Anna Godzina (b. 1990) is a Moldovan visual and sound artist working on spatial sound compositions and sculptural installations. Through field recordings, graphical scores, and found objects, she reinterprets landscapes—exploring their resonance in personal and collective consciousness. Her approach focuses on capturing the narrative of a place, seeking ways of relocating and translating experiences into sonic and visual dimensions.
Infused with animistic qualities, using engines, light sources, water pumps, audio speakers and air compressors, she explores materials, objects, and sounds for their potential to create layered and intricate environments, responding to the in-situ qualities of the exhibiting space.
Godzina studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where she graduated with a master degree in 2019 and was awarded the Hugo Roelandt Prize 2019, the Mathilde Horlait-Dapsens Foundation Prize 2019 and the STRT Schot prize 2019. She is an internationally renowned artist, whose work has been exhibited at the S.M.A.K. in Gent (2017), Beursschouwburg in Brussels (2018), ERGO in Athens (2020), M HKA in Antwerp (2021), Art Encounters Biennale in Timisoara (2023), and Z33 in Hasselt (2024). Her work is represented in the collections of a.o. the M HKA in Antwerp, the Flemish Community, and the Verbeke Foundation, as well as in numerous private collections.
Her current two years research project Sonifying Landscapes at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, addresses the possibilities of making hardly perceivable changes in our environments — sensorially tangible, by positioning recording devices such as contact microphones inside landscapes. From remote peripheral areas to city environments, the sounds of a specific location inside a time span are documented with the use of sound maps, sound scores, hydrophones and geophones.