Zuzanna Hertzberg

Zuzanna Hertzberg is an interdisciplinary artist, artivist, and researcher. Her art encompasses painting, performance, textiles, and assemblage. She is the author of installations and collages that utilize archival materials. She is interested in the interweaving of individual and collective memory, and in the search for identity in the mechanism of appropriation and restitution of minority heritage, especially women’s heritage. She is also deeply engaged with issues of  geopolitics and strategies for marginalising uncomfortable narratives. She is involved in individual and collective practices combating discrimination and violence against marginalised people and groups. Hertzberg earned her PhD degree from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts with a thesis titled Spaces of Ignorance (2018). She participated in a number of exhibitions in Poland and abroad. She is the co-founder of the Jewish Antifascist Block, a member of the Antifascist Coalition, and serves on the board of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.