ZUZANNA JANIN

born: 1964, Warsaw
lives: Warsaw
education: Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw

selected solo exhibitions:

2012 Zuzanna Janin at Tam, gdzie się wszystko zaczyna
discussion at Krolikarnia / National Museum Warszawa
at Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin
solo show at Monomentum, Berlin
THE WAY: Majka from the Movie
filmoteka
at MSN / MoMA, Warszawa
Local_30 at Viennafair
"Awakening - the City of Świecie – New Perspectives" KW Institute for Contemporary Art
"Sport w Sztuce / Sport in Art", MOCAK Krakow
"SCONTRUM", Królikarnia, Museum of Sculpture / National Museum Warszawa
"Drżące Ciała / Life Flesh", Galeria Starmach Krakow

2011 ALL THAT MUSIC!, CSW / CCA, Łaźnia, Gdańsk

2010 “Hard to Sell, Good to Have”, Palais Sturany, Vienna
Obviously Cases of Madness Do Happen in Asylous This Isolated, Federico Bianchi Contemporary Art, Milano
ALL THAT MUSIC!, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, (cat.) (curator Michal Suchora)

2009 ALL THAT MUSIC!, Galeria Miejska / City Gallery Arsenał, Poznań, (cat.) (curator Zofia Starikiewicz)

2008 Fortuneteller (Fish&Bird), (performance) lokal_30, Warszawa in cooperation with Bac!festiwal, Barcelona
The Time of Cruel Miracles Is Not Over, Federico Bianchi Gallery, Gorgonzola/Milano
Pasygraphy. Democratic Sculpture / Pasygrafia. Rzeźba Demokratyczna, REDakcja Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa (curator
Igor Stokfiszewski / Artur Żmijewski)

2007 TUŻ PRZED. Muzeum Idealne / JUST BEFORE. Ideal Muzeum, Muzeum Sztuki / Art Museum, Łódź (curator Jarosław Suchan); Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej / Warsaw MOMA, Warszawa, (curator Katarzyna Redzisz / Tomasz Fudala)
studio_telewiZyJne, ART TALK_SHOW, (action performative), Galeria Entropia, Wrocław; (curator Mariusz Jodko), Muzeum
Sztuki, Lódź

2006 studio_telewiZyJne, ART TALK_SHOW, (action performative), lokal_30 Warszawa

2005 Intervention (Corners & Dreams), Lehnin Kloster, Lehnin
I’ve Seen My Death, festiwal traskOFF, Racibórz

2004 ILoveYouToo, Centre d’ Art Contemporain, Confluence, Paris
My Way, Galeria Sztuki PATIO, Łódź
televiZJon_studio, Galeria ZOR / Smolna, Warszawa
I’ve Seen My Death, Galeria Manhattan, Łódź; (curator Krystyna Potocka), Galeria Entropia, Wrocław; (curator Mariusz
Jodko), Galeria Sektor/ GCK, Katowice; (curator Roman Lewandowski), Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków; (curator Janek
Sowa), Galeria Szara, Cieszyn (curator Joanna Wowrzeczka)

2003 Zuzanna Janin I’ve Seen My Death, (under the name Zuzanna JaninA), Galeria Foksal, Warszawa artist studio Foksal 17b (later lokal_30), (curatorial supervision Stach Szabłowski, Katarzyna Kryszak)
Interviews and Quotations, Galeria ZOR, Warszawa artist studio Foksal 17b (later lokal_30)

2002 ILoveYouToo, BWA, Jelenia Góra, Instytut Polski, Paris, (Mois de la photo 2002), (cat.) (curator Klaudia Podsiadło)

2001 My Memory, Bałtycka Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Słupsk (curator Roman Lewandowski)
ILoveYouToo, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki / Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa; (curator Karolina
Lewandowska, Julia Leopold), Galeria Kronika, Bytom, (curator Roman Lewandowski), Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (cat.)
(curator Adam Budak)

2000 Homefuckingiskillingprostitution, A.v. Scholz Galerie, Berlin

1999 Eat Me, Galeria Starmach, Kraków (curator Jaroslaw Suchan)
What a Hell, What a Heaven, cont’t, CSW / CCA, Zamek Ujazdowski / Ujazdowski Castel, Warszawa, (cat.) (curator Marek
Gozdziewski)
UNTITLED, Synagoga, Center for Contemporary Art, Trnava (curator Jana Slodova)
Love Me, Galeria Priestor / Space for Contemporary Art, Bratislava, (curator Juraj Carny)

1998 Matricide (Savage Me), Galeria Manhattan, Łódź (cat.) (curator Krystyna Potocka)
What a Hell, What a Heaven, Galeria Foksal, Warszawa, (cat.) (curator Joanna Mytkowska)
1997 Touch Me, A.v.Scholz Galerie, Berlin

1995 UNTITLED, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (cat.) (curator Sylvia Eilbmayr, Adam Szymczyk)

Area, Galeria Foksal, Warszawa (cat.) (curator Andrzej Przywara, Wiesław Borowski)

1991 Works, Galeria Wschodnia, Łódź (poster) (kurator Adam Klimczak, Jerzy Grzegorski)

1990 Works, Galeria Dziekanka, Warszawa (cat.)

selected group exhibitions:

2013 BUILDING UTOPIA AND ABSTRACTION at Federico Bianchi Gallery
         I HAVE A DREAM, Center of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
         Twisted Entitied at Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
         Lokal_30, Warsaw
         Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
         MSN / MoMA, Warszawa

2012  Diolog IV Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin Sport in Art 
group show at MOCAK, Kraków
SKONTRUM - Evolution 
group show at Królikarnia / National Museum, Warszawa
Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok 
It isn't Important - it's Only Art
Macierzynstwo
group show at Warsztaty Kultury, Lublin
Cultural Luggage
group show at National Gallery, Kiev

2011 Particolare Signum Foundation, Palazzo Dona, Venice
L'art est un sport de combat, curated by Jean-Marc Huitorel Musee de Beaux Arts, Calais
The Last Analog Revolution in New Gallery Romanian Pavilion, Venice

2010 Majka from the Movie, curated by Sandro Droschl, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
Hard To Sell, Good To Have, Palais Sturany, Vienna
FOKUS ŁÓDŹ BIENNALE, Łódź (curator Ryszard Waśko)
Art in the City, exhibition of the projects shortlisted for the prize of art in public space, Brussels
no.w.here film screening, no.w.here, London (curator Maxa Zoller, Florian Wüst)
Phones Languague, no.w.here, London (curator Maxa Zoller, Florian Wüst)

2009 Collection, Show 4, Museum Gornośląskie / Museum Upper Silesian, Bytom (curator Marek Meschnik)
Streets and Other Interiors, lokal_30_warszawa_london, London (curator Agnieszka Rayzacher)
Forgotten Death, Center for Contemporay Art, Celije (curator Irena Cercnik)
Próżna Street 2009, Jewish Culture Festival, Warszawa (curator Krystyna Piotrowska)
Signs of Time Collection, Kolekcja Lubelskiego Towarzystwa Zachęty, Lublin (curatorPiotr Majewski)
We Would Like You To Know That We Are Not Them, Royal Scottish Academy Gallery, Edinburg (curator Colin R Greenslade, Agnieszka Rayzacher)
CAMEO, Center For Contemporary Art, Warszawa (curator Lukasz Ronduda)
Warsaw Calling / MAK NITE, MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Wien (curator Agnieszka
Rayzacher)
Collection Edition 5, CSW / CCA, Ujazdowski Castel, Warszawa (curator Wojciech Krukowski)
New Acquisitions – Rarely Seen Works, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Power Games. History of Violence, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa (curator Tami Katz-Friemann)
Mulheres em Luna, CAIXA Cultural Brasilia, Galeria Vitrine, Brasilia (curator Anda Rottenberg)
Wasser und Wein – Der Katholische Faktor in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Städtischen Galerie Regensburg (curator Maciej Czapski)
Love. City. Catastrophe, Nelly Amman / N&N Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv (curator Nataly Amman)
HEARTQUAKE, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (curator Raphie Etgar)

2008 RÈVEILLE TOI, Bac!festival, CCCB, Barcelona
Fortuneteller, (performance) lokal_30 performance programme, NADA Miami (curator Agnieszka Rayzacher)
Dance with the Death, tear NOWY, Warszawa
Lust-Looking-Terror, Kamienica Złota/Zgoda, Warszawa (curator Agnieszka Zechowska)
FRICTION AND CONFLICT. Cultural Exchanges and Influences in North Eastern Europe, Konstmuseum, Kalmar/SE (curator Martin Schibli)
Teleportation and Other Hybrids, lokal_30 at Galerie U7, Frankfurt/M (curated by lokal_30 team)
DECA DANCE, National Museum, Brasilia, Brazil (curator Anda Rottenberg, Magda Materna)
Possible. Impossible, Komuna Otwock, Lubelska Warszawa
nomadSPACE, wandering gallery, Warszawa, Bratislava, Banska Stiavnica, Trencin, Trencianske Teplice, Liubliana (curator Ivana Madariová Juraj Carny)
Sammlung Hoffmann Ausstellung 2007-2008 / Collection Show 2007-2008, Hoffmann Sammlung, Berlin (curator Erika Hoffmann)
HEARTQUAKE, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (curator Raphie Etgar)
Skin & Bones, Nadbałtyckie Centrum Kultury / Baltic Culture Center, Slupsk (curator Agnieszka Rayzacher)

2007 Lodgers, lokal_30, Warszawa (curator Agnieszka Rayzacher)
Loops of Time, kamienica przy ul. Piotrkowskiej 96, Łódź, (curator Jozef Robakowski)
Ponowoczesność i życie wieczne, Galeria Miejska / City Gallery, Arsenał, Poznań (curator Zofia Starikiewicz)
Six Feet Under, Stiftung Deutche Higiene Museum, Dresden (curated Bernhard Fibischer)
Odczarowanie, BWA, Zielona Gora (curatorial study show)
Polonia Carioca; Video Center, Rio de Janeiro (curator Anda Rottenberg, cur. assistent Katarzyna Redzisz)
Sammlung Hoffmann Ausstellung 2007-2008 / Collection Show 2007-2008, Hoffmann Sammlung, Berlin (curator Erika
Hoffmann)
Asteizm w Polsce. Dowcip i władza rządzenia, CSW / CCA, Ujazdowski Castel, Warszawa (Kazimierz Piotrowski)
Capricci, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxemburg (curator Enrico Lunghi)
In Between, Piekary Gallery, Poznan (curator Cezary Pieczyński)
Trap or Shelter, lokal_30 at LISTE’07, Basel
Thread, Koroska Galeria, Slovenj Gradec (curator Maja Skerbot)
Demos Cratos, Galeria BWA, Bielsko Biala (curator Krzysztof Zwirblis)
Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum, Bern (curator Bernhard Fibischer)
Skin & Bones, XX1 Gallery, Warszawa (curator Agnieszka Rayzacher)
Ordinary Terror, Galeria Entropia Wroclaw

2006 You Cannot Come Closer, Cell Project, London (curator Agnieszka Rayzacher)
Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum, Bern (curator Bernhard Fibischer)
BEGINNING, Collection Signs of Time , Olsztyn
Come Into My World, II Lodz Biennale, Lódź
Poland Fighting, Christine Koenig Galerie, Wien (curator Christine Koening, Michal Suchora)
Eroticon, CoCaCoLa Gallery, Wien (curator Michal Suchora)
Ordinary Terror, lokal_30, Warszawa; Galeria Sektor, Katowice (curator Agnieszka Rayzacher)
Bewegte Helden / Ruchomi Bohateriowie, A:mok e.V., Heinrich-Boell Stiftung / Fundacja Boella, Berlin (curator Kaja
Pawelek)
Love and Democracy, CSW / CCA, Łaźnia, Gdańsk (curator Pawel Leszkowicz)
Relationship, Art Festiwal, Racibórz
The City. Between the Architecture and Catastrophe, ViennAfair, Wien (curator Agnieszka Rayzacher, lokal_30 best gallery prize winner)
Demos Cratos, Galeria Klimy Bochenskiej, Fabryka Trzciny, Warszawa (curator Krzysztof Zwirblis)
Family First, Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago (curator Jennifer Jankauskas)

2005 Festival of Art, Center for Cultural Initiatives, Baku (curator Farid Abdullayev)
Traces of Memory, Galeria Sektor, Katowice (curator Roman Lewandowski)
Jakoś to bedzie. Wybory 2005, Galeria Piotra Nowickiego, Warszawa (curator Piotr Nowicki, Sarmen Belgarian)
Sammlung Hoffmann Ausstellung 2005-2006 / Collection Show 2005-2006, , Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin (curator Erika Hoffmann)
Egocentric, Immoral, Outdated. Images of the Conteporary Artists, Zachęta National Gallery, Warszawa, (curator Bozena Czubak)
Reflection, CSW / NCCA, Niżnyj Nowogrod (curator Ira Gorlova, Mikhail Mindlin)
Mother’s Day, Galeria Platan, Budapeszt (curator Agnieszka Rayzacher)
Operation Box Kultur, Ottakringer Brauerei, Wien (curator Cezary Kruk)
Witajcie w mediach, Batycka Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Słupsk (curator Agnieszka Żechowska)
Opening. Beginning, lokal_30, Warszawa
Potencjał, kolekcja dla Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej w Warszawie, Budynek Metropolitan, Warszawa (curator Dorota Monkiewicz)
Polka, CSW / CCA, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa (curator Ewa Gorządek)
Love and Democracy, Art Poznań 2005, Stary Browar, Poznań (curator Pawel Leszkowicz)
Behind the Red Horizon, CSW / NCCA, Moscow (curator Stach Szablowski, Ewa Gorządek)
Moskwa– Warszawa, Sztuka polska i rosyjska 1990 – 2000, Galeria Trietiakowska, Moskow (curator Anda Rottenberg)
Reflections, CSW / NCCA, Moscow (curator Mikhail Mindlin)
Falsche Erwantung, Kunstahalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt (curator Peter Joch)
Dzień matki, Galeria XX1, Warszawa (curator Agnieszka Rayzacher)
Light and Matter, (finalist of Adi Prize for Art 2003), Israel Museum, Jerusalem (curator Amitai Mendelson)

2004 Itinerant Images, PROGR Galerie, Bern (curator Beate Engel)
Body - Sport - Video, Nova Polska, (Saison Polonaise en France), Museum Geo-Charles, Echirolles (curator Elisabeth Chambon)
Body, Nicosia Municipal Art Center, Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, Cyprus (curator Yiannis Toumazis, Andri
Michaels)
Les affinites electives, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Albi /France, (cat.) (curator Anna Olszewska)
Festival VIDEOFORMES 2004, Clerrmont Ferrant / France (cat.)
The View From Here, Minesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis; Erie Art Museum, Erie, (cat.) (curator John Vanco)

2003 Vom Monument zum Markt (Polnischer Videokunst), Podewil, Berlin, (cat.) (curator Piotr Krajewski)
State of War 2003, Galeria ZOR, Warszawa
The View From Here, City Gallery, Prague (cat.), Riffe Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, (cat.) (curator Olga Mala)
Videodrom, Croatian TV Program of film and video art, Zagreb

2002 12. FilmFestival Cottbus, FilmFestival Cottbus, (cat.)
Vom Monument zum Markt, Kunstahalle Wien, (curator Piotr Krajewski)

2001 Collection, CSW / CCA, Warszawa (curator Wojciech Krukowski)
I Am My Car, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (cat.) (curator Dirk Teuber)
Na wolności. W końcu / Infreihert / Endlich, Galeria Królikarnia, Warszawa; Muzeum Narodowe, Szczecin, (cat.) (curator Dorota Monkiewicz)
In Between. Art from Poland 1945-2000, Chicago Cultural Center (curator Anda Rottenberg)

2000 Scena 2000, CSW / CCA, Warszawa (curator Stach Szablowski)
If you want to quit, as me how, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Infreihert / Endlich, Baden Baden Kunsthalle, Baden Baden, (cat.) (curator Dorota Monkiewicz)
After the Wall, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, (cat.) (curator Bojana Pejić)
Postindustrial Sorrow, Nassaulsher Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, (cat.) (curator Anda Rottenberg)
Art a Centre Europa 1949-1999, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona (curator Lonard Hegyi)
L’autre moitie de l’Europe, Jeu de Paume, Paris (curator Viktor Misiano)

1999 Aspekte Positionen, Museum moderner Kunst, Wien, (cat.) (curator Lonard Hegyi)
Polish Art of End-Beginning of Centuary, Maneż, Sankt Petersburg, (cat.) (curator Wojciech Krukowski, Ewa Gorządek)
After the Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, (cat.) (curator Bojana Pejić)
TRACE, The Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, (cat.) (curator Tony Bond)

1998 Genius Loci, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, (cat.) (curator Bernhard Fibischer)
A Fragment of Collection 3, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki / Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa, (cat.) (curator Aneta Prasał)

1997 Schwere-Los Skulpturen, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, OO Landesgalerie, Linz, (cat.) (curator Katalin Néray)
Despite / Difference, Herbert Read Gallery, Kent Institute of Art, Canterbury, (cat.)
Contact Prints, Galeria Foksal, Warszawa (curator Adam Szymczyk, Andrzej Przywara)
Beyond Belief, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (cat.) (curator Laura Hoptman)
The Palace of Good Luck, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles

1995 Beyond Belief, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, (cat.) (curator Laura Hoptmann)
Rysa w przestrzeni, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki / Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa, (cat.) (curator Anda Rottenberg)

1994 Der Riss im Raum, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, (cat.) (curator Anda Rottenberg)

1993 Sonsbeek ‘93, Arnhem, (cat.) (curator Valerie Smith)

1992 The Boundary Rider, The 9th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (curator Tony Bond)
The 3rd International Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul, (cat.) (curator Vasıf Kortun)
MPlaces, no-places, Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej, Orońsko

1991 Germinations 6, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Budapest Galeria, Budapest, (cat.)

1990 Point East, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, (curator Andrew Nairne)

fellowship & grants:

Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Poland 2009
ProHelvetia, Switzerland, 2004
KulturKontakt, Wien, 1997
KulturKontakt, Wien, 1995
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, 1992
Ministry of Culture, Poland, 1991