About me

Beata Sosnowska – a multimedia artist, a poet, a comic illustrator, an experimental filmmaker, a graphic designer. The author of a multimedia book “In the shade of humming elevators”, which was compiled in 2002-2007 with 30 other artists and multimedia producers from Tri-City. The project was presented in whole or in parts during the following events: the Polish Video Art Festival “Retransmission” (Gdansk 2004), the Sopot Film Festival (Sopot 2005), the Net-Art Festival “Imagination of the screen” (Torun 2005), the International Media Art Biennale WRO (Wroclaw 2005), the Euro shorts Festival (Warsaw 2006), during the national scientific conference “Therapy and Creativity” organized by the Baltic Sea Cultural Center (Gdansk 2006), the “In Out II” Festival organized at the Laznia Center for Contemporary Art (Gdansk 2007), in TVP Kultura (Warsaw 2008), during the “Transvisualia” − International Festival of Multimedia Forms (Gdynia 2009), as well as during the Poetic Manifestations in the new headquarters of the Political Critique (Warsaw 2009). One of the interpretations of “Pain is something to get over” was made into a performance. The dancers who took part in the performance were Magdalena Jedra and Filip Szatarski from Tri-City. The continuation of the project is the website www.windyproject.pl
In 2005-2007, an author and co-producer of documentary and experimental films: “2137” (the Film Festival Wydmy 2005, the TVP 2 program “After Hours” in 2006, the panel “Generation of John Paul II”, the HA!Art 2006), “The end of patriarchy “(“The One Minutes” Festival 2006), “… once again” (the Lemonade – off cinema festival, 2007), “Modelarnia story” (Modelarnia 2007). She is also a comic author, whose comics touch social and lesbian issues. As a member of a girly comic collective Dream Team (www.comicdreamteam.com) she took part in exhibitions and workshops led and organized by the collective. Her illustrations have been published in Przekroj, Gazeta Wyborcza, Trzy Kolory, Furia, Green City, among others. She cooperates with NGOs and feminist organizations.

Exhibitions and performances:

  • Barcode – a part of a multimedia project In the shade of humming elevators, the International Media Art Biennale WRO (Wroclaw 2005)
  • In the shade of humming elevators – a multimedia project (2002- 2007)
  • Sweet Arts – a collective exposition at the Mini Art Fair, the Laznia Center for Contemporary Art (Gdansk 2008), Ars homo erotica, a collective exposition, a part of one of the installations, the National Museum in Warsaw (Warsaw, 2010)
  • Pain is something to get over – a performance, an independent gallery Kunst und Buaschlosserei, an international project “Fields of Vision” (Leipzig 2007), the Independent Art Festival re:visions (Warsaw 2008), the Dance Corporation (Gdansk 2009), the First Festival of “Art&Documentation” – a collective exposition, the PATIO Art Center gallery, Lodz, March 2009)
  • Violations – a performance featuring neolinguistic poets Maria Cyranowicz and Agnieszka Weseli, UFA (Warsaw 2008), the TRANSMOTIV Festival (Katowice 2009), Lady fest, NRD Club (Torun, October 2009), the Universal Art, a collective exposition as part of the Pomada (Warsaw 2010)
  • Traces of love – a collective exposition, the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw (Warsaw, February 2009)
  • Freedom of design – a collective exposition, the Association of Polish Graphic Designers (Berlin, Tokyo 2011)
  • Ars homo erotica – a collective exposition, National Museum in Warsaw (Warsaw, 2010)
  • Gdansk’s wardrobe – a collective exposition, the Laznia Center for Contemporary Art (Gdansk, 2011)
  • Llipsspill – a performance in collaboration with the butoh Amareya Theater from Gdansk, Pomada (Warsaw, 2012)
  • First blood – a comic book, a post-competition collective exposition at the International Festival of Comics and Games (Lodz, 2013)
  • A Polish comic book and its creators – a collective exposition, Orient Gallery (Szczecin, 2013)
  • PIF PAF – Zablocka and Sosnowska on real life topics – Znajomi Znajomych (Warsaw, 2013), the Institute of All Sorts of Things (Sopot 2013)
  • My own – a collective exposition of the collective Dream Team as part of the Night of Museums, V9, (Warsaw 2013)
  • Machines lie – an experimental film in collaboration with Marta Bogdanska as part of the Swiss’ Learning from Warsaw project (Warsaw 2013)
  • Stinky queue – a collective mural of the Dream Team as part of the Swiss’ Learning from Warsaw project (Warsaw 2013)
  • Cyclones – a collective exposition of the Dream Team as part of the No Woman No Art Festival (Poznan 2013)
  • Circle of time – a collective exposition of the Dream Team, the MiTo, (Warsaw 2014)
  • Iconography of Female Intimacy – a collective exposition, BWA Zielona Gora (Zielona Gora, 2014)
  • Beata Sosnowska- queer artists in East Europe – an individual exhibition as part of the Eastern European Film Festival, Gallery Fango, (Cottbus, 2014)
  • The tourists – a performance in the frame of the project InHalacje (Gdansk, 2015)
  • Iintegrated participatory activities – a collective exposition, Gallery Lokal 30 (Warsaw, 2016)
  • Malta Festiwal. Generator – performance City in the portrait,  (Poznan, 2016)
  • Imaginaria, three states of focus – a collective exposition, BWA Łomża (Lomza, 2017)
  • Bambuko – performance, music Joanna Duda, Jakub Janicki, dance Katarzyna Pastuszak, body painting Beata Sosnowska (Warsaw, 2017)
  • Our fighters – an exhibition containing portraits of the first Polish feminists on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of obtaining the electoral rights of Polish women, (History Meeting House and STER Foundation, Warsaw 2019)
  • Indifference – individual exhibition of comic boards from 2010-2019, (Yatta.pl: Popkultury Center, Warsaw 2019)
  • Why? Drawing for a story – performative action at Plac Wolności as part of the Malta Festival. Generator Malta (Poznań, 2019)
  • My province – a series of exhibitions of the boards of the author’s album “Provincial Zeszyciki” (Rotational House of Culture in Jazdów, Warsaw2018, Projekt Galeria, Warsaw 2018, Days of free comics, Poznań, 2019)
  • It depends on us – participation in a performative activity within the project Social Organizations. It Works, the premiere courtyard Nowy Teatr (Warsaw, 2020)
  • Non-obvious – exhibition of women’s portraits (Jazdów, Common Room, Warsaw, 2021)
  • Death of patriarchy – group exhibition, Armory of Art, (Gdansk, 2021)
  • Onna speaks – participation in the project and online exhibition, organized by Amareya Theater and Guests in cooperation with Japanese art institutions and centers: Center for Environmental and Minority Policy Studies (Sapporo), Ypam/Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting (Tokyo), Hokkaido-Poland Culture Association (Sapporo), Sapporo Fredom School (Sapporo), Hokkaido University (Sapporo), Tokyo Babylon Theatre (Tokyo), Ainu Women Association (Sapporo) – (Warsaw 2021)
  • Ephemeral vernissage – solo exhibition of painting works, Pracownia Grochów (Warsaw, 2022).
  • Confrontation of Artistic Arts vol.2 – Praga Station group exhibition, (Warsaw – Praga, 2022).
  • In the face of violence – group exhibition, WL4 Gallery, (Gdansk Shipyard, 2022)
  • Sister earth / partner earth / lover earth – group exhibition, (Budapest 2022)
  • Wróblewski and after… Art of direct realism – group exhibition, National Museum in Lublin, (Lublin, 2023)
  • Otwarta pracownia – group exhibition, OFF Night of Museums, Pracownia Grochowska 319 (Warsaw-Praga, 2023)
  • Declination – group exhibition, KLIN Festival of comics and illustration, (Wroclaw, 2023)

Workshops

  • Author’s workshop of discursive comics: The Body Outside the Frame – Praga Station, (Warsaw, 2023)
  • Me, or who? Discursive-comics workshop – Jazdów Open Festival, (Warsaw, 2021)
  • No frame, no border – leading comics workshop for Egyptian cartoonists in Alexandria, event organised by Egypt Comix Week and Polish Embassy, Cairo – Alexandria 2017 https://www.facebook.com/events/1960850984176437/
  • Integrated participatory activities – leading comics workshop in a women’s prison at Olszynka Grochowska, organised by Fundacja “Dom Kultury”. http://lokal30.pl/zintegrowane-dzialania-partycypacyjne-lokal_30-opening-8th-april-2016-7pm/; https://youtu.be/OIe-q9eLWns
  • Woman for democratic (R)evolution –Collaborate, create and leading  an author’s comics workshop program for Egyptian and Polish female artists, organised by The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre (Poland), Darb 1718 Contemporary Art & Culture Center (Egypt) and Arteria Association (Poland) cordially, Gdansk 2014).  http://www.darb1718.com/women-for-democratic-revolution-exhibition/ 
  • Narrations – aberrations – comics  workshop leading by Beata Sosnowska and Dream Team, TR Warszawa as a part of Rutu Modan visit (Warsaw 2014).
  • Ni Pies, ni wydra – comics workshop, cooperation with Dream team (Warsaw, Central Railway Station 2014).
  • Autobiographical comics – organized by Centrala in the framework of participation in the exhibition Double Portrait. Polish Female Comics, Linz-Kaunas-Riga-Budapest (Kaunas-Riga 2012).

Publishing:

  • With their own voice. Abortion herstories – anthology, independent publisher, 2022
  • Creation – own anthology (Granda Publishing, 2020)
  • Poland, or Jadwiga’s world, selfpublishing, 2020
  • No gender difference. The voting rights of Polish women, script Agnieszka Grzybek, drawings by Beata Sosnowska, (published by Fundacja Ster, 2019)
  • I am asking: why?, selfpublishing, 2019
  • Otherness is there, zin, self publishing, 2019
  • Provincial Notebooks, selfpublishing, 2018
  • Blood, anthology, Centrala Publishing House, 2018
  • Dreaming (Centrala, the anthology from Prague Comics Art Festiwal)
  • Works and needleworks.Dream team and their guests (Centrala, the anthology)
  • The Bow (the Ha!Art Corporation, “The Great Atlas of Polish Queens”)
  • Pallet (UFA, “Braids”)
  • Ania, the fetus (Timof, the anthology “Polish female comic”)
  • Scratching Memory (Centrala, “Polish female comics, double Portrait”)
  • Dead birds (Comix Grrrlz & Dolna Połka, “the Boston marriages”)
  • Window (Kitokia Graphics, Lithuania “Still without name”)
  • A Road to Freedom (a collective exposition as part of the Dream Team, mocak FORUM, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow Publishing House)
  • Desert (Centrala „Silence 2012”)
  • Yeah, cool (a collective exposition as part of the Dream Team, V9 Publishing House)
  • Little book about homophobia by Anna Laszuk (Czarna Owca Publishing House)
  • No frame, no border – leading comics workshop for Egyptian cartoonists in Alexandria, event organised by Egypt Comix Week and Polish Embassy, Cairo – Alexandria 2017

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