of The Box’, Schaulager Museum, Basel | |
| ‘Boundaries of Art: 30 years of Polityka's Passports’ | |
| 2022 | Ikon Gallery, Birmingham |
| ‘todos juntos (all together)’, kurimanzutto, New York | |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy | |
| ‘Signatures’, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk | |
| ‘City Limits’, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| ‘Desert X AlUla’, Desert X, AlUla | |
| 2021 | ‘Calder NOW’, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam |
| ‘13th Kaunas Biennial’ | |
| x_minimal, Cassina Projects, Milan | |
| ‘'Sculpture in celebration!' (14/05/2021-1/11/2021)’, Foundation Villa Datris, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue | |
| 2020 | ‘Wiśnie / Cherries’, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok |
| ‘Sculpture & Nature’, Schlossgut Schwante Sculpture Park, Brandenburg | |
| ‘RESENTMENT’, Kunst Meran, Meran | |
| ‘‘Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements’, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka | |
| 2019 | ‘Friend of a Friend’, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw |
| ‘A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women’, Muzeum Susch, Switzerland, (Curated by Kasia Redzisz ) | |
| ‘Everything Is Art To Me’, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok | |
| 2018 | ‘Space Shifters’, Hayward Gallery, London |
| ‘Lust der Täuschung’, Kunsthalle München, Munich | |
| ‘She sees the shadows’, David Roberts Art Foundation, MOSTYN, Wales | |
| ‘Frieze Sculpture 2018’, Regent's Park, London | |
| ‘Living Cities’, Tate Modern, London | |
| ‘Experience Traps’, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp | |
| ‘ISelf Collection’, Whitechapel, London | |
| ‘Honey, I rearranged the collection’, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg | |
| ‘The Land We Live In — The Land We Left Behind’, Hauser and Wirth, London | |
| ‘Open House’, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 2017 | ‘Canadian Biennial 2017’, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
| ‘Living Cities’, Tate Modern, London | |
| ‘Sharjah Biennial 13’, Sharjah Art Foundation | |
| ‘The Power of the Avant-Garde’, The National Museum Kraków, Kraków | |
| ‘13 wystawa kolekcji / 13th collection exhibition’, BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biala | |
| 2016 | ‘Primary Structures and Speculative Froms’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
| ‘Lost & Found’, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin | |
| ‘Common Affairs. Revisiting the Views Award — Contemporary Art from Poland’, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin | |
| ‘Common Affairs. Revisiting the Views Award — Contemporary Art from Poland’, Polnisches Institut, Berlin | |
| ‘Sculpture on the Move 1946-2016’, Kunstmuseum Basel | |
| ‘LA MEMORIA FINALMENTE. ARTE IN POLONIA 1989-2016’, Galleria Civica di Modena, Roma | |
| ‘La déchirure / Rozdarcie. Monika Sosnowska. Marek Szczęsny, Karolina Wiktor’, Atlas Sztuki, Łódź | |
| 2015 | ‘NOTES ON SCULPTURE A plea for deceleration’, Galerie Krobath, Vienna, (curated by Friederike Nymphius on the occasion of 'curated_by Vienna 2015') |
| ‘Architectural Allusions’, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln | |
| ‘A Focus on Sculpture in the Würth Collection’, Museum Würth, Künzelsau | |
| ‘Future Present’, Schaulager, Münchenstein/Basel | |
| ‘(im)possible!; Artists as Architects’, MARTA Museum of Art & Design, Herford | |
| 2014 | ‘Installators’, Art Stations Foundation |
| ‘Salon distingué - Household Effects in Good Company’, Museum Langmatt, Baden | |
| ‘Buildering: Misbehaving the City’, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Blaffer Art Museum, Univeristy of Houston, Houston TX | |
| ‘The Empty Pedestal. Ghosts from Eastern Europe’, Civic Archaeological Museum Bologna, Bologna | |
| ‘Co widać. Polska sztuka dzisiaj/As You Can See: Polish Art Today’, The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw | |
| ‘W niedalekiej przyszłości. Kolekcja Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie/In The Near Future The Collection Of The Museum Of Modern Art In Warsaw’, The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw | |
| ‘From the Collection: Looking at Process’, de la Cruz Collection, Miami | |
| ‘Eine Grosse Idee - 50 Jahre Lehmbruck Museum’, Lehmbruck Museum, Dulsburg | |
| 2013 | ‘Róża jest różą / A rose is a rose’, BWA Tarnów |
| Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge | |
| ‘HEIMsuchung. Unsichere Räume in der Kunst der Gegenwart’, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn | |
| ‘Novecento mai visto (The 20th century as never seen before)’, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia | |
| ‘Twisted Entities. Zeitgenössische polnische Kunst’, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen | |
| 2012 | ‘Organic’, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva |
| ‘REACTIVATION’, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai | |
| ‘The Future's Not What is Used to be’, Chapter, Cardiff | |
| Kunsthaus, Berlin | |
| ‘Schach Matt. This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object’, Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten | |
| ‘ALICE in the Wonderland of Art’, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg | |
| ‘Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity’, MCA, Chicago | |
| ‘Minimal Myth’, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam | |
| ‘New Sculpture’, Zaçheta Narodowa, Galerie Sztuki, Warsaw | |
| ‘DOUBLE GAME’, 1st Kiev International Biennale | |
| 2011 | ‘En Obras. Colecao Teixeira De Freitas’, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
| ‘Weiß und andere Farben’, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg | |
| ‘We Will Live, We Will See’, Zabludowicz Collection, London | |
| ‘ILLUMInations’, Arsenale, Venice Biennale, Venice | |
| ‘Fluiten in het Donker – project by the Curatorial Programme 10/11’, De Appel, Amsterdam | |
| ‘Museum der Wünsche’, Mumok, Vienna | |
| ‘Nowy porządek / New Order’, Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk, Poznań | |
| ‘Tarnów. 1000 lat nowoczesności’, BWA Galeria Miejska w Tarnowie, Tarnów | |
| 2010 | ‘Passages. Travels in Hyper-Space’, Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Gljon |
| ‘Coup de Ville’, WARP, Sint-Niklaas | |
| ‘elles@centrepompidou’, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris | |
| ‘The Promises of the past 1950-2010: A discontinuous history of art in former eastern europe’, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris | |
| ‘Minimalism and Applied II’, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin | |
| 2009 | Bródno Sculpture Park, Warsaw |
| Hayward Gallery, London, (Mark Wallinger curates the Russian Linesman Frontiers, Borders and Thresholds) | |
| 2008 | ‘Kunst Im Hein’, Capitain Petzel, Berlin |
| ‘OTHER THAN YOURSELF - An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space’, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna | |
| ‘Nos cambiamos de domicilio’, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City | |
| 2007 | ‘STAY FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER’, South London Gallery, London |
| ‘Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2008)XXS (Extra Extra Small)’, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv | |
| ‘Delusive Orders’, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, Łódź | |
| 2006 | ‘At the Very Center of Attention’, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw |
| ‘Phantom’, Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen | |
| ‘The Tired Room', in 'Centres of Attraction’, Constitution Square 4, Warsaw | |
| ‘The Exotic Journey End’, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw | |
| ‘Satellite of Love’, Witte de With, Rotterdam | |
| ‘ARS 06 — Sense of the Real’, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki | |
| ‘START!’, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich | |
| ‘Ideal City - Invisible Cities’, Zamość | |
| ‘Sehnsüchtig Gleiten Ballone Rund um die Welt / Longing Balloons are Floating Around the World’, Green Light Pavilion, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin | |
| ‘in collaboration with kurimanzutto gallery, WarsawW Polsce; Czyli gdzie? / In Poland, That Is Where?’, Center for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw | |
| 2005 | ‘Glasgow International’, Sculpture Studios, Glasgow |
| ‘Il Teatro dell'Arte and Luna Park. Arte Fantastica’, Villa Manin Centre of Contemporary Art, Passariano | |
| ‘We Disagree’, Andrew Kreps and Wrong Gallery, New York | |
| ‘Only Make Believe: Ways of Playing’, Compton Verney Museum, Compton Verney | |
| 2004 | ‘Who if Not We …? Cordially Invited’, BAK, Utrecht |
| ‘PRYM’, BWA Gallery, Zielona | |
| ‘Barraque d'dull odde’, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano | |
| ‘Distances?’, Le Plateau, Paris | |
| ‘Ce qui reste’, Galerie du TNB, Rennes | |
| ‘Den Haag Sculptuur’, Den Haag | |
| ‘Dimension Folly’, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento | |
| ‘Parallel Action’, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Cieszyn | |
| 2003 | ‘Clandestine’, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice |
| ‘Views’, Deutsche Bank Cultural Foundation Award, Zacheta Gallery | |
| ‘Art Focus 4’, Israel Festival, Jerusalem | |
| ‘Poetic Justice’, Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul | |
| ‘Pale Fire’, Nordenhake Gallery, Berlin | |
| ‘Architectures of Gender’, Sculpture Center, New York | |
| ‘Re:Location’, Villa Arson, Nice | |
| ‘Contemporary Art for all Children’, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw | |
| ‘Splendor Geometrik’, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne | |
| ‘Hidden in a Daylight’, Hotel Pod Jeleniem, Cieszyn | |
| ‘Labyrinth’, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City | |
| ‘Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered: Spatial Emotion in Contemporary Art and Architecture’, Migros Museum, Zurich | |
| ‘S-AIR Show 2’, Intercross Creative Centre, Sapporo | |
| 2002 | ‘POLES: The New Art of Poland’, La Capella del Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu, Barcelona |
| ‘Project 1. Pause: Conception’, 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju | |
| ‘POLACOS - New Art of Poland’, Capella de l'Antic Hospital de Santa Creu, Barcelona | |
| ‘In Capital Letters’, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel | |
| ‘FAIR’, Royal College of Art, London | |
| Display, Prague | |
| ‘Manifesta 4’, European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt | |
| 2001 | 1st Tirana Biennale, Tirana |
| Galeria Raster, Warsaw | |
| ‘Il y a toujour quelq'un qui veux quelque chose’, Galerie du Jour, Paris | |
| Painters' Competition, Galeria Bielska | |
| ‘Oikos’, Leon Wyczółkowski Museum, Bydgoszcz | |
| 2000 | ‘Escape’, Centre de Solai, Bamako |
| ‘The Double Room’, Hans Brinker Hotel, Amsterdam | |
| ‘Painted Image Limited’, Outline, Amsterdam |
Commissions
| 2025 | ‘Ghosts’, The Purple Path, Chemnitz |
| ‘Museum’, Princess Estelle Sculpture Park, Stockholm | |
| 2018 | Muzeum Susch, Switzerland |
| 2014 | ‘Monika Sosnowska: Inaugurating Landscape Project - Wojnowo’, Wojnowo, Poznań |
| 2013 | ‘Façade’, Maison de la paix, Geneva, (Commissioned by The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) |
| 2011 | ‘Fire Escape’, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City |
| 2008 | ‘The Wind House’, Primrose Hill, Camden, (part of Portavilion) |
| 2006 | Arsenal Gallery, Białystok |
Residencies
| 2022 | ‘The Roberts Institute of Art Residency’, Scotland |
| 2014 | Atelier Calder, Saché |
Bibliography
Press
| 2024 | Manu Sharma: ‘Monika Sosnowska’s sculptures question structural and ideological longevity’, Stir World, 27/10/2024 |
| 2022 | Skye Sherwin: ‘Brutal truth: the artists inspired by high rise horror’, The Guardian, 05/12/2022 |
| 2020 | Frearson, Amy: ‘Architecture Club builds cast-concrete studio for sculptor Monika Sosnowskaka Sosnowska’, Dezeen, 02/03/2020 |
| 2018 | ‘Former Brewery and Rural Monastery Transformed into Muzeum Susch’, Blouin Artinfo, 15/08/2018 |
| Carey-Kent, Paul: What‘s the Worst That Could Happen?, Elephant Magazine, 35 06/2018 | |
| 2012 | De la Garza, Magnolia: ‘Magnolia de la Garza introduces the evolving chronicle of Mexico City’, Kaleidoscope, Issue 14 03/2012 |
| Dillon, Brian: ‘Parasites’, Parkett, Issue 91 2012 | |
| Bonami, Francesco: ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Sosnowska / Das Kabinett von Dr. Sosnowska’, Parkett, Issue 91 2012 | |
| Susanna Davies-Crook: ‘The Inside, Inside’, Sleek, Issue 34 2012 | |
| 2011 | Casadio, Mariuccia: ‘Light Shaped’, Vogue Italia, 09/2011 |
| Jonathan Jones: Time flies at the Venice Biennale’, Guardian.co.uk, 07/06/2011 | |
| Martin Gayford: ‘Venice Biennale has Baroque Star, Lots of Videos’, Bloomberg.com, 06/2011 | |
| Pes, Javier: ‘Sosnowska Sculpture and 17th-century miniature’, Art Newspaper, 223 04/2011 | |
| T.D. Neil, Jonathon: ‘Monika Sosnowska’, Art Review, Issue 47 01/2011 | |
| 2010 | Clewing, Ulrich: ‘Die Architektin Der Verunsiherung’, Architectural Digest, 12/2010 |
| Whitman-Salkin, Leah: ‘Art: Monika Sosnowska’, Kaleidoscope, Issue 07 05/2010 | |
| 2009 | Searle, Adrian: ‘Park Life’, The Guardian G2, 15/01/2009 |
| 2008 | Macel, Christine: ‘Best Of’, Artforum, 12/2008 |
| Garner, James: ‘Monika Sosnowska’, The Metro, 22/10/2008 | |
| Motram, Jack: ‘Art That is Made in Scotland from Girders’, The Herald, 17/10/2008 | |
| Pollock, David: ‘Monika Sosnowska’, The List, Issue 616 2008 | |
| Bell, Kirsty: ‘Time and Space’, Frieze, Issue 116 2008 | |
| 2007 | Jeffrey, Moira: ‘MONIKA SOSNOWSKA’, Map, Issue 11 2007 |
| Lesso, Rosie: ‘Spanning the void’, The List, Issue 591 2007 | |
| Rekade, Christiane, Michael Robinson, (trans.): ‘Unknown’, Flash Art International, 2007 | |
| 2006 | Schlagel, Andreas: ‘Berlin’, Contemporary Magazine, 06/2006 |
| Grzonka, Patricia: ‘Sehnsüchtig gleiten Ballone rund um die Welt. Interview with Caroline Eggel und Christiane Rekade’, Kunstbulletin, 06/2006 | |
| Małkowska, Monika: ‘Strach I pokusa’, Rzeczpospolita, 31/01/2006 | |
| Kane, Elena: ‘Monika Sosnowska’, Contemporary Magazine, 2006 | |
| Mazur, Adam: ‘Monika Sosnowska’, Flash Art, 2006 | |
| 2005 | Viereck, Matthias von: ‘Ein Pavillon für Drei. Das Projeckt-Sehnsüchtig gleiten Ballone rund um die Welt – geht in die Letzte Runde’, Zitty, 30/11/2005 |
| Szabłowski, Stach: ‘Geometria z nerwicÄ…’, Newsweek, 30/11/2005 | |
| Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Somewhere Nowhere. Monika Sosnowska’s Gorbals’, ARCADE, 30/11/2005 | |
| Morton, Tom: ‘Monika Sosnowska’, Frieze, Issue 89 03/2005 | |
| Martin, Alexandra: ‘Emerging Artists: Institutional Breakdown’, Modern Painters, 2005 | |
| 2004 | Darwent, Charles: ‘Unknown’, The Independent on Sunday, 12/12/2004 |
| Cripps, Charlotte: ‘Unknown’, The Independent Review, 24/11/2004 | |
| Pasini, Francesca: ‘Monika Sosnowska’, Artforum, 09/2004 | |
| Lorch, Catrin: ‘Splendor Geometrik’, Frieze, Issue 82 04/2004 | |
| Thea, Carolee: ‘Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women’s Art in Poland, Sculpture Center, New York’, Sculpture, 29/02/2004 | |
| Auslander, Philip: ‘The Biennale and its Discontents’, PAJ, 01/2004 | |
| Szymczyk, Adam: ‘Aperto Poland’, Flash Art, 2004 | |
| Verwoert, Jan: ‘Halluncinated Modernism: On the works of Monika Sosnowska’, Be Magazin des Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2004 | |
| Monaghan, Helen: ‘Monika Sosnowska’, The List, 2004 | |
| Verwoert, Jan: ‘World in Motion’, Frieze, Issue 84 2004 | |
| 2003 | Ronnen, Meir: ‘Out of Focus’, The Jerusalem Post, 14/12/2003 |
| Kleeblatt, Norman L: ‘Istanbul Biennial’, ArtNews, 12/2003 | |
| Lafuente, Pablo: ‘8th International Istanbul Biennial’, Art Monthly, 11/2003 | |
| Kempkes, Anke: ‘Hidden in Daylight, Hotel Pod Jeleniem, Cieszyn’, Frieze, Issue 78 10/2003 | |
| Kopsa, Maxine: ‘50th Venice Biennale’, Frieze, Issue 77 09/2003 | |
| Diez, Renato: ‘La dittatura dei curatori: capolavoria Venezia’, Arte, 09/2003 | |
| Sommer, Tim: ‘Der frosse jahrmarkt’, Kunstmagazin, 08/2003 | |
| ‘Art 34 Basel Boasts Strong Results – Show News’, Art Business News, 31/07/2003 | |
| Lledo, Elena: ‘Entre el sueno y el conflicto’, Lapiz, 07/2003 | |
| Naylor, Stephen: ‘Feeling the Heat of the 50th Venice Biennale’, Art Monthly Australia, 07/2003 | |
| Snodgrass, Susan: ‘Report from Frankfurt: Manifesta 4: Defining Europe?’, Art in America, 01/2003 | |
| Heartney, Eleanor: ‘Mending the Breach’, Art in America, 2003 | |
| Vecchio, Gigiotto del: ‘Monika Sosnowska’, Boiler, 2003 | |
| Menin, Samuele, Valentina Sansone: ‘Sculpture Forever: Contemporary Sculpture (Part 1)’, Flash Art, 2003 | |
| Cabanas, Kaira M, Jacinto Lageira: ‘Venice Biennale; Alexandre Pèrigot’, Parachute, 2003 | |
| 2002 | ‘Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women’s Art in Poland’, n.paradoxa, 30/11/2002 |
| Woliński, Michał: ‘Działanie z zaskoczenia’, Fluid, 30/11/2002 | |
| Ammann, Jean-Christophe: ‘Not enough art, too much political correctness’, Art Newspaper, 09/2002 | |
| Nemeczek, Alfred: ‘Mit geblähtem Segel durch die Wiener Kanalisation’, Kunstmagazin, 30/06/2002 | |
| Dillon, Tamsin: ‘Manifesta 4’, Art Monthly, 2002 | |
| ‘Women artists at Manifesta’, n.paradoxa, 2002 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2020 | Tucker, Ethan: ‘Destruction Becomes a Form of Creation in the Sculpture of Monika Sosnowska’, Metropolis M, 10/03/2020 |
| Berdy, Michele A.: Monika Sosnowska Shares ‘Exercises in Construction, Bending‘, The Moscow Times, 03/03/2020 | |
| 2019 | Heardman, Adam: ‘Monika Sosnowska’, Art Monthly, 09/2019 |
| Gregnanin, Guilia: ‘Monika Sosnowska at The Modern Institute, Glasgow’, Mousse, 29/07/2019 | |
| Mansfield, Susan: ‘Art review: Nicolas Party, The Modern Institute, Glasgow | Monika Sosnowska, The Modern Institute, Glasgow’, The Scotsman, 13/07/2019 | |
| Asthoff, Jens: ‘Monika Sosnowska’, Artforum, 04/2019 | |
| 2017 | Kimmel, Erin: ‘Monika Sosnowska’, Artforum, 10/2017 |
| 2016 | Thorne, Harry: Critic‘s Guide: Glasgow, Frieze, 13/04/2016 |
| Judah, Hettie: ‘A Polish housing estate inspires Monika Sosnowska’s twisting metal forms in Glasgow’, SPACES, 11/04/2016 | |
| 2015 | Forrest, Nicolas: ‘Monika Sosnowska’s Distorted Architectural Models in Paris’, Blouin Artinfo, 30/06/2015 |
| Strasnick, Stephanie: ‘Visit Cahiers d’Art in Paris to See Monika Sosnowska’s Paper Models’, Architectural Digest, 30/06/2015 | |
| Griffin, Tim: ‘Monika Sosnowska‘, Artforum, 01/2015 | |
| 2014 | Rosenberg, Karen: ‘Monika Sosnowska: ‘Tower’’, New York Times, 24/09/2014 |
| Benschop, Jurriaan: ‘Monika Sosnowska‘, Artforum Online, 04/2014 | |
| 2013 | Nelson, Robert: ‘Monuments of the failure of modernist architecture’, The Age, 04/09/2013 |
| Fehily, Toby: ‘Monika Sosnowska ‘Regional Modernities’ tour and talk with Charlotte Day at ACCA‘, Three Thousand, 21/08/2013 | |
| West, Sam: ‘Monika Sosnowska, ‘Regional Modernities’ opening at ACCA‘, Three Thousand, 21/08/2013 | |
| Rule, Dan: ‘Memories recast in metal‘, The Age, 10/08/2013 | |
| W, G: ‘Don‘t take the stairs - Distorting the Aspen Museum‘, Modern Painters, 02/2013 | |
| Mantle, Jac: ‘Art’, The Skinny, 01/2013 | |
| 2012 | Miller, Ben: ‘Last Chance to See: ‘The Future‘s Not What it Used to Be’ Gallery Cardiff‘, Culture 24, 11/2012 |
| ‘Exhibitions‘, The Guardian Guide, 22/09/2012 | |
| Vogel, Carol: ‘Inside Art’, New York Times, 02/08/2012 | |
| Egea, Eduardo: ‘Reviews’, Flash Art, 03/2012 |
Publications
| 2024 | Great |
| 2018 | She Sees The Shadows, DRAF / MOSTYN |
| 2015 | Architectonisation, Fundação de Serralves, Porto |
| Text by Turowski, Andrzej: Monika Sosnowska. Tower, Hatje Cantz and Hauser & Wirth | |
| 2013 | Bell, Kirsty: The Artist's House: from workplace to artwork, Sternberg Press |
| 2009 | Aufrecht, Evelyn: Monika Sosnowska: Robert-Jacobsen-Preis der Stiftung Würth 2008/2009, Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau |
| 2008 | Monika Sosnowska: Photographs and Sketches, Schaulager and Steidl Publishers, Basel and Göttingen (monograph) |
| 2007 | A Dream of Prefabricated Houses, in Monika Sosnowska, (monograph), Zachęta Państowowa Galeria Sztuki, Warzsawa |
| Monika Sosnowska, Zachęta Państowowa Galeria Sztuki, Warzsawa | |
| Monika Sosnowska, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Liechtenstein and Cologne (monograph) | |
| Spatio-Temporal Rhythms and the Propagandistic Background of Architecture, in Monika Sosnowska, Zachęta Państowowa Galeria Sztuki, Warzsawa | |
| 2006 | Artists and Place-making, Black Dog Publishing, London |
| Ideal City - Invisible Cities, Revolver, Frankfurt am Main | |
| Pustostany, po nowoczesności. in: Monika Sosnowska, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok | |
| 2005 | Arte Fantastica. Sculptures in the Park, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Manin, Passariano |
| Gortzen. Ich und die Anderen, Udo G. Cordes, Berlin | |
| 2004 | Le XXe siècle dans l’art polonais, Aica Press, Paris |
| Monika Sosnowska, Serpentine Gallery, London (monograph) | |
| 2001 | Aren’t You Going to Expose Me?, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała |
Exhibition Publications
| 2013 | Monika Sosnowska Aspen Art Museum Exhibition catalogue, Aspen Art Press, Aspen |
| Monika Sosnowska: Regional Modernities, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Southbank | |
| 2008 | Other Than Yourself: An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna |
| The Wind House, Portavilion: Public Art for London's Parks, Portavilion, London | |
| 2006 | Sehnsüchtig gleiten Ballone rund um die Welt / Longing Balloons Are Floating Around the World, Berlin-Mitte, Gormannstrasse/ Mulackstrasse, Berlin |
| 2004 | Ce qui reste, Galerie du TNB, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes |
| Cordially Invited, episode 3, BAK, Utrecht | |
| PRYM, Zielona Góra, Warsaw; Galeria Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Foksal Gallery Foundation and Revolver, Warsaw and Frankfurt | |
| Re: Location 1-7/ Shake, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst and Folio Verlag, Linz and Vienna | |
| 2003 | Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women’s Art in Poland, Sculpture Centre, New York; National Museum, Warsaw |
| Art Focus 4, International Bienniale of Contemporary Art, Museum of Underground Prisoners 1918-1948, Jerusalem | |
| Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Spatial Emotion in Contemporary Art and Architecture, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Łaznia, Gdańsk | |
| Hidden in a Daylight, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw | |
| Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul | |
| Re: Location, Villa Arson, Nice | |
| The Spectacles of Architecture, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw | |
| 2002 | Dreams and Conflicts, The Dictatorship of the viewer, 50th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice |
| Fair, Royal College of Art, London | |
| In Capital Letters, Kunsthalle Basel/ Schwabe Verlag, Basel | |
| Manifesta 4 – European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Hatje Cantz, Frankfurt am Main | |
| Project 1. Pause: Conception. 4th Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Kwangju Biennale Press, Kwangju | |
| 2001 | TIRANA BIENNALE 1, National Gallery + Chinese Pavilion, Tirana |
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