Angelika Fojtuch, 2007

Portrait Angelika Fojtuch by BBB J. Deimling, 2006

Angelika Fojtuch with Wigry 3, 2006

a live form of art

...her work deals with the issues of communication, the role of emotions and physicality in interpersonal relations and the creation of identity confronting them with the mechanisms of culture... (Joanna Sokolowska)

Angelika Fojtuch, born 1978 in Gdynia, Poland. In 1993 she started to study art at the highschool of art in Gdynia and dealed five years with sculptures. Since 1998 she continued her study at different polish art academies: in Toruñ, Kraków, Poznañ and Gdañsk. During her studies, her artistic interest orientates in inter-media, on video, object, photography and finally performance, currently her main workingfield. In 2005 she finished her art studies with the performance „Jaka Miłość Taka Sztuka“ (Such Love, Such Art) as an absolvent of the art academy in Gdañsk of the class from Grzegorz Klaman.

Since  2003 Angelika Fojtuch got several awards for her performative works, a.o. Grant from the Culture Foundation of Poland, as well as scholarships a.o. in Florence and Montescaglioso, Italy, and residence in Tel Aviv, Israel given by Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

She is absorbed in performance art and the documentation of it.

She tells: “Performance-Art is a live form of art, that an artist creates out of personal resources. The center is the possibility to communicate directly with people without words on different levels - even sometimes more understandable and precisely. The image, or the situation, or the moment he creates is a personal manifestation of privacy and his view on life. In the moment of the public presentation he is meeting people and share with them the moment of creation. In this way performance-art is more a pure form of communication than a form of visual image. The value is not the art piece, it is more the moment of the transfer of an immanent context, that wants to communicate a view or an opinion and not only to show a nice picture, that limits the free space that is created. Traditional art has structural borders, that performance breaks for to have a free field of communication and with this an exchange of values, natures and originalities.“

Angelika Fojtuch has passed her knowledge about the connections and relations of everday life and performance art in various workshops, eg. in Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Theather College in Jaffa, IDK The Academy of Fine Arts in Tallinn.

In 2006 she founded together with BBB Johannes Deimling the Forum for Performance Art PORT PERFORMANCE in the baltic area. The Port as a place of constant exchange, a daily inport and export of values, a place where water and land come together, is the basic idea of the project. In Art Performances the human body is a port for exchanges of inside and personal values with the outside world. Communication takes place.