Bogna Burska – a visual artist using many forms of expression and a writer of dramas, currently a professor at the Faculty of Artistic Research and Curatorial Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. From 2006 to 2024, she worked in the Intermedia Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.
Her works address themes of physicality, memory and emotion, often drawing from social narratives and visual pop-culture clichés. She juxtaposes what is beautiful with what is widely considered ugly, revolting or rejected. Blood-red colour is a recurring motif in her work: installations immersed in blood-red paint and red paintings. Her practice is often described as a meeting point between critical art and aesthetic inquiry. For many years, she also worked with found footage, examining the mechanisms through which contemporary narratives are produced and represented. She later returned to painting, which took on a new, organic and delicate form. She is the author of Nest, The End of Violence (with Magda Mosiewicz), Revolt of the Deaf. Renewal, and other texts presented in art galleries and theatre spaces.
As of late, she has mainly been working with themes of communication and structures of mutual understanding in changing ecosystems. She has taken part in many exhibitions in Poland and abroad; her work combines an artistic perspective with research and teaching.
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Works in collections:
– Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw
– TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin
– Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok and the Podlaskie Association for the Encouragement of Fine Arts
– Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art in Krakow
– the Gdańsk Collection of Contemporary Art / NOMUS – New Art Museum
– the National Museum in Gdańsk
– the Hotel Europejski Art Collection in Warsaw
– the Łódzkie Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts
– the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz
– the art collection of PKO Bank Polski
– the collection of the Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk
– and in private collections
Selected awards and scholarships
2020 Splendor Gedanensis Award Finalist Nomination
2017 Annual Creative Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2017 Finalist for the Gdynia Drama Award (with Magda Mosiewicz) for the play "The End of Violence"
2016 Creative Scholarship of the City of Gdańsk
2013 Promoting Social Change through the Arts Program Department of State USA International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), USA
2013 Creative Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2013 Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Scholarship
2010 Art in Residence scholarship of the Foundation for Culture Pro Helvetia at F+F School for Art and Design, Zurich
2009 Minister of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship Young Poland
2009 Deutsche Bank Foundation Award Nomination: Outlooks
2008 Annual Creative Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2008 Gdańsk City Artistic Scholarship
2007 Paszport Polityki Nomination for Visual Arts
2004 Annual Artistic Scholarship of the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland
2003 Grant from the Culture Foundation