Born in 1966 in Wrocław, Poland, Anna Baumgart is a multimedia artist who represents a feminist perspective focused on personal, often hidden, problems and obsessions, also delving into the subject of the “Other”. She works in video, installation, performance, sculpture, and artistic tattoo.
In 1994 Baumgart graduated from the department of sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. In 1995 she received the Award of the City of Gdańsk for the Most Interesting Debut. In the 1990s she collaborated with the most important centers of the Polish artistic scene: Wyspa Gallery, Spichż 7 Gallery, Baltic Cultural Center and CCA Łaźnia. Baumgart has taken part in the most important shows of Polish art at home and abroad. In 2004 Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw organised her exhibition in tandem with Birgit Brenner. She has received stipends from Fundacja Kultury (2001) and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2005). She was awarded the First Prize at LOOP festival in Barcelona in 2011 for her video Fresh Cherries. Baumgart’s works are in the collections of Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Lublin, Museum of Art in Frankfurt a/M, and in private collections.
Dominik Czechowski, There is nothing less certain than the past, Postmedium
Bill Kouwenhoven ,The Uncanny and the Hypothetical in the Work of Anna Baumgart
Anna Baumgart Terytorium Komanczów / gazeta towarzysząca wystawie
Sprawa kobieca według Anny Baumgart, Dziennik Teatralny
ITS OWN KIND OF TRUTH, BY JÖRG HEISER
Anna Baumgart and Her Historiography Art, Contemporary Lynx
Responsibility for the Story, by Katarzyna Bojarska
REVOLUTION IS NOT A DINNER. THOUGH MAYBE?, Performance, BWA Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2019
Three plagues, Galeria Labirynt – BWA Lublin, Poland , 2019
Un monde, un seul, pour demeure, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France, 2019
Nähe und Dystans, Brandeburgischer Landtag, Potsdam, Germany, 2019
Niepodległe: Women, Independence and National Discourse, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2018
SLOWNESS INSPIRATIONS 2018, TRAFO, Szczecin, Poland, 2018
Kino-oko. Wok—? Wiertowa I Konstruktywizmu, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland, 2017
Urbs Sacra, Mains d’oeuvres, Saint Ouen, France, 2017
Attention! Border, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Poland, 2017
De – Mo – Cra – Cy, Galeria Labirynt, BWA Lublin, Lublin, Poland, 2016
Sing, Slaves, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland, 2016
The “Anything Goes” Museum, The National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 2015
Progress And Hygiene, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2014
Sights and Sounds: Poland, The Jewish Museum, New York City, NY, 2014
Anna Baumgart, Miczika is not afraid of airplanes, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, until February 2021
Anna Baumgart, Let’s Talk About Modernity, Jam Factory Art Center, 30 October – 10 Nov 2019
Anna Baumgart, Three Plaques, Labirynth Gallery, Lublin, Poland, 1 September – 10 November 2019
Anna Baumgart, Un monde, un seul, pour demeure, 13 July – 01 December 2019
Anna Baumgart, Nähe und Dystans, Brandeburgischer Landtag, 31 January – 28 December 2019
Anna Baumgart, Skip the Line! Populism and Unfulfilled Promises, 26 October – 30 November 2018