Sustenazo, 2010 View of the exhibition "Monika Weiss-Sustenazo" at Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, March-May, 2010.
The artist in front of "Phlegethon-Milczenie" (2005), with Leanne Mella, curator of "The Prisoner's Dilemma" at CIFO Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, 2008-2009.
Monika Weiss is an artist whose installations, videos, objects, drawings and sound works provide the viewer with a potentially altered experience of time and space. In the words of British art critic Guy Brett, "Weiss creates an alternative experience of space and time, which is not end-driven but steady and enduring, establishing and deepening a human presence. Her work is a remarkable, individual counterpoint between technological media (video projection) and the ancient activity of drawing. Sound is also an important element, meticulously composed, which lifts the silent filmed actions into another emotional register."
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Monika Weiss lives and works in New York City and is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Art and Art History, Washington College. Her works have been exhibited both in the U.S. and internationally. Weiss' recent solo exhibitions include "Monika Weiss: Sustenazo" at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2010. In 2005, Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York organized and published a comprehensive survey of the artist's work to date. "Five Rivers" was favorably reviewed in The New York Times. The artist's most recent exhibitions include also "Opening" at Muzeum Montanelli (Prague), "Prisoner's Dilemma" at Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO (Miami), "Women and Olympic Games" at Frauenmuseum (Bonn), "On the Absence of Camps" at Kunsthaus Dresden and "Moment by Moment" at North Dakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks).
Ms. Weiss' writing has been published in such books and journals as New Realities: Being Syncretic, Springer Wien/New York (2009), and Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, Intellect Ltd, London (2006). Publications about the artist's work include Drawing Now, Between the Lines of Contemporary Art, I.B. Tauris, London (2007). In 2009 the artist was awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in interdisciplinary category. Monika Weiss's work is represented by Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal and Remy Toledo Projects, New York and is featured in public collections such as Albertina Museum (Vienna) and Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami).
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2010 Sustenazo II, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
2010 Sustenazo, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
2009 Conversation-the Begining, with Roland Schefferski, Centre for Contemporary Art, Elblag, PL
2009 Expulsion, ConcentArt, Berlin, DE
2008 Marginalia, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, CAN
2007 Between Body and History, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, CAN
2006 Limen II, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2006 Between Body and Language, with Graciela Fuentes and Sara Mondiano, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, USA
2006 Drawing Lethe, World Financial Center Winter Garden/The Drawing Center, New York, USA
2005 Five Rivers, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, USA
2005 Leukos-Early Morning Light, with Kaarina Kaikonen, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Performing the Drawing, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, CAN
2005 Phlegethon-Milczenie, Inter-Galerie, Potsdam/Berlin, DE
2004 Intervals, with Carolee Schneemann, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Vessels, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
2002 Ennoia, with Stephen Vitiello, Diapason Gallery, New York, USA
1998 Koiman, Space 1181 Art Center, Atlanta, USA
1996 3 vrouwen, 3 naties, 3 visies, with Ulrike Hogrebe and Liselotte Schut, BMB Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
1996 Saint Sebastian from Atlanta, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, USA
1995 After, Galerie L'espace Degree, Luxemburg, LUX
1994 Recent Works, Galerie BMB, Amsterdam, NL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 The Sixth Borough, No Longer Empty, Governors Island, New York, USA
2010 Opening, Museum Montanelli, Prague, CZE
2009 Perform Williamsburg, Urban Art Projects, New York, USA
2009 The Prisoner's Dilemma, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, USA
2008 Wa(h)re Kunst, ConcentArt, Berlin, DE
2008 Independent Drawing New York, Artbreak Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2008 Frauen bei Olympia, FrauenMuseum, Bonn, DE
2008 KRAJ, National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Opole, PL
2008 Www.women, Headbones Gallery, Toronto, CAN
2007 You Won't Feel a Thing, WYSPA Art Institute, Gdansk, PL
2007 Cornice Art Fair, Venice, Italy, IT
2007 Loneliness and Melancholy, Manchester College, Connecticut, USA
2006 Moment by Moment, The North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, USA
2006 Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, USA
2006 POZA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA
2006 Polyphony of Images, Consulate General of Poland, New York, USA
2006 You Won't Feel a Thing, Kunsthaus Dresden, DE
2006 Codes of Culture, ArteBA, Buenos Aires, ARG
2006 Spirit of Discovery,The Facto Foundation, Trancoso, Portugal, PT
2006 Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers, Kunsthaus Dresden, DE
2005 OMNIART, Miami Basel International Art Fair, Miami
2005 Bayenale, The LAB Gallery, San Francisco
2005 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York
2005 DIVA Video and Digital Art Fair, New York
2004 Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
2003 Harlem Art Project, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, USA
2003 12 Annual Art Artists Studio Tour, Art in General, New York, USA
2003 The Sonic Self, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
2003 OHM 2, a performance in frequency, El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
2001 I/O Skin, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, USA
SELECTED REVIEWS
2010 Kunstreisen, NRK, Oslo
2010 Tygodnik Powszechny, Warsaw
2010 The Prague Post
2009 Esse-Arts + Opinions, 66, Montreal
2009 Miami New Times/Art
2008 The Warsaw Voice
2007 Montreal Gazette
2007 ARTnews
2007 ArtNexus
2006 The Hartford Courant
2006 Sachisische Zeitung
2006 ARTnews
2006 La Revista Nueva, Buenos Aires
2005 The New York Times
2005 Afterimage
2005 Kultur/Potsdamer Neuste Nachrichteni
2005 Vie des Arts Montreal
2004 New York Arts Magazine
2000 Creative Loafing, Atlanta
1999 Sculpture
1999 Art Papers
1998 Artnet.com Reviews
1998 The Atlanta Journal/Constitution
1995 Louxembourger Word
1994 Alert: Galerie Agenda Amsterdam
SELECTED GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2010 YADDO, Saratoga Springs, USA
2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work, USA
2009 ConcentArt/Media in Motion, Berlin
2009 Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
2006 World Financial Center Winter Garden, New York, USA
2006 The Facto Foundation, Trancoso, PT
2005 Philip Guston and Musa McKim, YADDO, Saratoga Springs, USA
2003 Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York, USA
2002 The School of Art Institute of Chicago, USA
1997 Artists In Residence International (AIRI), Atlanta, USA
1996 Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
1996 The Department of Cultural Affairs, The City of Savannah, USA
SELECTED BOOKS/CATALOGUES
2010 MuMo Opening, Montanelli Muzeum
2009 The Prisoner's Dilemma, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation
2008 Frauen bei Olympia, FrauenMuseum
2008 POZA: On the Polishness of Polish Contemporary Art, Real Art Ways, D.A.P.
2007 Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art, Loughborough University
2007 You Won't Feel a Thing: On panic, obsession, rituality and anesthesia, Kunstahaus Dresden/Wyspa Institute of Art
2006 Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection
2006 Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers, Kunsthaus Dresden
2006 Monika Weiss: Five Rivers, Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY
2005 Between Presence and Performative Memory, Panoptikum, Akademickie Centrum Kultury
2004 Monika Weiss: Vessels, Chelsea Art Museum
SELECTED INVITED LECTURES
2009 Stony Brook University, New York
2009 Sala Parpallo Centre for Contemporary Art, Valencia
2008 White Columns, New York
2008 Concordia University, Montreal
2008 LABoral Centro de Arte y Creation Industrial, Gijon
2007 Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
2007 Loughborough University
2007 Real Art Ways, Hartford
2006 McGill University, Montreal
2005 APEXART, New York
2005 The City and The Humanities, Lehman College, Bronx, New York
2004 Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
2004 Location One & Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2002 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2001 Nomads+Residents, Sixteen Beavers, New York
2000 Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta
1998 Salomon Projects Gallery, Atlanta
1997 Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta
1996 Spelman College, Atlanta
1996 Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah
