A Sketch of Public Space at the Beliye Palaty exhibition hall, curated by David Riff and Ekaterina Degot.
[4] In addition, Workout was presented as part of the exhibition In the Heart of the Country at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
[9] In 2012, along with the group Voina, AES+F, Oleg Kulik and others, Kanis took part in the Russian Renaissance exhibition at Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna.
But the distance between scene and audience disappears when the suspicion arises that this contrived image of the world is the nightmare of social reality.
[14] "The main motif becomes the infinity of waiting – we hear the roar of the motor as a symbol of readiness for action, the pole is prepared, the figures obediently fold into the flag – this endless rehearsal is doomed to remain in eternity without becoming a moment of history.
[17] The video is in several collections, including In Fondazione Between Art Film and the Fonds régional d'art contemporain Bretagne.
[18] In 2016, the artist participated in the Rote Fabrik art residency in Zurich with the support of the Swiss Cultural Council Pro Helvetia.
[19] In 2017, Polina Kanis had a solo exhibition at the Haus der Kunst Munich curated by Daniel Milnes.
[20] "In The Procedure Kanis takes a fictional museum building lying in ruins after an unknown disaster as the starting point for her meditations on collectivity and division.
As the sequences unfold the viewer becomes privy to a hermetically sealed system, with the building and the surrounding forest now forming an exclusion zone.
As we begin to unravel the logic of this universe, we realize that the unknown event which has led the characters to this point has become secondary to the procedure that has developed in its wake" – Daniel Milnes.
[22] In 2017–2018, Polina Kanis was an artist-in-residence at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam (Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten).