Since 2010, Polak has worked full-time with Ivar van Bekkum as an artist duo PolakVanBekkum.
Esther Polak studied painting at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (1981-1986) and then mixed media at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1986-1989).
Polak gained notoriety with her "locative media" projects, such as Amsterdam RealTime (collaboration with Waag Society and Jeroen Kee),[1] MILKproject[2] (collaboration with researcher Ieva Auzina and RIXC) and NomadicMILK.
[3] In addition to using GPS, Google Earth as an artistic medium plays a vital role in her video work.
[4] Video works using Google Earth include A Collision of Sorts (2017), Going To Be/Go Move Be (2018) and The Ride/The Ride (2019).