Anna Konik
1974, Lives and works in Berlin, in Warsaw and in Dobrodzien
Konik makes video installations, and her practice combines video semi-documentary, installation, performance, and sculpture.
The realm in which Konik operates is very hard to verbalize. The material of her works is that which is invisible, transparent but
perceptible; emotions, indefinable intuitions, the inner world accessible in dreams or in introspections. Her protagonists are
people existing at the fringes of reality. Konik directs the viewer’s attention towards those aspects and fields of existence:
loneliness, confusion, over-sensitivity. As far as form is concerned, space plays an important role in Konik’s works and it is
consciously constructed to organically coexist with video projections. Time and simultaneity of the projection create yet
another important element in video work of this artist. (...)
(Text by Sabina Sokolowska, published in "New Phenomena in Polish Art after 2000",eds. Grzegorz Borkowski, Adam Mazur and Monika Branicka
Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, 2007)
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2010 / 2011 Video Lectures, Department of Fashion Design, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
2009 Rudolf Arnheim Associate Professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin
2008/2009 New Media Lectures at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria
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: 2006 – Ramayana, International Theatre Festival“MALTA”– Fringe, Poznan, Poland;
directed by Anna Konik, collaboration Agnieszka Oleszek
2004/2005 – 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 Winska
2000 – The King is Not Himself Today, directed by Katarzyna Winska, 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 Rozmaitosci, Warsaw, Poland, directed by Katarzyna Winska
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
2011
Play back (of Iréne), ZiF, Center for interdisziplinary Research, Bielefeld University
Fear and Entranced, Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland (curated by Stefan Szydlowski)
Our Lady´s Forever, Polish Institute in Düsseldorf
2010
The Villa of the Entranced, Max Libermann Haus, Berlin
2009
Our Lady´s Forever, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg (curated by Andrea Domesle, curatorial collaboration Anne Gonda)
2008
Another Side of the Time, Eboran Gallery, Salzburg
Our Lady´s Forever, Kronika Gallery, Bytom (curated by Sebastian Cichocki, curatorial collaboration Ewa Witkowska)
Our Lady´s Forever, XS Gallery, Kielce
2007
Our Lady's Forever, Eugen Lend Gallery, Graz, Austria (curated by Andrea Domesle)
In the Middle of the Way, Passagengalerie, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria (curated by Andrea Domesle)
Our Lady's Forever, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (curated by Ewa Witkowska, curatorial collaboration Julia Leopold, Andrea Domesle)
Augustin story / In the Middle of the Way, Austrian Cultur Forum, Warsaw
2005
In the Middle of the Way, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, United States
Voiceless Play Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2004
Transparency, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany;
Territories of Presence - Transparency, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (curated by Ewa Gorzadek)
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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
8th edition of the Festival Warsaw of Singer "OURS - NOT OURS"
United States of Europe, Lodz
Tür an Tür, Polen – Deutschland. 1000 Jahre Kunst und Geschichte,Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin (curated by Anda Rottenberg)
Divina Commedia, PAN Palazzo Delle Arti, Napoli (curated by Mariano Ipri, Giuseppe Ruffo, Pietro Tatafiore)
2010
Mediation / Space, Szara Gallery, Cieszyn, Poland
Design of the In/Human, Württembergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart (curated by Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler)
Künstler in der Kunst Gesellschaft, Motorenhalle, Dresden
I’m Not There, Kunstverein Hildesheim
Views 2009, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
2009
Working Title. Tytul Roboczy, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Polande
ntre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Views 2009, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (curated by Maria Brewinska)
On Tectonics of History, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) New York,USA (curated by Andrea Domesle and Martin Krenn)
The artist in the (art) society, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Basel, (curated by Dr. Andrea Domesle, Frank Eckhardt, Dr. Michal Kolecek)
Collection 5, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (curated by Wojciech Krukowski)
Isoleted, The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (curate by Peter Richards)
2008
Video Reflex, Synagogue- Cetre of Contemporary art, Trnava (curated by Vladimir Beskid)
Teleportation and other Hybrids, Galerie U7, Frankfurt
Double Perception, lokal_30, LISTE’08, Basel
Souvenirs: Repressed Historical and Personal Memory in Polish and Israeli Art, The Haim Herzog Center, Univesity Ben Guriona, Israel
Kraj: the Art of Artists of Polish Origins, Center of Contemporary Art in Opole (curated by Marek Bartelik and Magdalena Potorska)
Depression, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow (curated by Magdalena Godlewska)
2007
Artysci polecaja sie nawzajem, Gallery Appendix 2, Warsaw
Exitus - tod alltäglich, Künstlerhaus, Vienna (curated by Peter Bogner)
Our Lady’s Forever: European Forum for Emerging Creation, Pépinieres, Luxembourg
Depression, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok (curated by Magdalena Godlewska)
The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Ireland (curated by Peter Murray and Anne Boddaert)
Young from Warsaw, Centre of Art Promotion, Lodz, Poland (curated by Jerzy Brukwicki)
On Tectonics of History, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland (curated by Andrea Domesle, Martin Krenn and Aneta Szylak)
2006
ArtPoint Gallery, Vienna
Intimations of the Past, The Hungarian University of Fine Arts (curated by Lazar Eszter)
Zur Tektonik der Geschichte, Emil Filla Gallery, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic (curated by Andrea Domesle, Martin Krenn and Michal Kolecek)
Umwandlung-Transformation as a creation process, Berlin (Appendix to the 4th Berlin Biennale)
Approaching the Other, Observation and Intervention– Xth Biennial Exhibition of Art “In view of Values” Centre of Art Promotion,
Lodz, Poland (curated by Stach Ruksza)
2005
Approaching the Other, Observation and Intervention– Xth Biennial Exhibition of Art “In view of Values” Gallery of Contemporary Art, Office of Artistic Exhibitions,
Katowice, Poland (curated by Stach Ruksza)
Zur Tektonik der Geschichte, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria (curated by Andrea Domesle und Martin Kernn)
Polka, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (curated by Ewa Gorzadek)
P.S. Beyond the Red Horizon – Art of the Late 20th Century – National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
(curated by Michail Mindlin and Irina Gorlowa )
2004
Beyond the Red Horizon – Art of the Late 20th Century – Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
(curated by Ewa Gorzadek and Stach Szablowski)
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 (curated by Miriam Bers)
Generations – K&S Gallery, Berlin, Germany (curated by Miriam Bers)
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 (curated by Krzysztof Zwirblis)
2001
Breaking News – Young Polish Performance, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Sexxx – a. r. t. Gallery, Plock, Poland (curated by Artur Zmijewski)
2000
Scena 2000 – All-Poland Art Exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
(curated by Ewa Gorzadek and Stach Szablowski)
Sexxx – Academia Theatre, Warsaw, Poland;(curated by Artur Zmijewski)
1999
Parteitag – Gallery of Contemporary Art, Office of Artistic Exhibitions, Katowice (curated by Krzysztof Zwirblis)
A Hidden Nature – A.R. Gallery, Academia Theatre, Warsaw, Poland
1998
First After God – Academia Theatre, Warsaw, Poland
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2011 / 2012
IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
2011
ZiF Center for interdisziplnary Research, University Bielefeld http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/Kunst/2011/06-30-Konik.html
2009
Nomination for the "Polityka" Passports Cultural Award, Warsaw
Nomination for the Views 2009 Deutsche Bank Foundation Award, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2008/ 2009
The Mellon Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin / Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
2007
"The young Poland" grant, National Culture Centre, Warsaw, Poland
Artist-in-Residence Programme, Galeria Noua, Bucharest, Rumania
Artist in Residence - Zuger Kulturstiftung Landis & Gyr, Zug, Switzerland
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 Fundation – Artist in Residence, Salzburg-Gartenau, Austria
2001- 2002
DAAD scholarship, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, Germany
2001
Nomination for \\internationl media\art award, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe ZKM, Germany
SELECTED PROJECTS / LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS / FESTIVALS
2011
Culture TV, video screening by Szara Gallery nad Arsenal Gallery
2010
Video workshop, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Lecture and workshop, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
2009
Artist Talk, Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin (discussion with Ariane Beyn, DAAD Küstlerprogramm in frame of Rudolf Arnheim Associate Professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin)
Lecture and workshop, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
More or Less from the outside, lecture, Weissensee Fine Arts Academy, Berlin
Foreigners in their Homeland, lecture and video screening, KUMU. Art Museum of Estonia (curated by Kamil Malinowski)
2008
 Our Lady’s Forever, screening at the 61. FILM FESTIVAL in Locarno
The Artist Her/Self, Lecture in KÜNSTLERHAUS, Salzburg (Introduction: Barbara Wally)
In the Middle of the Way - workshop and videoscreening, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
In the Middle of the Way - workshop and videoscreening, Kronika Gallery, Bytom
Under The Skin: New Video From Poland, New Museum, New York City
2007
Erinnerung in Bewegung, media art und videos, Stadtraum München
On the road, Cinema, Cieszyn
verführen... reisen... navigieren: Transparency – videoscreening, [PLUG.IN], Basel
You Can’t Come Closer, Directors Lounge 2007, Berlin
2006
You can't come closer, Cell Project Space, London, UK (curated by Agnieszka Rayzacher)
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
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Podlaskie Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts,Bialystok, Poland
The Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom, Poland
Leube Art Foundation, Gartenau-Salzburg
Lublin Association Zacheta Collection of Fine Arts, Poland
Art Stations Foundation, Poznan, Poland
VIDEOGRAPHY
Play back (of Iréne)
video installation, 2011
8 channels video, 1 channel split on the 9 channels / black and white / colour / sound
Total playing time 8`50`` / loop / architecture of the place
presented on 16 Hantarex monitors
The Villa of the Entranced
video installation, 2009 (variable)
- 5 simultaneous projections each 11`50``/ synchronized / colour / sound / 1 projection 50’
loop, architecture of the place.
Our Lady’s forever
video installation, 2007 (variable)
7 channels video synchronized / colour / sound, 2007
Total playing time: 7 X 00:10:14:00
In the Middle of the Way
video installation, 2001/ 2001 - ... work in progress (variable)
8 videos/color/sound;
project with Thaddeus:Warsaw 2001,(00:09:57:15min.)
project with Hermann: Berlin 2002,(00:09:27:22min.)
project with Svetlana: Moscow 2005,(00:14:42:08min.)
project with ....: Cleveland 2005,(00:13:21:00min)
project with Gerald: Youghal 2006,(00:10:28:00min.)
project with Hans-Dieter/Augustin Story: Vienna 2006,(00:13:11:00min.)
project with Jenny and Pele, Zurich 2007 (00:10:41:00min)
postscript - project with Anna: Dobrodzien – Warsaw – Berlin 2005,(00:06:51:01min.)
Transparency
8 videos/color/sound, 2004;
project with Mija (8.15min.);
project with Tadeusz (8.15min.);
project with Mr.Brozy (8.15min.);
project with Doris Wichmann (8.15min.)
Toys
2 videos/color/sound, 2000;
documentation of activity within a white space (11min.)
documentation of everyday ordinariness from the therapeutic centre (11min.)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Fear and Entranced, Atlas Sztuki (solo catalogue)
 Anna Konik_Strach i Zauroczenie_Atlas Sztuki Lodz _katalog_51_PL.pdf
 Video as Space, Institute of Art and Visual History,Humboldt University of Berlin
Isoleted, The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 2009, ed. Peter Richards, 2008
61 Festival del film Locarno, 2008
 Our Lady’s Forever, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, 2007, (solo catalogue)
Exitus – tod alltäglich, eds. Peter Bogner, Wittigo Keller, Künstlerhaus,Vienna, 2007
New phenomena in polish art after 2000, eds. Grzegorz Borkowski, Adam Mazur, Monika Branicka, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2007
Approaching the Other, Observation and Intervention – Xth Biennial Exhibition of Art “In view of Values” Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Office of Artistic Exhibitions, Katowice, Poland, 2006, ed. Stanislaw Ruksza
Polka, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2006, ed. Maria Janion, Agnieszka Zawadowska, Ewa Gorzadek
P.S. Beyond the Red Horizon – Art of the Late 20th Century, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow and Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2005,
ed.Irina Gorlova, Ewa Gorzadek
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 (solo catalogue)
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 Zwirblis
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 Zwirblis
SELECTED ARTICLES
 Exit - new art in Poland, Quarterly No. 3(83)2010 Transparent by Magdalena Wicherkiewicz
Watchlist – text by Sebastian Frenzel, Monopol 8/2009
Our Lady`s Forever, text by Matthias Reichelt, Kunstforum International, Bd. 197 Jun – July / 2009
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Marcin Krasny, Artysci glaszcza sie nawzajem, Obieg, 01.02.2008
Walter Seidl, Zur Konstruktion des mental Anderen, artmagazin, 26.09.2007
Sabina Sokolowska, Podróz somnambuliczna. Our Lady's forever w Zachecie, Obieg, 12.07.2007
Stach Szablowski, Dramat nadwrazliwca, Dziennik, 07/2007
Johann Werfring, Tod im neuen Design, Wiener Zeitung, nr / no. 211/2007
Walter Seidl, Einsame Welten, artmagazin, 26.07.2007
Andrea Domesle, Poza czasem, „EXIT. Nowa sztuka w Polsce / New Art in Poland”, nr / no. 2/2007.
Approaching the Other.Observation and Intervention, Roman Lewandowski, EXIT New Art in Poland, No 1(65) 2006
Visual: Beyond the Comfort Zone by Liz Bly, Free Times, 2005
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 200
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