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

Anda Rottenberg, Director of Galeria Zacheta in Warsaw where Kozyra first showed ³Bath house² in 1997 and who also purchased the work, sparked off controversy by writing to Art Monthly in October 1998 and claiming that Kozyra¹s ³Bath house² and artist Tacita Dean¹s ³Gellert² 1998 were of the same subject the most famous bath house in Budapest. Freely admitting that controversy helps in the promotion of a work, ³ Controversy around this work was in fact a very stimulating factor and now as the months passed Bath house has come to be regarded as classic², Rottenberg found the coincidence ³indeed amazing². However, the works differ completely. Whereas Kozyra used hidden cameras intending to reveal the bathing women¹s natural behaviour as well as challenging normal considerations of privacy, and is a multi-screen video work (see letter again), Dean had permission from the bath workers and her single screen film is concerned with the healing sulphurous waters of the baths (see Colin Gleadell, The Daily Telegraph 1 February 2001).

[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]