Jagoda Malanin is a visual artist, photographer. Graduate of the Sputnik Photos mentoring programme, Nikon NOOR Academy, and Jastrzębska Szkoła Fotografii. She won 3rd place in the professional still life category at the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 for her series “Cryogenia”. She graduated in Photography and Multimedia from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. In 2025, she participated in the exhibition “Mine Eyes Bees Deceive” at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, curated by Łukasz Rusznica and Kamila Bondar. She become a holder of “Networks” scholarship by Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Her work from the Cryogenia series was shown at Somerset House in London, Museo Diocesano in Milan, and at Willy Brandt Haus in Berlin as part of SWPA 2023. She has exhibited at Wrocław’s Miejsce przy Miejscu 14 gallery, Galeria u Agatki, BWA Wrocław, as well as Warsaw, Łódź, and Porto. She has published in the Irish magazine Abridged and the Slovenian Membrana.

Jagoda co-founded the Hydroza collective. . Her artistic interests include the “third landscape” and topics such as endangered pregnancy, and maternity (“Memoir found in a bathtub”, 2018–2020), habitual guilt (“The thing with feathers,” 2022), and survival (“Cryogenia,” 2022), semiotic skin,(“skins we live in, 2023), Karelia (“Into white night puppies were born, 2023”) or desire (“Janet wants a yellow mango”, 2025)

She works mainly with photography and ready-made objects, exploring photography as a medium of disbelief with ambiguity and tactility.

More information on her work and exhibitions can be found at:

www.jagodamalanin.com

www.instagram.com/jagodamalanin

Exhibitions/Recognitions:

  • 2025 scholarship holder of the “Networks” program of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, within the framework of which the project ‘Paris Photo and the Polycopies trade fairs: development of curatorial networks around the practices and art book” is being implemented
  • 2025 “Mine Eyes Bees Deceive,” Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, collective, curated by Kamila Bondar and Łukasz Rusznica
  • 2025 “Perpetua,” GUA Wrocław, collective Hydroza, curated by Agata Grzych,, part of  21. Biennale Sztuki Mediów WRO 2025 „Qualia”
  • 2024 ART&DESIGN 2024. Water life. Water reconstructions, Łódź Center of Design, collective Hydroza, curated by Małgorzata Komborska-Łączna
  • 2024 “Sad Droplet,” performance, Festiwal Narracje, XV Edition, Gdańsk, collective Hydroza curated by Zuzanna Mielczarek and Mateusz Włodarek
  • 2024 “Who is the last to cry,” Biuro Wystaw, Warsaw, collective Hydroza, curated by Paweł Brylski
  • 2024 “Who is the last to cry,” DOMIE, Poznań, collective Hydroza
  • 2023, “Into the white night puppies were born” Pracownia Wschodnia, Warsaw, individual, curated by Agata Grzych
  • 2023 SWPA 2023, Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin
  • 2023 SWPA 2023, Museo Diocesano, Milan
  • 2023 SWPA 2023, Somerset House, London
  • 2023 “Cryogenia,” 3rd place winner of Sony World Photography Awards, professional competition, category still life
  • 2023 “Who is the last to cry,” Pracownia Wschodnia, collective Hydroza
  • 2022 “Skins we live in” selected to Nikon Noor Academy in Poland, mentored by Andrea Bruce
  • 2022 “Skins we live in,” Galleria u Agatki, Poland, individual, curated by Agata Grzych
  • 2022 “Good evening,” BWA Wrocław, Galleries of Contemporary Art, Poland, collective, curated by Iwona Kałuża
  • 2021 “Skins we live in,” selected for publication in Membrana Journal of Photography, Theory and Visual Culture, Vol. 6, no. 2 (Skin), Slovenia, collective
  • 2021 “Year of restless sun,” Book Art Museum in Łódź, Poland, collective
  • 2021 “Memoir found in a bathtub,” Gallery Miejsce przy Miejscu 14, Wrocław, curated by Łukasz Rusznica, individual
  • 2021 NO. 9, Social Center of Photography, Warsaw, by Sputnik Photos Mentoring Programme, collective
  • 2021 Featured in Abridged Magazine, No. 77, Northern Ireland, collective
  • 2021 Accepted to Image Threads mentoring program, collaborated on book with Sara J. Winston
  • 2021 Der Greif – Guest Room, online collective exposition, curated by Anna-Alix Koffi, collaboration with artist Sadikou Oukpedjo
  • 2020 “Memoir found in a bathtub,” TIFF Festival, Wrocław, featured author, collective
  • 2019 Takeovers, Agora Gallery, Wrocław, individual
  • 2018 Eropol, Galeria u Agatki, Tamka, Wrocław, collective with Katarzyna Śmigielska
  • 2016 Spontaneous architectures 2, Galeria Duży Pokój, Warsaw, individual
  • 2016 Move up, Galeria Dos Leones, Porto, Portugal, collective
  • 2016 Four Points, Galeria Duas da Letra, Porto, Portugal, collective

Publications:

  • 2023 Sony World Photography Award, with essay of Rinko Kawauchi ISBN 978-0-9569085-5-1.
  • Membrana Journal Vol. 6. no. 2 (Skin) 2021  Membrana Journal of Photography, Theory and Visual Culture ISSN 2463-8501; eISSN: 2712-4894
  • No. 9., Sputnik Photos Mentoring Programme, 2021, ISBN 978-83-956367-2-1 , collective, print run 700
  • “Memoir found in a bathtub” Mustikka Press, 2021, individual,

Contact:
jagoda.malanin@gmail.com