Joanna Rytel is an artist and journalist, born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1974. She emigrated to Sweden and studied at the Högskolan för fotografi och film in Göteborg and at Konstfack in Stockholm, where she currently works and lives. Together with Fia-Stina Sandlund, she was a member of the feminist performance group 'Unfucked Pussy', which, among others, staged protests against the 2001 Miss Sweden pageant. As an individual artist and writer, Rytel caused international controversy with outspoken, opinionated texts about same-race and interracial relationships, and with pro-abortion art projects. Her strongly political art practice focuses on feminism, gender, human relations and power structures, as well as on the relation between humans and animals.