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

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.

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. 1 2 3 4 5 "Anna Baumgart". Culture.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2017-09-02.
  2. 1 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. 1 2 "Anna Baumgart - Ecstatics, Hysterics and Other Saintly Ladies - Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw". Artmuseum.pl. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
  7. 1 2 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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