About
Paulina Pawłowska (b. 2000) is a Berlin-based Polish performer, dancer and choreographer. Her work centers around sexuality, pleasure and power dynamics. Influenced by queer-feminist theories and BDSM practices, she uses choreography to deconstruct the gaze developed by the patriarchally coded body and reclaim erotic power through embodied practice.
Paulina is a 2025 danceWEB Scholarship Recipient at ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna and is currently represented by WHOISPOLA Gallery.
Education
| 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 |
Performances
2025
- Movement direction for Dreams music video / installation by Jessyca R. Hauser and Laura Hyppönen, Anorak, Berlin.
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 Theatre, 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
Exhibitions
2025
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
Research
2024
- Research Project — Stripper Gollum by Be Heitzman Hope, ImPulsTanz Festival, Vienna
- Choreography Research Residency OPEN STUDIO, Komuna Warszawa Theatre, Warsaw (1 month)