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BOGNA BURSKA

– painter, photographer, author of installations, video works, found-footage films, and dramatic texts, director. Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, at the Department of Intermedia. Lecturer at the University of Warsaw, teaching social arts at the Institute of Polish Culture. Blood is a recurring motif in her works: installations blotted with blood-colored paint or red paintings. Burska used to juxtapose beauty with what is commonly perceived as ugly, repellent, revolting. Her art would often be described as a combination of critical art with esthetic issues. For years, she was involved in found-footage videos, revealing the mechanisms of creation and imaging of contemporary cultural narratives. Her latest poetic paintings have become gentle and organic. Burska says that her works deal with problems with building cohesive images of reality. She is the author of “A Nest”, “The End of Violence” (with Magda Mosiewicz), “Rebellion of the Deaf”, and other texts that have been presented in art galleries and theatrical spaces.

Selected Exhibitions

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solo:

2020/21 Krew i cukier. Prace 2000–2020/21 / Blood and Sugar. Works from 2000–2020/21 Trafostacja Sztuki, Szczecin, Gdańsk City Gallery

2018 Bunt Głuchych / Rebellion of the Deaf (performance and exhibition), Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

2014 Jeremy Irons i Smoki / Jeremy Irons and Dragons Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków

2013 Zegar dla Podgórza / A Clock for Podgórze ArtBoom Festiwal (installation in urban space), Kraków

2012 Filmy – Bogna Burska / Films – Bogna Burska Biała Gallery, Lublin

2011 Bogna Burska – filmy found footage 2004–2011 / Bogna Burska – found-footage films 2004–2011 individual film review, Kino Lab, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw

2010 Kryształy / Crystals Gdańsk Photo Gallery

2009 solo exhibition, Platán Galéria, Budapest

2008 gra z przemieszczającymi się zwierciadłami – część trzecia / a game with the shifting mirrors – part three Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk

2008 Déjà Vu Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv

2008 Bóg jest próżny / God is Vain BWA, Zielona Góra

2007 Kawałek Jadeitu / A Piece of Jadeite Galeria ON, Poznań

2007 Zabawa z przemieszczającymi się zwierciadłami – część druga / A game with the shifting mirrors – part two Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków

2007 Wszystkie podobieństwa są czysto przypadkowe / Any similarity is purely coincidental TransPhotographiques 2007, Lille

2006 Serce takie białe / A Heart so White PL Gallery, Rome

2006 Vazante Giedre Bartelt Galerie, Berlin

2006 Opady / Precipitations Kronika, Bytom

2006 Małgorzata Biała Gallery, Lublin

2005 Wnętrza / Interiors Arsenal Gallery, Białystok

2005 Już po zimie / Winter is Gone Change and Partner Contemporary Art, Rome

2004 Salon telewizyjny / TV Room Mały Salon Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

2003 Życie jest piękne – cd. / Life is Beautiful – cont. Szara Gallery, Cieszyn

2002 Witraże / Stained Glass Windows The Mariavite Church, Pogorzel

2002 untitled Biała Gallery, Lublin

2002 Malarstwo / Painting (with Andreas Eriksson) The Polish Institute, Stockholm

 

group:

2020 (Not) a Good Time for Love Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow

2019 Her Own Way. Female Artists and The Moving Image in Art in Poland. From 1970s to the Present Top Museum, Tokyo

2014 Samoorganizacja / Self-organisation WWB6 Festival, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

2013 Cinema After Cinema, Video Dumbo Festival, New York

2012 Reality Manifestos – Can Reality Break Bricks? A study of détournement as Art Forms Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna 2009 polen transport 2009 The Building, Berlin

2008 Deca-Dance O Museu Nacional do Conjunto Cultural da República, Brasília

2007 Mulheres em Luta Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro

2006 YOU WON’T FEEL A THING: On Panic, Obsession, Rituality and Anesthesia Kunsthaus Dresden Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst / 2007 Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk

2006 ZOO~ La Centrale Électrique, European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels

2005 Videovetrina #4 – Wonder Women Studio Lipoli & Lopez, Rome

2004 Continental Breakfast (with Nikoleta Marković) Planetarium, Belgrade

2004 Anne, Marie, Madeleine. Polish Contemporary Photography Espace Apollonia, Strasbourg / 2005 Thessaloniki Museum of Photography / National Museum in Szczecin

2004 Pod flagą biało-czerwoną. Nowa sztuka z Polski / Under the White and Red Flag. New Art from Poland Estonian Art Museum Exhibition Hall in the Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn / The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius / Nizhny Novgorod branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts – Arsenal / Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts / National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
2003 Biały Mazur / White Mazurka Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin / Berlin Art Forum 2003 / 2004 Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków

2003 Seduced Prague Biennale 1, Prague

2003 Tenderness Centre for Contemporary Art, Kyiv

2003 Polish Brand Art Moscow 2003, Moscow

2003 Cultural Territories (with Małgorzata Lisiewicz) Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

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Collections:
– Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
– Zachęta Regional Collection of Contemporary Art – Szczecin
– Collection of Arsenal Gallery and the Podlasie Zachęta Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts – Białystok
– Instytut Promocji Sztuki Foundation – Warsaw
– Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art – Kraków
– Wyspa Institute of Art – Gdańsk
– The National Museum in Gdańsk
– Łódź Zachęta Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts
– The Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz
– Collection of the City of Gdańsk
– PKO BP Collection
and private collections

Selected grants and awards

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2020 final nomination for the Splendor Gedanensis award

2017 annual scholarship for artists granted by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage

2017 final nomination for the Gdynia Drama Award (with Magda Mosiewicz) for The End of Violence

2016 scholarship for artists granted by the City of Gdańsk

2013 Promoting Social Change through the Arts as part of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), USA,

2013 scholarship for artists granted by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage

2013 scholarship granted by the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship

2010 Art in Residence: scholarship granted by Pro Helvetia at F+F Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign, Zürich

2009 Young Poland scholarship granted by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage

2009 nomination for the Views Deutsche Bank Foundation Award

2008 annual scholarship for artists granted by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage

2008 scholarship for artists granted by the City of Gdańsk

2007 nomination for Paszport Polityki in the Visual Arts category

2004 annual scholarship for artists granted by the Polish Minister of Culture

2003 grant of Fundacja Kultury

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