Zuzanna Zgierska (she/her) leads courses on artistic and design research at BA Fine Arts, Common Ground, and Preparatory departments at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and MA Critical Inquiry Lab at the Design Academy Eindhoven. She also works as an artist-researcher, experimental filmmaker, and creative technologist at the intersection of ArtScience, Digital Culture, and Social Practice.
What drives her artistic approach is the need for critical narratives in the age of "ex-" (extraction, exclusion, and extinction). She untangles the planetary tongues through fieldwork, geo-hacking, and cross-cultural exchanges. From Earth Simulation Lab to the North Pole, Zuzanna creates data- and landscape imaginaries by connecting scientific, Indigenous, and technological inquiries, questioning the existing knowledge paradigms. Since 2020, she has collaborated with paleomagnetic physicists in Europe and nomadic communities in Inugguit Nunaat (Northern Greenland) on "Out of Focus," a body of work in which artificial shifting of magnetic values in iron meteorites became an anti-colonial strategy to restitute looted geo-matter and facilitate the resurgence of Indigenous stories. Her current research focuses on photography beyond vision, whereby registering spectral presences locked in the archive of matter, explored through DIY camera prosthetics, bridges the gaps in art-historical representations.
Zuzanna was a Digital Culture Fellow 2023–24 (Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht) and a member of the "Politics of Knowledge" Research Group 2022–24 (Lectorate Art Theory & Practice, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague). She received a Talent Award 2024 (Creative Industries Fund NL), a Golden Calf in Digital Culture 2022 (Netherlands Film Festival), and a Landscape Research Award 2021 (Landscape Research Group UK). Her expanded cinema and installation works have been shown at international festivals and galleries, including the Netherlands Film Festival (Utrecht), Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven), Sonic Acts Biennial (Amsterdam), Digital Art Festival (Taipei), Noorderlicht International Photo Festival (Groningen), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung), W139 (Amsterdam), MU Hybrid Art House (Eindhoven), and Stroom (The Hague), and reviewed by NRC, De Telegraaf, Het Parool, The Wire, WIRED, AQNB, Metropolis M, Ecoes, FormyMag, and Digicult, among others. She has a studio at Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives in The Hague.