Monika Sosnowska

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

Life

The artist, born in Ryki in south-east Poland in 1972, studied at the art academy from 1993 to 1998 and graduated with a Magister Artium. From 1999 to 2000 she went to postgraduate studies at the renowned Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. After completing her academy time in Amsterdam, she returned to Poland and lives and works in Warsaw, where an active and lively, widely respected art scene had developed since the late 1980s. Sosnowska had her first exhibition in Amsterdam in 2000. In 2004 she received the invitation to set up a large installation in the gallery The Modern Institute in Glasgow. Since then, her work has been regularly presented in group and solo exhibitions in Europe and America.

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Monika Sosnowska, Krata (grid), 2009

Sosnowska caused a sensation with the exhibition he had installed in the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in summer 2007 . The white exhibition space of the pavilion was almost completely filled by a black iron structure, which is reminiscent of a deformed framework on which enormous forces acted. In 2004 she filled the rooms of the Serpentine Gallery in London with a walk-in spatial structure. She had the "Wind House" built on London's Primrose Hill , as if tousled by the wind. It is represented in the Boros collection with an angular ocher-colored lindworm. In the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna , she surprised with an expressionistically distorted, white spatial structure “The Tired Room” made of sloping walls, sloping floors and acute angles, reminiscent of an expressionist sculpture. An architecture of uncertainty. The artist works with spatial structures that turn the outside space into the inside. Her works intervene in the architectural reality: unsettling deformations cause confusion in the sensory and mental perception of the viewer. The artist builds her models in the studio and then has them implemented by craftsmen. After the exhibition, the spatial structures are dismantled and mostly destroyed. Collectors can secure the rights to rebuild.

Working in public collections

• Collection Christian Boros Berlin

Solo and group exhibitions

2013 Good prospects. Zoom , group exhibition at MARTa Herford (Lippold Gallery) 2008 Schaulager Basel 2008 The big throw-folds in contemporary art, Haus Lange, Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld 2008 So it is and different, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 2007 Bodycheck, 10th 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, Küsnacht Zurich 2006 The Tired Room, in Centers of Attraction, Constitution Square 4, Warsaw 2006 Longing balloons are floating around the world, Green Light Pavilon, Berlin 2006 Phantom, Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen 2006 ARS 06 - Sense of the Real, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki 2006 Satellite of Love, Witte de With, Rotterdam 2006 At the Very Center of Attention, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw 2006 Projects 83: Monika Sosnowska, MoMA, New York 2006 Interventions 41, Sprengel Museum, Hanover 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 León, 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 , Province of Siena , Tuscany , Italy 2004 The Hague Sculptuur, The Hague 2004 Distances ?, Le Plateau, Paris 2004 PRYM, Gallery BWA, 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, Gdańsk, Poland 2003 Contemporary Art for all Children, Zachêta Gallery of Art, Warsaw 2003 Splendor Geometrik, Gallery Gisela Capitain, Cologne 2003 Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennale, 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 für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; 2003 Contemporary Art, Gdańsk 2003 Contemporary Art for All Children, Zachêta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 2003 S-AIR Show 2, Intercross Creative Center, Sapporo, Japan 2003 Views 2003 - Deutsche Bank Cultural Foundation Award, Zachêta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 2003 Clandestine, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice 2003 Pale Fire, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin 2003 Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women's Art in Poland, Sculpture Center, New York; National Museum, Warsaw 2003 S-AIR Show 2, Intercross Creative Center, Sapporo 2002 In Capital Letters, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel 2002 Manifesta 4 - European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt 2002 display, Prague 2002 Project 1st break: Conception, 4th Kwangju Biennale, 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, Laboratorium, Centrum Sztuki, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, 2001 Oikos, Museum im. Wyczókowskiego, Bydgoszcz, Poland 2001 Painters' Competition, Galeria Bielska, Bielsko-Biała , 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, Center de Solai, Bamako, Mali 2000 Non-existent Room in a Part, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam 2000 The Additional Illumination, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam 1999 The Shift, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam 1999 Double Reality, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam