CV

Born 1978 in Poland
Based in Berlin
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Education

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, M.F.A, Spring 2003
Goat Island Summer School, performance workshop, Chicago IL, 2003
State University of New York at Buffalo, B.F.A., Photography, Fall 2000

Residencies & Grants

Berlin Senat Einzelprojektförderung grant 2023
Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder residency, Trondheim, Norway 2022
Crossing performance residency, Dnipro, Ukraine 2021
Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V. NEUSTART KULTUR grant 2021
Rucka Artist Residency, Cesis, Latvia 2021
Research residency, Takasaki, Japan 2018
Antonio Gramsci residency, Cagliari, Italy 2017
Research residency, Prague, Czech Republic 2016
Arteles residency, Haukijärvi, Finland 2014

Exhibitions & Performances

2024

Burden of Understanding, solo sound performance, Make-up, Berlin, Germany

2023

Solo sound performance, Backsteinboot, Berlin, Germany
Sex Pest,
solo sound performance, Makroscope, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Sculpting Inside,
6 part performance series with Florian Feigl, at 3 venues: Haus der Statistik, West Germany, Vierte Welt, Berlin, Germany
Beyond Binary: Human-AI Relations,
performance with ChatGPT, Coconat, Klein Glien, Germany
Stress Positions
, solo sound performance, Brœk, xxxter, Berlin, Germany

2022

Place I Can’t Go, 3D game project launched
Solo sound performances, collaborative sound sculpture Cosmos #2 with Laure Catugier, Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch, Berlin, Germany
All I’m Thinking of Is You, screened at Lumbung Lounge, Stellwerk Galerie, Kulturbahnhof, Kassel, Germany
This Could Be a Love Song, solo performance, temporary home 22, ruruHaus, Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany
Solo sound performance, egæl, Loophole, Berlin, Germany

2021

Solo sound performance, JUST ANOTHER BRUITAL NIGHT # II, ausland, Berlin, Germany
Yeah Well You Know,
solo and group performances, Artsvit Gallery, DCCC, Dnipro, Ukraine
I Will Not Kill,
solo public performance, Performance Crossings festival, Berlin, Germany
Asphyxiating Anxiety, solo performance, Performance Crossings festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Asphyxiating Grip of Anxiety, solo performance, Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Healing Veranda,
solo performance, Rucka Artist Residency, Cesis, Latvia
Night Creeper
and Part-time Patriot, two solo public performances, Rucka Artist Residency, Cesis, Latvia

2020

Today’s Specials, solo performance, Performance Crossings festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Beautify
, 31 performative self-portraits, Instagram
I Heard Shakespeare Wrote “King Lear” in Quarantine
, performance video, Kunstraum m3, Berlin, Germany

2019

Deviant Order, solo performance, Sonntag book launch, Café Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin, Germany
No Dignity in Death,
solo performance, Acción!MAD festival, Madrid, Spain
Uncanny Apocalypse,
 solo sound performance, Matters. Platform for Industrial Culture, Kaunas, Lithuania
Lucky,
solo public performance, Interiors to Being festival, Berlin, Germany 
Hopefully Nothing Will Happen
, duo performance with Laure Catugier, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
, Paris, France
Sunless City,
solo sound performance, ReTramp, Berlin, Germany
Pied Piper,
three public performances, NRVK, Ravensburg, Germany
False Hope,
solo sound performance, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK, USA
End of the World Blues,
solo performance, University of Central Oklahoma, USA
In Three Parts
, solo sound performance, In Parallel Spaces festival, Leipzig, Germany

2018

Lovely Japanese Bags, solo performance, Gr_und, Berlin, Germany
Powerful Secrets
, solo performance, Elementa residency, Berlin, Germany

Trio sound improvisation with Ryosuke Kiyasu and Utku Tavil, Loophole, Berlin, Germany
Domestic Communication,
solo sound improvisation, Tempting Failure festival, London, England
Solo vocal improvisation, Primal Uproar festival, Hamburg, Germany
Ticking Bomb,
and Verschärft essen, two solo performances, Musrara Mix festival, Jerusalem, Israel
Takasaki Series, five public performances, Takasaki, Japan

Trio sound improvisation with Marie Takahashi and Yukari Misawa, Idiom, Takasaki, Japan
Solo sound performance, opening of Laure Catugier’s exhibition, Idiom, Takasaki, Japan
Duet sound improvisation with Marie Takahashi, Fourth Floor, Tokyo, Japan
Solo vocal improvisation and trio improvisation, Ftarri, Tokyo, Japan
MILF
, solo performance, Kleiner Raum für aktuelles Nichts, Berlin, Germany

2017

It Happened Here, publication release, KN – Raum für Kunst im Kontext, Berlin, Germany
Solidarity Born of Despair, participatory performance, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Becoming, or the Impossibility of, durational performance, Antonio Gramsci Residency, Cagliari, Italy
Whipped Into Shape, solo performance, tête, Berlin, Germany
It Happened Here, solo exhibition, Exgirlfriend gallery, Berlin, Germany
Meat Puppet, solo performance, Artburst Berlin, Lettrétage, Berlin, Germany
Incident, sound performance, DAF festival, Geneva, Switzerland
Ordering Chaos, sound performance, WestGermany, Berlin, Germany

2016

Me Likey, solo performance, studio im HOCHHAUS, Berlin, Germany
House of the Lord, solo performance, Fatih & Terror festival, Meinblau, Berlin, Germany
Nothing’s Free and Snuff Out, solo performances, Swab art fair, Barcelona, Spain
Bring out the Gimp, sound performance, Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany
Black Buffet, solo performance/installation, Teatr Academia, Warsaw, Poland
Party Hard!, sound installation, part of Summer Salon at tête, Berlin,Germany
OKO with Any Pretty, collaborative sound performance, sculptural media installation by Stefan Reiss, HB55, Berlin, Germany
“It’s a Mess” Body Interfaces: A Processual Scripting, duo performance with Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, Grüntaler 9, Berlin, Germany
Mešita for Miloš, solo performance/public intervention, Prague, Czech Republic

2015

I’d Die for a Good Coffee, solo performance, Berlin, Germany
OKO with Kris Barnett, collaborative sound performance, sculptural media installation by Stefan Reiss, L’espace de l’espèce, Berlin, Germany
Without Hesitation, performance and public intervention, various locations, Berlin, Germany
Hermetic Circle, solo performance, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
Waiting for a Miracle, seven solo performances, USA embassy, Berlin, Germany
Dance Like Everybody’s Watching, and Over the Mountains the Dream Comes Untrue, solo performances, Excentricités VI performance art festival, Besançon, France

2000-2014 (selected)

OKO Void, sound performance, Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland
WIITBU, solo exhibition, Tarleton University, Stephenville, Texas
Denial, solo performance part of Transart Institute exhibition, Mila Kunstgalerie, Berlin, Germany
OKO with Robert Heim, sound performance, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
Silence, seven day solo performance, Month of Performance Art, ReTramp Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Tongue Tied, solo performance, HomeBase residency, Berlin, Germany
The Artist is Tele/Present, solo performance, Temporary Home, Kassel, Germany
Oh Jeszcze Einigkeit, solo performance, Szczecin, Poland
Let’s Talk, group show, The Polish Museum of America, Chicago, IL
Art Play, Lipe Art Park summer exhibit, Syracuse, NY
The 14th Annual Chicago Performance Art Celebration, group exhibition, South Union Arts, Chicago, IL
Hexacron, 11 band performances, various venues in the Midwest United States
The Next Generation, group show, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
The Summer Show, group show, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Untitled, group performance, Goat Island Summer School, Chicago, IL
Gaijin, solo performance, Osaka, Japan
Plastic Fantastic, group show, 1926 Exhibition Studies Space, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Time-Space, performance executed in conjunction with the Critical Mass Exhibition, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL

Curatorial projects

Underdog, visual and sound art festival, co-curated with Laure Catugier and Maycec, Vesselroom project, Berlin 2016   
Quiet Violence, visual and sound art festival, co-curated with Laure Catugier and Fabio Campagna, Kunstfabrik HB55, Berlin 2014