In the series of works developed for the exhibition Venus Conjunct, the artist concentrated on the vast field of the invisible and unexplainable within the galactic system. Her paintings suggest sections of the sky, but simultaneously foreground the construction of this illusion that produced this impression. Her photographs record constellations, which she previously discovered and which by then only existed in secrecy, that create relations between the earth and the sky. Thus, the moon on a photograph could be a spherical street lamp that engrafts itself into a line-up of other lanterns. Just as well, the lights could be a duplication of the moon.
Playlist, first presented at the exhibition at DAAD Gallery in Berlin, consists of 39 Youtube-films that run side by side on multiple screens. Meditation guides in spectrum colors converge with a recording of research conferences and music videos with psychedelic shambling ornamentation. All the films deal directly or indirectly with the gray areas of science, with supernatural powers and philosophies. For Brzeżańska, Playlist is a kind of reference list, which points to the different systems of knowledge and wisdom she uses.
In the Spring of 2012 she had her second show at Berlin's Kamm Gallery, taking on the idea of a return to nature, a place of respite and the relationship between human beings and plants. Back to the Garden brings together nostalgic, dreamlike objects and images with the practical beauty of nature. She also draws from the theories of Stephen Harrod Buhner, suggesting that man's disconnection from nature has caused a widespread disturbance throughout the ecosystem and a return to nature can bring about both a sense of healing, and a better understanding of "who we are". leaves and branches are the overriding theme, created across a variety of techniques from painting to graphic design. She hung large-format prints from the ceiling of the gallery space, recreating a symbolic forest peopled by strange beings and structures that nostalgically reach back towards the artist's childhood. There is a hut that represents a child's hiding place - within it Brzeżańska's video of dancer Pina Bausch plays as she moves her body to the rhythm of Sacre du Printemps by Igor Stravinsky.
Editor: Agnieszka Le Nart
Source: www.galeriekamm.de, www.kunsthausbaselland.ch
Selected Individual Exhibitions
2012
- Back to the Garden, Galerie Klamm, Berlin, Germany
2011
- 852 Hz, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles
- Sound Waves, Light Waves, Dance Waves, Clifton Benevento, New York, USA
2010
- Galactic Resonance, HOTEL, London, UK
- Cosmic Equation, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
- Playlist, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2009
528 Hz, Karma International, Zurich
Venus Conjunct, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
2008
Agnieszka Brzezanska Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland
LISTE 08, Broadway 1602, Basel, Switzerland
Pulawska 25 curated by Agnieszka
2007
- L'artiste, le modele et la peinture / The artist, the model and the painting, Broadway 1602, New York, United States
2006
- Warszawa dla amatorów / Warsaw for amateurs, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw
- Odwrotnie niż odwrotnie i znów odwrotnie / Inversely to inversely and inversely again, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
- Tunnel Like a Tail - Hotel Gallery, London, Great Britain;
2005
- Free Doom, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw;
- Dharma TV, Künstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
- Is Nothing Not Enough?, Broadway 1602, New York, United States
2004
- AP4, Geneva, Switzerland (with Svetlana Heger)
2003
- ..., Platan Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (with Janos Fodor)
2002
- Double Happiness, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw; Laboratorium, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2001
- Kiedy myślę o tobie, mam kwiaty w głowie / When I think of you I have flowers in my head - Galeria Art Okręgu Warszawskiego ZPAP, Warsaw
1997
- Sprzyjającym jest przekroczyć wielką wodę / It is favorable to cross the big water – Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011
- From Berlin, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Kopenhagen, Norway
- Starke Emergenz, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Germany
2010
- Milk Drop Coronet. 30 Exhibitions on the Virtuosity of Thingness, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
- Agnieszka Brezanska, Miriam Cahn Mária Bartuszová, Harris Lieberman, New York< USA
- Holy Shit (yelled John upon noticing the delicate colours of sunset), curated by Fanny Gonella, PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- The Zero Budget Biennial, curated by Joanna Fiduccia and Chris Sharp, Rockeby, London, UK
2009
- Cave Painting I, curated by Bob Nickas, Gresham’s Ghost, New York, USA
- ZWEI TAGE DREI NÄCHTE, Bel Etage, Berlin, Germany
- The Zero Budget Biennial I, curated by Joanna Fiduccia and Chris Sharp, Schleicher + Lange and Carlos Cardenas Galerie, Paris, France
- Sorrow Conquers Happiness, No Local, Myslowice, Poland
- Cave Painting, PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- Full of Emptiness, Bel Etage, Berlin, Germany
- Prose pour des Esseintes, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland
- Art in Cinema, No Local on Tour, Poland
2008
ART TLV, International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Act so that I can speak to you, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Tom Burr, Kitty Kraus, Maria Loboda, Michael Queenland, Annette Ruenzler, Kathrin Sonntag, Aneta Grzeszykowska,
Forum Expanded at Berlin International Film Festival, curated by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Anselm Franke
Varsavia Saluta Roma, Roma
2007
- Manual – Kronika Gallery, Bytom; BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała
Liste - The Young Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland2006
- All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go - Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Great Britain
- Nowi dokumentaliści / New Documentalists,Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; BWA, Zielona Góra
- Take One - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States
- Housewarning - SI Swiss Institute, New York, United States
- Farewell to Icon - Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
2005
- Club Cube - Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
- The Pantagruel Syndrome - T1/ Torino Triennale - Turin
- Sicht der Dinge. Positionen aktueller Kunst in Polen - Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Gallery, Regensburg, Germany
- Exile: New York is a Good Hotel - Broadway 1602, New York, United States;
2004
- Liberrealizm - Zmiana Organizacji Ruchu, Warsaw
- Tirol Transfer – Austrian Culture Forum, Warsaw
2003
- Pod flagą biało-czerwoną / Under the white and red flag - Estonian Art Museum, Tallin, Estonia; Centre for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuana; National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; "Poesis" - Kunsthalle Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
2002
- Rzeczywiście, młodzi są realistami / Indeed, youngsters are realists - Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2001
- Zawody malarskie / Painting olympics, BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała