ABOUT

Agnieszka Kotecka is a Mexico City-based artist exploring migration and transcultural identity through the intersection of traditional textiles, digital processes, and large-scale installation. Combining ancestral techniques with glitch aesthetics and data mapping, her practice crosses disciplinary boundaries to offer a critical reflection on the delocalization of identity and cultural heritage in the digital age.

Kotecka studied Hispanic Literature at UNAM (1999) and earned a Master's in Textile Design and Print at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland (2006). This binational, interdisciplinary background bridges art, craft, technology, and cultural studies. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across Mexico and internationally, including the Slovak Textile Triennial (2012) and the Biennial of Miniartextile in Como (2012). Her projects take the form of textile sculptures, immersive installations, and research-based works that examine physical and symbolic borders.  Through series such as Latente (2024) and El monje errante (2022), Kotecka reimagines traditional symbologies—embroidery, pre-Hispanic motifs, pixelated geometries—to question hegemonic narratives. She proposes textiles as a space of memory, mapping and transformation, where personal and collective narratives intertwine. You can find structured data about the artist on Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138228177

Quema de datos, 2024 (collab. Fernando Montiel Klint)

"There is no identity without another in which to reflect or deny oneself." - Julia Kristeva
I believe that contradictions expose notions of stability and belonging, revealing that identities are fluid and constantly changing. I believe that the true essence of human experience lies in error and continuous transformation. I have lived in Mexico and Poland, always surrounded by a multicultural community that motivates my reflection on transculturality today. In my work, I examine how modern societies are in constant transition, a process that reflects the flow and chaos characteristic of cultural realities in transformation. I am interested in analyzing mutation, evolution, and continuous change as dynamics that compose these contemporary cultural experiences.
I explore the bicultural experience through language as a shared place of relationships, affections, and worldview. Through different media (traditional techniques and new media), I represent the tensions and changes that identities undergo in an environment of cultural hybridization. I find in the use of textiles a medium that connects the traditional with the contemporary; technology with intuition.
Transcultural aesthetics, in the sense that Homi K. Bhabha defines it as a “third space” of identity, allows me to propose a critique and open a reflection on global issues of mobility, migration, and emerging identities. In the Latente (2023) project, for example, I fuse elements of folklore with classical and contemporary art, exploring the transformation and recomposition of traditions within a hybrid space. Technology and new media are important components of this process, in which I introduce the concept of glitch, or digital error, using the idea of “failure” as a metaphor to address fractures in traditional identity narratives.

CV Agnieszka Kotecka, 1979, México 
Estudios superiores
2006 - Maestría de Artes Visuales en diseño e impresión textil. Academia de Bellas Artes Władysław Strzeminski en Łódź, Polonia.
2005 - Estudios superiores de Artes Visuales, Cátedra de Diseño Textil y Moda. Academia de Bellas Artes Władysław Strzeminski en Łódź, Polonia.
1999 - Letras Hispánicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, U.N.A.M, México.
Exposiciones individuales
2025 Des.Tierre, Galería Carlos Olachea, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México.
2024 Latente, Casa del Tiempo, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Ciudad de México, México. 
2023 Pixel Chromatic, Casa de Objetos Tana Karei. Ciudad de México, México.
2022 El monje errante, Ogrodowa 8 Gallery. Łódź, Polonia.
2006 Latajace lale, (Muñecas que vuelan), Foro Magdalena Contreras. Ciudad de México, México. 

Exposiciones colectivas
2025 Almost White. LETO Gallery, Varsovia, Polonia.
2025 Cartografías Líquidas - Espacio Báltico, Ciudad de México, México.
2024 Las memorias del olvido - La casa de los que ya no son.,Casa Kamffer. Ciudad de México, México.
2015 Razemiosobno, Galeria Imaginarium, Łódzki Dom Kultury. Łódź, Polonia.
2013 Materia X, Galeria Kobro, Academia de Bellas Artes de Lodz, Lodz, Polonia.
2012.09 Agora / Miniartextil, XXII Muestra Internacional de Miniatura Textil, Como, Italia.
2012.06 Tercera Trienal de Textilu Bez Hranic 2012, Trencin, Eslovaquia.
2012.02 Pomiędzy wyborami / pomiędzy kreacjami, BWA Legnica, Polonia.
2009 TRIP-AR, Festival cultural y hip hop, Faro de Tlahuac. Ciudad de México, México.
2008 Wyobraźnia Zmaterializowana, Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa, Łódź, Polonia.
2006 Wyobraźnia Zmaterializowana, BWA / Skierniewice, Polska.
2005 Miedzy kontynuacją i eksperymentem, BWA, Piotrków Trybunalski, Polonia.
 
Actividad Académica
2012 / 2016 catedrática de la especialidad de diseño impresión textil, Cátedra de textiles y moda, Academia de Bellas Artes, Wladyslaw Strzeminski. Lodz, Polonia.
Residencias 
2010 In a Trap, R.A.T. (programa de residencias artisticas). Mazunte, Oaxaca, Mexico.
2006, programa de residencias artísticas de la Academia de Bellas Artes de Wladyslaw Strzeminski en Lodz y la Escuela de Arte de Bergamo, Bergamo, Suecia.
Publicaciones
 https://artefactodeletras.com/un-exilio-en-las-entranas/2024
 Un acercamiento al desvanecimiento de la tradición y las hibridaciones culturales, Alejandro Espinoza Sánchez - https://boletines.uam.mx/archivos/numero-211/
Un acercamiento al desvanecimiento de la tradición y las hibridaciones culturales. , https://semanario.uam.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SemanarioUAM40-1.pdf

2023  https://www.gridmag.com.mx/index.php/2023/10/17/yoshimi-reabre-sus-puertas/
2022. https://artinfo.pl/wydarzenia/agnieszka-kotecka-wedrowny-mnich
2012 https://lca.pl/pl/961_kultura/32014_pomiedzy-wyborami-pomiedzy-kreacjami.html

Prensa
2026 Programa Tríptico, Origen, Canal Once Tv - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAAQ7hB-rZ4 
2024 Nayelli Sanchez Rivas http://www.anuies.mx/noticias_ies/latente-un-acercamiento-al-desvanecimiento-de-la-tradicin-y-las
2022
https://lodz.pl/files/public/user_upload/Lodzpl_101_184_net__1_.pdf  
https://uml.lodz.pl/ua/novini/artykul/?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=53227&cHash=a0eb3a1121cdd

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