INSIDE JOB
PolandUla Lucińska and Michał Knychaus are visual artists based in Poznań, Poland, working asthe artist duo Inside Job. Their joint practice focuses on the processes of sedimentationand accumulation, life-bearing systems, and identity construction within the context ofdynamic changes such as the climate crisis, technological acceleration, political shiftsand growing anxiety about the impending unknown. Many of their projects refer tocatastrophic scenarios in which the hauntings from the past and futuristic speculationsare intertwined—incorporating fiction as methodology, they explore its self-fulfillingpotential, forecasting dystopias and utopias to examine their limitations and possibilities.
Inside Job received the 2nd Hana Future Art Award (2026) and the Młoda PolskaScholarship (2026). They were shortlisted for the International Allegro Prize (2020);finalists in the International Artagon IV competition in Paris (2018); and recipients of thePoznań Artistic Scholarship (2023), the Poznań City Award for Emerging Artists (2020),the Prize of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2018), and the SantanderUniversidades Prize (2016). Selected solo exhibitions include: eastcontemporary, Milan,IT; FUTURA, Prague, CZ; Cantina, Aarhus, DK; Hot Wheels Projects, Athens, GR; ŠopaGallery, Kosice, SK; BSMNT, Leipzig, DE; 66P Gallery, Wrocław, PL; Pawilon, Poznań, PL;SKALA, Poznań, PL. They have been selected to participate as part of the Polish Pavilionat the 16th Gwangju Biennale, opening in September 2026.
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