Ula Lucińska, Michał Knychaus (PL)

Ula Lucińska and Michał Knychaus work together as the Inside Job duo. Both graduated from the department of New Media at the University of Arts in Poznań, Poland. Their practice is focused on the use of different mediums and materials, which often leads to the creation of multi-layered, object-based environments. Many of their projects refer to catastrophic scenarios in which the hauntings from the past and futuristic speculations are intertwined. They are interested in the environmental, social and geopolitical changes that shape the present and influence the imaginarium of possible futures. By incorporating fiction as working methodology they explore its self-fulfilling potential – forecasting dystopias and utopias to examine their possibilities and limitations.

Currently leading the Guest Artist's Studio at the University of the Arts in Poznań. Finalists of the international Artagon IV competition in Paris (2018); shortlisted for the International Allegro Prize (2020); merited with: the Poznań City Award for Emerging Artists (2022,2020), Prize of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2018), Santander Universidades Prize (2016). Their joint diploma project received awards from magazines: SZUM and Czas Kultury (2018). They have presented works during art residencies (Aldea Residency, Bergen, NO; RUPERT Residency, Vilnus, LT, A-I-R FUTURA, Prague, CZ; Residency Gurzelen, Biel/Bienne, CH; TestDrive, Nicosia, CY; Kulturfabrik , Burgdorf, CH), at individual exhibitions (e.g. EastContemporary, Milan, IT; FUTURA, Prague, CZ; Šopa Gallery, Košice, SK; BSMNT, Leipzig, DE; Cantina, Aarhus, DK; Hot Wheels Projects, Athens, GR; Pawilon, Poznań, PL; :SKALA, Poznań, PL) and collective ones (Aldea Gallery, Bergen, NO; the 34th Biennale of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, SLO; Exhibit Gallery of Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, AT; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, DE; BWA Wrocław, PL; TRAFO - Trafostacja Sztuki, Szczecin, PL; The Death of Man, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, PL; WallRiss, Fribourg, CH; Sattlekammer, Bern, CH; the Athens Digital Arts Festival 2018, Athens, GR; DuflonRacz, Bern, CH; the Ostrale Biennale of Contemporary Arts, Dresden, DE; Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem, IL).