Anna Kutera (born in 1952) graduated from the Faculty of Painting, Graphics Art and Sculpture at the State College of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (now Academy of Fine Arts) in 1977. Her artistic activities include film, video, photography, painting, installation and performance. She combined her artistic activities with the activities of an artistic community animator. She was active within ‘Conceptual Contextualism’ as a Feminist practitioner in Poland in the 1970s. In 1975-1980, together with Jan Świdziński, she co-organised the international movement of contextual art, focused on researching contexts of artistic productions, which extended the concepts and patterns of the then-dominating conceptualism.
Kutera has exhibited extensively in Poland and internationally, most notably in Galerie Kunstpunkt (Berlin), Documenta 7 (Kassel, Germany), Guggenheim Museum (NYC), Polish Woman’s Film 1970-80 (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (Sao Paulo, Brasil), Art Museum Gelsenkirchen (Germany), Galerie der Kunstler (Munich, Germany), Fluss Association, Schloss Wolkersdorf (Vienna, Austria), Drents Museum (Assen, Holland), Banff Center (Canada), Artculture Resource Centre (Toronto, Canada), Museum of City of Copenhagen (Denmark).
Her work is in many museum collecitons including: The Royal Library of Art (Copenhagen), National Museum (Warsaw), Centre of Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski (Warsaw), Collection BWA (Lublin), Foundation DANAE (Paris).
Anna Kutera, Spojrzenia, catalogue from the exhibition, Foto-gen Gallery, Wrocław, 2022
Textiles of Trouble, or, Dropping Threads and Finding New Ones by Alice Butler
Drugie (zu)życie gazety by Gabriela Dragun
Staying with the Trouble by Lizzie Perrotte
Anna Kutera: Wskroś by Anna Batko
Viktor Witkowski: Five Dacades of Feminist Art. From Across Eastern Europe
Gabriela Dragun: Anna Kutera – an immigrant to POSTreality
Romuald Kutera: The avant-garde did not applaud
A Feminist Avant-Garde: Photographs and performances of the 1970s, from the Verbund Collection, Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia, Rencontres d’Arles, France
Private Mythologies, Marta’s Birthday, Wrocław Contemporary Art Museum, Wrocław, PL
Avant – garde and the State, Museum of Art in Łódź
Her Own Way, Top Museum (Museum of Photography), Tokyo, Japan