Prof. dr Joanna Hoffmann is an artist who works in the field of multimedia installation, VR, experimental video-animation, interactive projects, and book art. She is also an academic and leader of the Studio for Transdisciplinary Projects & Research at the University of Arts in Poznan (Faculty of Art Education & Curatorial Studies). She co-founded Art & Science Synergy Foundation (ASSF) and Art & Science Node (ASN) in Berlin and takes the directive role of Chair of ASN. Her artistic works have been widely presented in venues such as the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Warsaw; the Science Museum/DANA Centre and MOCA in London; Transmediale Festival and European Patent Office in Berlin; MUSE New York. She was awarded the Artist of Honour of the XII Florence Biennale in 2019 and was awarded the medal Gloria Artis by the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland in 2020
 
About Projects Exhibitions Conferences video/animations artist's books
 
Awards & Residencies Teaching Curatorial in Collections Bibliography

 

About

Professor dr. hab Joanna Hoffmann: artist, researcher, educator, curator;

Leader of the Studio for Transdisciplianary Projects & Research at the University of Art in Poznan (UAP), Faculty of Art Education and Curatorial Studies;

Co-Founder of the Foundation:  Art & Science Synergy Foundation & Chair of Art & Science Node in Berlin;
Co-leader of the Club of Science and Art in Poznań, in cooperation with the Faculty of Biology the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznan
Current interdisciplinary collaborations: Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry; Faculty of Biology Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, International Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology Warsaw
 
Academic curriculum
2022 received the title of Professor of Art from the President of Poland;
2009 Professorship of the University of Arts in Poznan UAP;

2005 Habilitation of doctor degree, Faculty of Multimedia Communication, UAP/AFA in Poznan,

2000 Doctor degree in visual arts (Phd), Department of Multimedia Communication, UAP/AFA in Poznan
1992 MA Diploma with Distinction in Graphics and Drawing
1987-1992 Studies at Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan / UAP University of Arts in Poznan
 
RECENT ACTIVITIES:
Glowing Globe, Changes and Challenges, Rijeka Croatia, October 2023
SPUN Expedition / Society for Protection of Undergound Networks
Philosopher's Stone. History of Alchemy, German National Museum, Nuremberg, Niemcy, Sept. 2023- June 2024
Metagenomes of Different Environments, Lublin Conference Center, Lublin, June 2023
ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Forum des Images, Paris, May 2023
exhibition: The Forest becomes a Choir Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, czerwiec-sierpień 2023
exhibition: Our Bio-Tech Planet: Future of Plants and Humans, Botanical Garden in Rome, October 2022
 
 
Rhizosphere: The Big Networks of Small Worlds / art-science-education
 
 
AR Artworks
 
SELECTED ART PROJECTS:
RHIZONES LABYRINTH OF SHIFTING IDENTITIES EPI-MIMESIS
VITRUVIAN WOMAN / A BREATH FOR... EPIZONE: [NULL] MICROSCAPE
PHILOSOPHERS' STONE SECRET TOPOLOGIES OF BEING HIDDEN MELODY
 

 


EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS / INDIVIDUAL SHOWS

2023 Labyrinth of Identity Variables \ RHI-ZONES, (3D multimedia show), Conference: Metagenomes of Different Environments. Lublin Conference Center, Lublin , PL

2019

A breath for Leonardo 7th Central European Congress of Life Sciences EUROBIOTECH, EXPO Cracow, PL

 

EnterNULL] , Rotunda Gallery, University of Arts in Poznan, PL

 

epi-Zone[NULL]  Art & Science Node in Berlin, DE  

2017

Avant-gout of the new holoWorld, Central European Congress of Biotechnology, EXPO, Cracow, PL

2015

Microscape Poznan Science Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, PL

 

[micro]biologies II: "πρωτεο / proteo" Art Laboratory Berlin, DE

2007

Walls,  Bereznitsky Galerie, Berlin, DE

2006

Lightscape,  Deli-Licht, Pennisula, Rotterdam, NL

2005

Tones & Whispers AT Gallery, Poznan, PL

 

Here & Beyond,  Objectnotfound Gallery,  Monterrey, MX

2004

Beyond the line of eyelids. Travel , XX1 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, PL

 

Between distances (KulturJahr der Zehn neuen EU-Laenden)) Galerie Horst Dietrich, Berlin, DE

2003

Hidden Melody - looking for a sound, ON Gallery, Poznan, PL

2002

Harmonia Mundi - exercises in perspective, Kingsgate Gallery, London, UK, 

2001

music for individual performances, Gedok Atelierhaus, Lubek, DE

2000

Re: positioning / Music of Spheres. Do it Yourself

Music for inert repetitions Galerie Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld, DE

1999

Episode, Labyrinth Gallery, State Gallery, Lublin, PL

 

Repetitions, ON Gallery, Poznan,, Poznań, PL

1997

Up and Down, The Commercial Gallery, Londyn, UK

 

A discrete point of suspension, Biala Gallery, Lublin, PL

1996

"Stable behaviour” Gallery Potocka, Cracow, PL

1995

a few steps above, a few degrees aside, Kingsgate Gallery, London , UK

 

21. It is important to distinguish, Galeria 2124  , Oslo, N

1994

Around un-sure circulations”, Gallery Wejscie, Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, PL

 

throughOut”, Teraz Gallery, Szczecin, PL

1993

In-between sides”, Gallery ON, Poznan, PL

 

Travels around un-measurable Time”, International Centre of Art, Poznań, PL

 

Silence of small e-motions”, Gallery AT, Poznan, PL

 

Books-Objects”, Galeria Dzialan/Gallery of Action, Warsaw, PL

1992

Small reflexions of time”, ON Gallery, Poznan  PL

 

From the diary of a labyrinth, 104 Gallery, Gent, BE

 


GROUP EXHIBITIONS / FESTIVALS:   

   
2023 The Forest becomes a Choir, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, DE
2022 Our Bio-Tech Planet: The Future of Plants and Humans, Botanical Garden in Rome, IT
2022  Rhizosphere: Organism ,  10th anniversary of the Polish Mycological Society, Faculty of Biology UAM University,    Poznan, PL
2021

 Augmented Species. Invasis Sculptures in Hybrid Ecologies, AR touring exhibition, MoMA Sculpture Garden NYC   USA i 16 places around the world

 ARS ELECTRONICA Hong Kong Garden, Artificial Intentionalities: Post-human humanities in the age of the art-subject (Art in a Cloud), Osage Gallery Hong Kong

 

Capture the Future(s): Our Biotech Planet, Plant Biology Europe Congress, Turin, IT

2020

Art book 4 / Book-Art object 4, Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade, SE

2019

XII Florence Biennale, Forteza da Basso, Florence, IT

 

Rhizosphere: The Big Network of Small Worlds, Collegium Biologicum, UAM Poznan, PL

 

VERSUS, Municipal Gallery BWA, PL

2018

Beyond Words, Tel Aviv Art Centre, Tel Avive, IL

2017

Tetramatyka Festival of Audiovisual Art / 1st Symposium Medicine Update SMART LION, Medical University, Lvov, UA

 

Capture the Future(s): Evolution 2, Elusive Identity, DPMA-TIZ, German Patent and Trademark Office in Berlin, DE

2016 

Micro E-Motions , Art & Science Node Berlin, partner exhivirion of the STATE Festival Berlin, DE      -

 

Creativity & Innovation, DPMA-TIZ / German Patent and Trademark Office in Berlin, DE

2015

Capture the Future(s): Evolution, Gallery of the Club for Science & Art, Collegium Biologicum UAM, Poznan, PL

 

DeNovo; Art-Science-Synergy Aberdeen Art:laB, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen , UK

 

Echofluxx 15 Festival of New Media, Music & Art, Prague, CZ

2014

Media-Scape: State of Exception, MMSU Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, HR 

 

Sense & Sensuality  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, SG

 

Bio-Fiction; Science Art Film Festival, Museum of Natural History, Bellaria Cinema, Vienna, AU 

2013

Not Invented by Nature  BioQuant Centre, Heidelberg, DE

 

Microcosmos - State Gallery Leszno, PL

2012

Parallax, International Festival of Stereoscopic 3D films, CIANT/ Cinema Lucerna, Prague, CZ

 

Mediations Biennale "Unknown", Poznan, PL

 

Gradient Change, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, London, UK

 

GEO-Genesis Festival 2012, Aso Volcano Museum, Mount Unzen Memorial Hall, ASO Prefecture JP

 

Seeing Ourselves, MUSE Centre of Photography and the Moving Image, New York, USA

2011

Contemporary Art Ruhr C.A.R., Zollverein World Culture Heritage Site.DE  

 

Green Unplugged - Culture Unplugged, Film Festival www.cultureunplugged.com, India/Indonesia/USA/New Zealand

 

WRO  XIV International Biennale of Media Art („Alternative Now ) Wroclaw, PL

2010

BAC!: TIME - Towards the 4th Dimension", Festival of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, SP

 

Moving Frames 2nd Mytilene Digital Art Festival, Lesbos, GR

2009

Life Origin, Espai d’Arts Visuals d’Amposta (EAV), Amposta, SP

 

Art+Communication.("Energy")" International Festival for New Media Culture, RIXC, The Centre for New Media Culture, Riga, LT

 

Voices from the Waters" 4th International Film Festival, ("Secret Life") film inwokacyjny, Bangalore, Indie

 

WRO 09. 13th Media Art Biennale (Expanded City), Wroclaw, PL

 

WRO 09 Expanded Tour, presenetd at:

 

BWA Zielona Gora, PL

Galeria Arsenał, Białystok  PL

INvideo Festival, Spazio Oberdan, Mediolan, Italy

Festival of European Film Library FE FEST'09 Kino Kultura, Warsaw, PL

Kino.Lab, Centre for Contenporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, PL

 

Transmediale Festival for Media Art (Going North), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE

 

Transmediale Video Selection (tour) 

 

11th International Festival of Video/Arte/Electrónica, Lima, P

   Goethe-Institut, Damaszek, Syria

   ArtToday/Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv , Bułgaria

   Redhouse, Sofia Bułgaria

   Goethe-Institut, Madryd, Hiszpania

   Festival Internacional de Artes MEM, Bilbao Hiszpania

   Transvisualia 009, Pomeranian Science and Technology Park , Gdynia , Polska

   MaxArtFest 2009, Zagrzeb, Horwacja

   Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Meksyk

   Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Meksyk

   Centro de Arte y Nuevas Tecnologías, San Luis Potosí, Meksyk

   Escuela de Artes Digitales y Negocios Multimedia, Monterrey , Meksyk

   ESPACIO ENTER, Tenerife , Hiszpania

   Marmelade Factory, Lwów, Ukraina

   Goethe-Institut, Montevideo , Urugwaj

   Moscow MediaArtLab, Moskwa, Rosja

   Synoptic Visionaudial Art Meeting, Pecs , Węgry

   Refract Festival, Kragujewac , Serbia

   Athens Video Art Festival, Ateny, Grecja

   SMART Project Space, Amsterdam Holandia

2008

Book Art Object, Museum 25th May, Belgrad, SE

 

Ping4. Festival del Arte et Musica Experimental, Sa Taronja, SP

 

Media Scape, "City Per(mutation)", City Museum Lapidarium, Novigrad, HR

 

Strictly Berlin; Between Fiction and Fact, Galerie der Kunste, Berlin, DE

 

Romantica: Single Channel Topos, WRO Kolekcja Polskiej Sztuki Video 2003-7, Kunsthalle Wien, AU

2007

Strictly Berlin - Targets of Opportunity, Galerie der Kunste, Berlin, DE

 

XII Media Art Biennale WRO 07, Wroclaw, PL 

 

Unfolding memories The New Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel, IL

 

Verloren / Gefunden” Gutshaus, Petersdorf, DE

 

Asia – Europe. Attitude, Eis Fabrik - Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover, DE

 

Asia – Europe. Attitude, Mona Collection, Poznan, PL  

 

Art & Science, KHOJ Studios, New Delhi, IN

 

LIMITE 16th International Electronic Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil SEC Sao Paolo, BR

 

Belo Horizonte - Brazil, Imagen-Pensamento”  Laboratorio Arte Alameda.  Mexico DC

2006

The Time of Stars. Innovations in the Universe, European Patent Office, Berlin, DE

 

ComaLower- Silesian Art Center, Katowice, PL

 

Made in Video, Video Days of Citizen Journalism, Public Secrets and ARTivism, Cinemateket /Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen, DK

 

Temporary Cities, Cultural Communication Centre of Klaipeda, LU

 

Temporary Cities, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, RU   

 

Heroine City Gallery BWA Leszno, PL 

 

Poetry&Art. Public Text Works Poetry International Festival Rotterdam, Theatre/Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, NL

 

Khoj Kalkata - Baruipur - Calcutta, IN  

 

Beyond, Real Art Ways Hartford CT, USA

2005

Cybersonica Dana Centre / Science Museum, London, UK

 

Art Poznan, Stara Rzeźnia, Poznań, PL

 

WRO 05 11th International Media Art Biennale Wrocław, PL

 

Myths and Antimyths, Forum Gallery, Centre of Culture Zamek, Wroclaw, PL

 

Neue Horizonte entdecken…“  Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Niemcy, DE

 

Sense in Place, Cardiff, Walia, UK

 

Contact Context, Kunstlerforum Bonn, DE  

 

Kontakt – Kontekst, Municipal Gallery Arsenał, Poznań, PL

 

II Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin, DE

 

Poznań Art Now II", Municipal Gallery BWA, Bielsko Biała, PL

 

Continuum“, Stara Rzeźnia, Poznań, PL

2004

Canvas, Poetry & Art" 35th Poetry International, Rotterdam Theatre/Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, NL

 

ArtOmi Open Studios, Ghent, Nowy Jork, USA

 

Galerienrundgang der Zehn, Internationaler Club im Auswartigen e. V., Berlin, DE

 

Kunst der Zehn“, Rathausgalerie, Monachium, DE                     

 

Mediations. Poznan Art Now, Lodz Biennal, Lódz, PL

 

Alphabet, Gallery AT, Poznan, PL

 

Inner and Outer perspectives, Calendar Gallery, Falkirk, Szkocja  UK  

 

Common Places, Old Brewery, Poznan, PL

2003

Seven / Seven Regional Museum, Zielona Góra, PL

 

Spiritual in Digital Arts, The Evergreen Cultural Centre, CA

 

Tensions Inner Spaces Multimedia, Poznan, PL

 

The History Book That Never Was, Massachussets College of Art, Boston, USA

 

Lightness of Things, Centre for Modern Art in Warsaw, PL

 

Bookmorning, Gallery of Action, Warsaw, PL

 

Book, Municipal Gallery, Jelenia Góra, PL

 

9th Wexford Artists Book Exhibition, Wexford, IR

 

Bread Matters, the Museum of Water,  Lisbon,  P

 

The Fourth Element. The Earth, Gallery of Artists Union, Warsaw,, Warszawa, PL

 

OniONe, Innerspaces Multimedia Centre for Art, Poznan, PL  

2002

Graphica Creativa. Links”, 10th International Triennial, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, FI

 

Black and White, AT Gallery,  Poznań, PL

 

XX-CHANGE, X-change Festival, Linz, AT

 

International Digital Miniature Print, University of West England UWE, Bristol, UK

 

KunstlerinnenbucherGedok-Galerie, Hannover, DE

 

Nothing Serious”, Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK 

2001

Single Currency Exhibition”. Cortona International Symposium: A Print Odyssey, IT

 

NONA / Music for Inert Repetitions, Gallery at Jesuits, Poznań, PL

 

Anatomies of  Darkness”, Baltic Gallery of Art, Ustka, PL

 

Hommage a J.LudwinskiR Gallery, Poznan, PL  

2000

Volumes of Vulnerability”, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK

The Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, UK

Museum of Artists Books, Lodz, PL

San Francisko Center for the Book , USA

 

Artists’ Books Exhibition, King Stephen Museum, Szekesfeher, HU

 

The book and what next,  AT Gallery, Poznan, Poland

 

Construction in Process The State Museum in Bydgoszcz, PL 

 

Contemporary Original Books, Palais des Congres, Marsylia, FR

1999

Polish Artists’ Books” Stadt Bibliothek, Sztokholm, SE

 

Passion, Gasworks, London, UK

 

The Notation of Silence, Book Art Museum,  Łódź, PL

 

Moveable Horizons of Notions. Conceptual reflection in Polish Art Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL

 

Oikos / "In the shadow of gravity", State Museum in Bydgoszcz,PL

 

Meanders of Presence, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, PL

 

Place of Permament Residence Tatranska Gallery, Poprad, SK

 

Place of Permanent Residence II State Museum in Bydgoszcz, PL

 

The Idea of a Book, the Regional Museum in Torun, PL  

1998

A Few Private Impulses”, The State Gallery Arsenal, Bialystok, PL

 

"International Symposium" / "Common Ground" Spike Island Artspace, Bristol, UK

 

20/20, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK

 

In Orbit Round the Drifting Book II”, Polish Culture Institute, Budapest, HU

 

O.N. presents”, Wyspa Gallery, Gdansk, PL

 

Fort Sztuki 98. Letter-Word-Sentence, Goethe Institute, Cracow, PL

 

Phoptographie, Kunst-und Atelierhaus Horn, KulturKontakt Austria, AT

1997

The Book and the Body, The Operating Theatre Museum, Londyn, UK

 

International Joint Art Exhibition, Shin Gallery, Hiroshima, JP

 

20/20, Kingsgate Gallery, Londyn, UK

 

PropositonsCairn Gallery, Gloucestershire, UK

 

In Orbit Round the Drifting BookGesamthochschul Bibliothek, Kassel, DE

 

43rd Hiroshima Peace Exhibition,  Hiroshima Prefecture Art Museum, JP

1996

Fictions, Centre of Culture „Zamek”, Poznan, PL

 

Polimetrie, ”, the Municipal Gallery Awangarda /BWA, Wrocław, PL

 

Polish Art Critics’ Recommendations, The Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, PL

1995  

Natural Setting, The Chelsea Physic Garden, Londyn, UK 

 

On the Edge, Camley Street Natural Park, Londyn, UK

1994

The Best Diplomas 92/93,Gallery of  Polish Artists Union, Warsaw, PL

 

Collection II”, Centre For Contemporary Art in Warsaw, PL

 

Winners of  M.Dokowicz Award”,The State Gallery Arsenal,  Poznan, PL

1993

Different Book”Gallery ON, Poznan, PL

1992

Work from Poland”, Concourse Gallery, Byam Shaw School of Art, Londyn, UK

 

Books and Pages - Polish Avant-garde Artists’ Books” Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, PL


CONFERENCES / SYMOPOSIA / PRESENTATIONS:

 

2023 28th International Symposium of Electronic Art, Forum de Images, Paryż, FR  
2023 VIII National Scientific Seminar: Mathematical Laboratory of Culture 2023, Faculty of Educational Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, PL  
2022

  Spring of Innovation RNI 2022, RNI Research Network on Innovation, University of Lille, FR

 
2021

  Flatform: History of a Tree, interational symposium, University of Arts in Poznan, PL

 
2021 Emergency Exit, University of Rijeka, Academy of Applied Arts, The Center of Innovative Media, Rijeka HR  
2021

  Bio-presence. Art in the biotechnological world, University of Gdańsk, PL

 

2021

  ARS ELECTRONICA Festival:
 Ars Electronica Hong Kong Garden
 Ars Electronica Leonardo Gardens: Zurich

 

2019

Towards Leonardo da Vinci Legacy of Similitude and Invention  XII Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art

 

 

44th FEBS Congress (Federation of European Biochemical Societies), From Molecules to Living Systems, Kraków

 

 

Human factor / Non-Human factor, Conference by WRO Festival for Media Art, Wroclaw, PL

 

 

Vertigo Forum / Future STARTS Here, Centrum Pompidou w Paryżu, FR

 

 

Communication: From DNA to Global Information, Conference for 100 years of Faculty of Biology, UAM Poznan, PL

 

2018

World Computing Congress, hosted by Poznan Technical University, Poznan PL

 

2017

Studium Generale Universitatis Wratislaviensis, Wroclaw PL 

 

 

Central European Congress of Biotechnology, EXPO, Cracow, PL

 

2016

Expanding Beyond the Limits, BIO-2016, 2nd Congress of Polish Biochemistry, Cell Biology & Biotechnology, Wroclaw, PL

 

 

European Congress of Biotechnology (highlighted talk: Art in the Society of Knowledge), Cracow, PL

 

 

Models of Diversity, Current Transdiscourses in Art, Science & Social Issues, ZHdK, Zurich CH

 

2015

Educational Potential of Photography, UAP University of Arts in Poznan / Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, PL

 

 

KNOW – Polish National Leading RNA Research Centre (konf), Obrzycko, PL

 

 

Paradox European Forum Conference, Poznan, PL

 

 

Image / Space  Conference, Academy of Fine Arts Cracow, P

 

2014 

State; Experience Science Festival, Berlin, DE

 

 

Post-technological Experiences; Art-Science-Culture, HAT, Uniwersytet im.A.Mickiewcza w Poznaniu/ Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan, PL 

 

 

Beyond - Future Design" ZKM Centre for Art & Media /HFG Karlsruhe, DE

 

 

The 3rd International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture 

(Cloud and Molecular aesthetics), Pera Museum/Sabanci University Istanbul, TU

 

 

The 3rd Science-Education Conference, Faculty of Biology, UAM University, Poznan, PL

 

 

Art Saves the World, International Conference, Collegium Polonicum UAM University, Slubice, PL

 

2013

ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Arts”, UWE , COFA Sydney, AU

 

2012

Mutamorphosis.Tribute to Uncertainty, CIANT | International Centre for Art and New Technologies, Praga , CZ  

 

2011

ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Arts” Istambuł, TU

 

 

Towards the Third Culture. The Co-existence of Art, Science and Technology", Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk, PL

 

2010

Project: Art Education. The Role of Art Education in the Contemporary Society", University of Arts in Poznan/Centre for Culture Zamek, Poznan, PL

 

2008

ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Arts” Singapore, SG

 

2007 

Impact VKUMU Contemporary Art Museum, Tallinn, EE

 

 

X Festival of Science & Art, (inauguration lecture) UAM University, Poznan, PL

 

 

Interfaces of Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, PL

 

2005

Impact IV , Universitat der Kunste w Berlinie, DE

 

 

VIII Festival of Science & Art, (inauguration lecture) UAM University, Poznan, PL

 

2001

Art Spaces in Gender Perspective”, Universitaet BielefeldDE

 

 

Impact II UIAH, Helsinki, FI

 

1999

Impact IConference on Contemporary Graphics, University of West England, Bristol, UK 

 

 


VIDEO / ANIMATIONS (selection)

director of  "Chemistry and Beauty", University Film Studio UAM (2014)

Philosophers' Stone, (2013/14)

Hidden Toplogy of Being II (2012)

Anxiety of the 2nd Dimension (2012)

Hidden Dimension (2010/2012)

Water (2009)

Secret Life (2008)

Life Matters (2007)

Walls (2007)

Tones and Whispers (2005/6)

Beyond the line of eyelids. Travel (2004)

Life – Motif  (2004)

Hidden Melody. Harmonia Mundi - exercises in perspective (2002/3)

Omphalos"(2002)

Anatomy of a moment (2002)


BOOK WORKS  (selection  intro

 

Passport

The Matter of a Fact

Here and Now, 

Cardiocord

Brick-case

dhe ent

To be

To be

Photo-Express

Record

Self-Portait

In search for the lost time

Time-like dimension

Ego-logical Tree

Handy Map of..(Hiroshima)

The common lightness of  life

Self Control

Visor

Music for inert repetitions

fly

Music for inert repetitions, pocket edition

Imagine

Music of Spheres

 

 

portfolio projects

2001

A print Odyssey”. University of West England in Bristol UK,  Cortona University , Italy   

2003

The history Book that never was", University of West England in Bristol UK, Massachusets College of Art, Boston, USA

contribution to online projects:

2003

Little Song Films", www.littlesongfilms.com


AWARDS

   
2020 Medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

2019

Medal „Magnus Laurentius Medices” Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Citta Di’ Firenze, Florence, IT

2013

Team Award: Grand Prix iGEM Competition, MIT Boston  USA, Heidelberg Team, Philosophers’ Stone, USA

2009

Transmediale  Festival for Media Art, Berlin (honorable mention in the field videoart), DE

 

Voices from the Waters" 4th International Film Festival, "Secret Life" selected as the invocataion of the Festival, Bangalore, IN

2008

Artistic Stipend of the Polish Minister of Culture and Cultural Heritage

2007

the 1st prize in the Polish edition of  the  competition "2007- a very spatial year" organized by the European Planetology Network "Europlanet",  the Space Research Center and Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, the Planetarium and Astronomical Observatory in Olsztyn, for the 50th anniversary of the “Cosmic Age”.

2004

Artistic Stipend of the Polish Minister of Culture

2001

The conference sitpend of the Warsaw Science Association

1994

The Poznań City Award for Young Artists,  

1993

The Award of M.Dokowicz (1st prize),

1992

Artistic Stipend of the Polish Minister of Culture

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCIES

2013

art residency at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)/ University of Heidelberg/ Eilslabs / Life Science Lab, in the framework of The Helmholtz Initiative on Synthetic Biology, Heidelberg, DE

2009

Centre for Experimental Media Art CEMA by Srishti College of Art, Design and Technology in collaboration with National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, IN

2007

Art & Science Residency, Khoj Artists Association in collaboration with International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in New Delhi, IN

2006

Khoj Kolkata, International  Art Residency, Calcutta, IN

2005/6  

Fellowship at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam, DE

2004

Art Omi  International Art Residency, Ghent, New York, USA

2001

Gedok Schleswig-Holstein Residency, Lubeck,  DE

2000 

Artists Unlimited Residency, Bielefeld, DE

1998

KulturKontakt Scholarship, Kunst-und Atelierhaus Horn/Vienna, AT

 

Art Residency at the Spike Island Artspace, Bristol, UK


 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

since 1997 lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts/ University of Arts in Poznan/Poland

since 2011 Leader of the Studio for Transdiciplinary Projects & Research at UAP;  www.transdisciplinary-art.pl

 

AS GUEST PROFESSOR / ARTIST

2012

Plymouth University, Transtechnology PhD Research Group, UK

2009

Srishti College of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore IN

2008

Tesla Art&Science Resaerch Group, University College London, UK

2007

Universität der Künste (w ramach Programu Erasmus), Berlin, DE

2003

MA European Fine Art, Barcelona, SP

2002

London College of Printing, now: London College of Communication (University of the Arts London), UK

2002-2004   

Winchester School of Art, Southampton University, UK

2002

Byam Shaw School of Art, (University of the Arts London), UK

1999-2000   

Camberwell College of Arts, (University of the Arts London), UK

2000 

De Montfort University Leicester, UK

 

Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha , Cuenca, SP

1996

Byam Shaw School of Art, (University of the Arts London), UK

1995

Statens Kunstaakademie, Oslo, N

 

 

EXTERNAL EXAMINER:

2007-2009  

The National College of Art and Design, (Dept. of Fine Arts, MA & BA in Graphics,)  Dublin, IR

2004-2005  

The Winchester School of Art, (MA in Graphics),  Southampton University), UK


 

INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS

2021

international workshop for Phd students : EPS CRISP/Cas, Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, NL, author's wrokshop: Art Science Communication

2013

Co-organiser of the Leonardo Education & Art Forum LEAF Workshop The role of art education in an age of ecological crisis and the globalization of knowledge”, ISEA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, AU

 

TransIstor / stereoscopic 3D workshop series for  professionals in film and audiovisual art, HFG Karslruhe, DE

 

Agency in Movement SymbioticA, University of Western Australia, Perth, AU

2012

TransIstor” stereoscopic 3D workshop series for  professionals in film and audiovisual art (3D Stereoscopy), CIANT International Centre for Art and New Technologies, Praga, CZ

2011

TransIstor” stereoscopic 3D workshop series for  professionals in film and audiovisual art (3D Stereoscopy), CIANT International Centre for Art and New Technologies, Prague, CZ

2010

Living Matter. Art & Research & Science Studies in Biological Laboratories", International Summer School Academy of Media Art in Cologne / Freie Universitat Berlin, Cologne, DE

 

 

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

CURATORIAL / MANAGMENT WORK

2018 -2019

Member of the CHIC Consortium, EU Horizon 2020, Research & Innovation

od 2018

Founder and Leader of the EpiLab Team

od 2015

Chair of Art & Science Node in Berlin

od 2015

Vice-President of Art & Science Synergy Foundation

od 2014

initiator and organizer of the Club of Science & Art in Poznan www.transdiciplinary-art.pl/artscience-club

 (UAP/WB UAM)

2014

Initiator & organiser of the Poznan Node / FLOW Festival for the 3rd World Water Day Symposium, www.water-wheel.net, www,transdisciplinary-art.pl

2006

art director of the exhibition on art and innovation in astrophysics, astronomy and cosmic space ‘The Time of Stars. Innovations in the Universe”, in the frame of German-Polish Year at European Patent Office in Berlin and the Patent Office of Polish Republic in Warsaw

2002 - 2007

Member of the Management Team of ON Gallery in Poznan, PL

1992  - 2007

Curator at the ON Gallery, Poznan, PL

2000

curator of the exhibition "Volumes of Vulnerability" Book Art Museum in Lodz, PL

 

curator of the presentation of "Bristol Art Library", Book Art Museum in Lodz, PL

1999

curator of the exhibition “Notation of Silence”, Book Art Museum, Lodz, PL

 

curator of the Norwegian-Polish Workshop at the Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, PL

 

 

IMTERNATIONAL JURY MEMBER

2015

Hot Water - Water, Peace & War /"Balance - Unbalance" Conference Arizona State University, USA

2007

Jury Member of the 13th Tallinn Print Triennial “Poetical-Political”, KUMU Contemporary Art Museum, EE

 


WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Pl

London Institute, Chelsea College of Art and Design, UK  

University of West England, Bristol

WRO Centre for Media ART Wroclaw, PL

Transmediale, Berlin, DE

SECS Videobrasil,Sao Paolo, BR

Museum and Archive of Mehr Agassi, Bristol, UK/ Tel-Aviv/IL

The Bristol Art Library, UK

King Stephen Museum, Szekesfehervar, HU

Muzeum Książki Artystycznej w Łodz, PL

Matt’s Gallery, London, UK

Shin Gallery Collection, Hiroshima, JP

International Collection of Contemporary Creative Artists’ Books, Marseille, FR

Private collections 

 


BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2021 ACADEMIA, Polish Academy of Sciences chapter; Science in the : Science in Art Networks, co-autor: Prof. Dr hab.Marlena Lembicz, ISSN: 1733-8662,
2021 Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication,  Adama Mickiewicz Uniwersyty ,  DOI: 10.14746/ISSN: 1731-450x
  Post-Technological Experiences. Art-Science-Culture, ed. Michał Krawczak, (rec. Prof. Roy Ascott), Adam Mickiewicz University Press, chapter:  The Molecular Approach: Metamorphosis of Image / Metamorphosis of Imagination / Metamorphosis of Gaze,  ISBN 978-83-232-3511-8 , ISSN 1895-376X

2019

Ryzosfera. Grzyby i Bakterie w Sieci sztuki i Kultury, red. Marta Smolińska, „Ryzosfera Wielka Sieć Małych Swiatów” (str 205-221) Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Artystycznego w Poznaniu, ISBN: 978-83-55015-56-2

 

Ars et Ingenium / Toward Leonardo Da Vinci’s Legacy of Similitude and Invention, “EpiMimezis-EpiZone V; Shifting Identities. Joanna Hoffmann & EpiLab Team” (str. 100-102) katalog XII Florence Biennale, ISBN:978884985821

 

Alma Mater, wywiad:Sztuka w Społeczeństwie Wiedzy” Wyd.Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, październik 2019 nr211

2018 

Dzieła Natury Dzieła Człowieka Historia,  Sztuka w Społeczeństwie Wiedzy”  Studium Generale Universitatis Wratislaviensis & Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT – Wrocławskie Wydawictwo Oświatowe, Wrocław 2

 

Pisarze i Mózg  red. „Mózg i Sztuka. Zmarszczka (cyber)przestrzeni” w „Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne, Seria Literacka 34(54),”, 

Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne, Poznań 2018, Wydział Filologii Polskiej i Klasycznej Uniwersytetu im Adama Mickiewicza, PL

2017

Zeszyty Artystyczne - Edukacyjny Potencjał Fotografii red. Justyna Ryczek Mariann Michałowska. „Poza powierzchnię. Res Invisibles”, Uniwersytet Artystycznyw Poznaniu PL

 

Obraz Przestrzeni, („Molekularne spojrzenie”), Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie, PL

2015

Not Invented by Nature, ed. Ursula Damm, Roland Eils, Heidelberg University, Bauhaus University Weimar, DE      

 

[macro]biologies & [micro]biologies. Art and the Biological Sublime in the 21st Century. ed. by Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz, Art Laboratory, Berlin, DE

2014

Symbiotyczność Tworzenia", Galeria Miejska Gdańsk   

2013

Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium of Electronic Art, ISEA2013, AU

 

Mikrokosmos, at BWA Leszno, PL

2012

Mediations Biennale "Unknown" Kat. Mediation Foundation, Poznan, PL

 

Seeing Ourselves, ,Kat., MUSE Centre of Photography and the Moving Image, New York, USA

2011

W Stronę Trzeciej Kultury" - Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, PL

2009

Language in Art. Chronicle of the art manifestation NewCanvas©Poetry&Art for Poetry International Festival 2004-2006 

Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, NL

 

Voices from the Waters 4th International Film Festival, Bangalore , IN

 

WRO 09. XIII Biennale Sztuki Mediów („Expanded City”), WRO Cenrum Sztuki Mediów, Wrocław,PL

2008

Book-Art Object”, Punctum for Art Experiment i Serbska Biblioteka NarodowaBelgradSE

 

ISEA 2008, The 14th International Symposium on Electronic Art", ISEA2008 Pte Ltd 

2007

Unfolding Memories", The New Gallery, Jeruzalem , IL

 

WRO 07. XII Biennale Sztuki Mediów , WRO Cenrum Sztuki Mediów, Wrocław, PL 

 

Asia – Europe mediation. Contemporary  Asian and European Art”, Stowarzyszenie Kontekst Sztuki, Poznan

 

Poza, Real Art Ways Hartford CT , USA

 

LIMITE 16th International Electronic Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil”, SESC Sao Paolo, BR

2006

Stern Stunden. Innovationen im Weltraum/ Czas gwiazd. Innowacje w Królestwie Wszechswiata”, EPO Europejskie Biuro Patentowe, Berlin, DE

 

Heroiny, BWA Leszno, PL

 

Contact - Context, IF Museum Poznań / Kustlerforum Bonn, DE

2005

Polska Sztuka Video" , IF Museum, Poznań / Stowarzyszenie Kontekst Sztuk, PLi

 

Miejsce Wspolne” Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Poznaniu, PL

 

Galeria ON  2003-2004", Galeria ON, Poznań, PL

2004

Myślą Mową Słowem Obrazem Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Poznaniu, PL

 

Książka i Co dalej. Alphabet, Galeria AT, Poznań

 

Mediacje / Mediatons Galeria ON / If Museum Inner Spaces, Poznań

 

Galerierungang der Zehn – Zehn zeitgenössische Positionen aus der Zehn neuen EU-Laendern, 

KulturJahr der Zehn, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, LVBG, Berlin, DE

2003 

galeria AT 1982-2002", Galeria AT, Poznań, PL

 

Czwarty Element - Ziemia", Galeria ZPAP, Warszawa

 

Po drugiej stronie Lustra. Fotografia Moniki Wiechowskiej", Zamek Książąt Pomorskich w Szczecinie, PL

2002

Links. Graphica Creativa”, Jyvaskala Art Museum, Finlandia

 

Homo Oeconomicus XVIII (3/4)” Munich Institute of Integrated Studies / Hamburg University, DE

 

Kunstlerinnenbucher ", Gedok Schleswig-Holstein, DE

 

Artists Books Yearbook 2001 – 2002, Uniwersytet Zachodniej Anglii , Bristol , UK

2001

Ruchome horyzonty pojęć. Refleksja konceptualna w sztuce polskiej”, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej w Warszawie, PL

 

Places and Spaces of Art. in Gender Perspective”, Uniwersytet Bielefeld

2000

Książki i Strony", Piotr Rypson, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej w Warszawie, PL

 

Volumes of Vulnerabilty”, Gefn Press, London, UK

 

Re:positioning”, Artists Unlimited, BielefeldDE

 

3rd International Artists' Books Exhibition", King Stephen MuseumSzekesfeher, HU

 

Książka i Co Dalej, Galeria AT, Poznań, PL

 

Impact”, University of West England Publication, Wlk.Brytania

 

Galeria ON 1998- 1999” , Galeria ON/ ASP, Poznań, PL

 

International Directory of Artists’ Books”, C.E.M., FR

1999

Miejsce Stałego Pobytu”, Tatranska Galeria w Popradzie, Słowacja i  & Muzeum Okręgowe w Bydgoszczy, SK

 

Epizod, Galeria Labirynt / BWA, Lublin(kat.indyw.), PL

1998

Phoptographie”, Kulturkontakt Wien, AT

 

Nowe Przestrzenie sztuki", Galeria Biała , Lublin

 

20/20 Kingsgate Publications, Londyn, UK

 

Rzeźba 1998 Rocznik „Rzeźba” Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku

 

Książka Artystyczna jako obiekt oraz warsztat artystyczny  T.Wilmański, WSP, Zielona Góra, PL

1997

The Book and the Body”, London Institute, UK

 

Orońsko No4/97” magazyn Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku

1992

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