moRgan B. Konopka (b. 1965, Szczecin)
In 1989 graduated from Fryderyk Chopin State Music School in Warsaw with a musician-instrumentalist degree. From 1991 to 1993 she studied psychotronics in Lodz. From 1994 to 1998 and from 2000 to 2002, Konopka studied at the Cinematography and Television Production Department of PWSFTviT (film school) in Lodz – graduated with a degree in Television Production.
moRgan B. Konopka is a new media artist. Her work includes video-installations, digital photograms, interactive installations and video-performances among other. She has also composed music for documentaries about contemporary art.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS / (*) individual
2008
The Red-eye Effect. Polish Photography in the 21st Century – Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
2007
malavida: moRgan & veriKami – CAA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw (*)
Come, I Will Tell You a Story – Manhattan Gallery, Lodz
A Woman About a Woman (3. Edition) – Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biala
2006
Her Portrait Un-Faithful – Manhattan Gallery, Lodz
Panopticon. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Polen – Kulturforum Burgkloster, Lübeck, Germany
2005
Immortal (multimedia act) / Culture of Polish Journals Festival – CAA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
Egocentric, Immoral, Outdated. Contemporary Images of Artists – Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Spaces of Intimacy / Contemporary Identities. Photography in Poland Today - Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
2004
The Films of Polish Women Artists in the 1970s and 1980s – Starr Auditorium @ Tate Modern, London, UK
2003
Creativity of a Machine. Meat and Bits – Pusta Gallery / GCK, Katowice (*)
The Films of Polish Women Artists in the 1970s and 1980s – The Kitchen, New York City, NY, USA
3. Biennial of Photography: Un-Daily – City Art Gallery „Arsenal”, Poznan
2002
Sasiad(ka)/Nachbar(i)n – WUK Projektraum, Vienna, Austria
Mental Slide – CAA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw (*)
Transmediale. Festival for Art and Digital Culture – Berlin, Germany
Extropia. Creativity of a Machine – Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw (*)
2001
Communication Front (CFront) 2001: cyber and my sp@ce – Plovdiv, Bulgaria
9. International Media Art Biennial WRO – Teatr Wspolczesny (Contemporary Theatre), Wroclaw
2000
Digital Photograms 1998-2000 – FF Gallery, Lodz (*)
2. Biennial of Photography: Crystallization – City Art Gallery „Arsenal”, Poznan
Interferences (screening) – Muzeum Sztuki (Museum of Art), Lodz (*)
Interpolations + Retrospective Sequences (screenings) – CAA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw (*)
[d]vision. Int'l Festival for Digital Culture – Schikaneder Kino, Vienna, Austria
1999
Illumination II (Capella) / LAB 7: Translocation. International Exhibition of Media Art – 1 Gallery / CAA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
Captured Images – State Art Gallery, Sopot
VIPER. International Festival for Film, Video and New Media – Lucerne, Switzerland
Transmediale. Festival for Art and Digital Culture – Berlin, Germany
1998
Encoded Identities & Mobile Zones – Otso Gallery, Espoo, Finland
Avant-garde Films and Videos from Central Europe – The LUX Centre, London, UK
1. Biennial of Photography – City Art Gallery „Arsenal”, Poznan
Pour une Ecologie des Media, 3èmes Rencontres Internationales Art cinéma / vidéo / ordinateur – Le Cinéma des Cinéastes, Paris, France
1997
Living Gallery – Tower Building, Lodz
Lodz Art Critics Suggest – Manhattan Gallery, Lodz
MetaBody – CAA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
1996
A Woman About a Woman (1. Edition) – Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biala
Polish Monitior (WRO) – Polish Theatre, Wroclaw
