Angelika J. Trojnarski (born in Poland in 1979) lives and works in Düsseldorf. She completed her studies in fine art at the Düsseldorf Art Academy as a master student of Andreas Gursky. Prior to that, she studied painting under Jörg Immendorff, Herbert Brandl and Markus Lüpertz.
Her main media are painting and collage, which are formally defined by the layering of paper and paint, composition and fragmentation of the motif.
Trojnarski exhibits internationally and has received numerous awards and scholarships.

Awards – Scholarships
2025 Bremerhaven Scholarship
Finalist for the Wilhelm Morgner Prize for Painting
2024 Working Scholarship from the Kunstfonds Foundation, Bonn
Nominated for the Villa Aurora Scholarship, Los Angeles, US
2022 Publication grant, Kunststiftung NRW
2021 Scholarship, Deutschen Künstlerbund e. V.
2020 EXPORT, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Shortlist Landsberg Prize, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Solo exhibitions
2025 Thinking Like a Mountain, Märkisches Museum Witten
2024 AWE, Johanneskirche, Düsseldorf
2023 Warm Breath, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
2022 Das Ende wird dennoch kommen, Polish Institute Düsseldorf
2018 Equinox, KunstHalle Cloppenburg
2016 MENSURA, CentralTrak, University of Dallas, Texas, US
2015 Verworfene Wahrheiten (Rejected Truths), Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
2013 HC SVNT DRACONES, Neue Galerie Gladbeck

Group exhibitions
2025 WORLD, WHERE TO? ZERO Foundation at Malkastenforum, Düsseldorf
21 x 21. The Ruhr Art Museums on the Hill, Villa Hügel, Essen
AND WE’RE JUST GETTING STARTED, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2024 DISSONANCE Platform Germany, Stadtgalerie Kiel
DISSONANCE Platform Germany, National Museum Bucharest, RO
REALITY CHECK, Kunstmuseum Ahlen
STORAGE SPACE, the collection of Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, TICK TACK, Antwerp, BE
DOORS, Photo+ Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media, The Pool, Düsseldorf
2023 DIE GROSSE, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

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