Agnes Janich is a visual artist who works with photography and installation art. In her practice, she deals with memory, love and intimacy.
Janich was born in 1985 in Poland and raised in Singapore, South Africa and New York. She lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland.
A graduate in Photography of the School of Visual Arts in New York, she has presented her work in, among others:
the Progr Art Center in Bern, CH
the
Bergen Museum of Art, NO
the Galapagos Art Space, New York, NY
the
Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris, FR (as part of the Asian-European Foundation Grant)
the Central European House of Photography in Bratislava, SL
the
9th Sharjah Biennial, UAE
the Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT (by Claudia M.Stemberger & Kathrin Becker, NBK Berlin)
the
Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH
the Auschwitz Jewish Center, Oswiecim (satellite of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY) &
MOCAK, Krakow, PL
the MLAC, Rome, IT
the
Kunsthal 3,14, Bergen, NO.
Agnes Janich has been awarded grants and artist’s residencies from, among others :
the Polish Embassy in Bern, CH
the
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, US
the Polish Institute in Moscow, RU
Villa Sträuli, CH
CCA Kitakyushu, JP
the Polish Consulate in Barcelona, ES
Koli Cultural Center Artist’s Residency, Koli, FI
representing Poland at ASEF Conference,
Paris Photo, FR
the Polish Institute, Vienna, AT.
Her work has been reviewed by art critics worldwide, such as:
Monika Malkowska for Rzeczpospolita, PL
Daniele Muscionico for
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, CH
Silas Marti for la Folha de São Paulo, BRA
Der Standard, AT
Marek Szafranski for Gazeta Wyborcza, PL
Jena Opoldusova for Pravda, SK
LeMonde.Fr
Oliver Good for The National, UAE
Melanie Kolbrunner for Landbote, CH
Janich's work was included in numerous books, such as:
Desire, exhibition catalog, 2012, Ed. Eli Okkenhaug, Bergen Museum of Art, Bergen, NO
Era New Horizons catalog, Ed. Robert Kardzis, Wroclaw,
ISBN 978-83-925733-9-5
No more bad girls?, Ed. Kathrin Becker and Claudia Marion Stemberger, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna,
ISBN 978-3-200-01861-7
Provisions. Sharjah Biennial 9. Book 2, Ed. Antonia Carver and Lara Khaldi, Bidouin and Sharjah Biennial, New York and Sharjah
Provisions. Sharjah Biennial 9. Book 1, Ed. Antonia Carver, Valerie Grove and Lara Khaldi, Bidouin and Sharjah Biennial, Dubai, I
SBN 9789948-04-607-2
Paris Photo 2005 Catalogue, Agnieszka Jeziorska [now Agnes Janich], Poland, 2005, Editor’s Note.
A monograph of her works, out in 2012 by Fotohof Edition, Salzburg, AT, was accompanied by essays by:
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, PhD,
Artforum
Lyle Rexer, PhD,
Aperture.
