Bogna Burska

Bogna Burska (born 1974) is a Polish playwright and visual artist known for installations, spatial photography and video. Her art is presented from a feminist perspective. Her initial painting compositions were narratives of congealed blood forms made with red paints applied by fingers on the walls, canvas and glass.

Burska established the Warsaw Artists Action (WAA) organization in 2002. She also co-edited a Polish art magazine titled Internet Feminist and Gender Art Magazine Artmix which was the first of its kind dealing with subjects related to feminism and gender equality. She resides in Warsaw and works in Gdańsk. Her works have been exhibited throughout Poland and also abroad in many countries.

Biography Bogna Burska, born in 1974 at Warsaw, Poland, was educated in the subject of art at the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from where she received a degree in 2001.

Burska started her career in 2006 from Gdańsk as faculty member in the Intermedia department of at the Sculpture Department at the . At the academy, she continued her doctoral studies and obtained a doctoral degree (PhD) in 2009. She is associate professor at the Intermedia Faculty at the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts.

Burska's innovative technique practiced from 2004 onward relates to the "technique of found footage video" based on films. In this genre the works she created, which received appreciation, are "Rain in Paris" (Deszcz w Paryżu) in 2004 incorporating snippet scenes of love and eroticism made in Paris such as Queen Margot, Marquise, Dangerous Liaisons, Frantic, Henry & June, Poison Pen , The Lovers on the Bridge, and Night Wind.

Exhibitions Burska has held solo and group exhibitions of her art work not only in Poland but also in many other countries. Some of the shows held by her are:

Solo exhibitions at: National Gallery of Art Zachęta, Warsaw Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków Wyspa Art Institute, Gdańsk City Gallery Arsenal, Białystok Kronika Art Center, Bytom Biala Gallery, Lublin Platan Galerie in Budapest Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv PL Gallery in Rome. Group exhibitions at: CAIXA Cultural, Brasília Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow The Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius Estonian Art Museum Exhibition Hall, Tallinn Thessaloniki Museum of Photography La Centrale Electrique European Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels Museo Arte Nuoro O Museu Nacional do Conjunto Cultural da Republica, Brasília