Anna Konik CV
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 Centre for Contemporary Art
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; directed by Katarzyna Wińska
2000 – The King is
Not Himself Today, directed by Katarzyna Wińska, performed at the
Academia Theatre, Warsaw, Poland; Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle
Warsaw, Poland; Wawel Royal Castle, Krakow, Poland; Royal Castle, Warsaw,
Poland
1999 – Solo-Opera Buffa,
Teatr Rozmaitości, Warsaw, Poland, directed by Katarzyna Wińska
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Polka, Centre for
Contemporary Art 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 – Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski
Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Sculptors as Photographers –
Xawery Dunikowski Museum at Królikarnia Palace – 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 – Arsenał
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Białystok, Poland
2001 Breaking News – Young Polish
Performance, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Sexxx – a. r. t. Gallery,
Płock, Poland
2000 Scena 2000 – All-Poland Art
Exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Art 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;
Centre for
Contemporary 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, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle,
Warsaw, Poland
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2006 Artist in Residence –
KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria
Pépiničres 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 Centre for Contemporary 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: Warschau
2001, project with Hermann: Berlin 2002, project with Swietlana: Moskau 2005,
project with Anna: Berlin – Warschau – Moskau – 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, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski
Castle, Warsaw, Poland, 2004, ed. Ewa Gorzadek, Stach Szablowski
Transparency, Centre for
Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, 2004,
ed. Ewa Gorzadek
Sculptors as Photographers – The
Xawery Dunikowski Museum at Królikarnia Palace – a branch of the National
Museum in 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 Żwirblis
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
Żwirblis
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 może wypełnić
tę pustkę, Agnieszka Kowalska, Gazeta Wyborcza 2004