Monika Sosnowska

Monika Sosnowska ( * 1972 in Ryki, Poland) is a Polish artist.

Life

Born in south-eastern Poland in 1972 Ryki artist studied from 1993 to 1998 at the Art Academy and this completed the Master of Arts. From 1999-2000 she went to postgraduate studies at the renowned Amsterdam Rijksakademie. After expiry of the time at the Academy in Amsterdam, she returned to Poland, and lives and works in Warsaw, where since the late 1980s, an active and vibrant, widely acclaimed art scene had emerged. In Amsterdam Sosnowska had her first exhibition in 2000. In 2004 she received the invitation in the Gallery The Modern Institute in Glasgow to build a large installation. Since then, their work is regularly shown in group and solo exhibitions in Europe and America.

Work

Caused a stir Sosnowska with the exhibition, was installed at the Venice Biennale in the Polish Pavilion in the summer of 2007. The white exhibition space of the pavilion was almost completely filled by a black iron formations have acted reminiscent of a deformed skeleton of the enormous forces. In 2004, she filled the spaces of the Serpentine Gallery in London with a walk -dimensional structures. At the London Primrose Hill she let the how ruffled by the wind "Wind House " build. With an edgy ocher- colored dragon Ennen it is represented in the Boros Collection. In Vienna Sigmund Freud Museum surprised with a distorted expressionist exhibit spatial structure "The Tired Room" from sloping walls sloping ground and sharp angles, which are reminiscent of an expressionist sculpture. An architecture of uncertainty. The artist has worked to make the outer space to the interior with space structures. Her works engage the architectural reality: disturbing deformations resolve confusion in the sensory and mental perception of the viewer out. The artist builds her models in the studio and then allows them to implement by craftsmen. After the exhibition, the space structures are degraded and mostly destroyed. Collectors can secure for reverse engineering of the rights.

Works in public collections

• Christian Boros Collection in Berlin

Solo and group exhibitions

• 2008 Schaulager Basel
• 2008 The big bang folds in Contemporary Art, Haus Lange, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
• 2008 So it is and different, Abbey Museum Mountain, Mönchengladbach
• 2007 Body Check 10 Triennial small sculpture, Fellbach
• 2007 Marcel Maeyer, Birgit Brenner, Monika Sosnowska, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
• 2007 1:1, The Polish Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice
• 2007 Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
• 2007 Loop, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
• 2007 STAY FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER, South London Gallery, London
• 2006 Ideal City - Invisible Cities, Zamoœæ, Poland; Potsdam, Germany
• 2006 The Exotic Journey End, Foksal Gallery Foundation in collaboration with kurimanzutto gallery, Warsaw
• 2006 START! , Grieder Contemporary, Zurich Küsnacht
• 2006 The Tired Room, in Centres of Attraction, Constitution Square 4, Warsaw
• 2006 Longing balloons are floating around the world, Green Light pavilion, Berlin
• 2006 Phantom, Charlotte Borg Museum, Copenhagen
• 2006 ARS 06 - Sense of the Real, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki
• 2006 Satellite of Love, Witte de With, Rotterdam
• 2006 Projects 83: Monika Sosnowska, MoMA, New York
• 2006 Intervention 41, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
• 2006 Galleria Arsena, Bialystok, Poland
• 2006 display, Galeria Kronika, Bytom, Poland; Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
• 2006 The Corridor (site - specific installation for Laboratorio 987 ), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon, MUSAC, León, Spain
• 2005 display, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
• 2005 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
• 2005 The Tired Room, The Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna
• 2005 OPA (with Kurimanzutto ), Guadalajara, Mexico
• 2005 We Disagree, Andrew Kreps and Wrong Gallery, New York
• 2005 Only Make Believe: Ways of Playing, Compton Verney Museum, Compton Verney, UK
• 2005 Il Teatro dell'Arte and Luna Park. Arte Fantastica, Villa Manin Centro d' Arte Contemporanea, Passariano, Italy
• 2005 Glasgow International, Sculpture Studios, Glasgow
• 2004 Ce qui reste, Galerie du TNB, Rennes
• 2004 Barraque D' Dull Odde, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy
• 2004 The Hague Sculpture, The Hague
• 2004 Distances? , Le Plateau, Paris
• 2004 PRYM, BWA Gallery, Zielona Góra, Poland
• 2004 Who if Not We ...? Cordially Invited, BAK, Utrecht
• 2004 The Modern Institute, Glasgow
• 2004 De Appel, Amsterdam
• 2004 Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp
• 2004 Serpentine Gallery, London
• 2004 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
• 2003 Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan
• 2003 Art Focus 4, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• 2003 Re: Location 6, Villa Arson, Nice; Centrum Sztuki Wspóczesnej, Gdansk, Poland
• 2003 Contemporary Art for All Children, Zacheta Gallery of Art, Warsaw 2003 Splendor Geometrik, Gallery Gisela Capitain, Cologne
• 2003 Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey 2003 Hidden in a Daylight, Hotel Pod Jeleniem, Cieszyn, Warsaw
• 2003 Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered: Spatial Emotion in Contemporary Art and Architecture, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich;
• 2003 Contemporary Art, Gdansk
• 2003 Contemporary Art for All Children, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
• 2003 S -AIR Show 2, Inter Cross Creative Center, Sapporo, Japan
• 2003 Views 2003 - German Bank Cultural Foundation Award, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
• 2003 Clandestine, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice
• 2003 Pale Fire, Gallery Nordenhake, Berlin
• 2003 Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women 's Art in Poland, Sculpture Center, New York; National Museum, Warsaw
• 2003 S -AIR Show 2, Inter Cross Creative Centre, Sapporo
• 2002 In Capital Letters, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
• 2002 Manifesta 4 - European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt
• 2002 display, Prague
• 2002 Project 1 Pause: Conception, 4th Bienalle Kwangju, Kwangju, Korea 2002 Fair, Royal College of Art, London
• 2002 Polacos - New Art of Poland, Capella de l' Antic Hospital de Santa Creu, Barcelona
• 2002 Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
• 2001 LiWarschauttle Alice, laboratory, Centrum Sztuki, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle,
• 2001 Oikos, Museum. Wyczókowskiego, Bydgoszcz, Poland
• 2001 Painters' Competition, Galeria Bielsko, Bielsko -Biala, Poland 2001 1st Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania
• 2001 Il ya toujour quelq'un qui veux quelque chose, Galerie du Jour, Paris 2001 Galeria Raster, Warsaw
• 2000 Painted Image Limited, Outline, Amsterdam
• 2000 The Double Room, Hans Brinker Hotel, Amsterdam
• 2000 Escape, Centre de Solai, Bamako, Mali
• 2000 Non-existent Room in a Part, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
• The 2000 Additional Illumination, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
• 1999 The Shift, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
• 1999 Double Reality, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam

• Pole
• Polish Artists
• Born in 1972
• Woman