Katarzyna Kozyra (b. 1963, Warsaw)
Polish sculptor and interdisciplinary artist specialising in installations, photography and video art. She studied German at the University of Warsaw (1985-1988). Kozyra is a graduate of Professor Grzegorz Kowalski’s Sculpture Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1998-93) and Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst in Leipzig (1998). After her studies she ceased to sculpt professionally and branched out into photography, video art, video-installations and performances.
In 1997, praised as “the most promising Polish artist”, she received Polityka’s Passport. In 1999, while representing Poland at the 48th Venice Biennale, she received an honorary mention.
Kozyra lives in Berlin, Trento and Warsaw.
Select exhibitions:
2010 “Casting”, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
2009 “The Midget Gallery”, “A Guide to the Art System and Art Market”, Studio Blok, Warsaw, Poland.
2008 “Summertale”, Zak/Branicka, Berlin; Postmasters, New York.
2007 Katarzyna Kozyra. “In Art Dreams Come True”, edited by BWA Wrocław, editor H. Wróblewska, Hatje Cantz Verlag.
2007 “In Art Dreams Come True”, BWA Wrocław, Poland.
2007 “Performances. In der Kunst werden Träume wahr”, DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, Berlin, Germany.
2005 “W samym centrum uwagi/At the very centre of attention”, Centre For Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
2005 “In Art Dreams Come True. Opowieść zimowa/Die Wintererzählung”, BWA Jelenia Góra, Poland.
2005-2006 “Das unmögliche Theater/The Impossible Theater/Teatr niemożliwy”, Kunsthalle Vienna, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
2005 “About Beauty/Ueber Schoenheit“, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
2004 “Instant Europe. Fotografia e video dalla nuova Europa”, Villa Manin Azienda Speciale, Passariano, Codroipo (Udine), Italy.
2004 “Katarzyna Kozyra”, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy.
2004 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA.
2002 “Senores de la danza, Espacio uno”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
2002 “Rite of Spring/Fruehlingsopfer”, Zachęta Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
2001 “Rite of Spring (Faltblatt)”, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA.
2001 “Katarzyna Kozyra”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia.
2000 “Katarzyna Kozyra”, Helsingin Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland.
1999 “The Men’s Bathhouse”, 48. International Biennial of Visual Arts, Polish Pavilion, Venice, Italy.
1999 “Katarzyna Kozyra”, Polish Institute, Leipzig, Germany.