Impakt Event: Ania Molska

Ania Molska only recently entered the world of arts, yet her arrival was immediately widely recognized. In the past year (2008), she already exhibited at the 5th Biennale of Berlin where two of her most recent video works, W=F*s(work) and P= W;t(power), were shown at Kunst-Werke, the Berlin institute for contemporary art. Further to her participation in the Biennale, Metropolis M featured a lengthy article on Molska in the October/November 2008 issue of this arts magazine. Impakt invited Molska for a two months’ residency program in Utrecht.
Ania Molska was born in Poland on March 6, 1983. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poland’s capital Warsaw. During her study, Molska mainly focused on new media studies (video, audio-visual), a subject which is taught under the supervision of the studio of Grzegorz Kowalski, an artist who has also educated a number of other well-known Polish artists (including Artur Zmijewski and Katarzyna Kozyra).Kowalski has very outspoken ideas on art and its social objects. And these ideas are clearly reflected in Molska’s work.
Grzegorz Kowalski calls his way of teaching ‘Partnership Teaching’, a principle of teaching which shares characteristics with the free teaching method as advocated by German artist Joseph Beuys in the 1960s. Social awareness, involvement and participation in the outside world are regarded as features of art that are just as important as the expression of art itself. Kowalski hands his pupils the important task of choosing between practicing art within the safe and secluded environment of the arts world and practicing art with strong involvement

 

 

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