BIO
Ligia Popławska is a photographer and art historian based in Antwerp, Belgium. Her work explores themes of disappearance, senses and emotional states concerning memory, climate change and human impact on the natural environment. By incorporating speculative documentary and magical realism into her photographic series, she narrates stories which fuse reality with fiction. With a deep interest in natural phenomena, art history and sciences, her research-based work rises questions about human and non-human conditions.
Ligia graduated with MFA and BFA in Photography from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and a BA in Art History from the University of Gdańsk. She is a recipient of the Decade of Change 2022 series award by British Journal of Photography and Photography Prize by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. Ligia was selected for .tiff 2022 (FOMU Antwerp) and awarded a solo exhibition at PhMuseum Days 2021 International Festival in Bologna. She exhibited at Helsinki Photo Festival, InCadaques Photo Festival, and De Brakke Grond Amsterdam, among others. In 2022 she received a scholarship for Emerging Talents from Flemish Government. She is a member of Futures Photography nominated by FOMU Antwerp.
She works as a photographer in the field of product, architecture, fashion and portrait photography. She has been co-creating platform Intimate Structures.
CONTACT
ligiapoplawska@gmail.com
@ligiapoplawska
Prints available at St. Vincents - Kleine Markt 13, 2000 Antwerp or via direct contact. Artistic and commercial portfolio available upon request.
AWARDS
2022 Flemish Government Scholarship
2022 1854 British Journal of Photography, Decade of Change Series Award, 1st Prize
2022 Helsinki Photo Festival
2022 FUTURES Photography, nominated by FOMU
2022 .tiff 2022, FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerpen
2021 PhMuseum Days 2021, 1st Prize
2020 PEP New Talents
2020 Photography Prize, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
LECTURES & TEACHING
2021 - 2023: Photography course (1BA - MA) at the Department Jewellery Design & Gold- and silversmithing, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (2021―2022)
2022: British Journal of Photography 1854, New Narratives. Decade of Change: Documenting the Climate Crisis hosted by Zoe Harrison, online
2021: ‘What happens if we lose our senses? Ligia Popławska talks about Solastalgia’, PhMuseum Days 2021, Bologna, Italy (2021)
2020: ‘Visual Storytelling Beyond Anthropocene: Geert Goiris and ‘World Without Us’’, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium (2020)