Paulina Olowska was born in 1976 in Gdansk and currently lives in Raba Nizna, near Krakow, Poland. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Fine Arts Academy in Gdansk, before being invited to the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 2001/2002. Her work has been shown in numerous international art venues, including Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin (during the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art), Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and New Museum in New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej in Warsaw, Museu d’Art Contemporani (MACBA), Barcelona, and CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. She is represented by Gallery Daniel Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin and Metro Pictures, New York and Simon Lee, London