Zuzanna Czebatul — Photo © Stini Roehrs

Zuzanna Czebatul

Zuzanna Czebatul (1986, Poland) is active in the Berlin club culture as a bouncer and DJ. She deconstructs cultural symbols from the club scene and examines the links between pop culture, individual freedom and political ideology. In doing so, she questions how these power relations structure our social reality.

Czebatul studied at the Städelschule Frankfurt in 2013 and gained a scholarship for the MFA Program at Hunter College, New York.

She is one of the prizewinners of the Allegro Art Prize 2022, and received the Werkstattpreis 2022 from the Kunststiftung Erich Hauser and the Hessische Kulturstiftung Travel Grant.

Past solo exhibitions include Kunsthal Thy, Stenbjerg; Import Export, Warsaw; EXILE Gallery, Vienna; and the MINI/Goethe Institute Ludlow 38, New York.

Her work was recently displayed in Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlijn; Neue Galerie, Kassel; Museum Of Modern Art, Warsaw; and Art hall Bratislava, among others. She also participated in the Geneva, Athens and Wroclaw biennales.

On display at COME CLOSER

Middelheimmuseum

Zuzanna Czebatul, Macromolecule Exploiting some Biological Target (EMPIRE / VAMPIRE), 2024 © The Artist - Photo: Léonard Pongo

Macromolecule Exploiting some Biological Target, 2024

Group of sculptures, new work

Dream/Engine. Brain/Drain. Vampire/Empire. The colourful sculptures by Zuzanna Czebatul have something lively and playful, but they are not innocent. They are XXL versions of popular party drugs. For many people, XTC pills ease social contact at parties and in clubs. But are you still yourself, or do you adapt to the group behaviour? Which role do you want to play? There is also tension between euphoria and exhaustion, dream and reality, body and techno.

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