Alicja Rogalska designs collective situations – including workshops, performances, dinner parties, and live action role-playing games (LARP) – where both the process and outcome are shaped through group negotiation. The artist invites people from specific communities to engage in dialogue, make their voices heard, and develop emancipatory approaches for the future. These gatherings often translate into video works but may also result in songs, images, or objects that reflect the collective process. In her practice, Rogalska employs strategies like experimental learning, feminist knowledge production, methods of care, and non-hierarchical frameworks, continually renegotiating the potential of art as a tool for community building.

Rogalska frequently collaborates with individuals from economically or politically precarious backgrounds, such as migrant agricultural workers on the island of Jersey, street singers in Jakarta, and flower farmers in the Czech Republic. She also involves activists, lawyers, and researchers in her projects to examine social inequalities related to labor, migration, gender, climate, and rural spaces. For her exhibition at n.b.k., the artist engaged in dialogue with Berlin-based bicycle couriers. In her latest works, Rogalska envisions utopian scenarios, opening up speculative spaces to imagine futures free from isolation and exploitation.

Alicja Rogalska (*1979 in Ostrołęka / Poland, lives in Berlin) received the Berlin Art Prize 2022 and was a 2020–21 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program scholarship holder. Her work has recently been exhibited at venues including the Biennale Matter of Art, Prague (2024); Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (solo, 2024); Biennale Videobrasil, São Paulo (2023–24); Jogja Biennale, Yogyakarta (2023); Urbane Künste Ruhr, Essen (2023); Manifesta 14, Prishtina (2022); and Temporary Gallery in Cologne (solo, 2021–22). Rogalska is currently pursuing a PhD in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London.