Anka Leśniak
works
biography texts contact
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2004
WORKS 2019
video-work, performance, textile
Abgefahren
collective on-line project
carried out by the Endmoraene and Frakcja groups
In the video, there is intertwined with my personal story - a stay in a hospital and its consequences with the tense political situation in Poland. In the period of the
pandemic and social isolation, the governing party decided to start a war with women by brutally tightening the already restrictive anti-abortion law that restricts the freedom of the
women.
It is also the title of a project carried out in collaboration with the Frakcja group of artists and the German artists from the Endmorane group.
The video-work also documents my activities with the white canvas that the artist Susanne Pittroff sent to me. I could do whatever I wanted with it, Susanne only asked to cut the canvas to the required distance between people during the pandemic - two meters.
'Abgefahren' is a word in German that can be used in a variety of contexts. It means that something has passed, gone, finished, but also that something is crazy.

