Polish visual artist
Maess Anand (née: Malgorzata Skrzypek,
[1]
[2] also called Maess;
[3] born in 1982 in Warsaw
[1] ) is a Polish visual artist who works with drawing.
[1]
[3]
Career
Anand graduated with MFA from
Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts ,
Poland in 2007
[1]
[4] and was recipient of a scholarship at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design in Porto, Portugal.
[1]
Maess Anand has presented work in, among others:
The Drawing Center
[5]
[6] in New York,
Wroclaw Contemporary Museum ,
[7]
[8] Kasia Michalski Gallery in Warsaw,
[9] The Starak Family Foundation in Warsaw,
[10]
Kibla in Maribor, Slovenia,
[11] Warsaw
Austrian Cultural Forum ,
[12] in conjunction with the
Warsaw Autumn Festival,
Polish Institute in Budapest,
[4]
BWA - Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz Poland and IK Projects
[13] in Lima, Peru.
The artist has been awarded following fellowships:
Yaddo
[14] in
Saratoga Springs ,
Residency Unlimited
[15] in New York,
Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, LIA
Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei in Leipzig,
[16]
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
[17] in
Amherst, Virginia and
International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York.
[18]
With Alex Urso, Maess Anand curated Biennale de La Biche; the smallest biennale in the world held on a deserted island near
Guadeloupe . Biennale de la Biche held in 2017 has been reviewed by
The Guardian ,
[19]
Hyperallergic ,
[20]
Ming Pao ,
[21]
Artnet ,
[22]
Art Review ,
[23] and
The Observer .
[24]
Anand's work is held in the permanent collections of
BWA - Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz in Poland
[25] and Imago Mundi Collection in Treviso, Italy.
[26]
Further reading
Bibliography
„The Day is Not Enough, a few autobiographical stories ( "Dzień jest za krótki-kilka opowieści autobiograficznych "), exhibition catalogue, ed. Ośrodek Kultury i Sztuki, p. 98–104, ed. Magdalena Ujma,
ISBN
9788362290659 , Wrocław, 2013
"The Intuitionists " , exhibition catalogue, Drawing Papers, ed. The Drawing Center,
ISBN
9780942324877 , p. 46 and 104, ed.
Lisa Sigal and Margaret Sundell, New York, 2014
"Fukt Magazine for Contemporary Drawing 8/9 " , ISBN 978-3-86895-088-5, Revolver Publishing, p. 136–139 and 174, Berlin, 2010
What-is-not (Nietota) exhibition catalogue, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum / Galeria Miejska BWA,
ISBN
9788361675037 , ed Paweł Baśnik, Tomasz Brzeski (et al.), Wrocław-Bydgoszcz 2018
Watroba, Joanna,
Images of Female Intimacy in Contemporary Polish Art , Kolegium Miedzyobszarowych Indywidualnych Studiów Humanistycznych i Spolecznych Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego :,
Polish Academy of Sciences p 135, 2014
References
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e Rychter, Karolina.
"Maess Anand | Życie i twórczość | Artysta" .
Culture.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 19 January 2024 .
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"ISNI 0000000513227965 Anand, Maess ( born 1982 )" . isni.oclc.org . Retrieved 19 January 2024 .
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"Anand, Maess (1982 – )" . digitaltmuseum.org . Retrieved 19 January 2024 .
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Abnormal Results, Bente Brattland ,
The Lancet Oncology, Volume 16, No. 15, p1459-1460, Elsevier, London, 11/ 2015
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Maess at New York’s Drawing Center ,
Culture.pl , 12 June 2014
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[1]
Drawing Center exhibition schedule, The Intuitionists
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Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, exhibitions calendar
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"There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists ” („Nie ma sztuki, są artyści " ), Anna Stec, Obieg.pl, 2013
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Kasia Michalski Gallery
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Starak Family Foundation website
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Radiotelevizija Slovenija ,
Dve razstavi, štiri umetnice: dvodnevni program mariborske Kible , Slovenia, 2019
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[2]
Warsaw Autumn programme 2019, archived website
^ Zając, Joanna.
"EXHIBITION IN A SUITCASE FLEW FROM WARSAW TO LIMA | Contemporary Lynx – print and online magazine on art & visual culture" . contemporarylynx.co.uk . Retrieved 19 January 2024 .
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Yaddo ,
List of artist guests
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profile at Residency Unlimited , New York, 2018
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Leipzig International Art Programme
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VCCA alumni list
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profile at ISCP New York, 2023
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The Guardian ,
Jonathan Jones, Welcome to the world's smallest art fair – on a disappearing speck of sand , 8 January 2017
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Hyperallergic ,
Claire Voon, World’s Smallest Biennale Drops Anchor on Caribbean Islet" February 7, 2017
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Ming Pao
最迷你藝術雙年展 警示暖化; mingpao.com, 2017
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Artnet ,
Tiny Island Plays Host to Biennale de La Biche, the World’s Smallest Biennial , Sarah Cascone, 23 January 2017
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Art Review ,
World’s ‘smallest’ biennial on Ilet la Biche, Guadeloupe , 2017
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The Observer ,
This Island Shack Holds World’s Smallest Biennale, Sotheby’s Sues Over Fake Painting , Guelda Voien, The observer.com, 2 July 2017
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BWA – Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz
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Imago Mundi collection website, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Treviso, Italy
International National Artists