Anna Konik
A Grain of Sand in the Pupil of the Eye. Video works 2000—2015
a contemporary artist whose work includes video installations, objects, video art, photography, and drawings. The artist lives and works in Berlin, Warsaw, and Dobrodzień. She studied in the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the studios of Krzysztof M. Bednarski and Professor Grzegorz Kowalski, wherein she defended her thesis in 2000. In 2012, Konik received the title of Doctor of Arts at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from the Faculty of Media Art and Stage Design. In 2009, she was nominated for two major awards for young Polish artists: the Deutsche Bank's Views award and the Polityka Passport award. In the same year, she was invited by Professor Horst Bredekamp, as the first visual artist, to assume the position of associate professor to Rudolf Arnheim in the Institute of Art and Visual Studies (Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte) at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
