RASTER - Aneta Grzeszykowska

	ANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA 1974 born in Warsaw 1994-1999 studies at the Graphic Arts Department of the Warsaw Fine Arts Academy Since 1999 artistic cooperation with Jan Smaga Lives in Warsaw The primary medium in which Aneta Grzeszykowska works is photography. However, she treats it instrumentally, as a tool for the realization of advanced, artistic and ontological exercises. The artist is interested in the role photography plays in creating and documenting a personal identity. Therefore, in her film projects or doll sculptures, the human figure acquires the shape and aura of a marionette. One of the main topics of Grzeszykowska's works is her own identity, with which she plays on many levels: by erasing her own figure from a family collection of photographs (Album, 2005), or by impersonating Cindy Sherman in her classic cycle Untitled Film Stills (2006). Some projects by Grzeszykowska - like the cycle of illusionist portraits of non-existent people (Untitled, 2006) - take advantage of the possibilities offered by digital image manipulation, while others use photography and film in a classic way by emphasizing the performative dimension of the artist's activities. The motifs which she obsessively returns to in her works are absence, invisibility, disappearing, and the confrontation of body and thought with non-existence.

	Solo exhibitions: 2012 - Fotografiska, Stockholm, SE - Archiwum prywatne, Raster, Warsaw, PL (with Jan Smaga) - Anagramy, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, PL 2011 - 12 godzin, 19 minut i 18 sekund, Galeria BWA, Tarnów, PL - Lovetime, Harris Lieberman, New York, USA - Headache, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, US 2010 - Fremder Körper (Corpus Alienum), Heidelberger Kunstverein, DE - Birthday, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Wien, AT - Dowody tożsamości / Identity Evidence, Czytelnia Sztuki Willa Caro, Gliwice, PL (with Joachim Schmid) 2009 - Headache, Raster, Warsaw, PL 2008 - Headache, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Wien, AT - Fotografia Europea. Reggio Emila 2008, Reggio Emilia, I - Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, A (with Prinz Gholam) - Karlskorona Konsthall, Karlskorona, S (with Jan Smaga) 2007 - Galeria Nowych Mediow, Gorzow Wielkopolski, PL - New works, Pies Gallery, Poznan, PL - Untitled Film Sills, Raster at Art Statements, Art Basel, CH - Portraits, Photomonth, Cracow, PL - Polnisches Institut, Duesseldorf, D (with Jan Smaga) 2006 - New works, Raster, Warsaw, PL - Kronika, Bytom, PL (with Jan Smaga) - Polnisches Institut, Berlin, D (with Jan Smaga) 2005 - Album, Raster, Warsaw, PL - Robert Mann Gallery, New York, USA (with Jan Smaga) 2004 - Plan, Raster, Warsaw, PL (with Jan Smaga) - Plan, Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (with Jan Smaga) 1999 - India, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PL (with Jan Smaga) - Ice installation, Kuchnia Gallery, Warsaw, PL (with Jan Smaga)		Selected group exhibitions: 2011 - Ostalgia, New Museum, New York, USA - Nie na miejscu, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL - Choreografia ciał / Bodily Choreography, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL - Rollenbilder - Rollenspiele, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, AT - Second lives, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, LU - I Like The Art World And The Art World Likes Me, EFA Project Space, New York, US - Mir / Peace, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, PL - Nothing is Eternally Important, Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń, PL - Windows Upon Oceans, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR 2010 - The Last Film, Raster, Warsaw, PL - Przemieszczenia. Kolekcja sztuki XX i XXI wieku / Shifts. Collection of 20th and 21st Century Art, ms2 Łódź, PL - Fast forward 2. The power of motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, DE - Karaoke - Bildformen des Zitats, Fotohof, Salzburg, AT - Vedo Cose Che Non Ci Sono, Istituto Polacco, Rome, IT - Feel Home, CC Strombeek, Brussels, BE 2009 - Karaoke - Bildformen des Zitats, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH - 3 x Tak / 3 x Yes, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL - Beg Borrow and Steal, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA - Das Gespinst. Die Sammlung Schürmann zu Besuch im Museum Abteiberg, Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach, D - Counter Logic, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, UK - Szczyt Bohaterow / The Summit of Heroes, Bunkier Sztuki and Stainglass Museum, Cracow, PL - FUSO. International Video Art Annual of Lisbon, PT - Windows upon Oceans. Berlin Wall 20 years after. Plan, La Chambre, Strasbourg, FR (with Jan Smaga) - She Devil on Tour, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO - Fotoplastykon. Przygody plastyczne wokół fotografii, Zona Sztuki Aktualnej, Łodz, PL - Double Face, Vertikale Galerie in der Verbund-Zentrale, Vienna, AT - She Devil 3, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Roma, IT - Aletheia - Positions in contemporary photographies, Meilahti Art Museum, Helsinki, FI - Dom - droga istnienia, Miejska Galeria Sztuki, Częstochowa, PL (with Jan Smaga) 2008 - 5 wystawa kolekcji Małopolskiej Fundacji Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej, Budynek dawnej elektrowni podgórskiej, Kraków, PL (with Jan Smaga) - Videozone, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL - Demons. Contemporary Artists From Poland and Israel and the Spirits of the Time, The Ben-Ari Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, IL - Transfotografia, Gdansk/Gdynia/Sopot, PL - Betonowe dziedzictwo, Instytut Polski w Rzymie, IT (with Jan Smaga) - Dreamberries - zwischen Traum und Trauma, Videonacht im Westfälischen Kunstverein, D - Fotografia w rozszerzonym polu. Artystyczne i społeczne użycia fotografii w Polsce, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL - Portret własny. Prace z kolekcji Piotra Bazylko i Krzysztofa Masiewicza, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL - Godzilla kontra neoludzie, Sektor I Gallery, Katowice, PL - Act so that I can speak to you, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, D - Update. Review of New Polish Photography, Miesiac Fotografii, Cracow, PL - Polish Venus 2008, Miesiac Fotografii, Cracow, PL - Efekt czerwonych oczu / Red Eye effect. Fotografia polska XXI wieku / Polish photography of the 21st century, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL - Reality Check, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, D - Martian Museum of Terrestial Art, Barbican Gallery, London, UK - Double Face, Vertikale Galerie in der Verbund-Zentrale, Vienna, A 2007 - Random in Radom, Museum of Modern Art, Radom, PL - Visual Games, Szara Gallery, Cieszyn, PL (with Jan Smaga) - At Last, Something New!, The National Museum, Krakow, PL - Reminded, Changeable, Rebelious, Biennale of Photography, Arsenal Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, PL - Betonowe dziedzictwo. Od Le Corbusiera do blokersów, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL - Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, ESP - Reality Effect, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL - Anachronism, Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels, B - The New Documentalists, BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora, PL - Photo Festival Funkeho Kolin, Kolin, CZ - Raster Haircut, Rental, New York, US 2006 - 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, D - Pre-Emptive, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH - Imhibition - panel of works, The National Museum, Cracow, PL - POZA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA (with Jan Smaga) - Willa Warszawa, Warsaw, PL - Part of the process 2, Galeria Zero, Milan, IT - The New Documentalists, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL (with Jan Smaga) - Is it better to be a good artist or a good person?, Raster at Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (with Jan Smaga) - I-Image, The Central European House of Photography, Bratislava, SK (with Jan Smaga) 2005 - Habitat. 6th Baltic Contemporary Art Biennial, National Museum, Szczecin, PL (with Jan Smaga) - Mapping Space, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA (with Jan Smaga) - Views 2005. Deutsche Bank Cultural Foundation Award, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL (with Jan Smaga) - Mallorca Open, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx, ESP (with Jan Smaga) - I-Image, Dorottya Gallery, Budapest, H (with Jan Smaga) - Falsche Erwartungen, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, D (with Jan Smaga) - Pieces of Identity, Museum of Photograpy, Thessaloniki, G; National Museum, Szczecin, PL (with Jan Smaga) 2004 - Palimpsest Museum, Biennial of Polish Art, Lodz, PL (with Jan Smaga) - Paravent, factory - Kunsthalle Krems, A (with Jan Smaga) - Pieces of Identity, Espace Apollonia, Strasbourg, F (with Jan Smaga) - From Above, Georg Kargl Galerie, Vienna, A (with Jan Smaga) - Zasiedzenie, Arsenal Gallery, Poznan, PL (with Jan Smaga) - Pluzzle, galerie griedervonputtkamer, Berlin, D (with Jan Smaga) 2003 - The embodyed corset, St Johann, A (with Jan Smaga) 2002 - Blow up, Palace of Culture, Warsaw, PL (with Jan Smaga) Festival of Black and White Photography, Zakopane, PL (with Jan Smaga)