Katarzyna Kozyra

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Katarzyna Kozyra (b. 1963) is a Polish video artist. She graduated in 1993 from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Art and received a Paszport Polityki award in 1997. She has exhibited internationally since 1997, at venues including Brown University and Carnegie International in the U.S.

Her art was involved in a 1999 censorship incident in Poland. Her photo portrait of Slawomir Belina in a Warsaw exhibition in 2000 was also controversial for its alleged eroticism, as his anus was in the centre of the composition.^[1]^[2]

Since 2003 Kozyra is working with a DAAD grant, and has developed a new form of performance involving operatic singing.^[3]

1 Controversy
2 Further reading
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Controversy

Later works by Tacita Dean appear virtually identical to videos predating their creation. Readers should refer to art historian and curator Anda Rottenberg's letter to Art Monthly (October 1998) about the similarity between artist Katarzyna Kozyra's film "Bath House" - of women chatting in a bath house in Budapest, and Tacita Dean's (much later) film "Gellert" - also of women chatting in a bath house in Budapest.

[edit] Further reading

Sabine Folie, The Impossible Theater: Performativity in the Works of Pawel Althamer, Tadeusz Kantor, Katarzyna Kozyra, Robert Kusmirowski and Artur Zmijewski, Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst (2006), ISBN 3938821035
Brandon Taylor, Contemporary Art: Art since 1970, Prentice Hall (2004), ISBN 0131181742
Laura Hoptman and Tomas Pospiszyl (ed.), Primary Documents: A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s, The MIT Press (2002), ISBN 0262083132 - described at MOMA International Program [1]