Joanna Rajkowska

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Joanna Rajkowska (born October 14, 1968 in Bydgoszcz , Poland ) is a Polish visual artist .

Life

From 1987 to 1992 Joanna Rajkowska studied art history at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and between 1988 and 1993 painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow . Supervised by Jerzy Nowosielski , she graduated with honors. In 1994 she spent a studio semester program at the State University of New York . She lives and works in Warsaw, London and Berlin.

Joanna Rajkowska is a member of the editorial board of Krytyka Polityczna magazine .

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The palm tree in February 2008
Pasaż Róży , facade design in ulica Piotrkowska 3 in Łódź

Rajkowska works with different media. She creates sculptures, drawings on paper, photographs, film installations and objects. She is known v. a. for their actions as well as art in public space .

A well-known work is the Artificial Palm in Warsaw , initiated by the artist as an installation in Warsaw in 2002 , it can still be seen there today and is considered a symbol of the city.

Her work has already been presented several times in the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw . In the catalog for the exhibition Freedom / Finally. Polish art after 1989 in the State Art Gallery Baden-Baden in 2000 it says: “Joanna Rajkowska is one of the most interesting artists who appeared in Polish art in the second half of the 1990s. It is inherent in her work that she uses her personal perspective, her own image, her person and her biography as the material of her work. […] Rajkowska's works often expand into multimedia sculptural installations […] The project 'Fulfillment Guaranteed' […] is her ironic and provocative commentary on the world of mass consumption and the place that the individual occupies in this world At the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art 2012 in Berlin, she created her film installations Born in Berlin and Final Fantasies , in which she deals with the “coming together of life and death, a new beginning and the painful past”.

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Web links

Commons : Joanna Rajkowska  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriele Lesser, Artistic Landmark of Warsaw. Die Palme am Königsweg , taz from June 28, 2012, accessed on June 8, 2017
  2. ↑ Joanna Rajkowska in the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, retrieved on June 8, 2017
  3. ↑ Stach Szablowski, text in the exhibition catalog in freedom / finite. Polish art after 1989 , Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2000, quoted in: Atelier No. 121, 3/2002 May / June / July, Kunsthaus Essen
  4. ↑ Joanna Rajkowska. Film installation 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art , website of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Rajkowska, Joanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bydgoszcz , Poland