Modeling needs a great deal of work, which nobody can see. Models always stay in excellent physical shape, have flawless skin and hair, great acting abilities, excessively long workdays, sometimes with no breaks, and attend nonstop casting calls while combining personal life, and spending a lot of time away from friends and family. Models need to endure through difficult times and remain committed to reaching their goals. Modeling can be difficult, but if you follow your dream, take every chance, work hard, and don’t give up – you will get the results. When you combine it with patience, everything will fall into place for you.
That’s what Agnes Artych always knew.
Agnieszka Aldona Artych, popularly known as Agnes Artych, is a Polish fashion model, dancer, and actress, who is constantly gaining recognition. She was born (11th January 1988) and raised in Poland, where Agnes first got into the modeling world after getting into the finals of a popular Polish reality show Super Model back in 2010. After becoming the face of Polish Fashion Week in 2013,’ she decided to move to New York and began her modeling career. Artych visited every modeling agency and among all proposals, she decided to sign the contract with MSA Models, which is now known as STATE Management. After doing a lot of hard work, Artych successfully did 14 New York Fashion Weeks and has been working for several years with famous German-American photographer Marc Erwin Babej.
Agnes Artych was born in the Polish town of Siedlce. She has three sisters, two older and one younger, and a mother who is a retired teacher and a principal at a school in Siedlce. The oldest of them is a chemist. The second is a math teacher. The youngest is a medical student. Agnes had aspired to be a dancer and work on a stage since she was a small child. Her mother, on the other hand, was not supportive of her choices because a good education was crucial in her household, so Agnes went to two universities to acquire her degree.
Though Agnes didn’t lose faith in herself and after graduation from high school, she moved to Kielce for studying at university, where she decided to work as a dance teacher, concurrently taking classes at the Kielce Dance Theater and it didn’t take a long time when Agnes was offered a position of a dancer. It took a lot of work and challenges for Agnes to enter a World of Big Art. And nevertheless, she remained undaunted. After she was noticed, Agnes has attended numerous dance festivals and studied under the supervision of famous theatre directors as Elżbieta and Grzegorz Pańtak and took classes with such dancers as Bill Goodson, Ira Nadia Kodiche, Thierry Verger, Alain Bernard, Zofia Rudnicka, and others. She completed her education and moved to Gdansk, Poland. She was offered a position in a Baltic Dance Theater at the Baltic Opera after her past success, and she spent two years there. Agnes earned a postgraduate degree in Culture and Media Studies from the Gdansk Atheneum, as well as certification in Dance and Acting from the Union of Artists of the Polish Stage, by following her goal.
Agnes was finishing her two seasons at the Baltic Opera when she was scouted on Facebook by a model agent. The red hair girl knew that modeling is a difficult industry to break into, and even if you get in, you will need to put in a lot of effort to succeed. In her modeling career, Agnes had to overcome several challenges. That was the reason why she immediately had success in the modeling world. She went to Istanbul in Turkey for her first modeling contract. Working for Perge Jewels, Burce Bekrek, and a variety of other brands, she spent more than 3 months there. After coming back home to Poland in 2013, Artych became the face of Polish Fashion Week, she was on the cover of Hebe Magazine in 2014, she won a Bell Cosmetic Beauty competition and was a finalist at the Supermodels modeling reality tv program.
After a huge success in her home country, Agnes flew to New York USA to visit her friend. Needless to say, that this city captured her heart when she made a huge decision to try modeling here. She knew, that she had no money and almost no friends in this new country when she was packing her suitcase. Though Agnes now is a successful model, she had to visit every model agency she saw, she spent hours each day looking for every open call before she got started. She was finally signed by MSA Models, which is now famous as STATE Management. She completed 14 New York Fashion Weeks after signing a contract with a modeling agency. She participated in lots of campaigns, lookbooks, and commercials such as Bumble & Bumble, KFC, NBA, It Cosmetics, and many others. Marc Erwin Babej, a world-known German-American photographer, was her collaborator for several years. And many of his works were co-produced by Agnes, such as Yesterday-Tomorrow, Mischlinge, Unser Afrika. Babej’s work has been shown in numerous museums all across the world. In 2019 Agnes began taking lessons at Stella Adler Studio. Since Agnes’s greatest passions have always been acting and performing on stage, she is now concentrating solely on her acting, modeling, and content creation for fashion and beauty brands.
