Anna Baumgart – l’étrangère

In the video series, Baumgart inserted herself into old films, such as classical, Russian war movie from 50’s: The Cranes Are Flying by Michail Kalatozov and Polisch comedy: Bear by Stanislaw Bareja.

The True? cycle develops three narratives that persist throughout Baumgart's work. The first is directly concerned with the questions of identity. Who is this person that call oneself? Who emerges when you remove the mask of cultural convention? The second narrative is concerned with 'surrogate' lives, of taking on other people's roles, manufactured or promoted by the culture industry (...). The third narrative addresses absent voices, those marginalised by society.'

(Ryszard Kluszczynski)

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

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Anna BaumgartTrue? (The Cranes Are Flying)2001still from the film

Anna BaumgartTrue? (Teddy Bear)2001still 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