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BIOGRAPHY
Agnieszka Karasch (b. 1975) is a visual and performance artist as well a teacher. She creates images in which means of expression and composition derive from the body's geometry. Existing as independent works of art, they also serve as an arena for visual performances, where notions of control, initiative and conflict are experienced through post-concensual collaboration with Another. Inspired by somatic studies, physical theatre, actor’s training, kinaesthetic exercises and selected pedagogies of the 70-ies and 80-ies, she consciously directs own aesthetic thinking towards collaborative teaching solutions, thus making own art and pedagogy inform one another. Her current works are a part of an artistic research in art education at Aalto University / School of Arts, Architecture and Design in Helsinki, Finland. Agnieszka is also a founder at Designo - Foundation for Visual Arts and a fouding member of Society for Artistic Research in Germany. For almost 20 years now, alongside her artistic carreer she has inspired and tought art to people of various ages.
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PERFORMANCES
2019 DYSHOMEOSTASIS
visual performance (invited artist: Sophia Hörmann)
PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL: UNSELECT, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, BERLIN, GER
2019 BINDING / SCATTERING / GATHERING
visual performance (invited artist: Laura Sterna)
RIGA PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL: STARPTELPA, H2O 6 kvartāls, RIGA, LV
2017 EXTENSIONS
visual performance (invited artist: J. Peerna)
ITINERANT FESTIVAL, The Bronx Museum of Arts, NYC
2016 SYNCHRONICITY
visual performance (invited artist: O. Piechnik)
PERFORMANCE GARTEN 4, Moltkereiwerkstatt, COLOGNE, GER
2016 ROTATIONS_BINDING_1
visual performance (invited artist: R. Samocha)
Draw to Perform Symposium, Crows Nest Gallery, LONDON, UK
2016 ROTATIONS_BINDING_2
visual performance (invited artist: R. Samocha)
Draw to Perform Symposium, Crows Nest Gallery, LONDON, UK
2015 HOLD ON TO LET GO
a study of necessary tension for optimal release with Baris Mihci
Warsaw Dance Studio, WARSAW, PL
2015 COMPOSITION AS A DRAMATURGY TOOL
Laboratory actions with W. Ziemilski
Center in Movement, WARSAW, PL
2015 LABOLAB
body actions with M. Getman
Format Zero, WARSAW, PL
2014 BODY BEHAVIOUR IN EXTREME SITUATIONS
performative actions with Efrat Stempler
Center in Movement, WARSAW, PL
2000 POTENTIALITY
Center for Contemporary Sculpture, ORONSKO, PL
1999 RESURRECTION
The Academy of Fine Arts, WARSAW, PL
1999 1,5 MIRROR
Gallery for Contemporary Art, SOPOT, PL
1998 PERFORMANCE ON A BED
Institute of Pathology, NUREMBERG, GER
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DRAWINGS
2015 – current
BODY ACTIONS - a cycle of big format drawings (2x2 m – 4x4 m).The works are a inspired by kinaesthetic exercises, physical theatre and mutuality training. They are a part of research conducted at Aalto University of Arts, Architecture and Design in Helsinki. The images imply a potential intervention of Another during class.
1997 – current
VISITS - collection of drawings presents faces of German and Polish people born between 1920 - 30. Portrayed persons are often interviewed. All images are made during actual visits at preselected retirement houses of Poland and Germany. Names and stories of the individuals - not revealed.
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MAJOR EDUCTIONAL PROJECTS BY DESIGNO – FOUNDATION FOR VISUAL ARTS (2002 - 2019)
2019 STRATEGIES OF CONTROL IN A COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE – A VISUAL PRACTICE.
Riga Performance Festival STARPTELPA, H2O 6 Kvartals, Riga, Latvia
Project financed by The Polish Adam Mickiewicz Institute
2017 EXPRESSIVENESS OF BODIES IN PERFORMATIVE DRAWING
Institut fuer Kunst und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt University, BERLIN
Project financed by The Polish Adam Mickiewicz Institute
2013 Shadow Theater Workshop
in cooperation with the National Puppet Theater , Warsaw, PL
2012 Annual Exhibition of Students, Culture Center Wilanow, Warsaw, PL
2012 Art Camp-Children and Youth, Academy of Fine Arts’ Training Center, Dluzew, PL
2012 Experimental Photography Workshop, Warsaw, PL
2011 Film Animation Project, Warsaw, PL
2011 Annual Exhibition of Students, Culture Center Wilanow, Warsaw, PL
2011 Art Camp-Children and Youth, Center for Contemporary Sculpture in Oronsko, PL
2011 Annual Exhibition of Senior Students, Culture Center Wilanow, Warsaw, PL
2011 Drawing Workshop, The British School, Warsaw, PL
2010 Annual Exhibition of Students, Paper Factory Konstans, Warsaw, PL
2010 Art Camp-Children and Youth, Lucznica Academy Association, Lucznica, PL
2009 Annual Exhibition of Students, Culture Center Wilanow, Warsaw, PL
2009 Art Camp-Adults, Izby, PL
2009 Art Camp-Adults, Center for Contemporary Sculpture, Oronsko, PL
2008 Annual Exhibition of Students, Warsaw, PL
2006 Art Camp-Adults, Ropki, PL
EDUCATION
2019 AALTO UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ART, DESIGN
AND ARCHITECTURE, HELSINKI, FIN
Practice – based research: “Teaching through conflict”
2011 POSTGRADUATE STUDIES IN ART EDUCATION
THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, WARSAW, PL
2002 GRAPHIC ART AND DESIGN (MFA)
THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, WARSAW, PL
1998 DRAWING/ PAINTING
AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KUENSTE, NUREMBERG, GER
TRAININGS AND COURSES
2017 GROTOWSKI. A NEW PRACTICE / Actor’s physical training
2016 ART WRITING WORKSHOP by Daily Serving-
International Forum for Contemporary Art
2016 NIDA DOCTORAL SCHOOL PROGRAM
Co-Action: Artists’ placements in Non-Arts Organizations
2015 LABAN MOVEMENT ANALYSIS AND BARTENIEFF
FUNDAMENTALS IN DEVELOPMENTAL WORK
2015 BODY MEMORY LABORATORY
2015 THE COURSE OF PRACTICAL RHETHORIC
2014 LABAN AND FORSYTHE LABORATORY
WORK
2014 -2108 GERMAN SCHOOL OF W. BRANDT IN WARSAW
Deutsch - Polnische Begegnungsschule Willy-Brandt-Schule
2007 – 2013 DESIGNO – FOUNDATION FOR VISUAL ARTS
(Founder and Manager)
2012 – 2013 ACADEMY OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
INSTITUTE FOR ART EDUCATION IN WARSAW
2004 – 2006 COLLEGE FOR DRAWING AND ILLUSTRATION
WARSAW
PUBLICATIONS
2015 COGNITION, MUTUALITY AND PERFORMATIVE DRAWING
Kopaed Verlag, Munich and Mehlhorn Stiftung, Leipzig, GER
MEMBERSHIPS
THE SOCIETY OF ARTISTIC RESEARCH IN GERMANY, founding member
(Gesselschaft fuer Kuenstlerische Forschung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland)