She studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where at Faculty of Media Arts and Scenography in 2012 she defended her PhD thesis in fine arts. Winner of numerous artistic and scientific scholarships: Delfina Studios, London (2019); Zuger Kulturstiftung Landis & Gyr, Zug (2019); AiR Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre, Italy (2018); POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (2016/2017) and many others. Her works have been shown at international individual and group exhibitions in institutions such as ZiF Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld; Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest; Void Gallery, London-Derry; Arsenal Gallery, Białystok; Swedish Parliament; Atlas Sztuki, Łódź; Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin; Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; DEPO Gallery, Istanbul (2014). Her works are in private and institutional art collections. She lives and works in Berlin.
“In the Same City, under the Same Sky…”, 2011-2015
video, 01:23’56’’ (selection)
Anna Konik creates video installations in situ, artistic films, para-documents, but also objects, photography, and drawings. At the centre of her interest is an individual as a social unit conditioned by complex external and internal factors. In her works, she poses a question about the identity, memory, and social reality of many of us. “In the Same City, under the Same Sky…” consists of thirty-five films recorded in response to unwillingness towards immigrants and tragedies that accompany migrant smuggling to Europe. The first part was recorded in 2011 in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, the second in 2012 in Białystok, just off the eastern border of Poland. Another one was shot in Romania, mainly in Bucharest, in 2013. At the same time, the fourth part was created in Istanbul, Turkey and the last part was recorded in Nantes, France at the turn of 2014 and 2015. All films focus on authentic stories of women seeking home and life away from war, terrorism, poverty, sexual oppression, and violence. Registered testimonies carry words full of despair, fear, doubt, and indignation, as well as demand for justice and understanding based on empathy, recognising the drastic reasons for escaping, but above all on acceptance of a human being as a subject who lives despite being unfamiliar or different.
