ANIA DABROWSKA

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Born 1973, Poland
Lives in London

 

EDUCATION

 
2007 MA Photography, LCC, University of the Arts, London
2001

BA (Hons) Media and Communications (1st ), specialisation in Photography,Goldsmiths College, University of London

1995 BA Art History, University of Łódź, Poland
   

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 
2008 Pia Nebula, Tenderpixel Gallery, London
2005 Someone’s Mother, Someone’s Daughter, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2004 Between You and Tomorrow, Studio Lounge Gallery, Waterstones, London
2002 Tailored Light, Baltic, London
2001 MEXIconFUSION, Curzon Soho Gallery, London
   

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 
2009


Mind over Matter: Brain Donation and Its Role in Bio-Medical Sciences, collaboration with Dr Bronwyn Parry, Queen Mary University of London, Wellcome Trust, London, exhibition venue TBC, (accompanied by a publication)

2008



Circles of Latitude, group exhibition, Four Corners Gallery, London - correct the title, add gallery
I, Palestine, Palestine Gallery, London (accompanied by a publication)
Into The Open: Ania Dabrowska and John Nassari
Four Corners Gallery, London, (accompanied by a publication)
2007



MA Photography Final Exhibition, London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London
NPG Photography Prize 2007, National Portrait Gallery, London
NoBody’s Perfect, work by Niko von Glasow and Ania Dabrowska, Roncalliplatz, Cologne
MA Photography Interim Exhibition, Eckersley Gallery, London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London

2006

Elefest Exhibition,Elephant & Castle Public Subway, London
Distortions: Challenging the Real Through Photography, La Viande Gallery, London (exh cat)

2005 Fotofeast, Photomonth, 99 Studio Gallery, London
2004


Christmas Exhibition, Gallery 102, London
Snap, Gallery 102, London
Summer Exhibition,Lang Gallery, London

2003


Gallery Launch Exhibition, Lang Gallery, London
Exposure, The Hereford Photographic Festival, UK
The Observer Hodge Photographic Award Exhibition, The Newsroom Gallery, London

2001 BA Graduation Exhibition, Goldsmiths College, London
   

SELECTED PROJECTS AND COMMISSIONS

2008 Change The Picture, advocacy campaign, Baltic, London, U-Turn Project and PhotoVoice charities
2007

NoBody's Perfect (dir. Niko von Glasow), Director of Photography, documentary feature, Palladio Films, Germany/UK

2006

Weaving and Waiting, personal project, photography, Hamburg, South Africa
One Step, One Step More, personal project, photography, Cape Town, South Africa

2005

Body Language, commission, AGFA, Germany

2004




Fiction Rides: After Fargo, After Mann, personal project, Sweden
Two Halves That Don’t Make One. personal project, North and South of Cyprus.
Carnesky’s Ghost Train, commission: performance documentation, London
Trading Places - European Migration, collaboration with artist Martin Kern, photography, Pump House Gallery, London 
Someone’s Mother, Someone’s Daughter, collaboration with U-Turn Project Charity, London

2000

10.48, 10min48sec,HDV short film, director, London                       
Give Me A Break,
10 min, Super16mmshort film, director, London
   
PUBLICATIONS  
2008



Von Glasow, N. NoBody’s Perfect, Published by Elisabeth Sandmann, Germany, 2008
Marfleet, P., Cross, K, Kempadoo, R., Into the Open Ania Dabrowska and John Nassari, Four Corners Gallery, Published by PhotoInsight, London, 2008
Pia, Trespass Magazine, London, Feb-March 2008

2007

Gravity of Desire, Trespass Magazine, London, 1/2007
Portraits of Petter Wallenberg and Susanne Oberbeck, Mother Magazine, Athens, London, NewYork, 2/2007

2006



Dabrowska, Ania, Memory Espionage, Independent Photography Magazine, London, Issue Autumn/Winter               
Ania Dabrowska: Someone's Mother, Someone's Daughter, in STATIC 3: Choice and Suffering, online, London Consortium Publication
Polish Workers, Index on Censorship, London, Summer Issue
London Migrants, Index on Censorship, London, Spring Issue

2005 Waters, Nancy, Strictly Business: Cause and Effect: U-Turn, Dazed and Confused, London,  March
2005 Snyder, Timothy, Stutthof - Nazi memorabilia in Hitler’s first concentration camp in Poland, Index on Censorship, London, 2/2005
2004









Broomfield, Nick, 21st Century Heroes, Portraits of Rio Vella, Harpers and Queen, London, Oct
Vernon, Polly, Capture the Moment, Observer Magazine, London, 18/04/04
Vulliamy, Ed, In From The Cold, Observer Magazine, London, 11/04/04
Tillmans, Wolfgang and Christensen, Helena, Depth of Field, Hodge Award 2003, Observer Magazine, London, 3/08/03
Ania Dabrowska: Freedom is a big word – a celebration in pictures of South Africa’s 10th Anniversary, Index on Censorship, London, 3/2004
Eco, Umberto, Meet the Neighbours –excursion into ‘New Europe’, Index on Censorship, London, 3/2004
Fox, Dan, Village People, Imber Village project, Artangel,Frieze Magazine, London, October 2003 Foczpanski, Tomasz, Woman Without a Fault. U-Turn project, Dziennik Polski, London      
Hallett, Florence, Ania Dabrowska: Visions of Freedom, What’s On, London, Aug 2003

2002 \ 05 Dabrowska, Ania, quarterly column on contemporary photographic practice, Szafa, online, Poland
   

PUBLIC TALKS AND LECTURES

2008



Into the Open Ania Dabrowska and John Nassari artist talk, Four Corners Gallery, London
Masotheric II
, poetry and visual art event, Chez Kristof, London
Memories of Home – Transnational Belonging in Contemporary Art, The Making and Remaking of European Memory Since 1945 Symposium, Reading University
2007 Pecha Kucha, ICA, London
2006



Letter M, sequenced portraiture, Four Corners Gallery, London
Photographing Prostitution: The Game of Consequences, Visiting Lecturer, MA Photography and Urban Cultures, Goldsmiths College, London
Inventing Intimacy Through Research conference, Visiting Speaker, CSISP, Goldsmiths, London

2005 Photographing Prostitution, The Game of Consequences, Whitechapel Gallery, London
   
TEACHING  
2008



Visiting Lecturer, The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford
It’s My Life In Words and Pictures, participatory photography workshops for women rebuilding their lives after being in prison,CAST and 44 Portland Place, London
Change the Picture, U-Turn Project and PhotoVoice charities, London

2007





Visiting Lecturer, MA Photography and Urban Cultures, Goldsmiths College, London
Trafficked, photography workshops for trafficked women, Poppy Project and PhotoVoice, London
It’s My Life In Words and Pictures, participatory photography workshops for women rebuilding their lives after being in prison,CAST and 44 Portland Place, London
Change the Picture, participatory photography workshops for the East End street sex workers, one year programme, U-Turn Project and PhotoVoice charities, London

2006 Visiting Lecturer, MA Photography and Urban Cultures, Goldsmiths College, London
2005 Chikho Project, Lead Facilitator, The cSPACE Trust, Morpeth School, Bethnal Green, London
2004

The Way We Are: Part 2, Workshops Leader,FATAL (NGO), South of Cyprus
My Life My Future, Workshop Facilitator, The British Council, London

2003 The Way We Are: Part 1, Workshop Leader, FATAL (NGO), North of Cyprus
   

AWARDS

 
2008 Wellcome Trust People Award
2007 NPG Photography Prize 2007, selected, London
2003 Winner of the Observer Hodge Photographic Award, London