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
/WeissbyGuyBrett.HTM
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
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