Born in Warsaw, Poland, 1963. Lives and works in Berlin and Warsaw.
Education
1988-1993 Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw, PL: Sculpture Department under supervision of Prof. Grzegorz Kowalski
1998 Post-graduate studies at the New Media workshop at the Hochschule für Graphik and Buchkunst in Leipzig, DE: under the direction of Prof. Helmut Mark
Selected solo exhibitions
2024 Being somebody who you are (not), House of Art, Ostrava, CZ
2023 Fressen, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE.
2022 Looking for Jesus, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL.
2021 Model World, Institute of Industrial Design, W. Telakowska hall, Warsaw, PL.
2021 FRESSEN, Performance, Teatr Powszechny Warsaw, PL.
2021 Letnia Opowieść, Bałtyk, Poznań, PL.
2021 Katarzyna Kozyra. Świat Wzorcowy, Instytut Wzornictwa Przemysłowego, Warsaw, PL.
2019 Bipeds and Quadrupeds, Galeria Postmasters, New York, US.
2018 A Dream of Linnaeus Daughter, Galeria ŻAK | BRANICKA, Berlin, DE.
2017 Looking for Jesus. Interviews from the Archive, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, DE.
2016 All that Beauty, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, FR.
2016 Katarzyna Kozyra Solo Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, CN.
2014 Summertale, Turku Art Museum, Turku, FL.
2014 Miłość własna, Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot, PL.
2013 Looking for Jesus, ŻAK I BRANICKA, Berlin, DE.
2012 Katarzyna Kozyra, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE, curated by Timothy Persons and Estelle af Malmborg.
2012 Master of Puppets. Katarzyna Kozyra & The Midget Gallery, Schmela Haus, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE.
2012 Transgression. Katarzyna Kozyra. Contemporary Polish Art, MMK Arnhem, NL.
2011 Katarzyna Kozyra, National Museum in Krakow, PL.
2010 Casting!, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL.
2009 Faces, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, PL.
2008 Summertale,ŻAK | BRANICKA Gallery, Berlin, DE.
2008 Punishment and Crime / Cheerleader, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, DE.
2008 1st Midget Biennale, From the Caves to Art Basel and e-flux. The Third Way for Communism, Berlin, DE.
2008 In Art Dreams Come True, Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, DE.
2007 The Rite of Spring, Le Merlan Scene National, Marseille, FR.
2007 In Art Dreams Come True, BWA Wrocław; House of Art, Brno; Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, SK.
2007 Faces, Centre National de la Danse, Paris, FR.
2006 The Midget Gallery, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK.
2006 In Art Dreams Come True, DAAD, Berlin, DE.
2005 Faces, Hebbel Theater, Berlin, DE.; Centre National de la Danse, Paris, FR. (2006)
2005 Punishment and Crime, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL.
2004 Non so piu cosa son, cosa faccio... (I Do Not Know Who I Am, What I Do...), Postmasters Gallery, New York, US.
2003 The Rite of Spring, Haus der Kunst, Spielart Festival, Munich, DE.
2003 Bathhouses, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, US.
2003 Men's Bathhouse, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, PL.
2002 Lords of the Dance, Museo Nacional Centro del Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES.
2002 The Rite of Spring, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL.
2001 The Rite of Spring, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, US; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK.
2001 Dance Lesson, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, AT.
1999 Men's Bathhouse, Polish Pavilion, 48th International Biennal of Visual Art, Venice, IT.
1999 Bathhouse, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL.; Centre of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, LT.; Womens' Museum Arhus, DK.
1999 Works 1993-1999, Center for Contemporary Art "Laznia", Gdansk, PL.
1999 Bathhouse, Center of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, LT.; Womens’ Museum Aarhus, DK.; CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL.
1998 Bathhouse, Polish Institute, Leipzig, DE.
1996 Olympia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL.
Selected group exhibitions
2024 Secondary Archive: Women Artists in War, Galaria Labirynt, PL
2024 Dangerous Love, Museum Montanelli, CZ
2023 The Veneer of Happiness, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE.
2023 Paszporty POLITYKI – 30 lat w sztuce, State Gallery of Art Sopot, Sopot, PL.
2021 Sculpture in Search of a Place, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL.
2020 Anima, 7th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, C-Lab, Taipei, TW.
2020 Bodies on Stage, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Rijeka, HR.
2020 Body. Gaze. Power. A Cultural History of the Bath, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden Baden, DE.
2019 Trzy plagi, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL.
2019 Historie o starości, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, PL.
2019 Kto się nie boi awangardy!, Fundacja Profile, PL.
2019 Stany skupienia, Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław, PL.
2019 11/944, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL.
2018 Salm Modern #1: Dimensions of Dialogue, Salm Palace, National Gallery, Prague, CZ.
2017 Sztuka w sztuce, MOCAK, Kraków, PL.
2017 J’ai 10 ans, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, 3e, Paris, FR.
2016 Bedzie lepiej i coraz lepiej?, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, PL.
2016 Nasze ciało narodowe, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, PL.
2016 When we become us, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, CN.
2016 Why the Performance?, Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, CN.
2016 Frömmigkeit und Nachtgeschichte · Naive Kunst aus Polen im Spiegel der Moderne, Museen der Stadt Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, DE.
2015 BALAGAN!!! Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places, MOMENTUM, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE.
2015 The Problem of God, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE.
2015 War and Peace, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL.
2015 Let’s Dance, Art Stations Foundation, Poznań, PL.
2015 Homosexualität_en, Deutsches Historisches Museum and Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE.
2015 Adam and Eve – The Loss of Innocence, Brandts Museum of Art & Visual Culture, Brandts, DK.
2015 Gender in Art, MOCAK, Krakow, PL.
2015 Truth Beauty Goodness, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL.
2015 Fireflies in the night, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens, GR.
2015 Loop Barcelona Fair/Festival, Hotel Catalonia Ramblas I c. Pelai 28, Barcelona, ES.
2014 THE ORNAMENT OF FRATERNITY, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin, DE.
2014 INSERT 2014, The Sharp Edge of the Global Contemporary, New Delhi, IN.
2014 Everybody is Nobody for Somebody, Santander Foundation, Madrid, ES.
2013 Loud! – Works by the Most Important Representatives of Video Art, BWA Katowice, PL.
2013 Looking for Jesus. Centre of Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, PL.
2013 Naked Man at Ludwig Museum, Budapest, HU.
2013 The Day is not enough. A few autobiographical stories, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, PL
2013 BRITISH BRITISH POLISH POLISH: Art from Europe’s Edges in the Long ‘90s and Today, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL.
2013 Subjects of Gender and Desire, BWA art gallery, Olsztyn, PL.
2012 Naked Man at Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, AT; Leopold Musem, Vienna, AT
2012 It isn’t important, it’s only art..., Galeria Sztuki Arsenał, Białystok, PL.
2012 Sport in Art, MOCAK, Krakow, PL.
2012 Thank you for the Music: How Music Moves, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, FI.
2012 Kopenhagen Art Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK.
2011 POLISH!, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE.
2011 Venice Biennale, Signum Foundation, Palazzo Donà, Venice, IT.
2011 Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, CH.
2011 P A R T I CO L A R E. Paths of democracy, 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Signum Foundation, Palazzo Donà, Venice, IT.
2010 Die kleine Improvisation: Polnische Kunst Heute (The Small Improvisation: Polish Art Today), Stadtgalerie Kiel, DE.
2010 17th Biennale of Sydney, AU.
2010 7th Busan Biennale, KR.
2009 Gender Check, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, AT.; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL.
2009 XVI. Rohkunstbau, Potsdam, DE.
2009 Inwazja dźwięku (Invasion Sound), Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL.
2009 Performing the East, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, AT.
2009 Invisible Borders, The Europe XXL event in the Tri Postal, Lille, FR.
2009 Neue Meister (New Masters), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, DE.
2009 Take a Look at Me Now, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich, GB.
2008 Art Comes Before Gold, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, PL.
2008 Trunk, Färgfabriken – Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Stockholm, SE.
2008 Under The Skin: New Video From Poland, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, US.
2008 All That Cinema, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, HU.
2007 The Rite Of Spring / Voci Dalla Luna: Omaggio A Federico Fellini
2007 E-Flux Video Rental, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, F.; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA, US.
2007 2 Ou 3 Choses Que J'Ignore D' Elles (Two or Three Things of Her that I Ignore), FRAC – Lorraine, Metz, FR.
2007 Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, US.
2006 Gender Bender, Festival Internazionale, Bologna, IT.
2007 Video Zone, Video Art Biennial, CCA, Tel Aviv, IL; Lubuski Film Festival, Łagów, PL.
2007 The Impossible Theatre, Barbican Art Center, London, UK.
2006 The Impossible Theatre, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL.
2005 Egocentric, Immoral, Outmoded, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL.
2005 About Beauty, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE.
2005 The Impossible Theatre, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
2004 Instant Europe, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Passariano, IT.
2004 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US.
2004 Channel Zero, Netherlands Media Art Institute / Montevideo TBA, Amsterdam, NL.
2004 Videodreams: Between The Cimenathic and The Theatrical, Kunsthaus Graz, AT.
2004 Anxiety of Influence: Bachelors, Brides & a Family Romance, Stadtgalerie Bern, CH.
2004 Under Red and White Flag. New Art from Poland, Eesti Museum, Tallin, EE; Center of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, LT; State Center of Contemporary Art, Moskow, RU.
2003 Nude! Female Views: Departure to Modernism, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, DE.
2003 Architectures of Gender, Sculpture Space, New York, US.
2003 Deviations, Galerie K&K, Berlin, DE.; Prove d'Ascolto, Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea, Trento, IT.
2002 Yesterday Was Dramatic ... But Today is OK! Spazio Consolo, Milan, IT.; Media_city Seoul, KR.
2002 25th Bienal de São Paulo, BR.
2001 Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, AT.
2001 International Collection, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL.
2001 The Body of Art, 1st Valencia Biennial, Valencia, ES.
2001 Masquerades, Center for Contemporary Art, Poznań; Art Basel, Basel, CH.
2001 Arteast 2000+, Orangerie Congress, Innsbruck, AT.
2000 L'Autre moitié de l'Europe (Europe’s Other Half), Galerie Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR.
2000 After the wall, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE.
2000 Zeitwenden (Turning Points), Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, AT.
2000 Body and the East, Exit Art, New York, US.
2000 Beware of Exiting your Dreams: You may Find Yourself in Somebody Else’s..., Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL.
1999 Zeitwenden – The Outlook, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE.
1999 La Casa, il Corpo, il Cuore, (The House, the Body, the Heart), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, AT.
1999 After the Wall: Art and Culture in Post-Communist Europe, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE.
1997 Zones of Disturbance, Marieninstitut, Graz, AT.
1996 Displacement / This Placement, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE.
Awards
2011 Awards of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, PL
1997 Passport of Polityka, Warsaw, PL
Selected screenings
2015 Fireflies in the Night, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens, GR.
2014 Looking for Jesus, Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, PL.
Collections
Venice Biennale, São Paulo Biennale, Sidney Biennale, Busan Biennale, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen (Düsseldorf), Kulturhuset (Stockholm), Museum Voor Moderne Kunst (Arnhem), Carnegie International (Pittsburg), Barbican Art Center (London), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Vienna), Brooklyn Museum (New York), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki), CCA (Tel-Aviv), Three Shadows Photography Art Center (Beijing)