Selected Exhibitions 2011-2014

Monika Weiss: Sustenazo (Lament II) , Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami (2014)

Curated by Julia P. Herzberg. Work in the exhibition: Sustenazo (Lament II), 2010-2022 (single channel projected high definition video, sound composition, 28 min, looped); Sustenazo (Lament II), 2010-2022, Still #1 & Still #2 (diptych, color photography, 28 x 100 in. each, framed, collection Frost Museum). For more information click here.

Monika Weiss-Sustenazo (Lament V), Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Cambridge (2014)

Curated by Krzysztof Wodiczko and Silvia Benedito. Part of Sensory Media series of performances at Piper Auditorium by guests artists, with participation of GSD students. Guests artists have included Marina Abramovic, Ewa Harabasz, Monika Weiss, Robert Wilson. Work composed/performed: Sustenazo (Lament V), 2014 (30 min. silent performance with participation of Harvard University students, sound composition, 200 sheets of paper with printed texts).

Długość cugli wyznacza średnicę areny, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Opole (2014)

Curated by Łukasz Kropiowski. Work in the exhibition: Horos II, 2008 (performance, film, and sound), Plucie, 2009 (performance, film and sound). For more information click here.

A Spectator on the Stands of History, Art Amalgamated, New York (2013)

Curated by Gary Krimershmoys. Works in the exhibition: Anamnesis II (Canto 1, Canto 2, Canto 3), 2013 (High Definition Video, Sound Composition, 27 min. looped, edition 1 of 3); Explosion 1 (Schiller Series), 2013 (graphite, charcoal, found book pages on wood, 8 x 8 x 2 in.); Dwie, 2012 (diptych: charcoal, found photographs, found book pages on wood, framed, 22 x 9 in. each panel). For more information click here.

Monika Weiss: Aletheia II & Anamnesis II, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montréal

Curated by Samuel Lallouz. Press text by Susan Mann. Works in the exhibition: Aletheia II, 2013 (site-specific performance and installation, charcoal, white silk, sound composition); Anamnesis II (Canto 1, Canto 2, Canto 3), 2013 (high definition video, sound composition, duration 27 min.) Photographic documentation by Jordan Lallouz. For more information click here.

Monika Weiss-Aletheia, Macy Gallery at Teacher College, Columbia University, New York (2013)

Curated by Andres Kantrowitz. Presented in conjunction with Thinking through Drawing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Work in the exhibition: Aletheia I (2011), white muslin, black scarves, graphite, movement choreographed and sound composed by the artist, with performers Melissa Gollance, Lily Randall, and the artist.

MONIKA WEISS: ANAMNESIS II, Faculdade de Belas Artes Museum at University of Porto, Porto (2013)

Curated by Paulo Luis Almeida. Work in the exhibition: Anamnesis II (Canto 1, Canto 2, Canto 3), white silk fabric, charcoal, graphite, black scarves, live performance with participation of local women, sound composition. Resulting room-size installation as well as limited edition film projection with sound are included in the permanent collection of the museum. For more information click here.

Monika Weiss – Sustenazo (Lament II), Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile (2012 - 2013)
Curated by Julia P. Herzberg and Maria Jose Bunster. Work in the exhibition: Sustenazo (Lament II), 2010-2012 (single-channel video and sound composition in edition of 3 + 2 AP, site -specific installation from found pre-WW2 German high literature and medical books, artist drawings, found German medical instruments). For more information click here and here.

Monika Weiss-Shrouds, Gruenberg Concentration Camp, Poland (formerly Germany, now Zielona Góra) (2012)

Curated by Wojciech Kozłowski. Temporary public project with participation of local women from Zielona Góra, who performed choreographed, silent gestures of lamentation on the grounds of the former German concentration camp for Jewish women. Aerial documentation resulted in film and a series of photographs. For more information click here.

Monika Weiss - Shrouds, Galeria BWA, Zielona Góra (2012)

Curated by Wojciech Kozłowski. Part of two solo exhibitions project RECALL, with Roland Schefferski, Z życia Europejczyków, Galeria Nowy Wiek / Muzeum Ziemi Lubuskiej, curated by Leszek Kania.

Work exhibited: Shrouds-Całuny, 2012 (installation: two-channel video projected on two front and rear projection screens, sound composition). For more information click here.

John Cage Centennial Tribute, Streaming Museum at Big Screen Plaza, New York (2012)

Curated by Nina Colosi, Streaming Museum. Work in the exhibition: Phaos (2010). For more information click here.

JOHN CAGE TRIBUTE: Monika Weiss, Streaming Museum, New York (2012-)

Work on view: Phaos (2010), Sustenazo (2010). For more information click here.

Monika Weiss-Sustenazo (Lament IV), The International Criminal Court at 10, The Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute, Washington University in St. Louis (2012)

Curated by Leila Sadat, an international conference commemorating the tenth anniversary of the International Criminal Court (ICC) included a celebration of the memory of Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor Whitney R. Harris as well as a day of remembrance to honor the victims of atrocity crimes. Work on view: Sustenazo (Lament IV), 2012 (site-specific sound composition, choreography of movement). For more information click here.

Alan Sondheim & Monika Weiss: Enunciation, Eyebeam, New York (2012)

Work in the exhibition: live video projection and sound environment. Enunciation explored the notions of language, document, trace, mourning and history. For more information click here.

Monika Weiss: Abiding (Próba Wody), Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis (2012)

Curated by Bruno David. Work in the exhibition: Abiding (Próba Wody), 1999-2000, performance-based self-shot video, transferred from VHS to 4K digital cinema file. The piano played by the artist resulted in a sound created in collaboration with Alison Lune (Jamie Guggino). For more information click here.