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Monika Weiss
Sustenazo, 2009-2010
Still from projected video. Installation: video, sound, objects, drawings, photography. Exhibition "Monika Weiss-Sustenazo", March 12-April 25, 2010 at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw.

Exhibition "Monika Weiss-Sustenazo", March 12-April 25, 2010 at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw.
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Monika Weiss
Sustenazo, 2009-2010
Fragment. Installation: video, sound, objects, drawings, photography. Exhibition "Monika Weiss-Sustenazo", March 12-April 25, 2010 at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw.

Monika Weiss "Kordyan 2" 2005
View of the exhibition "Opening" at Muzeum Montanelli, Prague, September 31, 2009-January 31, 2010

Monika Weiss "Chalice (Ennoia 2)" 2009
Fiberglass, water, video projection, sound.
View of the exhibition "Conversation-the Beginning" with Roland Schefferski, Centre for Contemporary Art Galeria El, Elblag, September 7-October 10, 2009

Monika Weiss "Epitaph" 2009
Site-specific drawing: charcoal, graphite, found 1940s German photography, pages from Schiller's plays published in 1880s, on rice paper; mounted in an empty place left by an 17th-century painting which was lost or stolen during WW2 at the Centre for Contemporary Art Galeria El, Elblag, formerly a 13th-century church, as part of "Conversation-the Beginning" with Roland Schefferski, September 7-October 10, 2009

Monika Weiss
Expulsion, 2009
view of the installation part 2: canvas, plaster, pages from Goethe's "Doctor Faustus II" published in 1943, courtesy ConcentArt, Berlin

Monika Weiss
Expulsion, 2009
view of the installation part 1: ink on 39 volums of Goethe's writings published in 1943, sound composition, courtesy ConcentArt, Berlin

Monika Weiss
Reading Goethe (Plucie) 2008
still from video, video and sound by the artist, limited edition color print 1 of 3, courtesy the artist and ConcentArt, Berlin

Monika Weiss
Phlegethon-Milczenie, 2005
self-shot video and photography, color print limited edition, 2 of 2AP, dimensions variable, courtesy Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) and the artist

Monika Weiss
Phlegethon-Milczenie 3, 2007
self-shot video and photography, color print limited edition 2 of 3, dimensions variable, courtesy Kunsthaus Dresden and the artist

Monika Weiss
Phlegethon-Milczenie 2 (Kordyan) 2006
Pages from "Pisma" by Juliusz Slowacki published in 1882, charcoal, graphite, on rice paper, 32 x 79 in.
courtesy the artist and Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal

Monika Weiss
Eagle 3, 2008
self-shot video and photography, color print limited edition 2 of 3, dimensions variable, courtesy the artist

View of the exhibition "Monika Weiss-Marginalia" at Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, November-December 2008

Monika Weiss
Keimai 3, 2008
Installation view at Frauenmuseum, Bonn, August-November 2008

Monika Weiss
Keimai 3 Two, 2008
self-shot photography and video, limited edition color print 3 of 3, dimensions variable, collection Frauenmuseum, Bonn, courtesy the artist

Monika Weiss
Keimai 3, 2008
Installation view. German magazines and books published in 1930s, rubber latex, charcoal, printed text, courtesy the artist and Frauenmuseum, Bonn

Monika Weiss
Keimai 3, 2008
self-shot video and photography, color print limited edition 2 of 3, dimensions variable, collection Frauenmuseum, Bonn, courtesy the artist

Monika Weiss
Leukos-Early Morning Light, 2006
Projected video, sound, canvas, charcoal, stone
courtesy Remy Toledo Projects, collection Lehman College Art Gallery, New York

Monika Weiss
Drawing Lethe, 2006
canvas, charcoal, graphite, sound composition, performance, passersby
courtesy World Financial Center Winter Garden, The Drawing Center, New York and the artist

Monika Weiss
Horos 2, 2008
self-shot video and photography, color print limited edition 1 of 3, dimensions variable, courtesy Centre for Contemporary Art Galeria Opole and the artist

Monika Weiss
Anamnesis 1, 2006
self-shot video and photography, limited edition color print 1 of 3, courtesy the artist and The Facto Foundation, Trancoso

Monika Weiss
Anamnesis (Swiatlo Dnia) 2006
still from video, video and sound by the artist, limited edition DVD 2 of 3, limited edition color print, 1 of 3, courtesy The Facto Foundation, Trancoso, collection ASA Foundation, London and the artist

Monika Weiss
Fall-Keimai, 2005
self-shot video and photography, limited edition color print, 1 of 3, courtesy the artist

Monika Weiss
Skulenie, 2003
charcoal on paper, 51 x 55 in
courtesy the artist and Lehman College Art Gallery, New York

Monika Weiss
White Chalice (Ennoia) 2004
polypropylene, fiberglass, water, video, sound
52 x 52 x 56 in
courtesy the artist and Remy Toledo Projects, New York

Monika Weiss
White Chalice (Ennoia) 2004
view of the sculpture installed at Lehman College Art Gallery (CUNY), New York

Monika Weiss
Lethe Room, 2004-2005
plaster, metal, wood, motor, paper
92 x 51 x 55 in.
courtesy the artist and Lehman College Art Gallery, New York

View of the exhibition "Monika Weiss: Five Rivers" at Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, 2005-2006

View of the exhibition "Monika Weiss: Five Rivers" at Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, 2005-2006
From the left:
1/"Kordyan 1" (2005)
pages from Slowacki's "Pisma" published in 1882, charcoal, graphite on rice paper, 74 x 32 in.,
collection Asher Remy-Toledo, New York
2/"Pandora's Belly" (2005)
charcoal, pencil, dry pigment, oil on rice paper
74 x 32 in. courtesy the artist
3/ "Kordyan 2" (2005)
Charcoal, pencil, Slowacki's "Pisma" on rice paper
32 x 74 in. courtesy the artist
4/ (on the ground) "Phlegethon-Milczenie 2" (2005)
Published before 1945 German literature and music, charcoal, pencil, courtesy Lehman College Art Gallery, New York

Monika Weiss
Kordyan 2, 2005
charcoal, graphite and pages from "Pisma" by Slowacki published in 1882, on rice paper
34 x 78 in.
courtesy the artist and Lehman College Art Gallery, New York

Monika Weiss
Elytron, 2003
self-shot photography, limited edition color print 1 of 3, dimensions variable, courtesy the artist and Chelsea Art Museum, New York

Monika Weiss
Dwie, 2003
Charcoal on paper, 105 x 85 in.
courtesy the artist and Chelsea Art Museum, New York

Monika Weiss
Achea Rheon 3, 2003
Charcoal on paper, 32 x 22 in.
courtesy the artist

Monika Weiss
Ennoia (Immersion 1) 2002
self-shot photography, dimensions variable, limited edition of 3, courtesy the artist, Lehman College Art Gallery and Diapason Gallery, New York

Monika Weiss
Ennoia, 2002
cast-concrete, water, projected video, 6-hour immersion, sound. Sound in collaboration with Stephen Vitiello, courtesy Diapason Gallery, New York

Monika Weiss

1964 born in Warsaw, Poland

Lives in New York City, United States

Grants

2010 / YADDO Artist in Residence
2009 / New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship
2009 / CSW Zamek Ujazdowski Centre for Contemporary Art Artist in Residence
2006 / Arts World Financial Center Winter Garden Public Project Grant
2005 / YADDO Artist in Residence
2003 / Experimental Intermedia Foundation Studio Residency

Solo Exhibitions

2010/ "Monika Weiss: Sustenazo" curated by Milada Slizinska, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

2008 / "Monika Weiss: Marginalia" Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal

2007 / "Monika Weiss: Limen II" curated by Florence Neal, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York

2006 / "Leukos-Early Morning Light" with Kaarina Kaikonen, curated by Julia P. Herzberg, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York

2005 / "Between Body and Language" with Graciela Fuentes and Sara Mondiano, curated by Asher Remy-Toledo, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York

2005/ "Monika Weiss: Five Rivers" curated by Susan Hoeltzel, Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York

2004 / "Phlegethon-Milczenie" curated by Eric Bruinenberg, Inter-Galerie, Potsdam

2004/ "Monika Weiss: Intervals" with Carolee Schneemann, curated by Asher Remy Toledo, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York

2004/ "Monika Weiss: Vessels" curated by Nina Colosi, Chelsea Art Museum, New York

2002 / "Ennoia" with Stephen Vitiello, curated by Michael Schummacher, Diapason Galley, New York

1998 / "Koiman" curated by John Ottte, Space 1181, Atlanta

1997 /"Saint Sebastian from Atlanta" Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta

Group Exhibitions

2008-2009 /
"The Prisoner's Dilemma" curated by Leanne Mella, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation [CIFO], Miami Basel, Miami

"Wa[h]re Kunst" curated by Georgi Begun, ConcentArt e. V., Berlin

2008 /
"Frauen bei Olympia" curated by Gudrun Angelis, FrauenMuseum, Bonn

"KRAJ" curated by Marek Bartelik and Magda Potorska, National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Opole

"www.women" curated by Julie Oakes, Headbones Gallery, Toronto

2007 /
"You Won't Feel a Thing: On Panic, Obsession, Anesthesia, and Rituality" curated by Aneta Szylak, WYSPA Art Institute, Gdansk

Cornice Art Fair in conjunction with 52 International Art Exhibition/La Bienale di Venecia, with Federica Marangoni, represented by Remy Toledo Projects, Venice, Italy

"Loneliness and Melancholy" curated by Pawel Wojtasik and Susan Classen-Sullivan, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester College, Connecticut [catalogue upcoming]

2006 /
"Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand" curated by Barbara Hatfield and Hanne Tierney,The North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks

"Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art" curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami

"POZA" curated by Marek Bartelik, Real Art Ways, Hartford

"Polyphony of Images: Cutting Edge Contemporary Art From Poland" curated by Monika Fabijanska, Consulate General of Poland, New York

"You Won't Feel a Thing: On Panic, Obsession, Anesthesia, and Rituality", curated by Aneta Szylak, Kunsthaus Dresden

"Codes of Culture" curated by Nina Colosi, ArteBA 2006, Buenos Aires

"Spirit of Discovery" curated by Emanuel Pimenta, The Facto Foundation For The Arts, Sciences and Technology - Observatory, Trancoso, Portugal and ASA Foundation, London

"Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers" curated by Christiane Mennicke, Kunsthaus Dresden

2005 /
"OMNIART" curated by Julia Hertzberg, in conjunction with Miami Basel International Art Fair, Miami

"Williamsburg Performa05: Monika Weiss" curated by Patricia Cazorla, Galeria Galou, Brooklyn, New York

2004 /
"Bayenale" The LAB Gallery, San Francisco

"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" A.I.R. Gallery and Remy Toledo Gallery, New York

2003 /
"Harlem Art Project" Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, February

"12 Annual Art Artists Studio Tour" with Ruth Hardinge, C, Michael Norton, Alexis Rockman, Art in General, New York

"The Sonic Self" curated by Jolanta Gora-Wita, Chelsea Art Museum, New York

"OHM 2, a performance in frequency" curated by Angel Navarez and Valerie Tevere, El Museo del Barrio, New York

2001 /
"I/O #3: Skin" curated by Michael Smit, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco
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Projects

SELECTED PUBLIC PERFORMANCES AND OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS

2009 / "Expulsion" curated by Georgi Begun, Concentart e. V. Berlin

2008 / "Horos 2" curated by Marek Bartelik, Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej Opole

2007 / "Horos" curated by Susan Classen, Hans Weiss New Space Gallery, MCC, Manchester

2006 / "Drawing Lethe" World Financial Center Winter Garden, curated by Aimee Good,The Drawing Center, New York

"Anamnesis" curated by Emanuel Pimenta, The Facto Foundation For The Arts, Sciences and Technology - Observatory, Trancoso, Portugal

2005 / "Leukos" curated by Susan Hoeltzel, Lehman College, New York

2004 / "Drawing the City: Day One, Day Two" part of Peekskill Project curated by Koan-Jeff Baysa and Nathalie Angles, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York

"Drawing Room" curated by Mayrav Fisher, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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Collections

SELECTED PUBLIC/PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

FrauenMuseum, Bonn

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO, Miami

Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, New York

Real Art Ways Center for Contemporary Art, Hartford

Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York

Albertina Museum, Vienna

ASA Foundation, London

Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York

Enid Soifer Collection, New York

Laurens A. Daane, Amsterdam

Bibliography

BOOKS AND CATALOGES

"Krasis [Ennoia]" New Realities: Being Syncretic p. 310-314, Edited by Ascott, Fiel, Jahrmann, Schnell, Springer Wien/New York (2009)

"Horos and other playgrounds" Homo Ludens Ludens p. 186-193 [Spanish] and 293-297 [English], Edited by Erich Berger, Laura Baigorri and Daphne Dragona, LAboral Centro de Arte y Creation Industrial Gijon (2008)

"POZA: On the Polishness of Polish Contemporary Art", edited by Marek Bartelik, Real Art Ways, D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. (2008)

"Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art", edited by Simon Dowds, Tracey/Loughborough University, UK, I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd (2007)

"You won't feel a thing: on panic, obsession, rituality and anesthesia (Gebundene Ausgabe)" Aneta Szylak, Kunstahaus Dresden/Wyspa Institute of Art, Verbrecher Verlag (2007)

"Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art", edited by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami (2006)

"Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers. Reflexionen zeitgenšssischer Kunst zur AktualitŠt des Erinnerns (Broschiert)", edited by Christiane Mennicke and Silke Wagler ,Verbrecher Verlag (2006)

"Monika Weiss: Five Rivers" edited by Suzan Hoeltzel, with essays by Gay Brett "Time Being;" James D. Campbell "Drawing on Syncope: The Performativity of Rapture in the Art of Monika Weiss;" and Aneta Szylak "Your trap shall be your shelter: the hidden desires and public appearances of Monika Weiss;" with poem by Meena Alexander "Aletheia", published by Lehman College Art Gallery, Les Editions Lallouz (2007)

"Anamnesis [Swiatlo Dnia]" Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research p. 79-87, Volume 4.2, Edited by Roy Ascott and Emanuel Pimente, Intellect Ltd, Bristol UK (2006)

"Between Presence and Performative Memory. Conversation with Aneta Szylak" Panoptikum-Audiovizualia-Film-Media-Sztuka, NR 4 (11), p. 210-216, Akademickie Centrum Kultury, Gdansk, Poland (2005)

"Monika Weiss: Vessels" edited by Nina Colosi, with essays by William Anastasi "Baptism of Water: Conversation on Ennoia," Pennina Barnett "Performing the Drawing" and George Quasha "Conceiving Body: Remarks on the side/Elytron" published by Chelsea Art Museum (2004)
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SELECTED REVIEWS

2010 The Prague Post
2009 Esse-Arts + Opinions, 66, Montreal
2009 Miami New Times/Art
2008 The Warsaw Voice
2007 Montreal Gazette
2007 ARTnews
2007 ArtNexus
2006 The Hartford Courant
2006 Sachisische Zeitung
2006 ARTnews
2006 La Revista Nueva, Buenos Aires
2005 The New York Times
2005 Afterimage
2005 Kultur/Potsdamer Neuste Nachrichteni
2005 Vie des Arts Montreal
2004 New York Arts Magazine
2000 Creative Loafing, Atlanta
1999 Sculpture
1999 Art Papers
1998 Artnet.com Reviews
1998 The Atlanta Journal/Constitution
1995 Louxembourger Word
1994 Alert: Galerie Agenda Amsterdam

Links

http://csw.art.pl/index.php?action=aktualnosci&s2=1&id=69&lang=eng

http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/vpadvance/artgallery/gallery
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http://www.monika-weiss.com/essays.php?pageNumber=16

http://www.esse.ca/en/compterendu/monika-weiss-marginalia

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/drg_podcasts/drg_podcasts_homepage.html

Contact

456 Broome Street
New York, NY 10013
USA
Email: gniewna@monika-weiss.com