Anna Baumgart

Anna Baumgart (born 1966) is a Polish artist, best known for her large installation pieces and film. She is based in Warsaw. While she covers many different issues in her works, "all of them share a preoccupation with repression." Her works are in the permanent collections of several Polish museums.

Early life and education Baumgart was born in Wrocław in 1966.

Career Themes Baumgart uses historiography to examine and re-examine the past through art. Szum Magazine writes that Baumgart likes to play with history and themes in culture.

Baumgart also examines issues related to gender, such as how to redefine the "notion of 'hysteria' ". She explores the roles of how a child's development is shaped and whether it is through the mother or society in Who's Talking? (1998). Her work I've Got It From My Mother (2002) uses myths and symbols in the photographic and sculptural works of the artist and her daughter Anna Baumgart.

Baumgart used found footage to create Real? (The Cranes Are Flying) (2001). Baumgart's first staged film was Ecstatics, Hysterics and Other Saintly Ladies (2004) and premiered at the Zachęta National Gallery. The film project, Fresh Cherries (2010) examines prostitution in concentration camps. It was created for the exhibition at the Art Centre in Falstad, Norway, where German concentration camp was located during the Second World War.

In 2010, Baumgart collaborated with artist, Agnieszka Kurant, to create Project (...) which is an installation that spanned Chlodna Street where there was once a footbridge linking Jewish communities to one another during World War II. Mother (1999) Condoms, Money, Lady - No problem! (Prezerwatywy, pieniądze, money, lady - no problem, 1999)

Major exhibitions Media Art Biennale in 1997 and 1999, At The Time of Writing Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski in Warsaw, 1998 Public Relations, CCA Łaźnia in Gdańsk, 1999 Sing, Slaves, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków, Poland, 2014 Three Plagues, Galeria Labirynt – BWA Lublin, Poland, 2019 Anna Baumgart. Revolution is not a dinner, Galeria Miejska BWA w Bydgoszczy, 2019

Public collections Zachęta National Gallery of Art