Performance art is a radical, reliably transparent and casual means of communication. The last which remains functional when all other failed. | Angelika Fojtuch
Photo: Alina Żemojdzin
Angelika Fojtuch
Born in 1978, lives and works in Gdynia, Poland and Düsseldorf, Germany
Education
2005 Diploma, Department of Sculpture and Intermedia, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk
1998 / 2005 A.M. study, Academies of Fine Arts: Toruń, Kraków, Gdańsk, Poznań
Work, Projects
2017-2019 GATE art zone – Artspace in Düsseldorf – originator & curator
2013-2016 PhD candidate at the University of Arts, Poznań
2011-2013 teaching assistant at Intermedia Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk
2006-2008 PORT PERFORMANCE – International Forum for Performance Art – originator & tutor
Membership
2015 member of Internationale Künstler Gremium (IKG)
Award
2003 Gdansk City Award for Young Artists
Scholarships
2018 Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, GATE art zone, Art Project Grant
2017 Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, GATE art zone, Art Project Grant
2016 Interdisciplinary research project of PhD candidates of UAP and UAM in Albania
2015 The Crossed Residences programme of the City of Strasbourg, Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Apollonia European Art Exchanges
2013 International Scholarship of the City of Mönchengladbach and Wilberz-Stiftung
2012 Gdynia City, Independence.Do, Santo Domingo, Travel Grant
2012 IAM, Performance at Goodman Arts Center in Singapore, Travel Grant
2010 IAM, Deformes in Santiago de Chile, Travel Grant
2009 IAM, Biennale in Thessaloniki, Travel Grant
2009 IAM, Navinki in Minsk, Travel Grant
2008 IAM, OPEN in Beijing, Travel Grant
2008 IAM, NADA Art Fair in Miami, Travel Grant
2007 IAM, The Polish Year in Israel, Herzl Mirage-Artist in Residence in Tel Aviv
2004 GARBa Young Artists Residence in Basilicata
2004 The Culture Foundation of Poland, Art Project Grant
2003 Gdynia City Scholarship
2000 Fondazione Romualdo del Bianco, Artist in Residence in Florence
Public collections
Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
re.act.feminism – a performing archive, Berlin
Josef und Hilde Wilberz-Stiftung, Mönchengladbach
City of Mönchengladbach, Museum Abteiberg
Performances in events and locations (selection)
Quadriennale 2014, Düsseldorf
Ruptures & Convergences, Kuad Gallery Istanbul
Live Action 9, Göteborgs Konsthall Gothenburg
Future of Imagination‘8, Goodman Arts Center Singapore
For You, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz
NIPAF’11, Tokyo & Osaka
7a11d, Fado Center Toronto
OPEN, 798 Art Zone Beijing
Art Fairs
NADA Art Fair in Miami, Gallery lokal_30
SUPERMARKET Art Fair in Stockholm, Gallery lokal_30
VIENNAFAIR in Vienna, Gallery lokal_30