Anna Baumgart

Anna Baumgart (born 1966) is a Polish artist, best known for her large installation pieces and film. She is based in Warsaw.[1] While she covers many different issues in her works, "all of them share a preoccupation with repression."[2] Her works are in the permanent collections of several Polish museums.

Anna Baumgart
EducationAcademy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Known forSculpture, film
MovementModernism, Abstract art

Early life and education

Baumgart was born in Wroclaw in 1966.[1]

In 1994 Baumgart graduated from the department of sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.[3]

Career

Themes

Baumgart uses historiography to examine the past and reexamine it through art.[2] She has also explored how the media can shape the narrative of a historical moment by reducing it to a single iconography.[4] Szum Magazine writes that Baumgart likes to play with history and themes in culture.[5]

Baumgart also examines issues related to gender, such as how to redefine the "notion of 'hysteria.'"[6] She is interested in examining roles relating to motherhood and the system as they shape the mental development of a child.[7]

Work

In her work, Let Unrestrained Anger Be Eliminated (1996), Baumgart uses technology and the human body to explore the "resonance between maleness and femaleness."[8] she explores the roles of how a child's development is shaped and whether it is through the mother or society in Who's Talking? (1998).[7] Her work, I've Got It From My Mother (2002) uses myths and symbols in the photographic and sculptural works of the artist and her daughter.[9]

Baumgart uses found footage to create Real? (The Cranes Are Flying) (2001).[10] Baumgart's first staged film was Ecstatics, Hysterics and Other Saintly Ladies (2004) and premiered at the Zachęta National Gallery.[6] The film project, Fresh Cherries (2010) examines prostitution in concentration camps.[11]

In 2010, Baumgart collaborated with artist, Agnieszka Kurant, to create Project (...) which is an installation that spanned Chlodna street where there was once a footbridge linking Jewish communities to one another during World War II.[12]

  • Mother (1999),
  • Condoms, Money, Lady - No problem! (Prezerwatywy, pieniądze, money, lady - no problem, 1999)

Major exhibitions
  • Media Art Biennale in 1997 and 1999, At The Time of Writing
  • Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski in Warsaw, 1998
  • Public Relations, CCA Łaźnia in Gdańsk, 1999

Public collections

References

Citations
  1. "Anna Baumgart". Culture.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2017-09-02.
  2. "Anna Baumgart and Her Historiography Art". Contemporary Lynx. 2014-07-30. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
  3. "Anna Baumgart". Polish Docs. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
  4. "Anna Baumgart". Museum On The Seam. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
  5. ""Zaśpiewajcie, niewolnicy" Anny Baumgart w Bunkrze Sztuki". Szum Magazine (in Polish). 28 July 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  6. "Anna Baumgart - Ecstatics, Hysterics and Other Saintly Ladies - Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw". Artmuseum.pl. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
  7. Grigar 2007, p. 97.
  8. Sliwinska, Basia (2016-06-29). The Female Body in the Looking-Glass: Contemporary Art, Aesthetics and Genderland. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781786720085.
  9. Korolczuk, Elzbieta (2017-07-05). "'I've Got It From My Mother': Exploring the Figure of the Mother in Contemporary Polish Art". In Buller, RachelEpp (ed.). Reconciling Art and Mothering. Routledge. ISBN 9781351552004.
  10. "Anna Baumgart - Real? (The Cranes Are Flying) - Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw". Artmuseum.pl. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
  11. "Anna Baumgart - Fresh Cherries - Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw". Artmuseum.pl. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
  12. Villarreal, Ignacio (7 January 2010). "Spatial Installation by Anna Baumgart and Agnieszka Kurant in Warsaw". Art Daily. Retrieved 2017-09-02.

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