Aneta Panek

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Aneta Panek (October 5, 1976 in in Warsaw, Poland) is filmmaker and performance artist. She lives and works in Berlin.

Life

Panek studied art history at the University Paris 4 Sorbonne, where she particularly worked on the questions of transmediality in the arts, the uncanny in the media, and on artistic exchanges between the three countries: France, Germany and Poland. She continued her studies at the German Forum for Art History in Paris, where she worked for the interdisciplinary research project “Ownreality”, as well as at the Berlin University of the Arts, Institut for Time Based Media, where she currently is PhD candidate.

She realized numerous films and television reports, among others for the TV channels RBB, WDR and the Deutsche Welle. Her documentary “My Heaven is Full of Music” (2009) was enclosed in the collection of the Museum Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

In 2013 and 2014 Panek curated, together with Clara Pacquet, a film program at the Club der Polnischen Versager in Berlin: GEIST & GESPENSTER, monthly screenings exploring the phenomenon of film as a spiritual and eerie process. 2015 followed another film program, created by Panek and Clara Pacquet: LA LOGE NOIRE at the Babylon Kino in Berlin; a selection of movies exploring the magical dimension of cinema and questioning the very nature of cinematographic presentation.

From 2015 on, Panek dedicated herself to experimental film. Her experimental short film “Tarot Reading” (2015) has been selected for various art film festivals around the world, among others the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Berlin Short Film Festival, and Peach Moon Art Festival in Tokyo.

Her experimental film-collage “Lullaby for a Witch” (2016) run at the List í Ljósi Festival (Art by Light Festival) in Seyðisfjörður, Island, as well as recently at the Nasty Women UK Exhibition in London. Her experimental short movie “Czarymary” (2016) has been presented in December 2017 at the LGBTQ film night at the Flying Dutchman, London. In 2017 Aneta Panek was invited for an artist residency at Robert Wilson’s The Watermill Center, where she staged her Punk Opera (20.05.2017), a work she has been developing over the last three years within the framework of her artistic PhD. The piece was also presented at the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York (25.05.2017), as well as at the Theater im Delphi in Berlin (11 & 13.05.2018), where it had official premiere in its accomplished version as a 3-channel video installation mixed with elements of live performance. It was then shown in Venice at the Palazzo Ca’Zanardi within the framework of a collective exhibition organized by Its Liquid Group, “Spaces – Surfaces International Art and Architecture Festival” (27.09-25.11.2018). Further artist residencies followed, counting the “Artists Lock-In” on Jersey Island, with Sue Hill, artistic director of the Wild Works, an international theatre company working with the landscape, then recently a directing assistance and internship on the production of Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide, directed by Barrie Kosky, at the Komische Oper Berlin.

Panek has been working on her numerous projects with the greatest artists from different domains; classic opera, subculture, dance, chanson, electronic music – among others with: Max Raabe, Simone Kermes, Dieter Meier, Zazie de Paris, FM Einheit, Mona Mur, En Esch, Yoriko Maeno, Martin Buczko and many others.

Panek lives and works as a filmmaker, performance artist and media researcher in Berlin.

She currently works on a PhD dissertation entitled „Alchemy of Punk. Transmutation, Subversion and Poetry in Punk Avant-Gardes.“, with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski, former rector of Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design as scientific supervisor, and with Alain Fleischer the director of the FRESNOY, Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing, France), as artistic supervisor. Her work, based on “other knowledge” and artistic research, is about the necessity of visualization and associative speculation in formulating and deconstructing theories and questioning reality. Her particular interests are alchemy, transmutation, subversion, and rebellion, as means of challenging the existing norms of performing knowledge.

Publications (a selection)


• „Warschauer Punk Pakt. Punk im Ostblock 1977-1989“, Alexander Pehlemann (Ed.), Ventil Verlag, February 2018.

• „Pokoli aranykor - New wave koncertplakátok a '80-as évekből“, Tamás és Bp. Szabó György / Punk & New Wave Poster Album“, Tamás Szöneyi, Szabó György(Hg.), ed. by the Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest, October 2017

• Open Fields – Art and Science Research Practices in the Network Society, edited by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch, Riga, RIXC 2016. A. Panek, Ingenious Dillettantes – Night Patrol – Punk in Poland. Transgressions, subversions and détournements in experimental music and cinema in West Berlin, Warsaw and Lodz in the 1980s.

• Atlas of Media Thinking and Media Acting in Berlin, transmediale / conversationspiece 2016, Publikation und Installation der UdK Berlin, Fakultät Gestaltung – Institut für Zeitbasierte Medien. A. Panek, Künstlergespräche in Form von Text und Film

• Band 2 – Forum zur Genealogie des MedienDenkens, der zweite Band der erweiterten Dokumentation der Gespräche im Forum zur Genealogie des MedienDenkens aus dem Sommer 2013, UdK-Verlag. Siegfried Zielinski im Gespräch mit… Hans Belting, Wolfgang Ernst, Hartmut Winkler, Henning Schmidgen, Claus Pias und Sybille Krämer.
Mit Beiträgen und Materialien von Vilém Flusser, Florian Hadler, Konstantin Daniel Haensch, Toni Hildebrandt, Daniel Irrgang, Linnéa Meiners, Sandra Moskova, Inger Neick, Aneta Panek, Andreas Rauth, Sarah Johanna Theurer und Siegfried Zielinski.
Herausgeben von Daniel Irrgang, Konstantin Daniel Haensch & Inger Neick, 2014.

• A.Panek, 7e Biennale d’art contemporain Berlin – Interview with Artur Żmijewski. In artpress, no 389, Paris, 2012

• Roman Lipski – Ausstellungskatalog, Atlas Sztuki Lodz, 2011. A.Panek, On Fulfilling One‘s Dreams, Dark Paintings, and Berlin. Interview with Roman Lipski.

• A.Panek, Quand les choses n‘ont pas d‘ombre. 5e Biennale d‘art 
contemporain de Berlin. In artpress, no 345, Paris, 2008

• A.Panek, Some reflections on the Art of Paweł Dutkiewicz, Paweł Dutkiewicz – Exhibition Catalogue, Anya Tish Gallery Houston, 2007

• Mechanismen des Vergessens. Mechanizmy zapominania. Marginalisierung und Kanonbildung in der Gegenwartskunst.“, Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, 2006. A.Panek, Geometrie, Konstruktivismus, konkrete Kunst & Co. Vergessen, Erinnerung und anderer Zickzack der Geschichte.

• A.Panek, Franz Ackermann. Voyages parallèles. In artpress, no 314, Paris,
2005

• A.Panek, Roman Opalka. Ici et maintenant. In artpress, no 301, Paris, 2004

• Vues d’architectures. Photographies des XIXe et XXe siècles. Exhibition Catalogue - Texts on László Moholy-Nagy and Lucia Moholy-Nagy. Musée de Grenoble, 2002.

Lectures and conferences

• 12-13.12.2017: The fourth International Punk Scholars Network Conference and Symposium at the University of Bolton School of the Arts.

• 29.09-02.10.2016: Open Fields – internationale Konferenz im Rahmen des RIXC Art Science Festivals in Riga, mit Fokus auf den neuen Ästhetiken, Zeitgenössischen Bedingungen, und digitalen Praktiken in der post-medialen Welt.

• 05.12.2015: The Sound of the Underground. Alternative Musikkulturen in Ostmitteleuropa der 1980er Jahre. Humboldt Universität Berlin, Institut für Slawistik.

• 14.08.2015: Wunderblock – Gespräche über Bilder / Conversations on Images, curated by Dieter Jüdt, Falk Nordmann, Andreas Rauth, Projektraum Erstererster, Berlin: lecture and multi-media screening entitled „Transmutation, Subversion and Poetry in Punk Avant-garde since François Villon!“

• 23-27.02.2015: Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland: a week block seminar for students of experimental film entitled „Ingenious Dilletantes, Dada-Punk and Alchemy of Avant-gardes. Transgressions, subversions and détournements in experimental music and cinema in West-Berlin, Warsaw/ Lodz and Paris in the 80s and back to the 70s, 60s and 20s. A travel through space and time.“

• 09-13.06.2014: l’École Internationale de Printemps à Tokyo / The International Spring Academy in Tokyo, Wakugumi – Frameworks. Transmission and Fusion (coincidences and exchanges between the East and the West). Presentation „Ingenious Dillettantes – Hijokaidan – Hanatarash – Gerogerigegege – Incapacitants“

• 08-11.10.2013: Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW -
The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology in Riga, Stockholm School of Economics. Presentation of current research in the framework oft he session entitled Rethinking East: „Ingenious Dillettantes – Night Patrol – Punk in Poland. Subversive strategies in experimental cinema inspired by the 1980s West-Berlin Underground“

• 18-20.06.2013: Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art / Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris, group seminar of the research project „To each his own reality. The notion of the real in the arts in France, Eastern and Western Germany and Poland from the 1960s to the 1980s.” „Intermediality as a challenge to social and politic realities – experiences in West-Berlin and Dresden in the 1980s.“, with lectures by Christoph Tannert, Marie Arleth Skov, and Aneta Panek, „Geniale Dilettanten – Night Patrol – Punk in Poland. Subversive Strategies in Experimental Cinema in West-Berlin in the 1980s.“

• 2006: German-Polish conference, curated by Susanne Altman under the title: „Mechanisms of Forgetting. About Marginalisation and Canon Formation in Contemporary Art.”, Motorenhalle – Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden. Presentation „Geometry, Constructivism, Concrete Art & Co. Forgetting, Remembering and Other Zigzags of the History.“ Lecturing and Revising of the publication released after the conference.

Filmography

Alchemy of Punk, 2017. A 3-Channel Video-Installation, melting together music, theatre and live-performance. Featuring among others: Simone Kermes, Mona Mur, En Esch, Zazie de Paris, Max Raabe, Takushi Minagawa, Margita Haberland, Dieter Meier, Rieko Okuda, FM Einheit, Meritxell Campos Olivé, Yoriko Maeno and Martin Buczko.

Lullaby for a Witch, 2016. An experimental Film- and Sound- Collage.

Czarymary, 2016. Experimental-movie about gender, genesis, death and beauty.

Tarot-Reading, 2015. A daydream / experimental fairy tale, with Doris Egbring-Kahn, Gabi and Miho Takayasu, Berlin, 2015. The film has been selected for the New York City Independent Film Festival and won the Best Shorts Film Award in California.

Ein leibhaftiger Exkurs über den Polnischen Vampirismus, a tv-report on polish vampires, Berlin, 2015. RBB /TVP

Andrzej T. Wirth – A Portrait of an Unrooted, tv-documentary, Berlin, 2015. RBB / TVP

Vanito Vanitas – A Portrait of Michal Martychowiec, tv-report, Berlin, 2014. RBB / TVP

Mona Mur - The Turbulent Mind, tv-documentary, Berlin, 2014. RBB / TVP

Sascha Adamek, A. Panek (cooperation and assistance), Wer betrügt, profitiert - EU und der freie Arbeitsmarkt, tv-documentary, Poland and Germany, 2014, WDR.

Berliner Zwischenräume, Melchiorstrasse 9, tv-report on Berlin Squatters, Berlin, 2013. RBB / TVP

Japanese Community in Berlin, tv-portrait, Berlin, 2013. RBB / TVP

KulTouren - 20 Jahre Nachbarschaft. Kunst und die Künstler in Deutschland und Polen, Berlin-Warsaw, 2011. Deutsche Welle. My Haeven is Full of Music, Israel, Poland, Germany, 2010. Production RBB & DW. This documentary feature has been included in the collection of the Museums Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

Jerzy Lewczynski – Alchemy of the Photography, three portraits of the artist, realized between 2007 and 2009 in Poland and in Germany. RBB / TVP

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