Visual artist — painter, photographer, author of installations, video works, found footage films, and dramatic texts, as well as a director. She is a professor and holds a postdoctoral degree 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.
Blood is a recurring motif in her work: installations immersed in blood-red paint and red paintings. She juxtaposes beauty with what is commonly perceived as ugly, repellent, or rejected. 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 describes herself as dealing with the problem of constructing coherent images of reality. She is the author of Nest, The End of Violence. (with Magda Mosiewicz), Revolt of the Deaf, Bunt Głuchych, and other texts presented in art galleries and theatre spaces.
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Works in collections:
– Zachęta National Art Gallery in Warsaw
– Regional Contemporary Art Centre in Szczecin
– Gallery Arsenał and the Podlaskie Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Białystok
– Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow
– Gdańsk Collection of Contemporary Art / NOMUS
National Museum in Gdańsk
– Collection of the Hotel Europejski in Warsaw
– Łódź Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts
– Regional Museum of Leon Wyczółkowski in Bydgoszcz
– PKO BP Bank Collection
– Collections of the Centre for Contemporary Art Łaźnia in Gdańsk
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