BIO
Anna Chudzik-Pawlik is first and foremost a performer working with the body, ritual, sound, and objects. In her work she explores the relationships between corporeality, memory, spirituality, and the experience of community. Her inspirations draw both on women’s narratives, mythology, and ritual practices, and on contemporary concepts related to energy, vibration, and the non-linear experience of reality.
Her performative actions take the form of intimate ceremonies in which the body becomes simultaneously an archive of experience, a tool of resistance, and a space of transformation. Through work with nudity, movement, earth, sound, and found/secondhand objects, the artist creates situations steeped in tenderness while also confronting socially and culturally entrenched mechanisms of control over the female body.
In her performances she draws on figures of feminine power and goddess archetypes, treating ritual as a way of reclaiming agency, memory, and connection — both with one’s own body and with other people and the natural world. She is interested in the experience of invisible relationships: between people, matter, energy, and collective memory.
Her practice sits at the intersection of performance, somatic work, ritual art, and performative installation.
Performances
2nd International Festival of Performative Arts, Mazovian Museum in Płock, 2025
6th Buthopolis International Butoh Art Festival, Warsaw, 2024
1st International Festival of Performative Arts, Mazovian Museum in Płock, 2023
5th Buthopolis International Butoh Art Festival, Warsaw, 2023
Collaborations
“Ja, ziemia” (“I, the Earth”) – performance project by Joanna Rajkowska, New Performance Turku Festival, Finland, 2023, literary text “Anatema”
Andrzej Pągowski – collage illustration for the 11th edition of the Gedeon Richter art calendar, “Energia Kobiet” (“Women’s Energy”), 2022
Ślina – performative action / music video for the band, track “13’00″”, 2021
T.Love – collaboration with Krzysztof Kudelski, creation of the music video for the track “Kwartyrnik,” 2017
Sisley Paris – original collage workshops, launch of the new fragrance “Izia,” Warsaw, 2017