Zuzanna Janin_bio
born: 1964
education: 1980-87 Academy of Fine Arts, Warszawa
Zuzanna Janin – author of sculptures, installations, videos, photographies, actions and performatives. Finalist of Adi Prize for Art 2003, Israel. The central theme of artist’s works is: space, memory and time. Recent works of her invite reflection on the arbitrariness of social roles, their fluid boundaries, and the place of individual freedom within the workings of state and society. Artist creates a specific interactive actions-performatives usually with a participation of invited people.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Swinging Poland in the 1970’s (Madness of Majka Skowron), THING, New York, (curator Christoph Dreager)
Marzac o pedzie i przygodzie / Dreaming of Speed & Adventure, CSW / CCA, Laznia, Gdansk (curator Anna Szynwelska)
2010
MAJKA FROM THE MOVIE, Kunstahalle Wien, Project Space, Wien (curator Gerald Matt, Katarzyna Uszynska)
Obviously Cases of Madness Do Happen in Asylums This Isolated, Federico Bianchi Contemporary, Milano
ALL THAT MUSIC!, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, (cat.) (curator LOKAL_30)
2009
All That Music!, Galeria Arsenal, Poznan
2008
Fortunteller (Fish&Bird), (video) lokal_30, Warszawa in cooperation with Bac!festiwal, Barcelona
Fortunteller, (performance) lokal_30 performance programme, NADA Miami,
The Time of Cruel Miracles Is Not Over, Federico Bianchi Gallery, Gorgonzola/Milano
Pasygraphy, REDakcja Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa
2007
Just Before, Museum Sztuki, Lodz
Just Before, Museum of Modern Art under contruction, Warszawa
2006
_studio_telewiZyJne_, ART TALK_SHOW, lokal_30 Warszawa (action performative)
2005
Intervention (Corners & Dreams), Lehnin Kloster, Lehinin (D)
Widzialam swoja smierç / I”ve Seen My Death, festiwal traskOFF, Raciborz
2004
ILoveYouToo, Center d’ Art Contemporain, Confluence, Paris, (Seson Polonais en France)
Moja Droga / My Way, Galeria Sztuki PATIO, Lódz
_studio_telewiZyJne_/_televiZJon_studio_, Galeria ZOR / Smolna, Warszawa
Widzialam swoja smierç / I”ve Seen My Death, Galeria Manhattan, Lódz; Galeria Entropia, Wroclaw; Galeria Sektor/ GCK, Katowice; Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków; Galeria Szara, Cieszyn
2003
Zuzanna Janin I”ve Seen My Death, (under the name Zuzanna JaninA), Galeria Foksal, Warszawa + artist studio Foksal17b
Wywiady i Cytaty / Interviews and Quotations, Galeria ZOR, Warszawa + artist studio Foksal 17b
2002
ILoveYouToo, BWA, Jelenia Góra, Instytut Polski, Pary?, (Mois de la photo 2002) (cat.)
2001
My memory, Baltycka Galeria Sztuki Wspó?czesnej, Slupsk
ILoveYouToo, Galeria Zacheta, Warszawa; Galeria Kronika, Bytom, Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (cat.)
2000
Homefuckingiskillingprostitution, A.v. Scholz Galerie, Berlin
1999
Eat Me, Galeria Starmach, Kraków
What Hell, What Heaven, cont’t, Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej / Center for Contemporary Art, Warszawa (cat.)
UNTITLED, Synagoga, Center for Contemporary Art, Trnava
Love Me / Miluj Me, Galeria Priestor / Space for Contemporary Art, Bratislava
1998
Matricide (Savage Me), Galeria Manhattan, Lódz (cat.)
What Hell, What Heaven, Galeria Foksal, Warszawa, (cat.)
1997
Touch Me, A.v.Scholz Galerie, Berlin
1995
UNTITLED, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, (cat.)
Area / Teren, Galeria Foksal, Warszawa (cat.)
1991
Works, Galeria Wschodnia, Lódz, (poster)
1990
Works, Galeria Dziekanka, Warszawa, (cat.)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
Memory Box / The Last Analog Revolution / ROMANIAN CULTURAL RESOLUTION, New Gallery of the Romanian Institut, 54th Venice Biennale of Art 2011, Venice (curator Xandra Popescu, Stefan Constantinescu)
Particolare, Signum Foundation Palazzo Dona, Venice (curator Andrzej Turowski, Grzegorz Musial)
Rzeczy budza uczucia / Things Evoke Feelings – Colection of Center for Contemporary Art II; CCA, Warszawa (curator Grzegorz Borkowski)
Collection msn, Museum Sztuki, Lodz (curator Jaroslaw Suchan)
L’art est un sport de combat, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais (curator Jean-Marc Huitorel)
2010
L’ART CONTEMPORAIN ET LE SPORT?: DE LA BEAUTÉ DU GESTE À L’ART EST UN SPORT DE COMBAT, screening accompanying the lecture, Centre Pompidou-Merz, Merz (by Jean-Marc Huitorel)
Hard to Sell, Good to Have, Kunstverein, das weisse house, Vienna, (curator: Alexandra Grausam i Elsy Lahner)
FORBIDDEN LOVE: ART IN THE WAKE OF TELEVISION CAMP, Kunstverein Medienturm Gratz & steirischer herbst, and Kölnischer Kunstverein (curator Sandro Droschl)
METASURVIVAL, Spiz Gdansk, (curator Marek Rogulski)
FOKUS LÓDZ BIENNALE, Lódz (curator Ryszard Wasko,)
Przebudzenie / Awekeing, Swiecie (curator Karina Dzieweczynska)
Ogródki / Gardens, exhibition in public spaces, Gdansk, (curator Kamila Wielebska)
BEDZIE LEPIEJ I CORAZ LEPIEJ / Will Be Better and Better, BWA, Olsztyn (curator Malgorzata Jackiewicz-Garniec, Grazyna Prusinska)
Galeria Filmu / Gallery of Film, Muzeum Narodowe / National Museum, Krakow (curator Dominik Kurylek, Kamila Wielebska)
Sila Sztuki / Power of Art, Lwowski Palac Sztuki / Palace of Art, Lwow (curator Marcin Lachowski)
RZECZY BUDZA UCZUCIA. / THINGS EVOKES FEELINGS. Selected Narrations from Collection of CCA, Ujazdowski Castel, CCA, Warszawa (curator Grzegorz Borkowski)
CAMEO, Triple Candie Gallery, New York (curator Lukasz Ronduda)
Art in the City, exhibition of the projects shortlisted for the prize of art in public space, Brussels, Egmont Park, Brussels
Phones Languague, no.w.here, London (curator Maxa Zoller, Florian Wüst)
2009
Kolekcja. Pokaz 4 / Collection, Show 4, Museum Gornoslaskie / Museum Upper Silesian, Bytom (curator Marek Meschnik)
Streets and Other Interiors, lokal_30_warszawa_london, London (curator Agnieszka Rayzacher)
Forgotten Death, Center for Contemporay Art, Celije (curator Irena Cercnik)
Ulica Prózna 2009 / Prózna Street 2009, Festiwal Kultury Zydowskiej / Jewish Culture Festival, Warszawa (curator Krystyna Piotrowska)
Znaki Czasu / Signs of Time Collection, Kolekcja Lubelskiego Towarzystwa Zachety, Lublin (curator Piotr Majewski)
2009
We Would Like You To Know That We Are Not Them, Royal Scottish Accademy Gallery, Edinburg
CAMEO, Center For Contemporary Art, Warszawa
WARSAW CALLING / MAK NITE, MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Wien
Zbiory, Collection Edition 5, Center for Contemporary Art, Warszawa
New Acquisitions – Rarely Seen Works, Ludwig Museum, Budapest/Koeln
Power Games. History of Violence, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Mulheres em Luna, CAIXA Cultural Brasilia, Galeria Vitrine, Brasilia
Wasser und Wein – Der Katholische Faktor in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Städtischen Galerie Regensburg
Love. City. Catastrophe, Nelly Aman / N&N Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv
HEARTQUAKE, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
2008
RÈVEILLE TOI, Bac!festival, CCCB, Barcelona
Dance with the Death, tear NOWY, Warszawa
Pozadanie. Patrzenie. Przerazenie. / Lust-Looking-Terror, Kamienica Zlota/Zgoda, Warszawa
FRICTION AND CONFLICT. Cultural Exchanges and Influences in North Eastern Europe, Konstmuseum, Kalmar (SE)
Teleportacja i inne hybrydy / Teleportation and Other Hybrids, lokal_30 at Galerie U7, Saisonstart in Frankfurt, Frankfurt/M
DECA DANCE, National Museum, Brasilia, Brazil
Possible. Impossible, Komuna Otwock, Lubelska Warszawa
nomadSPACE, wandering gallery, Warszawa, Bratislava, Banska Stiavnica, Trencin, Trencianske Teplice, Liubliana
Collection Show 2007/2008, Hoffmann Sammlung, Berlin
HEARTQUAKE, Museum on the Seam, Socio—Political Contemporary Art Museum, Jeruzalem,
2007
Persuit of Contradicion, lokal_30 at NADA’07, Miami
Lokatorzy/ Lodgers, lokal_30, Warszawa
Petle czasu / Loops of Time, kamienica przy ul. Piotrkowskiej 96, Lodz
Ponowoczesnosc i zycie wieczne, Arsenal, Galeria Miejska, Poznan
Six Feet Under, Stiftung Deutche Higiene Museum, Dresden
Odczarowanie, BWA, Zielona Gora
Kobiety w natarciu. Polonia Carioca; Video Center, Rio de Janeiro
Collection Show 2007/2008, Hoffmann Sammlung, Berlin
Asteizm w Polsce. Dowcip i wladza rzadzenia, Center for Contemporary Art, Warszawa
Capricci, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxemburg
Pomiedzy / In Between, Piekary Gallery, Poznan
LISTE’07, lokal_30 show, Basel
Demos Cratos, BWA Bielsko Biala, BWA Zielona Gora
Skin & Bones, XX1 Gallery, Warszawa
Oridinary Terror, Galeria Entropia, Wroclaw
2006
You Cannot Come Closer, Cell Project, London
Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum, Bern(CH)
Come Into My World, II Lodz Biennale, Lodz
EMBRACE, lokal_30 show at Preview Berlin & ArtForum, Berlin
Wobec zla, BWA Czestochowa,
Poland Fighting, Christine Koenig Galerie, Wien
Eroticon, CoCaCoLa Gallery, Wien
Zwyczajny Terror / Oridinary Terror, lokal_30, Warszawa; Galeria Sektor, Katowice
Bewegte Helden / Ruchomi Bohateriowie, A:mok e.V., Heinrich-Boell Stiftung / Fundacja Boella, Berlin
Milosc I Demokracja / Love and Democracy, Center for Contemporary Art, Laznia, Gdaƒsk
Wiezy / Relationship, Festiwal Sztuki w Raciborzu / Art Festiwal, Raciborz
The City. Beteewn the Architecture and Catastrophe, (lokal_30 best gallery prize winner), ViennAfair, Wien,
Demos Cratos, Galeria Klimy Bochenskiej, Fabryka Trzciny, Warszawa
Jej portret NIE wierny, Galeria Manhattan, Lodz
Family First, Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago,
2005
Festival of Art, Center for Cultural Initiatives, Baku / Azerbeijan,
Aukcja na rzecz Sztuki, lokal_30, Warszawa
Slady Pamieci, Traces of Memory, Galeria Sektor, Katowice
Jakos to bedzie. Wybory 2005, Galeria Piotra Nowickiego, Warszawa
Samlung Hoffmann Exposition 2006, Samlung Hoffamnn, Berlin
Egocentryczne, niemoralne, przestarzale. Wizerunki wspolczesnych artystow, Zacheta, Warszawa
Reflection, Centrum Sztuki Wspó?czesnej, NCCA, Ni?nyj Nowogrod
Dzien matki, Galeria Platan, Budapeszt
Operation Box Kultur, Ottakringer Brauerei, Wien
Witajcie w mediach, Baltycka Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej, S?upsk
Otwarcie, Poczatek, lokal_30, Warszawa
Intervention, Lehnin Kloster, Lehnin (GE)
Potencjal, kolekcja dla Muzeum Sztuki Wspolczesnej w Warszawie, Budynek Metropolitan, Warszawa
Polka, Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Warszawa
Art Poznan 2005, w ramach pokazu ZOR (miejsca non profit), Stara Rzeznia, Poznan
Milosc i demokracja, Art Poznan 2005, Stary Browar, Poznan
Za czerwonym horyzontem, Centre for Contemporary Art, Moskow
Moskwa– Warszawa, Sztuka polska I rosyjska 1990 – 2000, Galeria Trietiakowska, Moskow
Reflections, Centre for Contemporary Art, NCCA, Moskow
Itineranf Images, (in Presentation of Art School), PROGR Galerie, Bern
Falsche Erwantung, Kunstahalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Kobieta o sztuce, Skladnica Sztuk, Olsztyn,
Dzien matki, Galeria XX1, Warszawa,
Light and Matter, (finalist of Adi Prize for Art 2003), Izrael Museum, Jerusalem
2004
Itineranf Images, PROGR Galerie, Bern
Body – Sport – Video, Nova Polska, Museum Geo-Charles, Echirolles / France, (Saison Polonaise en France),
Body, Nicosia Municipal Art Center, Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, Cyprus
Les affinites electives, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Albi /France, (Saison Polonaise en France), (cat.)
Festival VIDEOFORMES 2004, Clerrmont Ferrant / France, (cat.)
The View From Here, Minesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis; Erie Art Museum, Erie, (cat.)
2003
Stan wojenny 2003 / State of War 2003, (with Nelly Egiersdorff), Galeria ZOR, Warszawa
Topos Polonicus, Solentune,/Stockholm (cat.)
The View From Here, City Gallery, Prague (cat.), Riffe Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, (cat.)
Videodrom, Croatian TV Program of film and video art, Zagreb
2002
12. FilmFestival Cottbus, FilmFestival Cottbus, (cat.)
Vom Monument zum Markt, Kunstahalle Wien, Wien
2001
Kolekcja CSW, Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Warszawa
I Am My Car, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (cat.)
Negocjatorzy sztuki. Wobec rzeczywistosci, Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków
Na wolnosci / W koncu, Galeria Królikarnia, Warszawa; Muzeum Narodowe, Szczecin, (cat.)
In Between. Art from Poland 1945-2000, Chicago Cultural Center
2000
Scena 2000, Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Warszawa
If you want to quit, as me how, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Negocjatorzy sztuki. Wobec rzeczywistosci, Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej Laznia, Gdansk
Infreihert / Endlich, Baden Baden Kunsthalle, Baden Baden, (cat.)
After the Wall, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, (cat.)
Postindustrial Sorrow, Nassaulsher Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, (cat.)
Art a Centreeuropa 1949-1999, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona
L’autre moitie de l’Europe, Jeu de Paume, Paris
1999
Aspekte Positionen, Museum moderner Kunst, Wien, (cat.)
Sztuka polska konca-poczatku wieku / Polish Art of End-Beginning of Centuary / Polskoje iskustwo konca-naczala wieka, Manez, Sankt Petersburg, (cat
After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, (cat.)
Trace, The Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, (cat.)
1998
Genius Loci, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, (cat.)
Fragment kolekcji 3 / A Fragment of Collection 3, Galeria Zach´ta, Warszawa, (cat.)
1997
Schwere-Los Skulpturen, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art,Budapest, (cat.)
Schwere-Los Skulpturen, OO Landesgalerie, Linz, (cat.)
Despite / Difference, Herbert Read Gallery, Kent Institute of Art, Canterbury, (cat.)
Styki / Contact Prints, Galeria Foksal, Warszawa
Beyond Belief, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, (cat.)
The Palace of Good Luck, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles
1995
Beyond Belief, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, (cat.)
Der Riss im Raum, Gropius Bau, Berlin, (cat.)
Rysa w przestrzeni, Galeria Zach´ta, Warszawa, (cat.)
1994
Der Riss im Raum, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, (cat.)
1993
Sonsbeek ‘93, Arnhem, (cat.)
1992
The Boundary Rider, The 9th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (cat.)
The 3rd International Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul, (cat.)
Miejsca, nie miejsca, Centrum Rzeêby Polskiej, Oroƒsko
1991
Germinations 6, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Budapest Galeria, Budapest, (cat.)
1990
Point East, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
bibliography (selected):
In the Very Center of Attention, CSW, Warszawa 2008
Anda Rottenberg, Sztuka w Polsce 1945-2005, Warszawa 2006
