Dimensions: 170 x 115 cm
signed, dated, numbered and described on the reverse: 'Katarzyna Kozyra | "Orphan" | 2008/2020 | 3/3'.
ed. 3/3
Exhibited
Katarzyna Kozyra. "Summer Tale", Baltic Office Building and Art Haven within the framework of Concordia Design, Poznań, 17.06-18.07.2021.
cf. Katarzyna Kozyra, Solo Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, 16.07-13.08.2016.
cf. IV Odessa Biennale of Modern Art, film screening, Odessa Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, 11.09-11.10.2015
cf. "Incentive to the Museum. Collection of the Lodz Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts", group exhibition, Museum of Art in Lodz, Lodz, 13.12.2013-2.03.2014
cf. Katarzyna Kozyra, "Casting", Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 3.12.2010-13.02.2011
cf. Katarzyna Kozyra. Summer Story/Summertale, film screening, eSeL REZEPTION, MQ Schauräume, Museumsquartier Wien MQ, 11, 13-14.11.2010
cf. "In the Shower - Katarzyna Kozyra. A Summer Story," film screening, CCA Laznia, Gdansk, 18.11.2009.
cf. 9th International Film Festival Era New Horizons, film screening, Wrocław, 23.07-2.08.2009
cf. film screening, BWA in Jelenia Góra, Jelenia Góra, 16.06.2009
cf. "Katarzyna Kozyra. Summertale", Żak/Branicka Gallery, Berlin, 31.10-10.12.2008.
Biography
Sculptor, author of installations and videos. In 1985-1988 she studied German studies at the University of Warsaw. In 1988 she began studying at the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. There, in 1993, she defended her diploma in the studio of Prof. Grzegorz Kowalski. Katarzyna Kozyra's diploma work, "Pyramid of Animals" (1993), garnered considerable, initially mostly negative, publicity in the press and on television. Since then, the artist has become known as a dutiful scandalist in the Polish media. After graduation, she stopped practicing sculpture in favor of photography, video, video-installation and performances. In 1997 she was awarded the Paszport Polityki award as the most promising Polish artist. Representing Poland at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1999, she received an honorable mention. In the 1990s, Katarzyna Kozyra was recognized as a leading artist of the so-called "critical art" trend, mainly due to her touching on social taboos (death, illness, nudity), usually related to the issue of the body. Her interest in corporeality dates back to the period of her studies (e.g. : "Nudes of anorectics" 1991, "Black and white Polaroids" 1992). She currently lives in Berlin and Warsaw.
