Angelika Fojtuch, foto Alina Żemojdzin
Born in 1978 in Gdynia (Poland). She lives and works practically all around the world. She works mainly in visual arts – performance and its documentation and does education and curator projects. She has won many prizes and scholarships. She showed her works at exhibitions and festivals in Europe, Asia and America.
EDUCATION
2013 – 2016 University of Arts, Poznan – PhD candidate
2005 Diploma, Department of Sculpture and Intermedia, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk
1998 – 2005 A.M. study, Academies of Fine Arts: Torun, Krakow, Gdansk, Poznan
WORK
2005-still – International performance artist
2017-2018 GATE art zone – Artspace in Düsseldorf – founder & curator
2013-2016 University of Arts, Poznań – PhD candidate
2011-2013 Intermedia Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk – teaching assistant
2006-2008 PORT PERFORMANCE – International Forum for Performance Art – co-originator & tutor
MEMBERSHIP
2015-still – member of Internationale Künstler Gremium (IKG)
AWARD
2003 Gdansk City Award for Young Artists
SCHOLARSHIPS
2018 Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, GATE art zone, Art Project Grant
2017 Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, GATE art zone, Art Project Grant
2015 The Crossed Residences programme of the City of Strasbourg, Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Apollonia European Art Exchanges
2014 – 2016 Scholarship of the University of Arts Poznań and Interdisciplinary research project of PhD candidates of UAP and UAM in Albania
2013 International Scholarship of the City of Mönchengladbach and Wilberz-Stiftung
2012 Gdynia City, Independence.Do, Santo Domingo, Travel Grant
2012 IAM, Performance at Goodman Arts Center in Singapore, Travel Grant
2010 IAM, Deformes in Santiago de Chile, Travel Grant
2009 IAM, Biennale in Thessaloniki, Travel Grant
2009 IAM, Navinki in Minsk, Travel Grant
2008 IAM, OPEN in Beijing, Travel Grant
2008 IAM, NADA Art Fair in Miami, Travel Grant
2007 IAM, The Polish Year in Israel, Herzl Mirage-Artist in Residence in Tel Aviv
2004 GARBa Young Artists Residence in Basilicata
2004 The Culture Foundation of Poland, Art Project Grant
2003 Gdynia City Scholarship
2000 Fondazione Romualdo del Bianco, Artist in Residence in Florence
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
re.act.feminism – a performing archive, Berlin
Josef und Hilde Wilberz-Stiftung, Mönchengladbach
City of Mönchengladbach, Museum Abteiberg
PERFORMANCES IN EVENTS AND LOCATIONS (SELECTION)
Atlas of Modernity The 20th and 21st Century Art Collection, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
Another Place/Another Space/Together, Quadriennale 2014, Düsseldorf
9Live Action, Konsthall, Göteborgs
re.act.feminism#2 – a performing archive, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde
Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona
Future of Imagination‘8, Goodman Arts Center, Singapore
Gallery lokal_30, NADA Art Fair, Miami
PRAXIS The 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Museum, Thessaloniki
Transit, The 2nd Biennale of Young Art, MMOMA, Moscow
