Anna Konik

Born in 1974 in Lubliniec, Poland.

Works with video, installation, photography and drawing. In 2012 she received a doctorate in fine arts from the Media and Scenography Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She has been a guest lecturer at Bielefeld University (2013/2012), Humboldt University in Berlin (Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, 2009) and the Sommerakademie in Salzburg (2009/2008), and has received artistic and academic fellowships. Her solo exhibitions include: Void Gallery, Derry (2014); parliament of Sweden, Stockholm (2012); Atlas Sztuki, Łódź (2011); Max Libermann Haus, Berlin (2010). She participated in, among others: A Voice of Ones Own, Konstmuseum & Moderna Museet, Malmö (2014); Deprivation, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok (2014); Next Door: Poland and Germany –1000 Years of History in Art, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2011).

Exhibitions
  • Grafika do wystawy Progress and Hygiene
    29.11.2014 – 15.02.2015
    Progress and Hygiene

    The exhibition presented in Zachęta, “Progress and Hygiene”, is devoted to the pitfalls of modernization in the context of the idealistic faith in progress and the possibilities of “betterment” common to both art and science at the beginning of the 20th century. It was conceived as an essay which critically analyses such phenomena as genetic engineering, eugenics or research into the purity of races, also drawing attention to their continued impact on today’s world.

    Zachęta – National Gallery of ArtZachęta
  • Grafika do wystawy VIEWS 2009
    19.09 – 15.11.2009
    VIEWS 2009
    Deutsche Bank Foundation Award

    This exhibition has been organised within the frame of the 4th edition of the biennial competition Views 2009 — The Deutsche Bank Foundation Award for the most interesting figures on the young Polish art scene. The exhibition is a presentation of the seven artists nominated for the award: artists whose work over the course of the past two years has earned the particular attention of critics and curators.

    Zachęta – National Gallery of ArtZachęta
  • 15.06 – 05.08.2007
    Zachęta National Gallery of ArtZachęta