RESUME

Wera Bet was born in Bydgoszcz (Poland), works and lives in Berlin (Germany) and Bydgoszcz. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk (2007-2009), as well as at the University of Fine Arts in Poznan (2009-2012). She was a guest student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the class of Miroslaw Balka with a profile on sculpture, installations and performance (2012). She was nominated among the most interesting and promising painters of the young generation in Poland in the Geppert Prize (2013). Wera Bet showed poster installations at ChertLüdde books in Berlin as a project called Porcino (2022), had a solo exhibition at Grzegorzki Shows in Berlin (2021), or Zona of Sztuki Aktualnej in Szczecin (2018). She also showed Survival Festival 19 in Wroclaw (2019), a4 Art Museum Luxelakes in Chengdu, China (2020), an online performance for Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020), Project Space Zacheta in Warsaw (2014). She also curated a solo exhibition of Cristina Ferreira-Szwarc at KVOST in Berlin (2021).

Wera Bet perceives the world cognitively and unpacking from its hidden parabolic meanings. Her works trace how (mis)information spreads, sprouting through concealed networks of knowledge and figuration. Bet questions what is a fluid understanding of various forms of sexual identity and desire, with the focus on a process of gender segregation and normative socialization that evaluates bodies and behaviors in the attempt to subordinate subjects within a limiting set of rules. Her practice is firmly rooted in the so-called "Polishness", which refers to Polish culture, history, language.