Biography
Liliana Piskorska was born in 1988 and graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Toruń in 2013. Currently she is a PhD student at the Faculty of Fine Arts under the supervision of Elżbieta Jabłońska. Since 2013 she has been a member of an artistic/self-education group centered around the Gallery by Vistula River.
She has taken part in over 60 individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. (e.g.: Mediations Biennale/Centre od Culture Castle in Poznan, Epidemic/CoCa in Torun, Forecast Forum - Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Berlin, Cyprus International Performance Art Festival/Cypr, Transmission Arts Festival Athens – Karlsruhe, Ateny Grecja/Karlsruhe Niemcy, Skyway International Light Festival/Toruń, Malta Festival/Poznań.
She has received multiple scholarships (e.g.: Scholarship from Ministery of Science and Higher Education to PhD students for outstanding academic achievements 2016/2017, Cultural Scholarship from Marshal of the kujawsko-pomorskie voivodeship 2017)
She focuses her artistic research on notions such as feminism and the idea that “The personal is political”, but she sees them from a perspective derived from posthumanism, ecofeminism and the situation of minorities. Her artistic activities have very analytical character; they are related to current social and cultural situation. She uses media ranging from sculpture and drawing to performance and happening; she very frequently uses herself and her own body to create works of art.
