Artists
Poland
Aleksandra Janik
Translocals
10.08.09 28.08.09
Aleksandra Janik’s artistic and academic interests focus primarily on graphics and photography, both traditional and digital techniques.
The artist uses her professional experience to develop and implement in her work the ideas of the interdisciplinary transgression, graphic / photography; which led her to obtain her doctorate in 2005 and qualification in 2008 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland.
She was the Head of Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Opole University, Poland when she made the residency at ace, and currently she serves as Vice-Rector for Arts, Research and Foreign Cooperation, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and External assessor for Fine Art Print at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin, Ireland.
BIO
Aleksandra Janik
1971 | Katowice, Poland.
STUDIES
1996 | MFA in Graphics, University of Fine Arts. Wroclaw, Poland.
1996-97 | DAAD Scholarship from the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. Germany.
EXHIBITIONS
Has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland and foreign countries.
AWARDS
Jury Prize of the Fifteenth Edition of the Germany International Exhibition. Frechen, Germany.
Honorable Mention of International Photography Awards. Los Angeles, USA.
Jury Prize for the Fourteenth Triennial Graphic Edition. Estonia.
Hibino Jury Prize of the Fourteenth Edition of Mino-Washi Akari Art. Mino, Japan.
Honorable Mention of International Photography Awards. Los Angeles, USA.
Association of Fine Arts ZACHETA of Salón Jesienny ’07, Gallery of Contemporary Arts. Opole, Poland.
Autumn Salon Grand Prix, Gallery of Contemporary Arts. Opole, Poland. Nomination for Holland Grid Casino Award, International Photography Biennials. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Exhibitions
TRANS-LOCAL
Aleksandra Janik
26.08.09 28.08.09
ABOUT TRANS-LOCAL
The project refers (as artistic commentary) to questions of how geographic relocations influence artists: whether it helps artists to go beyond the fixed categories of their own identity (physical, psychological, social or cultural) or their limitations which are defined through their relations with everything outside.
The experience of the Argentine space, alien to me, the search for the truth about the place, people, but also about myself, the attempts to reach reality in its unmediated authentic form, are all presented in a hybrid work consisting of prints, photographs and installations.
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