She did her first live art piece in October 2003, and since then has realized around 40 actions at individual events and international festivals in Poland, Spain, Sweden, N.Ireland, Serbia, Quebec/Canada, Japan and Mexico. They include performances, video-performances, site specific/street actions as well as an experimental 9-month project ´9 & ½ Fridays´.

She is also an active writer publishing texts on performance and contemporary art at various printed and Internet magazines.


She lives in Krakow, Poland, since 2003.
Together with Angel Pastor runs an independent art space Mostowa2 (www.mostowa2.net ).
She was a committee secretary and member of the art magazine editing team of the Fort Sztuki Association - until its suspension in 2007.


Previously she lived for over 8 years in England and Northern Ireland. In 2000 co-found and for the next 3 years co-run in Belfast a live-art organization Bbeyond, now very active.

She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland, where she received
MA in Art and Design (Visual Communication); 

she also holds a post graduate certificate with commendation in
Cultural and Arts Management, obtained at the Queen´s University of Belfast.

Currently, she is a doctoral student at the INTERMEDIA department (www.imedia.asp.krakow.pl )
of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland

 

PERFORMANCES / festivals / exhibitions:

nadchodzące/coming soon:

10.2008 - Bbeyond Perfromance Festival, Belfast (www.bbeyondperformance.org )

11.2008 - performances & talks, Urugwaj, Argentyna (www.gazonadearte.com.ar )

2008

'SEDU/A/CTION 5,6' - IMAF 10 International Performance Festival, Odzaci & Novi Sad, Serbia (www.imaf.org.yu )

'SEDU/A/CTION 4' - La Muga Caula poesia d´aacció i performance festival, Les Escaules, Spain (www.lamugacaula.cat ) + lecture/talk on contemporaray performance

'Star 2 - Wydmuszka'  -   performance bankietowy (banquet performance), uroczystość rozdania nagród TVP Kultura (Culture TV Awards ceremony), Fabryka Trzciny, Warszawa

'SEDU/A/CTION 3'   -   Kabaret Obert, Barcelona

 

2007

'SEDU/A/CTION 2'   -   FIX Performance Art Festival, Catalyst Arts, Belfast (www.fixcatalyst.org.uk )

'SEDU/A/CTION - Performance Klubowy'   -   Klub Performance, Galeria Pokaz, Warszawa (www.galoisquarterly.webpark.pl )

'Amorexia'   -   videoALBOOM´07, galeria H2O, Barcelona (www.fotyart.org/videoalboom07.htm )

'Star'   -   wieczór video&performance, Klub Folia, Kraków

'AMOREXIA'   -   galeria Otwarta Pracownia, Kraków (www.otwartapracownia.com )   

 

2006

'Urgente 2'   -   La Casa Talavera Performance Festival, Mexico DF

'Zamach stanika (czyli kobiecy zamach stanu…)'   -   videoperformance,  wystawa  'Wiedźma Ple Ple',  Galeria dla…, Toruń;  Galeria Klimy Bocheńskiej, Warszawa   

'Perforwomance'   -   INTERAKCJE – International Art Festival, Piotrków Trybunalski (www.galeriaoff.pl )

NIPAF – Nippon International Performance Art Festival
- 7 performances : Tokyo, Nagoya, Maebashi, Nagano - Japonia (http://nipaf.web.fc2.com )

 

2005

‘Urgente’   -   Accion!05MAD International Performance Festival, Madryt (www.w3art.es/accion05 )

'Untitled 1'   -   Kawiarnia Naukowa / Mostowa 2, Kraków (www.mostowa2.prv.pl )

'Zamach stanika'  
'Jak wyjaśnić…?  How to explain…?  Comment expliquer...?'  -  
Inter - Le Lieu  &  L'ilot Fleurie, Quebec City, Quebec, Kanada 
(impreza 'Villes anciennes - art nouveau') (www.inter-lelieu.org )

'Make Love Not Art'  -   Festival 'Simbiosis - Zonas de Contacto', Luarca, Spain (www.cs8a.org/simbiosis )

'Perfo-racja'   -  Klub Piękny Pies, Kraków

'Genesis'   -  Lund,  Szwecja  (projekt 'Limes 2005' (www.heterogenesis.com )

 

Projekt   ´9 i pół piątku´ /  ´9 & ½ Fridays´

 

2004

'Pokaż'   -   performance/video, Galeria Pokaz, I edycja Klubu Performance, Warszawa (www.galoisquarterly.webpark.pl )

'Sorry, jestem światłoczuła'   -   perfromance/instalacja, wystawa 'Ładnie? O ładnym...', Kraków

'Miss Wisdom I & II'   -   performance/instalacja,  'Documenta Dokumentu - Documenta Sztuki', Wystawa Fortu Sztuki,  
Otwarta Pracownia, Kraków;  Galeria Sektor 1, Katowice (www.fortsztuki.art.pl )

'One night stand'   -   'Wielka Noc Performance', Kawiarnia Naukowa, Kraków

'Prezent'   -   Kawiarnia Naukowa, Kraków (www.kawiarnianaukowa.ovh.org )

 

2003

'Sztukowanie II'   -   Farbiarnia, Bielsko Biała

'No1 - Sztukowanie'   -   FS/NIPAF Performance Art Festival, Kraków (www.fortsztuki.art.pl )

 

PUBLIKACJE / PUBLICATIONS - zobacz / see TEXTY on my web www.malgosiab.net

 

WYKŁADY / LECTURES

2008 - talk on contemporary performance, La Muga Caula poesia d´aacció i performance festival, Les Escaules, Spain (www.lamugacaula.cat )

Talks on performance at secondary schools, INTERAKCJE 2007, 2008 - Piotrkow Trybunalski

My performance work - Universitad d´estiu 2006, Prades, Francja

 

O mnie... / about me...

TEKSTYLIA BIS - słownik młodej polskiej kultury (s.501), wyd. Ha!art 2006