POLINA KANIS
Born on 02.08.1985 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
Based in The Netherlands.
EDUCATION AND RESIDENCIES:
2023 Villa Ruffieux Residency Program, Sierre
2021 Pro Helvetia, Research Fellowship program, Zurich
2020 - ISCP, New York
2017-2018 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2016 Rote Fabrik, Pro Helvetia, Zurich
2008-2011 Rodchenko Moscow Art School of Photography and Multimedia
2000-2006 Herzen State Pedagogical University, St Petersburg
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Professoressa on the Pole, CARTA’24, De Singel, Antwerp
2022 1934 (DUO show) P/////AKT, Amsterdam
2021 “Don’t turn around”, Continuo, Amsterdam
2018 “The shift”, TheWhyNot Gallery, Tbilisi
2017 Solo Show Polina Kanis, IkonoTV, Berlin
2017 “ The Procedure”, Haus Der Kunst, Munich
2016 “The shift”, PROGR, Videokunst.ch showroom, Bern
2016 “The shift”, A Parallel Program of the 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow
2016 “Reflected action”, Artwin Gallery Kicik QalArt, Baku
2014 “Formal portrait”, Manifesta 10, First Cadets' Corpus, St.Petersburg
2013 “New flag”, New Holland Gallery, St.Petersburg
2012 “1,2,3,4”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2012 “Asymmetrie”, Videoinsight Center, Turin
2012 “1,2,3,4”, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2012 “Ideal image”, Paperworks Gallery, Moscow
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Memory Palace in Ruins, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei
2022 Still Making Art Volume 5, Amsterdam
2021 - 2022 Artist’s Film International Program 2021-22, Whitechapel Gallery, Fundación Proa, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , Crawford Art Gallery, MMOMA
2021 10 Ans, Gallery C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2021 Work Upside Down, Centrul Cultural Clujean, Cluj, Romania
2021 Film and Audiovisual Art Festival, Rosà
2021 Publiek Park, Young Friends v/h S.M.A.K., Ghent
2021 Summer Exhibition, House of Radio, Aksenov Family Foundation, Saint Petersburg
2021 Post-Soviet Histories, REDCAT – Roy and Edna Disney/ CalArts Theater, Los Angeles
2020 “Des théâtres du silence”, Galerie C, Neuchâtel
2020 The Contemporary Art Festival Survival Kit, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga
2020 The Turbulence, CCA Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
2020 “Other Zones”, Film program for the Russian Federations’ pavilion of the 2020
Venice Architecture Biennale
2020 Generation XXI. The gift from Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin,
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2020 CYLAND Video Archive,The Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
2019 Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg
2019 VISIO. Moving Images After Post-Internet, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
2018 Rijksakademie Open, The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2018 “The beginning, the end and everything between them”, NCCA Ural, Ekaterinburg
2018 “Performing words”, Filmwerkstatt, Düsseldorf
2017 “When the other meets the other Other? What matters? What not”, Cultural Center, Belgrade
2017 Videobox Festival, Carreau du Temple, Paris
2016 “The end of the world”, The Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
2016 Rauma Biennale Baiticum 2016, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma
2016 “Anthropo(s)cène”, Galerie C, Neuchâtel
2015 “Balagan!!!”, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
2015 “Spaces for Maneuver ‒ Between Abstraction and Accumulation”, Main Project of 3rd Ural Industrial biennial of contemporary art, The Iset Hotel, Ekaterinburg
2015 “Inside an event”, Special Project of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Artwin Gallery
2015 “Digital poet”, Electromuseum, Moscow
2014 “The World Must Still Be Young”, Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen
2014 “Semiconductors”, Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
2014 “Russian Performance: A Cartography of its History”, Garage museum of contemporary art, Moscow
2014 “Not a museum. Aesthetic suspicious lab”, First Cadets' Corpus, St.Petersburg
2013 “Remainder”, BWA SOKOL Gallery, Nowy Sacz
2013 “In the Heart of the Country”, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
2013 “Rehearsal Time”, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2012 “I am who I am”, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf
2012 “School of freedom”, Paperworks Gallery, Moscow
2012 “Angry Birds”, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
2012 “Russian Renaissance”, Brot Kunsthalle, Wien
2011 “Auditorium Moscow. A Sketch for a Public Space”, Bielie Palaty, Moscow
2011 "V International Film Festival of Tarkovskiy “Zerkalo"
2010 “GOGOLFEST Festival”, Kyiv
2010 “East End Film Festival/10, Russian Art Festival”, The Foundry Gallery, London
AWARDS:
2019 ARCOmadrid Video Art Award 2019, shortlist
2017 Kandinsky Art Prize, shortlist in the “Young Artist, Project of the Year” category
2016 Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award, in “Best Media Object” category
2016 The Russian contemporary art award “Innovation Art Prize“, shortlist in “New Generation” category
2015 The Russian contemporary art award “Innovation Art Prize”, prize in “New Generation” category
(Stella Art Foundation Prize and Institute of France Prize).
2011 Kandinsky Art Prize, main prize in the “Young Artist, Project of the Year” category
2011 The Russian contemporary art award “Innovation Prize“, shortlist in “New Generation” category
COLLECTIONS:
Fonds régional d'art contemporain Bretagne (Frac Bretagne), Renne cedex
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
In Between Art Film S.r.l., Rome
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Aksenov Family Foundation, Moscow
Gazprom collection, Moscow
The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin, Moscow
The Foundation Videoinsight, Bologna
Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
and in private collections
ARTFAIRS:
Loop Barcelona 2019
Cosmoscow 2016
Cosmoscow 2015
Cosmoscow 2014
Vienna Art fair 2012
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/ARTICLES/REVIEWS:
Colta, September 2016
Vogue, August 2016
Dazed, July 2016
Wonderzine, June 2016
E-flux, November 2015
Artforum, October 2015
Artforum, October 2015
The Calvert Journal, September 2015
E-flux, August 2015
Esquire Russia, June 2015
The Calvert Journal, January 2014
Flash Art, №307, December 2013
E-flux, June 2013
Aroundart, October 2012
Artforum, October 2012
FAQ, №18, September 12
Артхроника, №1, March 2012
Lookatme, March 2012
The Interview Russia, March 2012
Артхроника, November 2011
E-flux, September 2011