Juchnowicz Anna
ass. tutor Anna Juchnowicz, PhD
Faculty of Graphics and Media Art
Department of Printmaking
Artistic Book Studio
biblioarty.wordpress.com
a.juchnowicz@asp.wroc.pl
Subjects taught
Artistic Book
Bookbinding
In 2008 she completed her MA study programme at the University of Wrocław, in the field of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. At the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, she completed her Bachelor's study programme in Media Art in 2011, her postgraduate study programme: Interdisciplinary Printmaking, in English, in 2014, and in 2017 – her doctoral studies in graphic design and artistic book. She was awarded two scholarships: in 2006, Erasmus programme at the Aegean University of Lesvos (Greece), and in 2017, Erasmus+ at Vysoka škola vytvarnych umeni v Bratislave (VŠVU) in Slovakia.
I use the artistic book as a method to combine narrative art and visual arts. My area of interest ranges from traditional handmade book objects to conceptual performances and installations. I collaborate with writers and craftsmen, illustrate, and write my own poems and stories. My additional passions include gardening, permaculture, earth art, intimism (such as letters, notebooks), theatre, staged photography, the multi-dimensional space-time continuum...
Awards and scholarships
2019 – Distinction in the competition A child-friendly book, category: unpublished books, organizer: the Museum of Toys and Play in Kielce, for the book Gapcio and unruly thoughts
2019 – Distinction in the poetic competition O Chmielakowy Antałek, organized by the Culture House in Krasnystaw
2016 – Distinction for achievements in the field of art awarded by the Chapter of the Jerzy Grotowski Scholarship operating in the framework of the Student Scholarship Programme
2016 – Winner of a scholarship of the Polish-Slovak Scholarship Fund for a photographic project under the artistic supervision of Prof. Jana Hojstričová at the AFAD Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava
Exhibitions
2019 – Find a Talking Tree, a site-specific land art installation around the Local Product Centre in Sokol, Podlaskie Province, created during the International Land Art Residency at CPL Sokol, in the Knyszyn Forest, Recollections and Emotions of the Forest, 1-14 September 2019
2019 – Participation in the first exhibition of the Academic Group Grzbiety, with the artistic book entitled Fragment 47, as the Group's supervisor
2018/2019 – On the border of text and image: artistic books inspired by the poetry of Sappho and issues of absence,, doctoral exhibition in theatre room 313 of the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław
2018 – Irrtum, an exhibition of artistic books made of bionanocellulose, the Museum of Artistic Book, Łódź
2017 – Poznámky, a drawing exhibition at Domus Gallery, Jatki 7, Wrocław
Conferences
2019 – Grey Crow conference, a speech entitled Received, sent, sketches. Autograph vis-à-vis de-individuation, organized by the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and the Gdańsk Library
2019 – Philosophy & Cartography conference, a speech entitled: The beauty of navigating complexity (in English), organised by the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław and the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Wrocław
2019 – Conference: Textographies. Editorial spaces of text and image, a speech entitled: Reproduction as a journey - about an artistic book from the perspective of a creator of unique objects in the panel on artistic book, organised by the Department of Editing of the Institute of Polish Philology at the University of Wrocław
Publications
Gardens in poetesses' heads in the monograph A few words on love – selected aspects of love in literature and art, which will be published by Wydawnictwo Naukowe TYGIEL
Reproduction as a journey. About an artistic book from the perspective of a creator of unique objects, for the magazine The Art of Editing. Textographic and Editorial Studies,, to be published by Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
The beauty of navigating complexity for the publication Philosophy and Cartography, the Institute of Philosophy, University of Wrocław
Received, sent, sketches. Autograph vis-à-vis de-individuation, for the publication The Grey Crow, published by the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Library of Gdańsk and the Faculty of Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk after the conference under the same title
Earthrise, Bambi effect, and permaculture – an artist's perspective, for the publication Handbook Sustainable Consumption and Quality of Life: towards integrating consumer policy strategies for improved life quality, to be published by Springer