Anna Królikiewicz, a contemporary artist, prepared a four-part installation for the exhibition "What's cooking. Jewish Culinary Culture" at the POLIN Museum (11 March – 12 December 2022). It included tables representing different concepts: Table I (Tradition), Table II (Diaspora), Table III (Modernity) and Table IV (Memories). The work also became the protagonist of a series of photographs taken by the author, in which the tables gain an additional, poetic dimension.
The artist defended her Master's degree at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk in 1993 and her doctoral thesis in 2000 at the same university. After obtaining the post-doctoral degree in 2010, she took over the Drawing Studio; in 2018 she received the title of the professor. In the years 2001–2003 she taught in several studios at the faculties of Art and Graphic Design at Bilkent University in Ankara, and since 2013 she has conducted a course of Shape of Taste at the School of Form in Poznań. She creates primarily drawings and installations. The author of many solo exhibitions, she has taken part in dozens of group exhibitions at home and abroad. Winner of awards for artistic and teaching achievements, scholarship holder of the City of Sopot. Her art explores areas related to the broad physicality of the body and the fragility of memory, as well as the phenomenon of synaesthesia, the physiology of taste and the use of the sense of taste in art.
Małgorzata Bogdańska-Krzyżanek
