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Anna Konik, anna_konik@hotmail.com

Born 1974, Lubliniec, Poland

Lives and works in Warsaw and Berlin

EDUCATION

2000 -              M.A. Sculpture, Diploma under the supervision of Professor Grzegorz Kowalski, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw

1995-2000 -       Department of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw

Studied under Professors Grzegorz Kowalski and Krzysztof M. Bednarski

1999-2001 -       Assistant to Professor Zofia Glazer, Department of Drawing, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw

 

THEATRE EXPERIENCE

·         2004 Independent theater group, Warsaw, Poland; Co-operation, spatial design and sculpture; working with
youth with cerebral palsy

·         Productions: 2004 – Ramayana, directed by Anna Konik and Aleksandra Buchholz

·         1997-2001 Actress, Academia Theatre, Warsaw, Poland

·         Productions: 1998 – Salome, directed by Roman Wozniak

·        1999 – Devotia Moderna, directed by Roman Wozniak

·       1999/2002 – Present Opera Buffa, Warsaw, Poland; Co-operation, spatial design and sculpture; working
with people suffering from schizophrenia

·         2002 Hamlet Opera Buffa, International Theatre Festival – Fringe, Edinburgh, Great Britain

·         Productions: 2001 – Solo-Extra Reality Show, Theatre Buffo, Warsaw, Poland;

·         Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA ) Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; directed by Katarzyna Winska

·         2000 – The King is Not Himself Today, directed by Katarzyna Wiñska, performed at the Academia Theatre,
Warsaw, Poland; CCA Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, Poland; Wawel Royal Castle, Krakow, Poland; Royal Castle,
Warsaw, Poland

·         1999 – Solo-Opera Buffa, Teatr Rozmaitosci, Warsaw, Poland, directed by Katarzyna Winska

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

·         2005 Polka, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

·         P.S. Beyond the Red Horizon – Art of the Late 20th Century – National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow,
Russia

·         2004 Beyond the Red Horizon – Art of the Late 20th Century – CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

·         Sculptors as Photographers Xawery Dunikowski Museum – a branch of the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland

·         2003 Deviations – K&S Gallery, Berlin, Germany

·         Generations – K&S Gallery, Berlin, Germany

·         Moving Territories – Art – Public Space – New Media, Stuttgart, Germany

·         2002 Das Paradies ist verrigelt – International Kleist-Festival, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

·         Power of the People – Arsenal Gallery of Contemporary Art, Bialystok, Poland

·         2001 Breaking News – Young Polish Performance, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

·         Sexxx – a. r. t. Gallery, P³ock, Poland

·         2000 Scena 2000 – All-Poland Art Exhibition, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

·         Sexxx – Academia Theatre, Warsaw, Poland;

·         1999 Parteitag – Gallery of Contemporary Art, Office of Artistic Exhibitions, Katowice

·         A Hidden Nature – A.R. Gallery, Academia Theatre, Warsaw, Poland

·         1998 First After God – Academia Theatre, Warsaw, Poland

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

·         2005 Voiceless, Play Gallery, Berlin, Germany

·         2004 Transparency, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany;

·         CCA Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

·         2003 In the Middle of the Way, Artist in Residence – Leube, Salzburg (exhibition with Krzysztof M. Bednarski)

·         2000 Disco Relaxation – Windows Gallery, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

 

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

·         2006 Artist in Residence – KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria

·         Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, Artist in Residence, National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland

·         2005 SPACES World Artists Program, Cleveland, United States

·         Polish Ministry of Culture Scholarship

·         2003/2004 Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship, Stuttgart, Germany

·         2003 Leube – Artist in Residence, Salzburg, Austria

·         2001-2002 DAAD scholarship, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, Germany

·         2001 Nomination for internationl media art award, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe ZKM,
Germany

 

PROJECTS

·         2005 Herzblut, ACC Gallery Weimar, Germany

·         Subotnik, collaborative project with CCA Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

·         2004 Cultural Year of the Ten, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

·         2003 Global Village Garden Symposium, Steinhöfel–Buchholz, Germany

·         Fahrplan für die SIXTIES – collaborative project with Daniel Vighi and Nathalie Wolff, Akademie Schloss
Solitude,
Germany

 

VIDEOGRAPHY

·         In the Middle of the Way

4 videos/color/sound; project with Tadeusz: Warsaw 2001, project with Hermann: Berlin 2002, project with
Swietlana: Moskow 2005, project with Anna: Berlin – Warsaw – Moskow – Dobrodzien 2005

 

·         Transparency

4 videos/color/sound, 2004; project with Mija, project with Tadeusz, project with Brozy, project with Wichmann

 

·         Toys

2 videos/color/sound, 2000; documentation of activity in a white space, documentation of a typical day
at the therapy centre

 

PUBLICATIONS

·         Beyond the Red Horizon – Art of the Late 20th Century, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, 2004,
ed. Ewa Gorzadek, Stach Szablowski

·         Transparency, CCA Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, 2004, ed. Ewa Gorzadek

·         Sculptors as Photographers – The Xawery Dunikowski Museum, Warsaw, Poland, 2004, ed. Grzegorz Kowalski,
 Maryla Sitkowska

·         Deviations, K&S Gallery, Berlin, 2003

·         Moving Territories, Solitude Academy and Merz Academy, 2003

·         Power of the People, 2002, ed. Krzysztof ¯wirblis

·         Crtl-space\the vigilant society\\international media\art award, 2001

·         Crtl-space\the vigilant society>>Special rooms, Exhibition rooms, City rooms, Choreography rooms,
Digital rooms<< – television broadcasts by Schweizer Fernsehen SF2 (3.10.2001), Südwest Fernsehen (4.10.2001)

·         Parteitag, 1999, ed. Krzysztof ¯wirblis

 

ARTICLES

·         On the Verge of (In)Visibility, Ewa Witkowska, EXIT New Art in Poland,

·         Quartely No 4(60) 2004

·         Nieobecnosc obecnych, Monika Malkowska, Rzeczpospolita, 2004

·         Czwarty wymiar rzezby, Stach Szablowski, „Po godzinach - Zycie Warszawy”, 2004

·         Na marginesie zycia, Agnieszka Rayzacher, Bunkier – Sztuki, Krakow, 2004

·         Inspirujace wlosy, Joanna Zielinska, Bunkier – Sztuki, Krakow, 2004

·         Co moze wypelnic te pustke, Agnieszka Kowalska, Gazeta Wyborcza 2004

 

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