MILENA MICHALSKI CV
Studio 42
Kingsgate Workshops
110-116 Kingsgate Rd email: mail@milenamichalski.com milenaartmail@gmail.com
London, NW6 2JG www.milenamichalski.com
ARTISTIC POSTS
2024-27 Visiting Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London
2021-23 Artist Researcher on the project ‘Art and Reconciliation: the History and Practice of Foto Depo – the Photographic Archive of the History Museum of Bosnia and Hercegovina’, King’s College London
2020-21 AHRC Artist in Residence for ‘Art and Reconciliation — The PCRC and ASBO Magazine: sustaining visual peace building, empowering youth, and embedding impact’, Dept. of War Studies, King’s College London
2019 AHRC Artist in Residence for ‘Art and Reconciliation —The Living Museum’, Dept. of War Studies, King’s College London
2016-2019 AHRC Artist in Residence for ‘Art and Reconciliation: Conflict, Culture and Community’, Dept. of War Studies, King’s College London
2014 LME (London-Munich Exchange) co-founder, co-curator, 2015 - ongoing
Chelsea School of Arts Residency, The South Lookout, Aldeburgh, March 2014
AWARDS
2021-23
British Academy funding as Artist Researcher on ‘Art and Reconciliation: the History and Practice of Foto Depo – the Photographic Archive of the History Museum of Bosnia and Hercegovina’, King’s College London
2021-2022
Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice funding
2020
Analogue Photography Grant (Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation)
AHRC/GCRF Funding for artist residency on ‘Art and Reconciliation — The PCRC and ASBO Magazine’ with King’s College London and the PCRC, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina
2019 AHRC/GCRF Funding for artist residency on ‘The Living Museum’ with King’s College London and the History Museum of Bosnia & Hercegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina
2018 Funding from the City of Munich Department of Arts and Culture for LME international group exhibition ‘Ruins of Time: Winter, English Garden’, Orangerie, Englischer Garten, Munich
2017 Funding from the City of Munich Department of Arts and Culture for LME international group exhibition ‘Ruins of Time: Asylum’, Asylum, Caroline Gardens, London
2017 Funding from the King’s Cultural Institute for ‘Grid References’ as part of the ‘Co-Researching for Innovation and Change’ programme
2017 Funding from the Arts & Humanities Festival, King’s College London for creation of ‘Babel News’ installation for Bush House Arcade
2016-2018 AHRC funding for artist residency on ‘Art & Reconciliation’ at King’s College London
2015 Funding from the City of Munich Department of Arts and Culture for LME international group exhibition ‘Ruins of Time: Crypt’, Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras Church, London
2014 awarded The Arts Club Aldeburgh Beach bursary and the first Chelsea College of Arts South Beach Lookout Residency, Aldeburgh
2013 CCW Artist Moving Image Initiative award
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
‘Lucia Moholy: Bauhaus Photographer’, dir. Sigrid Faltin, 2024, B2W Filmworks, ZDF/Arte and SRF
premiere screening Filmkunst66, Bleibtreustrasse 12, Berlin, Germany, 4 February
Fotostiftung Schweiz, Gruzenstrasse 45, Winterthur, Switzerland, 9 February
The Courtauld, Vernon Square, London, 7 March
2024
‘Symbiosis III’, London Alternative Photography Collective, Collectives Hub, Photo Fringe 2024, Phoenix Art Space, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton, 5 October – 17 November
‘Adrian Flowers Archive exhibition and artist-led workshop’, Adrian Flowers Archive, Main Street, Ballydehob, Co. Cork, Ireland, 3-4 August
‘Symbiosis II’, Four Corners, 121 Roman Road, London, 15-18 May
2023
'Plant Life: From Beginnings to Ends', presentation at conference Fabriques de l'Écocinéma: Politicise et processes écologiques du cinéma expérimental / Making Ecocinema: Ecological Politics and Processes of Experimental Cinema, Aix-Marseille Université, 16-17 November 2023, Marseille, France
2022
‘Leaf veins striate film frames’, text and artworks, in Phytography, Karel Doing, ed., pp.
11-14, 2022
2021
‘Enmeshed’, in Less a Building: Interactions with the London Zoo Aviary, Michaela Nettell, ed., Passengers, London, 2021, pp. 102-112
‘Aprajita. The Resilient Artist’, Madhuriya Art House online festival, 30 April — 2 May, https:// www.facebook.com/madhuriya.art.house/
‘Stations 21’, Arts Chaplaincy Projects, 2-30 April 2021 https://artschaplaincy.net/projects/index/stations-2021/
2020
- ‘Ruins of Time/Tower’, 7-13 July, St. Augustine’s Tower, Mare Street, Hackney, London POSTPONED to 9-15 July 2021 due to COVID-19
- ‘Elemental – Essential’, 3 April – 31 May, Plinth x Velorose, Velorose, 1b Charter House Square, London and online http://www.velorose.com/exhibition17a_elemental-essential_x_plinth.html
- ‘Lockdownandlight’, 29-31 May, online exhibition (developed by artists David Campbell Baldry and Jane Watt as part of the on-going biennial series ‘Landscape & Light’)
https://www.instagram.com/lockdownandlight
2019
- ‘in a different light’, History Museum of Bosnia and Hercegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina
- ‘Contemporary Contexts: Re-Imagining Socialist Images,’ History Museum of Bosnia and Hercegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina
- ‘Alive in the Universe’, artists’ film screenings, Venice Biennale 2019, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, Italy
- ‘Reconciliations and References: the Bauhaus Centenary’, Liddell Hart Cabinets, Strand, London
- ‘Reconciliations: The Evidence of the Visible’, PARC, London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London
- ‘Grid References’, Liddell Hart Cabinets, Strand, London
2018
- ‘Alive in the Universe’ film screenings, Bermondsey Project Space, 183 – 185 Bermondsey Street, London
- ‘SFSA Painting Open’, no format Gallery, Arch 29, Rolt Street & Deptford does Art, 28 Deptford High Street, London
- ‘ASC 40 Celsius’, Croyden Art House, The Grafton Quarter, Grafton Road, London
- ‘ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2018’, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London
- ‘Reconciliations’, Knapp Gallery, Regent’s University London, Regent’s Park, London
- ‘Reconciliations’, The Exchange, Bush House, Strand, London,
- ‘REconciliations’, History Museum of Bosnia & Hercegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina
- ‘Alive in the Universe’ film screenings, The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, Aldeburgh
- ‘Doorways’, FaB – Fringe Arts Bath Festival, 7 New Bond Street Place, Bath
- ‘Ruins of Time / Winter, English Garden’, Orangerie, Englischer Garten, Munich, Germany
- ‘Make_Shift’, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
- ‘Babel News’ audio-visual installation, The Arcade, Bush House, London
2017
- ’Make_Shift’. 11 October 2017 – 13 February 2018, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
- ‘Babel News’ installation, 9 October 2017 – 31 Janurary 2018, Bush House Arcade, Bush House,
- Aldwych, London
- ‘Art on Conflict’, 28 September – 26 October, Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock
- ‘Looking In, Looking Out’ installation, part of the ‘Anna Freud and Play’ exhibition, (King’s College London with the Freud Museum London), 13 September -31 October, King’s College London, Strand, London
- ‘Ruins of Time / Asylum’, 28-31 March, Asylum Chapel, Caroline Gardens, Asylum Road, London
2016
- ‘Calendar Croatia’, 2 December – 24 December, Croatian Embassy, London
- ‘Salon des Refuses’ 2016, 23-26 June, SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, London
- ‘ZAP Share & Exchange Exhibition’, 4 May, ASC Studios, Bond House Project Space, London
2015
- ‘Photographing Croatia’, 25 November – 24 December, Croatian Embassy, London
- ‘Ruins of Time’, 23–30 November, The Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras Parish Church, London
- ‘Fingers Crossed’, 13 November, The Wonder Inn, Manchester
- ‘ASC Open Studios’, Part of Deptford X 2015, 2-3 October, ASC Studios, Bond House, London
- ‘Light Waves’, 25 September – 7 October, Resort Gallery, Margate
- ‘Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition’, 4 July, Bond House Gallery, London
- ‘Fingers Crossed’, 13 March, The Engine Room, AWOL Studios, Manchester
- ‘Share & Exchange Exhibition’, 31 January, ASC Studios, Bond House Project Space, London
2014
- ‘Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2014’, 20 October – 28 November, Clifford Chance, London
- ‘Derek Jarman Film Festival: Made in London’, 15-18 September, National Centre of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
- ‘Postgraduate Summer Show 2014’, 6-12 September, Chelsea College of Arts, London
- ‘The Optical and its Limits’, 17-23 March, The South Lookout, Aldeburgh
- ‘Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition’, 10 July, ASC Studios, Bond House Project Space, London
- ‘Chelsea Salon’, 20 June, Cons Project, Peckham, London
- ‘MA Fine Art Interim Show 2014’, 23-24 January, Chelsea College of Arts, London
2013
- ‘HYPE’, 23-29 September, Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts
- ‘Let’s dance: 12th International Super 8mm Festival’, 24-30 September, Szeged, Hungary
- ‘Out of Focus’, Videoholica 2013, 1-6 August, Varna, Bulgaria
- ‘CCW AMI Film Fund Initiative screening’, 15 May, South London Gallery
- ‘Place/Replace’, 6-7 March, Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London
2012
- ‘In/Visible War Crimes Sites’, part of the ‘Pictures of Peace and Justice’ project, AHRC Beyond Text Final Festival, 29 March, King’s Place, London
