EDUCATION:
2011-2017 University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland. BFA/MFA Time and Space.
2016 Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK. Exchange studies. Media Arts.
2009-2014 Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland. MFA Painting.
2008-2010 Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Slovak language.
2016 Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK. Exchange studies. Media Arts.
2009-2014 Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland. MFA Painting.
2008-2010 Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Slovak language.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS:
2023:
--Children of Pebbles, Wunderkammer-Naturalia / Artificialia, curated by Nicola Angermann, Stuttgart, Germany.
--Mycelium Orgasm Report, artist talk, screening & VR presentation, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg.
--Film series on Trinh T. Minh-ha. The Ocean In A Drop, Monika Czyzyk, Bamboocene ( I want to build a rocket), screening Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, curated by Iris Dressler, Stuttgart,Germany.
--Mycelium Orgasm Report, artist talk, screening & VR presentation, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg.
--Film series on Trinh T. Minh-ha. The Ocean In A Drop, Monika Czyzyk, Bamboocene ( I want to build a rocket), screening Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, curated by Iris Dressler, Stuttgart,Germany.
2022:
--Frogs & Toads, duo show with dylan arnold, Titanik gallery, Turku, Finland.
Memory Substance Juicing Barbie DNA with Ancestral Purification in Accelerating Decelerating Macabre,
--Hippolyte gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
--A recall of one’s own, Bilsar, curated by Sinan Eren Erk, Istanbul, Turkey
Memory Substance Juicing Barbie DNA with Ancestral Purification in Accelerating Decelerating Macabre,
--Hippolyte gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
--A recall of one’s own, Bilsar, curated by Sinan Eren Erk, Istanbul, Turkey
2020:
--Bamboocene: Memories of Synchronicity and Geographies of a Lonely Pole , Stroboskop Art Space, curated by Kathryn Zazenski, Warsaw, Poland.
--Monstersweet Menagerientity in collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns, Muu gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
--Bamboocene: Memories of Synchronicity, Myymälä2 gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
--Monstersweet Menagerientity in collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns, Muu gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
--Bamboocene: Memories of Synchronicity, Myymälä2 gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
2019:
--I want to build a rocket, C5 project space, Beijing, China .
2017:
--New Media Screening & Talk Series #49 | Monika Czyzyk, New Media Society, Tehran, Iran.
2016:
--BOdyssey, Exhibition laboratory, Helsinki, Finland.
--Gregoire Rousseau & Monika Czyzyk: Public Space, Forum Box - Mediabox, Helsinki, Finland.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024:
--Survival Kit 15 -Measures, in collaboration with Neil Luck, curated by Jussi Koitela, Riga, Latvia.
--Volution, Shahin Zarinbal, curated by Shahin Zarinbal and Sinaida Michalskaja, Berlin, Germany.
--Gränstrakt/Borderland , Malmö Art Museum, curated by Anna Johansson and Julia Björnberg, Malmö Sweden.
--HUNAJANJYVÄ: KAIDAT VEDET in collaboration with Lenka Černotová, Parkano, Finland.
--Volution, Shahin Zarinbal, curated by Shahin Zarinbal and Sinaida Michalskaja, Berlin, Germany.
--Gränstrakt/Borderland , Malmö Art Museum, curated by Anna Johansson and Julia Björnberg, Malmö Sweden.
--HUNAJANJYVÄ: KAIDAT VEDET in collaboration with Lenka Černotová, Parkano, Finland.
2023:
--SEQUENCES XI: CAN’T SEE, curated by Marika Agu, Maria Arusoo, Kaarin Kiviähk and Sten Ojave, Reykjavik, Iceland.
--WARSAW>KIN>BERLIN, Galeria Promocyjna, Warsaw, Poland, co-curated by Katie Zazenski, Elisabeth Sonneck.
--(Re-)Gaining Ecological Futures - Mycopoetics, Floating University, curtated by Berit Fischer, Berlin, Germany.
--Regel 62, Sinne gallery, Pro Artibus, curated by Markus Åström, Helsinki, Finalnd.
--Currently Available, Project Space Römerstrasse of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.
--WARSAW>KIN>BERLIN, Galeria Promocyjna, Warsaw, Poland, co-curated by Katie Zazenski, Elisabeth Sonneck.
--(Re-)Gaining Ecological Futures - Mycopoetics, Floating University, curtated by Berit Fischer, Berlin, Germany.
--Regel 62, Sinne gallery, Pro Artibus, curated by Markus Åström, Helsinki, Finalnd.
--Currently Available, Project Space Römerstrasse of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.
2022:
No_Mad / Rooted in becoming, Konzepthaus Laboratorium, Thun, Switzerland. Curated by Allesandro Rolandi, collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns
2021-2022 Boomerang:The Ninth OCAT Biennale, OCAT, Shenzhen, China. Curated by Song Yi. (selected for festival, droped at censorship)
2021:
-Cellar, Institute For Provocation, curated by Song Yi, Beijing, China.
-Current Situation, Center For Contemporary Art Laznia. Curated by Jolanta Woszczenko.
2020:
THE CURRENT THING, online exhibition. Curated by Caspar Stracke and Keith Sanborn.
-The Memory Differential, ORTVI, online exhibition. Curated by Amanda Schmitt.
- What is left after artists?, Galeria Bronowice, Krakow, Poland. Curated by Agata Pankiewicz.
I Think Therefore I? Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China. Curated by Douglas Lewis
2019:
Festival Bajo Techo - Maczul Museum of Contemporary Art in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Curated by Nodo CCS.
2018:
-Plat(t)form 2018, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Wintherthur, Switzerland.
-Urban Nomadism, Hangzhou Moving Image Exhibition, Liangzhu Center of Arts, Hangzhou, China.
- WRO 2017 DRAFT SYSTEMS RÉSUMÉ, Wro Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland.
2017:
-BIENNALE WRO 2017 DRAFT SYSTEMS, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland.
- Animal and the Logic of Others, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland.
- Rethinking Digitalization, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki. Curated by Andrey Bogush.
FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS:
2024 Currents New Media, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2024 IASPIS reception during the pre-opening of the 60th Biennale di Venezia, Artist talk and VR presentation.
2023 Bamboocene ( I want to build a rocket ), screening, Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, Romania 2021 PHI-CREATURES, Venice Art Projects, Venice, Italy. Curated by Kasia Sobucka, Arts Territory.
2021 Miami New Media Festival, Miami, USA. Curated by Nodo CCS.
2021 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival In The Screen, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
2020 Videokeidas, Turku, Finland. Curated by Vaft Festival.
202 Foreign Bodies, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, USA.
2019 Foreign Bodies, Zacheta gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Curated by Kathryn Zazenski.
2018 Making Worlds‘ Diffrakt, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Isabel de Sena.
2017 Dance Film; Deconstructed//International Artists Program, NYC, USA. Curated by Lucy Kerr.
2017 Biennale Wro 2017 Draft Systems, Wroclaw, Poland.
2017 III Festival Videoarte nodoCCS, Caracas, Venezuela
2016 November film festival, London, UK.
2016 Media Art Festival S.O.S. Save Our Souls - Art for a time of urgencies, Ewha Womans University Campus,
Seoul, South Korea.
2016 SPECULATION(ELATION 10): THE ENCOUNTERING, New York Institute of Technology (Beijing Campus)
@ Communications University of China, Beijing, China. Curated by Torsten Zenas Burns.
2016 Farbenladen, Munich, Germany.
2016 Inescapable reality: we need to talk screenings, Limbo, London, UK.
2015 Mlode Wilki, Szczecin, Poland.
2015MADE AT KUVA – Moving Image from Helsinki, UnionDocs, NYC, USA.
2015 9 In Out festival, Laznia Nowa, Gdansk, Poland.
2014 Eurovideo festival Videographies Liege, Donostia San Sebastian, Sarajevo, Mons, Skopje and Kaliningrad.
2014 13 Mountain festival, Krakow, Poland.
2024 IASPIS reception during the pre-opening of the 60th Biennale di Venezia, Artist talk and VR presentation.
2023 Bamboocene ( I want to build a rocket ), screening, Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, Romania 2021 PHI-CREATURES, Venice Art Projects, Venice, Italy. Curated by Kasia Sobucka, Arts Territory.
2021 Miami New Media Festival, Miami, USA. Curated by Nodo CCS.
2021 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival In The Screen, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
2020 Videokeidas, Turku, Finland. Curated by Vaft Festival.
202 Foreign Bodies, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, USA.
2019 Foreign Bodies, Zacheta gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Curated by Kathryn Zazenski.
2018 Making Worlds‘ Diffrakt, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Isabel de Sena.
2017 Dance Film; Deconstructed//International Artists Program, NYC, USA. Curated by Lucy Kerr.
2017 Biennale Wro 2017 Draft Systems, Wroclaw, Poland.
2017 III Festival Videoarte nodoCCS, Caracas, Venezuela
2016 November film festival, London, UK.
2016 Media Art Festival S.O.S. Save Our Souls - Art for a time of urgencies, Ewha Womans University Campus,
Seoul, South Korea.
2016 SPECULATION(ELATION 10): THE ENCOUNTERING, New York Institute of Technology (Beijing Campus)
@ Communications University of China, Beijing, China. Curated by Torsten Zenas Burns.
2016 Farbenladen, Munich, Germany.
2016 Inescapable reality: we need to talk screenings, Limbo, London, UK.
2015 Mlode Wilki, Szczecin, Poland.
2015MADE AT KUVA – Moving Image from Helsinki, UnionDocs, NYC, USA.
2015 9 In Out festival, Laznia Nowa, Gdansk, Poland.
2014 Eurovideo festival Videographies Liege, Donostia San Sebastian, Sarajevo, Mons, Skopje and Kaliningrad.
2014 13 Mountain festival, Krakow, Poland.
SCHOLARSHIPS/GRANTS:
2022 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Mobility grant.
2021 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Project grant.
2020 Frame Finland. Travel grant.
2020 Kone Foundation. Working and project grant.
2019 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Display grant.
2019 Visek, Kuvasto, Helsinki, Finland. Project grant.
2018 Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse. Project grant.
2018 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Regional grant, working grant.
2017 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Mobility grant.
2016 Finnish Cultural Foundation. Working grant.
2021 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Project grant.
2020 Frame Finland. Travel grant.
2020 Kone Foundation. Working and project grant.
2019 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Display grant.
2019 Visek, Kuvasto, Helsinki, Finland. Project grant.
2018 Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse. Project grant.
2018 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Regional grant, working grant.
2017 Arts Promotion Center Finland. Mobility grant.
2016 Finnish Cultural Foundation. Working grant.
RESIDENCES:
2024 Goethe in partenrship with Akademie Schloss Solitude, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2024 IASPIS, Artist in residence, Malmö, Sweden
2022/2023 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2021 The Amant Siena Residency, Chiusure, Italy, supported by Amant Foundation.
2019 Institute for Provocation, Beijing, China, supported by Finnish Cultural Foundation.
2018 African Artist Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria, supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
2016 Signal Culture Residency, Owego, New York, USA, supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
2024 IASPIS, Artist in residence, Malmö, Sweden
2022/2023 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2021 The Amant Siena Residency, Chiusure, Italy, supported by Amant Foundation.
2019 Institute for Provocation, Beijing, China, supported by Finnish Cultural Foundation.
2018 African Artist Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria, supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
2016 Signal Culture Residency, Owego, New York, USA, supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
PERFORMANCES:
2023 Children of Pebbles, with Neil Luck, Boris Muller, Mateusz Sciborski, Current -Kunst Und Urbaner Raum, Stuttgart, Germany, curated by Nicola Angermann
2023 Everything is Churning and Opening, with Arco, Colourscape, London, UK
2023 Lust Lake, Monika Czyzyk and Neil Luck, NTS radio, guest mix for Mark Leckey’s Abundance Dump 2022 Lust Lake, with Neil Luck and Arco, Akdemie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany 2018 Ságo ń búgò in collaboration with Footrpints of David, African Artist Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria.
2013 Seven Deadly Sins by B. Brecht and K. Weil, produced by Silja Rantanen, Helsinki, Finland.
2012 Passages in collaboration with Company Kivitasku, Paris, France.
2013 Seven Deadly Sins by B. Brecht and K. Weil, produced by Silja Rantanen, Helsinki, Finland.
2012 Passages in collaboration with Company Kivitasku, Paris, France.