About
Paulina Pawłowska (b. 2000) is a Berlin-based Polish performer, dancer, and choreographer. Her artistic background is rooted in improvisation, contemporary dance, and photography.
Her practice engages with sexuality, pleasure, trauma and power dynamics through philosophy and queer-feminist theory. She investigates the politics of the gaze and BDSM practices as performative tools, reframing the erotic as a space of intersecting agency, vulnerability, and power.
For the past two years, she has been practicing yoga while deepening her interest in sexology. In May 2026, she will begin a 200-hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training and continues to develop her practice through various somatic workshops. She was a guest dance teacher at Centre in Motion and Dom Kultury Śródmieście in Warsaw, and Nowy Theatre in Poznań.
Paulina is represented by WHOISPOLA Gallery.
Education
| 2025 | DanceWEB, ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna |
| 2023 | SNDO Intensive Course of Choreography, Amsterdam |
| 2021–2023 | Experimental Choreography Course, Centre in Motion, Warsaw |
| 2020–2023 | BA Media Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Szczecin |
| 2021 | Kem School, Warsaw |
| 2018–2022 | STW Contemporary Dance School in Poznań |
Scholarships & Awards
2025
- DanceWEB scholarship, ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna
- Grant of the National Institute of Music and Dance, Choreographic Commissions programme, Poland
- Grant of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish culture worldwide programme, Warsaw
Performances
2025
- Performance WINK, Choreographic Commissions, Grotowski Institute, Wroclaw
- Young Boy Dancing Group, Wiener Aktionismus Museum, Vienna
- Solo performance, NEW FEARS Gallery, Berlin
- Movement direction for Dreams music video / installation by Jessyca R. Hauser and Laura Hyppönen, anorak, Berlin
- Choreography in Hotel Molier dir. Oskar Sadowski, Izabella Cywińska Nowy Theatre, Poznań
2024
- Solo performance Ardor, WHOISPOLA Gallery, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Warsaw
- Group performance / Open Studio, Body Possesions by Danilo Andrés, Uferstudios, Berlin
- Performance Ladodeja, The Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival, Krakow
- Performance Ladodeja, Stefan Żeromski Theatre, Kielce
- Performance and choreography in Ladodeja dir. Oskar Sadowski, The National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik
- Performance Final Cut with Sebastian Winkler, WHOISPOLA Gallery, Pawilon Bliska12, Warsaw
- Performance in Lady Love, dir. Bartosz Konopka
- Solo performance Under Me Was Me, WHOISPOLA Gallery, Warsaw
2023
- Group performance PLAY by Gloria Victoria, Crash Club, Warsaw Gallery Weekend
- Solo performance Tip of My Tongue, WHOISPOLA Gallery, Warsaw
- Performance error, Post Pxrn Film Festival, Warsaw
- Performance error, Centre in Motion, Warsaw
- Solo performance, Pawilon birthday afterparty with Kem, Pawilon, Poznan
- Video performance Body Control, Porn Film Festival, Vienna
2022
- Solo performance, Dragana Bar / Kem, Warsaw
- Group performance *** (star star star) Mica Levi x PRICE x Kem, Ephemera Festival, Komuna Warszawa, Warsaw
- Performance in The Whispering Source video by Filip Preis for the Solarium of Nowy Theatre, Warsaw
- Performance in Bring Back Alice dir. Dawid Nickel
- Video performance Body Control, Post Pxrn Film Festival, Warsaw
- Video performance Body Control, BAZA festival, Poznan
2021
- Solo performance Echo, WY Gallery, Art Factory, Łódź
- Group performance by Kem School participants with Mathias Ringgenberg (PRICE), Studio Theatre, Warsaw
2020
- Solo performance The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, The Nihilist Church Gallery, Wroclaw
2019
- Solo performance, pozqueer. x poruszenie #2, Poznan
Residencies
2024
- Choreography Research Residency OPEN STUDIO, Komuna Warszawa, Warsaw
Exhibitions
2025
- Group exhibition Art Warsaw, Villa Róż
- Group exhibition Mine Eyes Bees Deceive, Ujazdowski Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
2024
- Group exhibition Hi Stranger, WHOISPOLA Gallery, Warsaw
- Group exhibition Crash Club, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Warsaw
- Group exhibition Constellations, Raster Gallery, Warsaw
- Group exhibition RARE, WHOISPOLA Gallery, Warsaw
2023
- Group exhibition Tip of My Tongue, WHOISPOLA Gallery, Warsaw
- Group exhibition, Tender Debauchery, Lokal_30 Gallery, Warsaw
2022
- Solo exhibition, Public Skin, Czwartek Gallery, Warsaw
- Group exhibition, 8304, FRINGE, Krakow Photomonth
- Group exhibition Infinite Set, Fotofestival Łódź
2021
- Group exhibition I’m Standing, I’m Dancing, I’m Fighting, Obrońców Stalingradu 17 Gallery, Szczecin
Publications & Articles
- Vogue, Review of the exhibition Hi Stranger at WHOISPOLA Gallery, Warsaw, 2024
- Vogue, Review of the performance Ladodeja, 2024
- Bisous de Varsovie, Natalia Piotrkowicz & Julia Fohs, 2024
- Secret Zine 2, Girls* to the Front, 2023
- Queer Erotica Zine 2, Girls* to the Front, 2022
- Kalejdoskop, Review of the performance Echo, 2021