Polina Kanis

About Polina Kanis

Polina Vladimirovna Kanis is a Netherlands-based artist, working primarily with performance and video. Her practice explores hidden power structures and the politics of affect, focusing on how ideological systems are embodied in everyday life.

Polina Vladimirovna Kanis is a Netherlands-based artist, working primarily with performance and video. Her practice explores hidden power structures and the politics of affect, focusing on how ideological systems are embodied in everyday life. She is winner of the Kandinsky Prize (2011) and the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize (2016). She graduated from the Rodchenko Art School (Moscow) in 2011. Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, film festivals and film screenings, including a solo exhibition at the Haus der Kunst Munich (2017)., the VISIO program at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence (2019), the parallel program of the Manifesta 10, in 2015 at the Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the VI Moscow International Biennale of Young Art (2015), the Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, the Hamburg Short Film Festival (2019) and many others. Her films are in the collections of numerous museums and foundations, including the Fonds régional d'art contemporain Bretagne, Fondazione In Between Art Film, Rome, Foundation Kadist, Paris, etc. Kanis was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten programs in Amsterdam (2017-2018) and ISCP New York (2020).

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