Jagoda Malanin is a visual artist and photographer based in Poland, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław and an alumna of the Sputnik Photos Mentoring Programme, Image Threads, and the Nikon–NOOR Academy.
Her work has been recognized internationally. In 2026, her series Janet Wants a Yellow Mango received the Fresh Eyes Talent 2026 distinction and was published by GUP Magazine, Ephemere Tokyo (curated by Anne Murayama), and as a NEONATE AWARD 26 winner by Embryo Platform. In 2023, her series Cryogenia received third place in the Professional Still Life category at the Sony World Photography Awards, with the work subsequently presented at Somerset House (London), Museo Diocesano (Milan), and Willy Brandt Haus (Berlin).
In 2026, Jagoda Malanin was invited to take part in “LOVE” at the Bastille Design Center in Paris, a group exhibition featuring Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, ORLAN, and Roger Ballen among its participating artists, and year earlier in Mine Eyes Bees Deceive at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (2025), curated by Łukasz Rusznica and Kamila Bondar. Her work has also appeared in the Irish magazine Abridged, the Slovenian Membrana, and onlineGuest Room by Der Greif, curated by Anna-Alix Koffi.
Malanin is a recipient of the Networks scholarship, awarded by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, and a co-founder of the Hydroza collective. In 2023, she published her author’s book Memoir Found in a Bathtub.
Working primarily with photography and ready-made objects, she explores themes of survival, desire, maternity, and impossibility.
www.instagram.com/jagodamalanin
Exhibitions/Recognitions:
- 2026 “Colour of Noise”, Ephemere Tokyo (cur. Anne Murayama), group publication
- 2026 Neonate Award, group publication and exhibition, Embryo Platform
- 2026 “Love”, Bastille Design Center, Paris, group exhibition with Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, Sobol, Roger Ballen (cur. Danila Tkachenko and Slavica Veselinović), Art-Icon
- 2026 “Janet wants a yellow mango” , Warsaw, individual, curated by Milena Soporowska
- 2026 selected as Fresh Eyes, by GUP Magazine. Participation in book “Fresh Eyes 2026” and collective exhibition, Haute Photographie, Rotterdam as part of Rotterdam Art Week
- 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
Publications:
- 2026 Fresh Eyes 2026, Gup Magazine
- 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