Magdalena Tuka

Actress, performer

Projects (5) Photo (52) Video (12) Media responses (13) Text (2)
Gallop 2002-2022 • Poster The Ninth
Gallop 2002-2022 Poster The Ninth
National Body Art Foto MAS_1304
National Body Art Magdalena Tuka, Kristina Aleksova
The Ninth • Photo MAD_0613
The Ninth Magdalena Tuka
National Body Art Foto MAS_1227
National Body Art Olja Grubić, Magdalena Tuka, Kristina Aleksova, Anita Wach
National Body Art Foto MAS_1327
National Body Art Olja Grubić, Magdalena Tuka, Kristina Aleksova, Anita Wach
How to Explain a Monument to a Herd of Hares Foto DSC_6143
How to Explain a Monument to a Herd of Hares Magdalena Tuka, Teja Bitenc, Lučka Centa
The Ninth Foto ANT_347148111
The Ninth Antistatic, Sofia
National Body Art Foto MAS_1301
National Body Art Olja Grubić, Magdalena Tuka, Kristina Aleksova, Anita Wach
National Body Art Foto MAS_1323
National Body Art Anita Wach, Magdalena Tuka, Kristina Aleksova
National Body Art Foto MAS_1314
National Body Art Olja Grubić, Magdalena Tuka, Anita Wach
National Body Art Foto MAS_1241
National Body Art Magdalena Tuka, Anita Wach
National Body Art Foto MAS_1231
National Body Art Olja Grubić, Magdalena Tuka, Anita Wach, Kristina Aleksova
How to Explain a Monument to a Herd of Hares Foto DSC_6231
How to Explain a Monument to a Herd of Hares Anita Wach, Magdalena Tuka
How to Explain a Monument to a Herd of Hares Foto DSC_6217
How to Explain a Monument to a Herd of Hares Anita Wach, Ines Šimunić, Lučka Centa, Magdalena Tuka, Nohemi Barriuso, Anja Novak, Tjaša Črnigoj
How to Explain a Monument to a Herd of Hares Foto DSC_6144
How to Explain a Monument to a Herd of Hares Anita Wach, Ines Šimunić, Kristina Aleksova, Lučka Centa, Magdalena Tuka, Nohemi Barriuso, Olja Grubić, Teja Bitenc, Anja Novak, Tjaša Črnigoj
How to Explain a Monument to a Herd of Hares Foto DSC_6142
How to Explain a Monument to a Herd of Hares Kristina Aleksova, Magdalena Tuka, Tjaša Črnigoj, Ines Šimunić
How to Explain a Monument to a Herd of Hares Foto DSC_6135
How to Explain a Monument to a Herd of Hares Magdalena Tuka
The Ninth Poster
The Ninth Poster
The Ninth Foto MAD_8059
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka
The Ninth • Photo MAD_0600
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Jaka Lah, Anita Wach, Grega Zorc
The Ninth • Photo MAD_0605
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Jaka Lah, Anita Wach, Grega Zorc
The Ninth • Photo CU_VN_29
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka
The Ninth • Photo CU_VN_27
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Jaka Lah, Anita Wach, Grega Zorc
The Ninth • Photo CU_VN_31
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Jaka Lah, Grega Zorc, Anita Wach
The Ninth • Photo MAD_9814
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Jaka Lah, Grega Zorc
The Ninth • Photo MAD_0602
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Jaka Lah, Anita Wach, Grega Zorc
The Ninth • Photo MAD_0584
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Jaka Lah, Anita Wach, Grega Zorc
The Ninth • Photo IMG_6391
The Ninth Pathos
The Ninth • Photo IMG_6333
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Jaka Lah, Anita Wach, Grega Zorc
The Ninth • Photo IMG_6322
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Anita Wach, Jaka Lah
The Ninth • Photo IMG_6243
The Ninth Anita Wach, Jaka Lah, Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka
The Ninth • Photo MAD_0499
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Grega Zorc
The Ninth • Photo MAD_0397
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Grega Zorc, Jaka Lah, Anita Wach
The Ninth • Photo CU_VN_23
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka
The Ninth • Photo IMG_6230
The Ninth Grega Zorc, Jaka Lah, Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Anita Wach
The Ninth • Photo IMG_6253
The Ninth Grega Zorc, Anita Wach, Jaka Lah, Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka
The Ninth • Photo IMG_6182
The Ninth Magdalena Tuka, Jaka Lah, Loup Abramovici, Anita Wach, Grega Zorc
The Ninth • Photo IMG_6160
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Jaka Lah, Anita Wach, Grega Zorc
The Ninth • Photo IMG_6155
The Ninth Loup Abramovici, Magdalena Tuka, Jaka Lah, Grega Zorc
The Ninth • Photo CU_VN_37
The Ninth Anita Wach, Magdalena Tuka, Jaka Lah, Loup Abramovici, Grega Zorc
The Ninth • Photo CU_VN_28
The Ninth Grega Zorc, Jaka Lah, Magdalena Tuka
Retrospective VN 2002 -2012 • Foto MAD_8510
Retrospective 2002-2012 No One Should Have Seen This • Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
Shame • Foto MAD_3320
Shame Magdalena Tuka
Shame • Foto MPL_001
Shame Magdalena Tuka
Casablanca Therapy • Foto CSB101
Casablanca Therapy Emma-Cecilia Ajanki, Marie-Luise Stentebjerg, Magdalena Tuka, Anita Wach
Casablanca Therapy • Foto CSB171
Casablanca Therapy Anita Wach, Magdalena Tuka, Marie-Luise Stentebjerg, Emma-Cecilia Ajanki, Grega Zorc
Casablanca Therapy • Foto CSB216
Casablanca Therapy Magdalena Tuka
Casablanca Therapy • Foto CSB154
Casablanca Therapy Anita Wach, Magdalena Tuka, Marie-Luise Stentebjerg, Emma-Cecilia Ajanki, Grega Zorc
Casablanca Therapy • Foto CSB313
Casablanca Therapy Magdalena Tuka
Casablanca Therapy • Foto CSB219
Casablanca Therapy Anita Wach, Magdalena Tuka, Marie-Luise Stentebjerg, Emma-Cecilia Ajanki
Casablanca Therapy • Foto CSB214
Casablanca Therapy Magdalena Tuka
Casablanca Therapy • Foto CSB215
Casablanca Therapy Anita Wach, Magdalena Tuka, Emma-Cecilia Ajanki, Marie-Luise Stentebjerg

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Magdalena Tuka

Actress, performer

My practice is rooted in Jerzy Grotowski’s notion of Art as vehicle. I began my career working for ten years full time as an actor in the Warsaw-based Studium Teatralne company of Piotr Borowski, a long-term associate of Grotowski during his late Pontedera phase. For me, the essence of this formative work was in its physical training. A rigorous investigation into the relationship between the body and space, between precision, improvisation and intuition; the aim, a creative onstage existence, a continual search, on a moment by moment basis, for what and where the performer’s attention is.

In a break from this tradition, I undertook what became a series of collaborations over several years as a performer with Bojan Jablanovec’s Via Negativa theatre company in Ljubljana. In my opinion, the importance of the VN approach is its focus on communicating to the audience via an “essential” creative message devised from the personal experience of the performers.

On these foundations, I began initiating projects. In 2012, with an intuitive trust in the creativity of opposites, I incorporated the organisation Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne and devised a succession of shows with dancer Anita Wach, in collaboration with sound designer Opaean. My process of creative thinking often starts from the vision of a character who represents a complex of ideas, problems, irresolvable circumstances.

I am interested in exploring situations where the body is thrown into heightened modes of operation determined by self-imposed conditions. Treated rather instrumentally. In service of ideas, meanings. Often naked, exposed, trapped in uncomfortable circumstances, but not humiliated. And no religionism.

Work has been variously supported through a succession of grants, scholarships, residencies, co-productions and festival selections, presented in theatre, gallery, cinema, church, and online; in Poland, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, USA and Germany.

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