Wysocka / Pogo: Roman vase I, 2026

Description

Magdalena Wysocka [b.1987, Poland] and Claudio Pogo [b.1978, Germany] are a Berlin based artist duo who have been working together since 2016. With backgrounds in printmaking and photography, their work bridges a variety of related mediums, from large-scale printed canvas works to handmade photobooks. Their practice is centred around collecting and re-contextualising found imagery.

Material is sourced from vintage photographs, books and other archives, stripped of its original context and transformed to create new visual narratives. Wysocka / Pogo utilise Risography, a Japanese stencil printing technique from the 1960’s, to express this reinterpretation. They purposefully push the risograph’s boundaries heightening the elements of chance and unpredictability in the finished pieces. Their canvases become a beautiful and uniquely tangible reflection on the passage of time and context, as well as machine-made replication vs. hand-made interpretation… READ MORE

Artefacts

Artefacts looks at the artefact itself. It is not treated as a stable object recovered from history, but as something far less certain: a fragment, a trace, a distortion, the residue of a human desire to know and to measure. Conventionally, an artefact is an object shaped by human hands and carrying cultural meaning. In photography it is also the opposite: an unwanted mark, a glitch, a shift away from clarity. The artists work in the space between these two meanings… READ MORE

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