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Annie Cat (Anna Pogudz) - paints almost exclusively women and animals. Animals appear because they embody wild nature — a part of ourselves that, in reality, can no longer be fully wild. Cultural norms, social expectations, and mechanisms of control smooth out instinct, tame it, and shape it to fit. That is why, in her paintings, animals are often wild cats dominated by their owners, or little dogs functioning as cute accessories — wild only to the extent that society allows.
Paintings consistently revolve around women, consumption, and the relationship between objects and the female body, their background and context shift depending on the place where she spends longer periods of time.
An important element is the context of social media and the awareness of being watched. Figures in the paintings check whether they still have an audience — whether someone is looking, observing. The characters are not focused on one another, but on the external gaze. Social media pushes us toward mass exhibitionism. This is also a story about woman as a construct — today increasingly shaped by filters, algorithms, and artificial intelligence more than by nature.
The whole consciously balances on the edge of grotesque and caricature, but so is playfulness.. Caricature and grotesque are present in these works, but so is playfulness. Even when she addresses serious, sometimes personally painful subjects, she cares about maintaining a sense of lightness. Playfulness is essential to her, because at the end the most important thing is to have a great fun.
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Education
Turps Banana Painting Off-Site Programme
University of Arts London, Wimbledon College of Arts, MA Painting
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, BA Fashion Design
Selected Shows
Nothing Breaks Like A Heart- solo show, Monkey Love, 14-30th January, Warsaw, 2026
Art-Pop Up "Small Is Beautiful", Bodympas, 14th December, Warsaw, 2025
Pop-up Luxury Unwrapped, Hedonism, 8-9 February, Warsaw, 2025
Charity Auction for Ukraine Support, Place D'Armes, 31st of March, Monaco, 2022
Art on Postcard, auction for Hepatitist Trust, 24.02-15.03, Berkshire, 2022
End Of The Year Showcase, The Koppel Project, 15-18th December, London, 2021
Flux Exhibition, Group Show, Design District, 4-27th November, 2021
STARTfair, Saatchi Gallery, London, 13-17th November, 2021
Turps Off-site Leavers Show, Group show,Thames-Side Studios Gallery London, 2-26th October, 2021
Domesticity and Feminine, Open Call Winner's Exhibition, Online, 22/05/21-22/06/21
Mighty Beauty, Mighty Beast- solo show, Bermondsey Project Space, London UK (8th-19th December 2020)
Summer Exhibition Hotel Elephant, London, UK 2019(7th-23rd June)
Rendez-Vous in the Lonely City, Peckham Levels, London, UK, 2018 (14th-30th of September)
Ma Painting Final Show, Wimbledon College of Arts, London, UK, 2018 (6th-14th of September)
62 Hands, Lewisham Arthouse, London, UK, 2018.
Tactilis, PKO Bank, Warsaw, Poland, 2018.
Coming Out 2015- Kamienica Plac Małachowskiego, Warsaw, Poland, 2015.
“Encounters”, Eventuelle Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 2015
Stockholm Design Week Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, Green House, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
Fashion performance "Tradition for Fashion", Berlin, Warsaw, Germany, Poland, 2011.
Art&Fashion Festival, Poznan, Poland, 2011
Publications
Interview,The FLUX Review, printed edition 6, 2021
https://www.thefluxreview.com/store/
https://elephant.art/redrawing-the-borders-between-the-domestic-and-the-feminine-03062021/