Maria Ana Potocka, Director of Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow
Maria Ana Potocka
Born 1950, Paczków, Poland
study - Polish philology, history of art, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
since 1972 has run galleries of modern art:
Galeria PI (1972-1980) - first private gallery in Poland, non-commercial
- many exhibitions of Polish, Czech and German art, meetings with scientists,
composers, philosophers.
Galeria Pawilon (1974-1979) - international exhibitions, concerts of
electronic music, avangarde theatre (first piece of Bogusław Schaeffer).
Galeria Foto-Video (1979-1981) - international program, exhibitions of
works which used video and photography.
Galeria Potocka (1986- ) - private, non-commercial, international program
- exhibitions, installations, concerts, non-profit editions, lectures,
education program for students. Gallery is now organization office of
Museum of Modern Art in Niepołomice.
since 1984 Artists' Collection - the collection includes
now 80 international artists and about 700 pieces in all media. The
collection has been exhibited
six times. 1992 - Congress KBWE (with catalogue), 1993 - BWA Wrocław,
Bwa Białystok (with catalogue), 1994 - Historical Museum Kraków, 1995
- Goethe Institut in Kraków, 1997 - Music Festival in Schwaz. This collection
will be donated to the Museum of Modern Art in Niepołomice.
1990-1994 director of Tumult (artists' magazine) - non profit
since 1996 director of Museum of Modern Art in Niepołomice - the museum
in organization.
1999 - ArtLinks stipendium in New York
2001/2002 - v-director of Art Centre, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
since 2002 - director of Gallery Bunkier Sztuki
member of Internationale Künstler Gremium and AICA (1997-2002 president of Polish Section)
Curator of international programs and exhibitions (selection)
1981 - 16 artists from Poland - Goethe Institut Amsterdam, Moltkerei
Werkstadt Köln,
1985 - Musical score as a piece of art - Polish Institut Paris, Royal
Academy of Music, London
1986 - 15 Polish painters - Culture Centre, Göteborg
1992 - Hearing art - international exhibition of sound art in Art Centre,
Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
1994 - Teraz i wtedy - John Blake - works in Poland 1980-1994, BWA Wrocław,
Białystok
1997/98 - TRANSFER - Germany/Poland
1997/98 - GERMINATIONS, Great Britain, France, Greece
2000 - New media and life - Mediakunst Gallery, Oldenburg (exhibition
of 5 Polish artists)
2002 - Public space as a new stage of culture - curator of the conference,
Kunstahalle, Wien
2002 - Andreas Kaufmann - Bunkier Sztuki
2003 - Tomasz Ciecierski - Bunkier Sztuki
2004 - Nature and/of Art - Polish/German group exhibition - Bunkier
Sztuki
2004 - Edward Dwurnik - Bunkier Sztuki
2005 - Rafał Bujnowski - Bunkier Sztuki, Kunstverein Duesseldorf
since 1985 texts on artists and art philosophies for catalogues and
art magazines.
Books: 1995 - Painting - theoretical history, 2002 - Sculpture - theoretical
history, in preparation historical book about photography.