12 PM AM Tuesday 10 December 2024

Antonina Konopelska (1990) works primarily with staged or provoked camera situations that are based on personal experiences or documentary research, focusing on the matters of identity, interpersonal relations, and proxemics, often implementing social contexts.

Graduate of prof. Grzegorz Kowalski’s Audiovisual Space Studio Kowalnia at Media Art Faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (MA 2016, BA 2014) and Modern Language Studies at the University of Warsaw (Iberian and Ibero-American Studies, BA 2014). She defended her doctoral dissertation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice under the supervision of prof. Ewa Zawadzka and prof. Judyta Bernaś (2022).

She presented her works during numerous solo shows (Chór / The Choir, Vienna Woods Gallery, Los Angeles, 2020; Libertango, TRAFO, Szczecin, 2018; The Wax of Poland 3.1, Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw, 2018,  among others) and group exhibitions (Out of Poland, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica Art Studios, 2019; A Process 2.0, Krakow Photomonth, 2016; Readings, Salon Akademii, Warsaw, 2015; Masquerade, CFF The Centre for Photography, Stockholm, 2012, among others). Recipient of Adam Mickiewicz Institute Polish  Culture Abroad scholarship (2021, 2020, 2018), scholarship of ZAIKS – Polish Society of Authors and Composers (2021-2013), finalist of INOUT Festival (2019) and DEBUTS! program (2015), Ministry of Foreign  Affairs Artistic Award of 2014, The Ministry of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for outstanding artistic achievements (2013).

Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw.