Agnieszka Brzezanska_

Born in Gdansk in 1972, lives and works in Warsaw

Education

1998-2001 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1995-1997 Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
1992-1995 Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010
Galactic Resonance, Hotel, London
Cosmic Equation, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
Playlist, DAAD Galerie, Berlin

2009
528 Hz, Karma International, Zurich
Venus Conjunct, Galerie Kamm, Berlin

2008
Nudes. Moons and Horses, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland
Pulawska 25a, home exhibition, curated by Agnieszka Brzezanska

2007
Le Modele, l'Artiste et la Peintur BROADWAY 1602, New York
Discoveries, selected by Bice Curiger, Rencontres d'Arles Photo Festival Awards Exhibition, Arles France

2006
Tunnel like a Tail HOTEL, London
Warsaw for amateurs Kordegarda, Warsaw
The opposite of the opposite. And the opposite of that
Curator Anke Kempkes, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
All dressed up with Nowhere to go…, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow

2005
Is nothing not enough? BROADWAY 1602, New York,
dharma tv Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
Free Doom Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (catalogue)

2004
ap4 Geneva Switzerland

2003
Agnieszka Brzezanska and Janos Fodor Platan Gallery, Budapest

2002
double happiness Zacheta Gallery and CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (catalogue)

1997
It is beneficial to cross a big water CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
Agnieszka Brezanska, Miriam Cahn Mária Bartuszová, Harris Lieberman, New York
The Berlin Box – Works on paper by 50 artists from Berlin, Kunsthalle Andratx/CCA, Mallorca
Holy Shit (yelled John upon noticing the delicate colours of sunset), curated by Fanny Gonella, PSM Gallery, Berlin
The Zero Budget Biennial, curated by Joanna Fiduccia and Chris Sharp, Rockeby, London
The Zero Budget Biennial, curated by Joanna Fiduccia and Chris Sharp, Pianissimo, Milan

2009
ZEIGEN. An audio tour through Berlin by Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Cave Painting I, curated by Bob Nickas, Gresham’s Ghost, New York
Zwei Tage und drei Nächte, Bel Etage, Berlin
The Zero Budget Biennial I, curated by Joanna Fiduccia and Chris Sharp, Schleicher + Lange and Carlos Cardenas Galerie Paris
Sorrow Conquers Happiness, No Local, Myslowice
Cave Painting, PSM Gallery, Berlin
Full of Emptiness, Bel Etage, Berlin
Prose pour des Esseintes, Karma International, Zurich
Art in Cinema, No Local on tour, Poland

2008
ART TLV, International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Act so that I can speak to you, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
Agnieszka Brzezanska, Tom Burr, kitty Kraus, Maria Loboda, Michael Queenland, Annette Ruenzler, Kathrin Sonntag, Aneta Grzeszykowska
Forum Expanded at Berlin International Film Festival, curated by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Anselm Franke
Varsavia Saluta Roma, Roma

2007
Manual CC, Manual Kronika Gallery, bytom, Poland
LISTE The Young Art Fair, Basel
Walk Real Slow Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles
Rencontre d’Arles, Photo Festival Awards Exhibition, Arles

2006
NADA, Miami
Housewarming Swiss Institute New York
SOLIDARITY, SOLITUDE BROADWAY 1602, New York
Keep passing the open windows or Happiness, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Ei Arakawa, Edwin Laliq, Charlie Hammond, Martin Soto Climent, Megan Sullivan, Steven Claydon, Christopher Williams, Curator Anke Kempkes, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Pivate cinema Willa Warszaw
LISTE The Young Art Fair, Basel
New documentalists CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
All dressed up with Nowhere to go..., Ana Mendieta, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Seth Price, Nick Mauss, Friederike Clever, Michael Hakimi, Edwin Laliq, Ryan Doolan
Curator Anke Kempkes, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Take one Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

2005
The Pantagruel Syndrom T1-Turin Triennial, Turin, Italy (catalogue)
EXILE. New York is a good Hotel BROADWAY 1602, New York
Sicht der Dinge Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg:
Jaroslaw Kozłowski, Józef Robakowski, Zbigniew Libera, Grzegorz Klaman, Katarzyna Kozyra, Robert Rumas, Elżbieta Jabłońska, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Dorota Nieznalska

2004
Under the white-and-red flag - New Art from Poland, Vilnus, Tallin, Moscow
What is important?-3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Talinn Art Hall Gallery, Talinn, Estonia

2003
Poesis Kunsthalle Mucsarnok, Budapeszt

2002
The young are realists, really CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

2001
Zawody Malarskie curated by Adam Szymczyk, Galeria Bielska,
Bielsko-Biala, Poland (catalogue)

Residencies

2005 Bunchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
2004 Collegium Helveticum, Grant by Lndys & Gyr, Zurich
1998-2001 Japanese Governement Scholarship, Tokyo
2000 Oreste, Mont Escalioso, Italy
2000 "Platform C", Cappadocia, Turkey
1998 Workshop and City Installation, Chongju, Korea

Bibliography

2010
Rebecca Geldard, Zero Budget Biennial, TimeOut London, March

2009
Agnieszka Brezanska Catalogue, Zürich: Karma International
Paintings Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting by Bob Nickas, phaidon press, London

2006
Introducing: Agnieszka Brzezanska Text by Quinn Latimer, Portrait Photos by Szymon Goginski, Modern Painters. The International Art Magazine, Dec 2006 – Jan 2007, New York / London, p. 85 – 86 and cover
Celsius 233 Text Anke Kempkes
Catalogue broschure for Agnieszka Brzezanska - The opposite of the opposite. And the opposite of that Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

Since 2005
Trzaskopismo ciagletrzaskamyfoty, edited by Tomek Sacilowski, Warsaw

2004
Agnieszka Brzezanska - Der Agonie des Verstehens entwischt Text Claudia Jolles, Meridian, Newsletter Nr. 14, Collegium Heleveticum, ETH Zuerich, p.21 - 25

2001
Aren’t you going to expose me? Text Adam Szymczyk
Exhibition catalogue Zawody Malarskie / Painters‘ Competition curated by Adam Szymczyk, Galeria Bielska, 16 Nov – 16 Dec 2001, Bielsko-Biala, Poland