Ania Nowak

Ania Nowak is a visual artist and choreographer based between Berlin and Warsaw, working internationally. 

She approaches vulnerability and desire as ways towards reimagining what bodies and language can and cannot do. Nowak develops formats such as live and video performance, installation and text. In her practice Ania engages with bodies in their nonlinear feeling and thinking capacity to tackle the difficulties of companionship and solidarity in times of perpetual crisis. Her work attempts to reimagine the notions of disorder, pleasure, disease, intimacy, pain, sexuality, class and accessibility as sites of binary free living. 

Nowak's work has been presented at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlinische Galerie, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, KINDL, Akademie der Künste and Sophiensæle in Berlin; BWA Wrocław; Galeria Arsenał in Poznań; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki; La Casa Encendida in Madrid; Kunsthalle Münster; Salzburger Kunstverein; the 14th Baltic Triennial at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius; and the 12th Gothenburg Biennial. 

Ania Nowak regularly collaborates with universities and educational programmes across Europe, including Kem School in Warsaw, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, and the Live Art Forms MA programme at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. She has been artist-in-residence at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, the Ankara Queer Art Program in Turkey, and the Swedish Arts Council in Stockholm, a.o.