Celina Kanunnikava Explained

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Celina Kanunnikava is a Polish-Belarusian artist. Her works are in the collection of Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw,^[1] and in private collections in Poland and abroad.

Work

Kanunnikava's artworks span painting, computer graphics, and mixed media/installations. They are inspired by architecture and physical materials characteristic for totalitarian regimes, such as widespread use of concrete, gold, and marble. The paintings depict gigantic buildings of the regime power and control infrastructure, including prisons, secret police archives, official buildings, headquarters, and bureaus of official propaganda media.^[2] The objects and buildings depicted symbolize not just Belarusian regime but other similar power relations and systems.^[3]

The artist is engaged in charity auctions and initiatives in both Belarus^[4] and Poland.^[5]

Awards

• "Nowy obraz/Nowe spojrzenie" (UAP Poznań) - main prize (2014)^[6]
• Winner of President of Wroclaw Award in the 12th edition of Geppert Competition, Wroclaw, 2016
• Medal of Young Art, Poznań, 2017^[7]
• 11. Triennale of Small Art Forms in Torun, 2019 – III prize^[8]
• Compass of Young Art, Warszawa, 2020^[9]

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• Internal Diseases, Assembly Gallery, Poznan, Poland
• Internal Diseases, MBWA, Leszno, Poland, 2017
• The Untitled, Assembly Gallery, Poznan, Poland, 2016
• Masse und Macht / Mass and power, WOZOWNIA Gallery, Torun, Poland, 2016
• 47 milliseconds, Szyperska Gallery, Poznan, Poland, 2013
• What a beautiful, sunny day, Stara Rzeźnia Gallery, Poznan, Poland, 2012

Group

• Great Patriotic, with Endre Tot, Hanna Shumska, Vitalii Shupliak, BWA Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2022
• 21 Presentations - Leszno 2020. In the beginning, the weather changed MBWA Leszno, Poland, 2020
• A thing about collecting. What is all this for? MBWA Leszno, Poland, 2020
• Paint, also known as Blood. Women, Affect, and Desire in Contemporary Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2019
• The sadness of modernism: oppression and depression, City Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland, 2019
• Girl and gun, House of Colonels, La Oliva, Fuerteventura, Spain, 2018
• Island and Atolls: the Mapping of Imagination, WOZOWNIA Gallery, Torun, Poland, 2017
• The Next Day, Assembly Gallery, Poznan, Poland, 2016
• Love. Aids. Riot. Sex. III, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2014

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kolekcja - Celina Kanunnikava . Collection - Celina Kanunnikava . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210925054442/https://artmuseum.pl/pl/kolekcja/artysci/celina-kanunnikava . 25 September 2021 . 11 July 2024 . . pl.
2. Web site: Plinta . Karolina . 4 November 2016 . Gwoździe do trumny. 12. Konkurs Gepperta . Nails in the coffin. 12. Geppert Competition . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240402093117/https://magazynszum.pl/gwozdzie-do-trumny-12-konkurs-gepperta/ . 2 April 2024 . 11 July 2024 . SZUM Magazine . pl.
3. Web site: Smolińska . Marta . 2016 . Celina Kanunnikava . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170301183810/http://geppert.art.pl/index.php?page=celina-kanunnikava . 1 March 2017 . 12. Konkurs Gepperta . . pl.
4. News: Shearlaw . Maeve . 3 February 2015 . Belarus bookshop rallies against publishing crackdown . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240416152314/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/03/belarus-bookshop-lohvinau-publishing-crackdown . 16 April 2024 . 11 July 2024 . . en-GB . 0261-3077.
5. Web site: Aukcja dla Domu. 3 grudnia w Zamku wielka licytacja dla osób z autyzmem [zdjęcie nr 23] ]. Auction for Home. On December 3, a great auction for people with autism takes place in the Castle [photo no. 23] . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240711222215/https://poznan.wyborcza.pl/poznan/51,36037,21027060.html?i=22 . 11 July 2024 . 11 July 2024 . poznan.wyborcza.pl . pl.
6. Web site: Łada . Lilia . 21 March 2014 . Poznanianka z Nagrodą Artystyczną Nowy Obraz / Nowe Spojrzenie! . A Poznań resident with the New Image / New Look Art Award! . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170301183802/https://codziennypoznan.pl/artykul/2014-03-21/poznanianka-z-nagroda-artystyczna-nowy-obraz-nowe-spojrzenie/ . 1 March 2017 . 11 July 2024 . codziennypoznan.pl . pl.
7. Web site: Celina Kanunnikava. April 22, 2022. Wikipedia.
8. Web site: Bio Celina Kanunnikava. Celina Kanunnikava. celinakanunnikava.com. 2020-03-12.
9. Web site: Kompas Młodej Sztuki.