Head of the Project
Marta Bosowska
PhD of fine arts, associate professor at the University of Arts in Poznań.
Forms of artistic expression are mainly: performance, installation, and object. In her work, she explores the themes of time past, presence,absence, trace, ritual, residue, and repetition. He refers to memory and presence. She uses the notion of „residue/remnant” in relation to selected events, places, or people. The artist is particularly interested in working in public spaces.
Winner of scholarships granted by the National Center of Culture in Warsaw; „Soft Bodies” Ars Electronica. Bodies” Ars Electronica Center Linz in Austria; the City of Poznan, Department of Art and Culture of the City of Munich.
Apart from her artistic work, she is also involved in international curatorial and educational projects. She collaborates with many institutions and universities, leading numerous workshops, presentations, and lectures (e.g. La Cambre Brussel, Ulster University Belfast, Lviv National Academy of Art).
martabosowska.com
Administrative Coordinator KMD UIB
Torgeir Rinke Bangstad
Jarosław Bogucki
Professor in University of Arts in Poznań
Born in 1976 in Poland. His B.A. in Exhibition designer was received from High School of Arts in Poznan in 1996. In 2002 he graduated with honors Unversity of Art in Poznan. (Sculpture Studio – prof. Józef Petruk). He obtained Ph.D. degree In 2011. He leads Spatial Imaging Studio, The Faculty of Sculpture, University of Arts in Poznan.
Jaroslaw Bogucki in his work mainly deals with the study of the human figure. He often limits to the fragment of the body, crops it to the most important element – element which says most about the man: gesture, facial expression, movement. He gradually leaves figurative sculpture focusing only on silhouette of a man, transforms and deforms her without depriving her human features. He creates a synthesis of a figure in specific situations, first of all focusing on the movement or lack of it. Currently, the human figure, so very important in his work so far, gradually becomes the background for further exploration. In his recent works he uses a holographic image as part of major sculpures.
Jarosław Bogucki works in Poznan and Mosina, Poland.
Frans Jacobi
Professor in Time-based and Performance Art at KMD
Dean Time-based and Performance Art at KMD
Frans Jacobi is a visual artist (b. 1960). Lives and works in Copenhagen and Bergen. Jacobi works with performance, text and images. His performances and installations are often large scale scenarios with multiple participants adressing a range of political and societal issues. Using a kind of urgent aesthetics the temporality and presence becomes a point in itself.
Jacobi is currently Head of the Art Academy at University of Bergen, Norway.where he is also professor in timebased media / performance. He completed his phd ‘Aesthetics of Resitance’ at Malmö Art Academy/Lunds University in 2012.
In 2014 Jacobi established the artistic research conglomerate SYNSMASKINEN. see www.synsmaskinen.net
With his partner Gitte Sætre he established Green Hijab Productions in 2017. Sætre & Jacobi is now producing the web-tv-series Are You Ready? – a climate-futuristic fable in 7 episodes. see www.areyouready.tv
Kæphest 17: Frans Jacobi on aesthetic convetions (danish) / www.fransjacobi.net
Igor Mikoda
Professor in University of Arts in Poznań
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Sculpture.
Works in the field of sculpture, graphics, drawing, illustration, CAD – computer aided design, digital graphics design. Human figure is at the center of his creative expression and inspiration. He creates figurative and realistic forms or anatomical structures and installations; creative act is a starting point – an attempt to convey essential emotions – interpenetration of solids, structures and a drawing gesture. Tries to show the creative freedom and plasticity of matter torn from the canon, presents the infinite possibilities of autonomous creation.
igor.mikoda@gmail.com
www.igormikoda.com
Project Coordinator – KMD
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (LCR)
Professor in Time-based and Performance Art at KMD.
LCR gathers, adapts and universalises narratives in both a critical and humorous approach in regards to issues as identity within ethnicity, gender and social constructions. LCRs performative practice expands into different materialisations and medias as video, photography, sculpture and painting.
Administration Manager
Jolanta Grek
Administrative Manager of an EEA Project
Works at the University of Arts. Magdalena Abakanowicz in Poznań since mid-2016.
The world of finance and grants is no stranger to me. During my professional practice, I got to know the entire project cycle, both in terms of application as well as project evaluation and settlement. I look at the work broadly, analytically, from different perspectives. Not being attached to my developed solutions, I open up to team cooperation. I work on the creation and settlement of various types of projects, from internal projects, through ministerial ones, to international ones.
Fredrik Salhus
Chief engineer Model Workshop
I run the Model Workshop. An experimental and continuously developing lab at KMD containing machines and setups for VR (mostly modeling and visualization), 3D-printing (FDM and SLA), 3D-Scanning (Photogrammetry, Infrared scanning and laser scanning), Laser cutting and engraving, some CNC work & vinyl sticker making.
Tomasz Drewicz
PhD in the field of art; artist, curator, critic and culture animator.
In his artistic practice he deals mainly with installation and objects. He often uses other media such as photography, video and sometimes even performance. He calls his realizations as „Events” and often invites the audience to participate in their creation. In his recent works, he explores issues related to the phenomenon of Warmth and Exchange.
He lives and works in Poznań.
http://www.tomaszdrewicz.art.pl/
Rafał Kotwis
Professor in University of Arts in Poznań
Dean of the Faculty of Sculpture.
Born in 1978 in Złotów. 2000–2005, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań at the Faculty of Painting, Graphic Art and Sculpture. From 2002 to 2005, he studied at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań at the Faculty of Social Sciences, majoring in philosophy. In 2005, he graduated summa cum laude. In 2012, he obtained his Doctor of Fine Arts degree. In 2020, he obtained his higher doctorate in the field of art. He works as a university teacher, currently a UAP professor. He is the head of the 1 Study Sculpture and Environment Studio, and a lecturer teaching Computer Techniques in Sculpture. In the years 2016–2020, he was a deputy dean of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan, and now holds the office of the dean of the deputy. He deals with sculpture in some wide sense of the term.
He has participated in individual and collective exhibitions both in Poland and abroad (Germany, Belgium, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Lithuania, Thailand). He considers himself rather a producer than an artist. In his early works he dealt with the issues related to aestheticisation of everyday life and the mechanism of anaesthetics that emerged on its grounds as a specific cultural dysfunction of the present time. Currently, he focuses on the problem of the immersion of art, being inspired in his work by ubiquitous dehumanisation resulting from the world being appropriated by electronics that replaces our everyday world or becomes a filter through which we experience it. He pays a lot of attention to new technologies related to graphic art and 3D printing. He explores the new medium, testing the possibilities offered by it to contemporary sculptors.