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I am a performance artist with a background in visual arts, based in Poland. What fascinates me about creating performances is that I can simultaneously act as a living, feeling body and a symbolic figure – the body of a woman. In my projects, I explore themes of intimacy, relationships with nature, the clash between dreams and reality, and issues of identity. When considering the topic ‘Are we there yet?’, I wonder who ‘we’ are and where ‘there’ is…
Maria Bitka, born in 1986 artist, Ph.D. in arts, based in Poland. She defended her doctorate in 2022 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (2013) and the Institute of Art at the University of Opole (2010), during her studies she was on scholarships at the Universidad Nacional de Artes in Buenos Aires, the Academy of Art Architecture ahd Design in Prague and the Art Institute at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the USA. She uses diverse media, and creates performances, installations, objects, and often the documentation of her actions becomes an equal artistic work. She attaches great importance to the process of creating her works without, however, underestimating the visual/sensual attractiveness of her realizations. As a hobby, she sings in the traditional singing group „Niezłe Ziółka”. Co-founder of the art group Kuratorki (the Curators) and President of the OPAK association.