Anna Konik

Anna Konik was born in 1974. She lives and works in Berlin, Warsaw, and Dobrodzien. In 1997 Konik began studies at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the Krzysztof M. Bednarski studio under Prof. Grzegorz Kowalski, receiving her diploma in 2000. From 1999 to 2001, she worked as an assistant professor in Drawing at the academy under Sophie Glazer.

During the period from 1999 to 2004 she worked at the Academia Theatre, with the theatre group, Opera Buffa, and was one of the founders of the Untitled Theatre. In 2008-09 she was a lecturer at the International Sommeracademy in Salzburg, and in 2009 Rudolf Arnheim invited her to be a professor at Humboldt University in Berlin. The next year, in 2010-11, she gave video guest lectures in the Department of Fashion Design, for the faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2012, Konik received the title of Doctor of Arts at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Following that, during the summer of 2012, she gave video seminars for the faculty of Literature and Linguistics at the University of Bielefeld.

In 2009 she was nominated for the Deutsche Bank 2009 award. Konik has been the winner numerous artistic and academic scholarships: Akademie Schloss Solitude (2003-04); Artist in Residency Leuba (2004); Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and the Arts (2005); the SPACES World Artists Program, Cleveland, USA (2005); Young Poland (2007); Zuger Kulturstiftung Landis & Gyr, Zug (2007); Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2008-09); ZIF Interdisziplinary Center for Research, University of Bielefeld (2011); and IASPIS, Stockholm (2011-12).

Her work has been exhibited in many galleries in both Poland and the rest of Europe.