Anna Baumgart – l’étrangère

The video was made specifically for the exhibition My Mother Is Not Holy (Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow, 2008, curators: Anka Sasnal, Martyna Sztaba) inspired by Piece on Mother and Motherland by Bożena Keff. The work revolves around the dance of two women – both in white dresses. They alternately pull closer and push away one another. This brings to mind a struggle of two bodies that are both willing to dominate.
Baumgart presents the scenes of combatting traumas, impotence, one’s own shadow and the past.

See the video on the Warsaw's Museum of modern art website

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Supplement to the Piece on Mother and Motherland by Bożena Keff

Anna BaumgartSupplement to the Piece on Mother and Motherland by Bożena Keff2008still from the film

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.

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Dominik Czechowski, There is nothing less certain than the past, Postmedium

Bill Kouwenhoven ,The Uncanny and the Hypothetical in the Work of Anna Baumgart

Décalages, ParisArt,

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

Postcards from Warsaw, Frieze

Culture.pl

REVOLUTION IS NOT A DINNER. THOUGH MAYBE?, Performance, BWA Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2019