RESUME
Kuba Falk (b. 1984)
EDUCATION
2009 – 2011 Stage Directing Department, Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków, PL
2008 – 2011 Intermedia Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, PL
2007 – 2008 Religious Studies, Philosophy Department, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL
2003 – 2007 MA in Performing Arts, Stage Acting Department, Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków, PL
FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
2025 Artist-in-residence program, Culture Moves Europe program at the Central Elétrica, Porto, PT
2024 Artist-in-residence program, the City of Strasbourg/Apollonia-European Art Exchanges/CSW Łaznia, Strasbourg, FR
2024 Flow/Przepływ, transdisciplinary mobile artist-in-residence program (multiple editions: 2017–2024), Vistula River, PL
2024 Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish Culture Around the World stipend, PL
2023 Artist-in-residence program, Grace Exhibition Space/Rosekill Art Farm, Kingston, NY, US
2023 Artist-in-residence program, Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York City, US
2022 The Performing Garage, micro-residency, New York City, US
2022 Polish Cultural Institute in New York, production grant, US
2022 Artist-in-residence program, Kunst in der Natur Symposium, Thunau am Kamp, AT
2022 Artist-in-residence program, Artist House Kadenówka Foundation, Rabka-Zdrój, PL
2021 Artist-in-residence program, Kunst in der Natur Symposium, Thunau am Kamp, AT
2020 Polish Cultural Institute in New York, stipend, US
2020 Fellowship Program at the Grace Exhibition Space Manhattan, New York City, US
2019 The Watermill Center for Arts – Summer Program, Long Island, New York, US
2007 The Watermill Center for Arts – Summer Program, Long Island, New York, US
AWARDS
2024 Recipient of the Scholarship under Poland's National Recovery Plan (KPO), funded by the EU's NextGenerationEU
2023 Cine + Performance Art Festival special mention for EMBRACING THE VOID video performance
2015 Classics Alive Award for the stage directing debut of the drama OLD WOMAN BREEDS
2010 Grand Prix for BODYSCREEN video performance, Meridian Charnivtsi International Poetry Festival, Chernivtsi
2008 Theatre Institute Award for the MA thesis ROBERT WILSON'S METHOD OF WORKING WITH ACTOR
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
2026 POST, video performance, Bodies of Memory, FRSK Foundation, online
2025 WHILE HEAT ISSUES FROM THE MOUTH OF THE WOUND UPON TOUCH, performance, Muzeum Farmacji, Warszawa, PL
2025 DEEP MOON, PLUTO, performance, Naked Forms Festival, Prague, CZ
2025 HONORING THE WHITE AND BLACK PRZEMSZA RIVERS, happening-workshop, Mysłowice, PL
2025 DIVINE ASSISTANCE, performance with interactive video by Zbigniew Bzymek, AA-Artists Anonymous, Port Miejski, Wrocław, PL
2025 HYDROSEXUAL HEALING CLINIC, happening with cyber-nymphs, Dom Utopii, Nowa Huta, PL
2025 TSUKIMI, group exhibition, Ewa Opałka Gallery, Warszawa, PL
2025 HONORING THE RAWA AND BRYNICA RIVERS, happening, Ecofeminism and Performance Art workshop, Mysłowice, PL
2025 JOANINHA, performance, Watts Festival, Central Elétrica, Porto, PT
2024 LEAVE YOUR WORRIES AT THE DOOR, performance, Other Society (Inne Towarzystwo), Apartment exhibition, Warszawa, PL
2024 ANTIDOGS IN ANTINATURE, theatre performance, International Gombrowicz Festival, Radom, PL
2024 NORAYAMA, performance, XXIV Interakcje Action Art Festival, Piotrków Trybunalski, PL
2024 INVASIVE SPECIES, public intervention, Sure!fen Performance Art Festival, Görlitz, DE
2024 NORAYAMA, performance, Flow exhibition, Gallery El, Elbląg, PL
2024 FLOW, group exhibition, Gallery El, Elbląg, PL
2024 HYDROSEXUAL HEALING CLINIC, happening with Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, Justyna Górowska, Ewelina Jarosz, lokal 30 Gallery, Warszawa, PL
2024 DEEP MOON, PLUTO, performance, Ewa Opałka Gallery, Warszawa, PL
2024 DEEP MOON, PLUTO, performance, dfbrl8r gallery – site/LESS, Chicago, US
2024 PERCEPTUAL FEEDBACK, interactive performance with Michał Osowski, Mandala Performance Festival, Wrocław, PL
2024 NORAYAMA, performance, Mandala Performance Festival, Wrocław, PL
2023 PLANTCESTORS SAY II, performance, Other Society (Inne Towarzystwo), Strange Garden exhibition, Warszawa, PL
2023 OUT WRITE IT, performance, Saski Gardens, Warszawa, PL
2023 UNTITLED, performance, an/aesthetics art event, Rosekill Art Farm, Kingston, NY, US
2023 DEEP MOON, PLUTO, performance, Grace Exhibition Space, New York City, US
2023 DEEP MOON, PLUTO, performance, West Hollywood PRIDE Arts, Los Angeles, US
2023 DEEP MOON, PLUTO, performance, LGBTQ Center – The Bureau, New York City, US
2023 INTERHUMAN + INTERFORM, multimedia theatre performance, Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York City, US
2022 GOING OUT WITH GOMBROWICZ, live performance reading, The Performing Garage, New York, US
2022 THE FETUS AND THE SNAKE, performance, Art in Nature Festival, Thunau am Kamp, AT
2022 THE COSMIC WOMB, site-specific installation, Art in Nature Festival, Thunau am Kamp, AT
2021 PLANTCESTORS SAY, performance, Art in Nature Festival, Thunau am Kamp, AT
2021 THE WALK IS THE FREEDOM, 4-day performance art walk, PL-CZ-AT
2021 MORA ZMORA, performance/happening, Artist House Kadenówka, Rabka-Zdrój, PL
2020 ALREADY DEAD. FEEDBACK LOOPS OF DESPAIR, performance, Grace Exhibition Space, New York City, US
2020 SUMMONING THE SPIRITS OF THE ROSEKILL LAKE, video, Rosekill Art Farm, Rosendale, NY, US
2020 YOUR AMERICAN DREAM IS SOMEONE ELSE'S NIGHTMARE, solo exhibition, Grace Exhibition Space, New York City, US
2019 FREEDOOMRUN, performance, Carbonarium Festival, Kyiv, UA
2019 FREEDOOMRUN, performance, Dream Adoption Society, Warszawa, PL
2019 FREEDOOMRUN, performance, Razem Pamoja Foundation Gallery, Kraków, PL
2019 PURGER, performance, Watermill Center Annual Gala, Long Island, New York, US
2019 MASSAGING MONUMENTS – MERMAID OF WARSAW, video performance, Warszawa, PL
2018 EVOKING PHANES, performance, FLOWERING / The Feast of One Thousand Sex and Liberation of the Machines Festival, Warszawa, PL
2018 I FEEL LIKE GIF.REPEAT, durational performance, TIME performance exhibition, Grey Space Gallery, The Hague, NL
2018 LET THE SPIRIT OF FLOW COME UPON US, performance with Alioune Diouf at the opening of How To Talk With Birds, Trees, Fish, Shells, Snakes, Lions And Bulls exhibition, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
2018 ONE WEEK DANCE, 7-day durational performance, Neues Kunstverein, Ravensburg, DE
2018 A LOT OF DIRTY TALK, performance, Performance Crossings, Prague, CZ
2017 WHITE SPOT. THE NORTH POLE, theatre performance: directing, live music, video projections; Dramaturgy Festival, Teatr Szaniawskiego, Wałbrzych, PL
2017 FLOWING PLACE, video installation, group exhibition Flow, Razem Pamoja Foundation Gallery, Kraków, PL
2017 HOW TO POOP PROPERLY, online performance, Perform-Or Not Festival, Tallinn, EE
2016 THE AFTERLIFE PROFILE, performative installation, commissioned work for New Theatre Festival, Rzeszów, PL
2015 DEATH IS SITTING ON A PEAR TREE AND WILL NOT MOVE, theatre performance: directing, set design, music, video projections, Stefan Jaracz Theatre in Łódź, PL
2015 PISSING DAVID, performance, Reflektorem w mrok exhibition, F.a.i.t. Gallery, Kraków, PL
2014 OLD WOMAN BREEDS, theatre performance-installation: directing, video projections, set design; New Theatre Festival, Rzeszów, PL
2013 SECRETS, short film (soap-document), video projections, Dramatyczny Theatre, Białystok, PL
2013 GOOD NEWS, set & costumes design, video projections, Teatr Szaniawskiego, Wałbrzych, PL
2012 BLINDWALK, happening, John Cage Conference: man-work-paradox, Music Academy in Kraków, PL
2011 DEATH OF AN EMPLOYEE, video projections, Teatr Polski, Poznań, PL
2011 SWEET PHOEBE, video projections, Teatr Niekonsekwentny, Szczecin, PL
2011 BLINDWALK, happening, Theatre Reminiscences Festival, Kraków, PL
2010 BAGGAGE, performance, Kontrast Association, Bielsko-Biała, PL
2010 ATOM BOMB OF LOVE, performance, International Poetry Festival Meridian Charnivtsi, Chernivtsi, UA
2010 DREAMING FOR ART, subversive performance, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, ES
2010 DIALOGUE, performance with Marcio Shimabukuro, Epipiderme 9" Festival, Lisbon, PT
2010 DIALOGUE, performance with Marcio Shimabukuro, Espacio OFF Limits Gallery, Madrid, ES
2010 DIALOGUE, performance with Marcio Shimabukuro, Galeria CMTV, Barcelona, ES
2010 POLSK!, performance, Akcja/Acción Festival; Instituto Cervantes, Kraków, PL
2010 CUTTING PIECE, performance, XII Interakcje International Action Art Festival, Piotrków Trybunalski, PL
2009 MIRROR, performance, Performance Platform International Festival, Lublin, PL
2009 BODYSCREEN, performance, Performance Platform International Festival, Lublin, PL
2009 LAST, performance, XI Interakcje International Action Art Festival, Piotrków Trybunalski, PL
2009 BACKGROUND, performance, European Forum of Exchange, EU Art Academies Symposium, Namedy, DE