BIBLIOGRAPHY
Selected Bibliography / Wybrana Bibliografia
Featured Media & Interviews / Filmy i Wywiady
2021 — Artists on Artworks: Monika Weiss. Filmed video interview and feature produced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. [Watch Video Link]
2025 — Turkovic, Dana. “Laumeier Sculpture Park Curator Dana Turkovic Interviews Contemporary Artist Monika Weiss.” Laumeier Sculpture Park [Watch Video Link]
2024 — Pfeifer, Nezka. “Museum Curator Nezka Pfeifer in Conversation with Artist and Sound Composer Monika Weiss.” Sachs Museum [Watch Video Link]
2024 — Malecki, Adam. “Monika Weiss Exhibition Diaspeiro at WhiteBox in New York.” Kulturalni PL. Polish TV [Watch Video Link]
Scholarly Books & Anthologies / Książki i Antologie Naukowe
2020 — Ma, Ming-Yuen S. There is no soundtrack: Rethinking art, media, and the audio-visual contract. Rethinking Art’s Histories series, edited by Marsha Meskimmon and Amelia Jones. Manchester University Press, UK.
2019 — Brett, Guy. “Time Being: Monika Weiss.” In The Crossing of Innumerable Paths: Essays On Art. Ridinghouse, London, UK.
2018 — Brodsky Baudet, Ricardo. “Monika Weiss - Sustenazo.” In Trampas de la memoria, with an introduction by Andreas Huyssen, pp. 127–129. Serie Libros Flasco, Chile.
2009 — Alexander, Meena. “Aletheia.” In Quickly Changing River, TriQuarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL, p. 28. (Poem composed after the performance Lethe Room by Monika Weiss).
2007 — Tormey, Jane, et al. Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art. I.B. Tauris, London/New York.
Academic Journals & Essays / Artykuły Naukowe i Eseje
2023 — Możdżyński, Paweł. “Women’s Performances, Rituals and Mysteries in Contemporary Polish Art. Analysis of Selected Examples.” In Mysteries – Rituals – Performances. The Aesthetic Dimension, Zeszyty Artystyczne #43, pp. 58–82. Uniwersytet Artystyczny im. Magdaleny Abakanowicz w Poznaniu. [1]
2016 — Gravenor, Vanessa. “Monika Weiss’ Two Laments.” n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (UK), Volume 37 (Sound! Noise! Voice!), January, pp. 83–88.
2013 — Birringer, Johannes. “Audible Scenography.” Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, Vol. 18, No. 3, Routledge, Informa Ltd, London, pp. 192–193.
2005 — Szyłak, Aneta. “Pomiędzy Obecnością i Pamięcią Performatywną.” In Panoptikum-Audiovizualia-Film-Media-Sztuka, Academic Cultural Center, Gdańsk, Poland, pp. 210–216.
Selected Writings by the Artist / Wybrane Teksty Autorskie
2022 — Weiss, Monika. “Nirbhaya.” In Traces of Sisterhood, TRACTS, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, pp. 271–286, edited by Eliza Proszczuk and Ewa Chomicka.
2020 — Weiss, Monika. “Unforgetting Violence.” In Are We There Yet?, Centerpoint Now, World Council of Peoples to the United Nations Magazine, pp. 22–23, edited by Shamina de Gonzaga.
2019 — Weiss, Monika. “Nirbhaya: Triumphal arch, horizontal - memory, amnesia, flatness, wrath. Notes for a project.” In Sculpture Today 4: Anti-Monument: Non-traditional Forms of Commemoration, Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, edited by Eulalia Domanowska and Marta Smolińska.
2019 — Weiss, Monika. “Notes for the exhibition [+]error.” In [+]ERROR, Miejski Ośrodek Sztuki w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim, edited by Leszek Golec and Zbigniew Sejwa.
2013 — Weiss, Monika. “Performing Drawing, Performing Lament in Public Domain.” In Drawing in the University Today, University of Porto, Portugal.
2011 — Weiss, Monika. “Sostenuto | Transformative Intervals.” In Consciousness Reframed, Cultural Centre of Belém, Lisbon, edited by Roy Ascott and Luis Miguel Girão.
2009 — Weiss, Monika. “Krasis (Ennoia).” In New Realities: Being Syncretic, Springer Wien/New York, pp. 310–314, edited by Roy Ascott, Massimo Fiel, Margarete Jahrmann, and Andreas Schnell.
2008 — Weiss, Monika. “Horos and other playgrounds.” In Homo Ludens Ludens, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, pp. 186–193 / 293–297, edited by Erich Berger, Laura Baigorri, and Daphne Dragona.
2006 — Weiss, Monika. “Anamnesis (Swiatlo Dnia).” Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 79–87, Intellect Ltd, Bristol, edited by Roy Ascott and Emanuel Pimenta.
2002 — Weiss, Monika. “Pokój z Zaoraną Ziemią/Przestrzenie Wokół Ciała: Ana Mendieta i Walter de Maria.” Magazyn Orońsko, Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku.
Monographs & Exhibition Catalogues / Monografie i Katalogi Wystaw
2021 — Pollock, Griselda. “The Fidelity of Memory in an Endless Lament. Nirbhaya, New Delhi, 2012, and Now…” In Monika Weiss: Nirbhaya, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, pp. 12–50.
2021 — McDonald, Mark. “Drawing Consciousness: Monika Weiss.” In Monika Weiss: Nirbhaya, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, pp. 54–76.
2021 — Spector, Buzz. “Two Laments: Meena Alexander & Monika Weiss in Conversation.” In Monika Weiss: Nirbhaya, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, pp. 79–89.
2021 — Minioudaki, Kalliopi. “Nirbhaya(s)’s Double Lament in Unforgetting and Protest.” In Monika Weiss: Nirbhaya, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, pp. 85–107.
2021 — Falęcka, Katarzyna. “Monika Weiss – Biography.” In Monika Weiss: Nirbhaya, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, pp. 147–167.
2021 — Elertowska, Weronika. “Conversation with Monika Weiss.” In Monika Weiss: Nirbhaya, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, pp. 129–146.
2021 — Domanowska, Eulalia. “A Spiritual Feminism.” In Monika Weiss: Nirbhaya, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, pp. 117–124.
2021 — Spector, Buzz. “Monika Weiss: Body of Drawing.” In Monika Weiss: Nirbhaya, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, pp. 108–113.
2021 — Alexandrowicz, Maciej. “Introduction: A Triumphal Arch - An Arch of Dignity. Nirbhaya – In Memory of Jyoti Singh.” In Monika Weiss: Nirbhaya, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, pp. 5–7.
2021 — Platt, Verity. “How a woman becomes a tree…” Panel presentation at Nirbhaya - Film, Sound, Water and Lament, Monument/Anti-Monument symposium, CEL Center for Architecture + Design, St. Louis, MO.
2021 — Hirsh, Marianne. “Monika Weiss’ Nirbhaya.” Panel presentation at Nirbhaya - Monuments & Memory, Monument/Anti-Monument symposium, CEL Center for Architecture + Design, St. Louis, MO.
2016 — Minioudaki, Kalliopi. “Monika Weiss - Wrath.” In Fireflies in the Night Take Wing, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece.
2014 — Herzberg, Julia P. “Monika Weiss's Language of Lament: History, Memory, and the Body.” In RECALL: Monika Weiss & Roland Schefferski, Muzeum Ziemi Lubuskiej & BWA Zielona Góra, Poland.
2014 — Kozłowski, Wojciech. “...It is with the wreckage and rags that one should intend to write History... (Nicolas Bourriaud).” In RECALL: Monika Weiss & Roland Schefferski, Muzeum Ziemi Lubuskiej & BWA Zielona Góra, Poland.
2012 — Valdés, Adriana. “Lamentation and the Locus of Memory: Monika Weiss’s Sustenazo (Lament II).” In Monika Weiss: Sustenazo (Lament II), Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile.
2012 — Herzberg, Julia P. “A Conversation with Monika Weiss.” In Monika Weiss: Sustenazo (Lament II), Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile.
2010 — Altenburg-Kohl, Dadja. Opening. Muzeum Montanelli, Prague, Czech Republic.
2010 — Pimenta, Emanuel Dimas de Melo. Walden Zero Project: Luciana and Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta Collection. New York/Lisbon, pp. 150 and 436.
2008 — Mella, Leanne. “Masters of War.” In The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, FL, pp. 20–28.
2008 — Angelis, Gudrun. Frauen bei Olympia. Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany.
2008 — Oakes, Julie. “Monika Weiss.” In WWW.WOMEN, Headbones Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2008 — Bartelik, Marek, Anna Potocka, and Magda Potorska. Kraj: Sztuka Artystów z Polski Rodowodem (Works of Artists of Polish Origin). Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Opole, Poland.
2008 — Herzberg, Julia P. “Julia P. Herzberg Interviews Monika Weiss.” In POZA: On the Polishness of Polish Contemporary Art, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.
2007 — Pimenta, Emanuel Dimas de Melo. Logical Traps. ASA Art and Technology, Porto, Portugal.
2007 — Campbell, James D. “Drawing on Syncope: The Performativity of Rapture in the Art of Monika Weiss.” In Monika Weiss: Five Rivers, Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York and Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montréal.
2007 — Szyłak, Aneta. “Your trap shall be your shelter: The hidden desires and public appearances of Monika Weiss.” In Monika Weiss: Five Rivers, Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York and Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montréal.
2006 — Carl, Katherine. Monika Weiss: Drawing Cosmos. Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY.
2006 — Mennicke, Christiane and Silke Wagler. Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers. Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany.
2006 — Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia. Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art.Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, FL.
2006 — Szyłak, Aneta. You Won’t Feel a Thing: On Panic, Obsession, Rituality and Anesthesia.Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany & Wyspa Instytut Sztuki, Poland: Verbrecher Verlag Publishing.
2006 — Fabijanska, Monika. Polyphony of Images: Cutting Edge Contemporary Art from Poland.Consulate General of Poland, New York, NY.
2004 — Quasha, George. “Conceiving Body: Remarks on the side / Elytron (spirit and body are only two wings).” In Monika Weiss: Vessels, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, pp. 6–12.
2004 — Anastasi, William and Monika Weiss. “Baptism of Water: A Conversation on Ennoia.” In Monika Weiss: Vessels, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, pp. 14–19.
2004 — Barnett, Pennina. “Performing the Drawing.” In Monika Weiss: Vessels, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, pp. 2–3.
2004 — Vitiello, Stephen. “Drawing with Body, Drawing with Sound.” In Monika Weiss: Vessels, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, pp. 29–30.
Conversations & Media / Wywiady i Media
2025 — Turkovic, Dana. “Laumeier Sculpture Park Curator Dana Turkovic Interviews Contemporary Artist Monika Weiss.” Laumeier Sculpture Park [Film Interview]
2024 — Pfeifer, Nezka. “Museum Curator Nezka Pfeifer in Conversation with Artist and Sound Composer Monika Weiss.” Sachs Museum [Film Interview]
2024 — Malecki, Adam. “Monika Weiss Exhibition Diaspeiro at WhiteBox in New York.” Polish TV[Film Interview]
2024 — Gola, Izabela. “Metamorphosis (Sound Sculpture) by Artist Monika Weiss.” Polish Cultural Institute New York / Visual Arts [Review]
2023 — Szymański, Tomasz. “Polish Art in New York Part 2.” Solo Show [Online TV Series Review]
2022 — Solomon, Tessa. “A Bracing Survey of Polish Feminist Art in Brooklyn Makes a Call for Women’s Rights.” ARTnews [Review]
2022 — Heflin, Anna. “If My Skin Turned to Bark: Monika Weiss’s Metamorphosis/Dafne (Nirbhaya).” I Care If You Listen / New Music USA [Review]
2022 — Ma, Ming-Yuen S. “This Is Not a Reading: Ceci n’est pas une lecture. Remixes & Conversations from There is no soundtrack.” [Audio Conversation + Live Premiere]
2022 — Kranzberg, Nancy. “Monika Weiss: Intermedia Artist.” KDHX Radio [Radio Interview]
2022 — Dobro, Dobromiła. “Take My Eyes / Monika Weiss.” Radio Kapitał [Radio Interview]
2021 — Lubomirska, Elżbieta. “Monika Weiss - Nirbhaya at Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko.” Subiektywne Rozmowy o Sztuce (Poland) [Film Review]
2021 — McDonald, Mark. “It is Time / Ya es hora. Monika Weiss on Francisco Goya.” Artists on Artworks, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [Film Interview]
2019 — Almeida, Paulo Luís. “How the mind of Leonardo da Vinci worked? Go see at FBAUP, in Porto.” Porto Magazine (Portugal) [Article]
2018 — Cohen, David. “Monika Weiss / Koiman II (Years Without Summers) at Harvestworks.” Artcritical (New York) [Review]
2017 — Kalasi, Jyoti. “Exploring the Concept of Absence.” Gulf News Arts [Review]
2017 — Yusuf, Muhammad. “Coming in from the cold.” The Gulf Today (Dubai, UAE) [Review]
2016 — Brent, Frances. “The Lamentation Project: Polish artist Monika Weiss’ post-memory project in Zielona Góra.” Tablet Magazine [Review]
2016 — Cascone, Sarah. “The Opening of the Long-Awaited Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.” Artnet News [Article]
2015 — Carey, Brainard. “Monika Weiss.” Yale University Radio WYBCX [Radio Interview]
2014 — Kropiowski, Łukasz. “Dlugość cugli wyznacza średnicę areny.” Magazyn Szum (Warsaw, Poland) [Article]
2013 — Santos, Juan José. “Sustenazo (Lament II) - Monika Weiss, Museum of Memory and Human Rights.” Arte al Dia International [Review]
2013 — Dela-Kropiowska, Agnieszka. “On Lament that Questions Language: Conversation with Monika Weiss.” Artpunkt, No. 16 [Interview]
2013 — Gorządek, Ewa. “Lament for Memory and Human Rights.” Polish Culture International[Review]
2012 — Herzberg, Julia P. “Sustenazo: Interview with Monika Weiss.” Magister Territorio y Paisaje, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile [Interview]
2010 — Hegert, Nathalie. “In Another World: The Sixth Borough Exhibition on Governors Island.” ArtSlant International [Review]
2010 — Jastrzębska, Patrycja. “Sustenazo: Conversation with Monika Weiss.” OBIEG (Poland) [Interview]
2010 — Kowalska, Agnieszka. “Monika Weiss’ Exhibition: The Woman’s War.” Gazeta Wyborcza(Poland) [Review]
2010 — Oelschläger, Volker. “Chorus of Lamentation: Video Project by New York artist Monika Weiss.” Märkische Allgemeine (Germany) [Review]
2010 — Ozuna, Tony. “Low Profile, High Quality.” The Prague Post [Review]
2010 — Skurtveit, Nina. “Monika Weiss i Warszawa.” Kunstreisen, NRK Radio (Norway) [Review]
2010 — “Events: Monika Weiss.” Polish Radio – Program III [Radio Interview]
2010 — Wicha, Michał. “History for Internal Use.” Tygodnik Powszechny / Kultura (Poland) [Review]
2010 — Wilk, Sandra. “Relationships Between History and Memory: Monika Weiss.” Rzeczypospolita(Poland) [Review]
2009 — Cornett, Norman F. “Monika Weiss - Marginalia.” Esse: Arts + Opinions, Issue 66 (Canada) [Review]
2009 — Serke, Jürgen. “Jenseits des Feminismus. Menschenbilder von Frauen: Prag hat ein neues Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst.” Feuilleton (Germany) [Review]
2008 — Suarez De Jesus, Carlos. “End of an Era: A new show at CIFO looks back at Bush’s reign.” Miami New Times [Review]
2008 — Shabaka, Obajide. “CIFO: Prisoner’s Dilemma.” Miami Visual Art Examiner [Review]
2008 — Batet, Janet. “Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art at Art Basel.” ArtNexus [Review]
2008 — Lehman, Henry. “Clinging to one’s humanity over time - Entre le corps et l’histoire.” Montreal Gazette (Canada) [Review]
2007 — Turner, Elisa. “Upgrading her MAC - Ella Cisneros Collection.” ARTnews [Article]
2006 — Damian, Carol. “Monika Weiss and Kaarina Kaikkonen: Remy Toledo Gallery.” ARTnews[Review]
2006 — Salzbrenner, Uwe. “How Real Are Our Memories?” Sächsische Zeitung (Germany) [Review]
2006 — Rosenwasser, Einat. “Art and Photography of the Hand.” La Revista Nueva (Argentina) [Review]
2006 — Branicka, Monika. “Zaklinacze paniki.” Bunkier Sztuki Teksty (Poland) [Article]
2006 — Konart, Tomasz. “Performance, Internet, Art.” OBIEG (Poland) [Review]
2006 — Winston, Helena. “Monika Weiss and Kaarina Kaikkonen.” ArtUS (Los Angeles) [Review]
2005 — Genocchio, Benjamin. “An Artist Whose Performance Delivers.” The New York Times[Review]
2005 — Bardens, Lore. “The Art of Performance: Monika Weiss at Inter-Galerie.” Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten [Review]
2005 — Bard, Perry. “Negotiating Time.” Afterimage [Review]
2005 — Neumann, Arno. “Phlegethon-Milczenie: The Art of Monika Weiss.” Potsdamer Stadtkurier[Review]
2005 — Rogoś, Agata. “Spirit and Body Are Only Two Wings.” Bunkier Sztuki (Kraków, Poland) [Review]