Kozyra

Katarzyna Kozyra was born in Warsaw (Poland) in 1963.
She lives in Warsaw, Trento and in Berlin.

Education:

1998
Postgraduate Guest studies at the Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst in Leipzig in the New Media workshop under Prof. Helmut Mark
1988-1993
Studies at the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw, Graduated from the Sculpture Department under Prof. Grzegorz Kowalski.
1985-1988
Studies at the Faculty of German Philology at the Warsaw University

Scholarships and Awards:

2003
Scholarship in the Berlin artists programme of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2000
Scholarship from Kosciuszko Foundation, New York
1999
ArtsLink, New York
Honorable mention, "because she [KK] explores and examines the authoritarian predominance of male territory and unites the elements of performance and mise en scene", 48. International Biennale of Visual Art, Venice
1998
Scholarship in Vienna, Kulturkontakt, Österreich
1997
"Paszport Polityki" Award for 1997 in the arts "for the most promising artist: Katarzyna Kozyra. The award [is granted] in recognition of her original plastic forms, for not giving in to any artistic ideologies, for her lack of pretense, for uncompromising stance and the courage to talk about the most difficult issues in an open and perceptive fashion."
1996
Scholarship in Vienna, Oesterreichischer Akademischer Austauschdienst