b. 1979, Klodzko, Poland
Lives and works in Vermont (US) and Leipzig (DE)
EDUCATION
2008- 2010
MFA, Visual Arts Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
New Brunswick, NJ
2003-2004
History of Art Department, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
1999- 2006
Staatsexamen in Visual Arts, Art History and Art Education
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
Braunschweig, Germany
1999-2006
Staatsexamen in Teaching English as Foreign Language, American Studies, Philosophy
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Braunschweig, Germany
TEACHING
2015 - Present
Lecturer, Dartmouth College, Studio Art Department
Hanover, New Hampshire
2012 - 2015
Faculty at AVA Art Center and Gallery
Lebanon, New Hampshire
2010 - 2012
Head of Art Department and Visual Arts Teacher at EAB Victor Hugo School
Paris, France
2008 - 2010
Lecturer, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
VIDEOS & FILMS
2024
Our Borderlands (24m, 4K video, color, Dolby SR)
Saint Anthony of Fort Greene (in development)
MOTHER (in post-production)
2023
In My Words (80m, 4K video, color, Dolby SR)
2021
After the Beforetimes (70m, HD video, color, sound)
2019
The Twins - Rise & Fall (5:35m, digital video, found footage, color, sound)
Rutland (71m, HD video, color, sound)
2017
The Aleppo Room (14:30m, HD video, color, sound)
17 Months - 12 Minutes (14:47m, digital video, found footage, color, sound)
2016
Refuge (23m, HD video, color, sound)
The Candidate (2:14m, HD video, color, sound)
What We Have to Lose (3:15m, digital video, found footage, black & white, sound)
SCREENINGS & FESTIVALS
2024
Selection of In My Words for the Film Market 2024, Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland
2022
Official Selection (The Twins - Rise & Fall), Short Encounters IFF, Preveza, Greece
2021
Honorable Mention (The Twins - Rise & Fall), Deep Focus Film Festival, NYC, NY
Official Selection (After the Beforetimes), On Art Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Honorable Mention (The Twins - Rise & Fall), LA Underground Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA
Honorable Mention (The Twins - Rise & Fall), Experimental Forum, Los Angeles, CA
Official Selection (The Twins - Rise & Fall), Short Encounters International Film Festival, Athens, Greece
Official Selection (The Twins - Rise & Fall), Dumbo Film Festival, NYC, NY
Official Selection (The Twins - Rise & Fall), Lisbon Film Rendezvous, Lisbon, Portugal
2020
Official Selection (The Twins - Rise & Fall), Raleigh Film & Art Festival, Raleigh, NC
Official Selection (The Twins - Rise & Fall), Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, Middlebury, VT
Official Selection (The Twins - Rise & Fall), AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival, Cannes, France
2019
Official Selection (Rutland), Blow-Up International Arthouse Film Fest, Chicago, IL
Official Selection (The Twins - Rise & Fall), ULTRAcinema, Mexico City, Mexico
Honorable Mention (Rutland), LA Underground Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA
Official Selection (The Aleppo Room), Lisbon Film Rendezvous, Lisbon, Portugal
Premiere of Rutland at the UU Church of Rutland, Vermont
Official Selection (The Aleppo Room), Ethnografilm Paris, Paris, France
2018
Making a Home (The Aleppo Room), 1331, York, UK
Official Selection (The Aleppo Room), Amarcord Arthouse Television & Film Fest, Chicago, IL
Museum for Islamic Art (The Aleppo Room), Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany
Official Selection (The Aleppo Room), The Mespies, Minneapolis, WI
2017
Official Selection (Refuge), The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image, New York City, NY
Official Selection (Best Experimental Film - Refuge), Polish International Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Official Selection (Finest International Documentary - Refuge), The Mespies, Minneapolis, WI
Loew Auditorium (Refuge), Black Family Visual Art Center, Dartmouth College, NH
2016
Official Selection (Refuge), LA Underground Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Romantik 3.0, Der Mixer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Neu anfangen, nur wie?, Alte Giesserei, Espelkamp, Germany
2023
5th Kunstmatinee, Schloss Benkhausen, Espelkamp, Germany
The Summer Disaster Show, Private Public Gallery, Hudson, NY
2022
Shelley Odradek, Strange Attractor, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland (contributing artist)
On Skin, Metal, And Water, Stroboskop, Warsaw, Poland
Landfall, 4D Projektort (BBK Leipzig), Leipzig, Germany
2021
Intimate Spectres, Young Space Views, curated by Kate Mothes
2020
Broken Screen (Pantalla Rota), El Blanco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Broken Screen (Pantalla Rota), Patio de las Artes, San Juan, Argentina
2019
Diving & Digging, LIA, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
up{ROUTE]d, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
2018
Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition, York Art Gallery, York, UK
FÄLSCHUNG // FAKE, Krudebude, Leipzig, Germany
Intolerance as Violence (curated by Ian Alden Russell), Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Durchdashaus, Ping Pong, Leipzig, Germany
Unheimlich, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, Germany
Art as Information, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2017
Art as Information, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
PaperWest (curated by Willie Cole), Gittins Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Faces of Immigration: Here and Abroad, Russo Gallery, Joan Sloan Dickey Center,
Dartmouth College, NH
O.T., Studio MM, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin, Germany
Berlin Gallery Weekend, Studio MM, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin, Germany
Borderlands, Nearburg Gallery, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Dartmouth College, NH
2016
Re: Formation, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Re: Formation, Gallery Project, Toledo, OH
Spring Benefit, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
Our Histories (Near and Far), The Caroll House Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH (Solo Exhibition)
Visiting Faculty Exhibition, Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2015
Spring Benefit, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Unseen, Eastern Market (Gallery Project), Detroit, MI
Unseen, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2013
Drones, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Drones, Eastern Market (Gallery Project), Detroit, MI
10 Years Too Late, Institut für alles Mögliche (I-A-M), Berlin, Germany
Push on the Surface, RVCC Art Gallery, Branchburg, NJ
1st Annual Juried National Exhibition, Flood Gallery, Asheville, NC
(juried and curated by Diana Stoll from Aperture Magazine)
2012
Open Door, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Grammar of the Elite, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
Federica Nadalutti and Viktor Witkowski, Nouvel Organon, Paris, France
White Box Spring Benefit, White Box, New York, NY
In-between: Abstraction and Figuration, Nouvel Organon, Paris, France
2011
Nuit Blanche, L'Index, Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris, France
The Big Show 6, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Yours/Mine, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
Light Up, White Box, New York, NY
2010
Off the Map, White Box, New York, NY
Smoke and Flowers, Thesis Exhibition, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
24th International Juried Show, curated by Susan Kismaric, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
2009
Hit It Big, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2008
First Year Review, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Souvenirs de Vacances, L’Art de Rien, Paris, France
Invent(aire) 3, L'Art de Rien, Paris, France