Iwona Demko was born in 1974 in Sanok, in Poland.

EDUCATION

1989-1994 - State Secondary School of Fine Arts, Krosno, Poland
1996-2001 - Faculty of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland
2000 - Scholarship at Ecole des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Appliques, Toulouse, France
2001 - Graduation diploma with honours.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2004 - Burzym & Wolff Gallery, Cracow
2005 - Gallery "Schody", Warsaw, Poland
2006 - Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland
2007 - Sanok, Poland
2008 - "A Lesson In Openness", BWA Sanok, Poland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2001 - Academy of Fine Arts Graduates' Exhibition, Palace of Art, Cracow
2002 - City of Cracow Creative Scholarship in the field of sculpture
2006 - International Sculpture Triennale, Poznań, Poland2004 - “Patio” Gallery of Art, Łódź, Poland
2007 - exhibition, Aachen, Germany
2007 - The Pomeranian Dukes' Castle, Festival of Joung Artist "Draft", Szczecin, Poland
2008 - "SEXHIBICJA", Warszawa
2008 - "RYBIE OKO V", Slupsk, Poland
2009 - “Mother-Super Power”, Galeria Promocji Młodych, Lodz, Poland
2009 - "Girls Against Boys", Gallery “Szara”, Cieszyn, Poland
2009 - "Word Of Imagination Vol.2 ", APW Gallery, New York, USA
2009 - "28 days ", CSW Laznia, Gdansk, Poland
2009 - "Zakamarki", BWA Sanok, Poland

www.iwonademko.art.pl

Sylwia Gajewska was born in 1984,  in Łódź, Poland.
 
EDUCATION
Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Łódź, Poland, Graphics Department

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2008 - exhibition of silk-screen print ' 3 glances ' in Stara Gallery in Łódź
2007 - individual exhibition of silk-screen print ' Beware of  the Bitch ' in Bagdad Cafe in Łódź

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 - part in exhibition “Myth, Mitology, Mithomania” in BOK RONDO's Gallery in Łódź (video-art)
2009 - part in 6th Native Biennale of Graphics in  Poznań (silk-screen)
2008 - part in Exhibition of Student's Graphics in Kraków (silk-screen)
2008 - part in Festival Fluosession in Łódź (sculpture)
2008 - part in student exhibition in Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (silk-screen)
2008 - part in 24th Contest name of  W. Strzemiński organizes by Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź- (silk-screen, video)
2008 - part in "Sexhibition" Studio Ach in Warsaw  (silk-screen)
2007 - part in Young Artists Fair “MOST” - Youngs Gallery and Info Gallery in Warsaw (silk-screen)
2007 - part in 24th Contest name of  W. Strzemiński organizes by Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (silk-screen)           
2007 - part in 5th Native Biennale of Graphics in Poznań (silk-screen)         

Piotr Kotlicki was born in 1972 and graduated in 2000 in the Accademy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (painting and photography)

1998 „Students of prof. Ryszard Hunger” Studio Theatre, Lodz, Poland
1999 “Beyond the plan”, Manhattan Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2000 “Piano-forte”, Manhattan Gallery, Lodz, Poland
„ASP 2000”, Centalne Muzeum Wlokiennictwa, Lodz, Poland
Partnership Citys exchange” City Gallery, Velenje, Slovenja
2001 Partnership Citys exchange” Hansagi Museum, Mosonmagyarowar, Hungary
“Artists from Piotrkow Tryb.”, BWA Gallery, Piotrkow Tryb., Poland
2002 “Two citys- four artists” Stadt Gallery, Esslingen, Germany
“Two citys- four artists”, BWA, Piotrkow Tryb., Poland
2003 “Passport” project, Szczecin, Germany & Poland
2007 “Selected diplomas in Anniversary of Visual Education Faculty”, Museum of History of the City, Lodz, Poland
„Użpildyta erdve 3”, Petro Kriaučiūno Viešoji Biblioteka, Mariampole, Lithuania
„Echange symetrique”,Génie de la Bastille, Paris, France
„Echange symetrique”, Artbook museum, Lodz, Poland
2008 Vien-Lodz, Artbook museum, Lodz, Poland 2008
"Back side of medal-Artists for Tybet," Gallery of Young Promotion, Lodz, Poland
XXII Festival of the Polish Modern Painting, ZKPwS, Szczecin, Poland
"The Grande Bouffe", GAZ, Lodz, Poland

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2002 (Painting and photography), BWA, Piotrkow Tryb., Poland
2004 (Painting), MDK, Radomsko, Poland
2008 Searchings 2000-2008(Painting), BWA, Piotrkow Tryb., Poland

http://www.kotlicki.com/

Marta Kozińska was born in 1979 in Lodz, Poland, where she lives and works.

EDUCATION

1998-2004 - Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Lodz, Poland. Master of Art with specialization at visual arts.
2003-2004 - Traineeship of Psychological Assistance, Polish Institute of Gestalt Therapy in Krakow.
2002-2003 - Postgraduate studies in Art Therapy, Polish Institute of Erickson, Katowice.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2005 - “Female nudes” - Balucki Cultural Centre, Lodz, Poland.
2005 - “Paintings, drawings” – Odradek la Libreria, Rome, Italy.
2005 - “Female nude” – Gallery “C”, Culture and Art Centre, Ciechanow, Poland.
2005 - “El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico – impressions”  - exhibtion of photography, Balucki Cultural Centre, Lodz, Poland.
2006 - “Shades of a female” – exhibition of paintings, Carolina Azcarraga Galeria de Arte, San
           Salvador, El Salvador.
2007 - „ A woman about women“  - Gallery „P“, Art & Cultural Center, Płońsk, Poland
2008 - "Question about a human being" – Academic Center of Artistic Ventures, Łódź, Poland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003 - “Open ateliers II” – Art Book Museum, Lodz, Poland.
2004 - “Open gallery” – Gallery Opus, Lodz, Poland.
2004/2005 - “Creative meetings”- exhibition of paintings and drawings, Balucki Cultural Centre, Gallery “F”, Lodz, Poland.
2005 - “Nude - Reactivation” – Gallery Forum, March, April 2005, Lodz, Poland.
2006 - “Open exhibition V” – Art Book Museum, Lodz, Poland.
2006 - “Expo – Arte Mujer 2006” – La Casona, Centro Comercial Galerias, San Salvador, El Salvador.
2006 - “ADAPES – Homenaje a Raul Elas Reyes”  - Centro Cultural de Espana, Embassy of Spain, San Salvador, El Salvador.
2008 - „Good and beauty“ –  Embassy of Poland in Vatican, Holy See
2008 - „Good and beauty“  - Youth Meeting in Rome, European University of Rome
2009 - “Open exhibition VI” – Art Book Museum, Lodz, Poland.

www.martakozinska.art.pl

 

Wojciech Leder was born in 1960 

EDUCATION

1979-1985 studies in the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland
1982-1985 studying philosophy at the University of Łódź
Diploma in the Study of Xylographic Techniques lead by Professor Andrzej M. Bartczak and in the Study of Painting lead by Professor Stanisław Fijałkowski

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

The Artists’ Museum, Łódź
Museum of ART, Łódź
Atlas Sztuki, Łódź
The Bon a Tirer Gallery, New York
Art New Media Gallery, Warsaw 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Energy of Picture, The Arsenal Gallery, Poznań; Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków
Living Gallery. The Progressive Art Movement of Łódź (1969-1997), The Zachęta Gallery, Warszawa; Tower Building, Łódź
Bielsko Autumn National Painting Competition (Grand Prix), The Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała
Biennale of Lodz Art, Łódź
Powidoki, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
International, Konkret, Intelligibel, Austria Center, Austria
34 Raume, Museum Modern Art, Huenfeld, Germany
To Paint, Leder&Tarasewicz, Ego Gallery, Poznań
In Between, Seoul, Korea
Foukushima Art Biennale, Foukushima, Japan

DISTINCTIONS

National Painting Competition (Grand Prix)1997 r.

www.wojciechleder.art.pl

Anka Leśniak was born in 1978 in Bielsko-Biała, Poland

Education

M.A. The Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (2004)
M.A. University of Łódź (History of Art) (2003)

Art activities

Painting, video, performance

Solo shows

2009 - Image as Experiencing – TV programm “Strefa Alternatywna” (Alternative Zone), TVP
           Kultura, Polish Public TV
           TOP Models, from series Body Printing, Studio Gallery, Palace of Culture, Warsaw, Poland
           TOP Models, from series Body Printing, Blok Gallery, The Academy of Fine Arts, Łódź, Poland
2008 - The Beauties and the Beasts, Ateneum Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
           Body Printing, painting in space, one day show, AOIA Theatre, Łódź, Poland
2007 - Spring in Gardener House, from series Body Printing, Patio Art Center, Lodz, Poland
           Primavera – Spring in Grohman’ s Cabinet, from the series Body Printing, Patio Art Center,
           Lodz, Poland  
           Body Printing during Strike, from series Body Printing Strike Festival, Artist Settlement, PGR
           ART, Dokyard in Gdańsk, Poland
           Body Printing Studio, from series Body Printing, STUDIO BWA, Wrocław, Poland
           Body Printing in Off, Off Gallery from series Body Printing, Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
2005 - Aktywistki, painting exhibition, Lutnia Gallery, Łódź, Poland
           Aktualności, painting exhibition, AOIA Foyer Gallery, Łódź Poland

Group Shows

2009 - Art after Hours, Łaźnia, Center of Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland
           Enter/Escape – How Does Painting Shape New Spaces, International Festival of Visual Art
           Inspiracje (Inspirations), Zamek Książąt Pomorskich (Pomeranian Princes Castle), Szczecin,
           Poland  
          28 Days (gender project), Łaźnia, Center of Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland
2008 - Prints for Peace, Galeria Lepoldo Carpinteyro de Relaciones Culturales, Monterrey, Mexico
           Odczarowywanie (gender project - part II) BWA Awangarda, Wrocław, Poland
           Tarnogórska Femina, (gender Project), from series Body Printing, TCK Tarnowskie Góry,
           Poland  
           Sexhibicja (Sexhibition) STUDIO ACH!, Warsaw, Poland
           EgoJego, (gender project - eNeRDe Gallery, Toruń, Poland
2007- Homeless Gallery - Tolerance – Intolerance, Patio Art Center, Łódź, Poland
          Odczarowanie, (Disenchantment ) (gender project) installation work in a city space, BWA
          Zielona Góra, Poland   
          Przeciąg (Flight), Festival of Young Artists’ Art , Pomeranian Princes Castle, Szczecin, Poland
2006 - Porno Generation Project, BED/BAD ART, Galeria Promocji Młodych, (Young Artists
           Promotion Gallery), Łódź, Poland  
           Binary City Lodz – Warsaw, Manhattan Gallery, Łódź, XX1 Gallery, Mazowieckie Centrum
           Kultury, Warsaw, Poland  
2005 - The Best Diplomas of The Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Museum of Textiles, Łódź
           Offensiva, International Film Festival OFFensiva, Wrocław, Poland
           Czy-ja to płeć?, (gender groject) Progressteron Festival, Górnośląskie Centrum Kultury
           (Culture Center), Katowice, Poland

Distinctions

1. Grand for the best students, The Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź 2001-2004
2. Diploma with honorable mention, 2004, Łódź
3. Scholarship in The Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, 2002

Collections

Works in private collections

MAGDALENA MOSKWA

The core of Magdalena Moskwa’s  art  is the force and intensity with which  the visible  materializes in the painting . The form itself is instrumental  it is intended to conceal the force and conceal it well, intensely, ostentatiously, like an inaccessible but at the same time evident  secret. This force  hides on the  surface of form , evident secret. This force hides on the  surface  of form, in the line of the  contour which differentiates  it from the background ,as well as in the striking, sometimes  veristic  clarity, in its intense luminosity and the haptic quality-the textural or even relief-like three-dimensionality of her matter.   

It could be argued  that the paintings - invariably untitled - do not originate in a concept, a project or artistic strategy, nor in a desire to convey particular content or to design an open semantic  game; rather, they are initiated by pure, indeterminate force. The painting allows the artist to grasp this unsettling force ,to determine, master and liberate it, as well as liberate herself from it: to reveal  it as hidden in the form. The latter is long in the making, shaped arduously and meticulously, with the use of a constantly increasing array of traditional pictorial techniques. Its ultimate shape is never given a priori. It imposes and presents itself gradually, in a process of singular interaction between the artist and the emergent painting.

Moskwa’s  art is predominantly concerned with self- portraiture. Nevertheless, her paintings are highly unusual self-portraits. Indeed, they may be described as ‘hetero-self-portraits’, because Moskwa- in a gesture of uncompromising vivisection- depicts herself as an alien, eerie,’ other-self’figure. This figure is often seemingly composed of fragments borrowed from other people’s bodies and is thus discreetly hybrid. Such is the origin of the entities which the artist calls “ Nomany” (“Nomans”). They are women of pale deathly countenances who turn fervently- sometimes also with a touch of melancholy- towards the viewer. Some of them are bald; remains of damaged hair may also cover a   balding scalp, or sprout above an unnaturally high forehead. Their stocky, ungainly bodies  seem at times prematurely touched by old age: hunched, they lean forward, carrying the weight of sagging, naked breasts. Other” Nomans”, in their  prime, have broad, sturdy shoulders, disproportionately slender and long arms, as well as rough- hewn, “ masculine” faces which contrast disquietingly with the long, wavy hair and the infantile, colorful ribbons decorating it.

These hieratic figures are emphatically differentiated from the background, which  is homogeneous, empty or else tightly and evenly  filled ( as it out of horror vacui ) with ornamental, floral motifs. It is lush flora , enchanted with its own vivacity, which is simultaneously overripe, announcing its imminent withering, already under way: its labyrinthine tangles and coils seem to determine, bind  and  overpower themselves. The function of this ornament is by no means decorative. Rather, it indicates figuratively the tension inherent in the painted figures: a stiffened   force- a vitality which turns against itself, transforming into a death drive.

The figures is not the only element to be sharply  contrasted with the background. Moskwa  uses various devices differentiate certain fragments of the body, or elements of the attire which drapes the figures- or possibly restricts their movements. The isolating contour, the amplified luminosity, the verism bordering  on visionariness and the relief featured in the most recent works all cause certain depicted elements to present and impose   themselves more intensely , individually forcing the viwer to focus on them. As a result, the painting is more a sum of particular elements than a’synthetic  compositional whole. This singular ’summary’ or ‘additive’ nature brings to mind the medieval panel painting, the Polish coffin portraits of the baroque era, or na ve art- all important points of reference for the artist. Undoubtedly, Moskwa is fascinated by the power of fragmenting and isolating perception which is common to all three. Such is also the origin of the motif of ’solitary’ fingers, hands and internal organs, separated- as in holy relics or votive offerings- from the rest of the body, which in this case becomes ’unnecessary ’.

The can be treated as expressions of the body’s singular self-experience. The latter term ought to be understood as consciousness confronting the fact of the body’s physicality; as the body experiencing itself as something’unusual’ , familiar and yet alien; finally, as self-mutilation – accidental, inadvertent, resulting from casual , everyday activities. Indeed, in Moskwa’s  paintings one notices numerous signs of mutilation – mostly grazed knuckles , seemingly a consequence of the hand coming in contact with a rough, injurious surface. The function of these scars is to provoke instinctive, almost bodily ’compassion’ in the viewer: seeing it, one may actually experience imaginary or phantom pain. The painting’s intense communicability –‘pathetic’ in the strict sense- is also engendered by the veristic importunity with which certain body parts, e.g. the hands, are depicted. Furthermore, in the most recent works the entire surface of the painting imposes itself on the viewer as flesh- colored matter which sprouts relief protuberances, growths, as well as folds which surround the painting’s concavities and apertures (one of those contains an actual hairball). The works evoke the presence of the entrails, at times seemingly allowing the body to be seen from the inside. Arguably, they give the viewer access to the body as something that is too close not to be simultaneously repulsive.

In Moskwa’s painterly idiom, the body and the consciousness of the depicted figures are swayed by life absorbed with its own intimate inertia , finality and death. This dual force of life and death also determines the suggestive  impact of those numerous motifs in which beauty interpenetrates, and is inextricably linked with, ugliness. The artist creates an array of enigmatic, notionally elusive configurations of these two elements, operating within the narrow space between ugly beauty and beautiful ugliness.
                                                                          TOMASZ ZAŁUSKI( transl. Krzysztof Majer)

Cytat pochodzi z książki pt. „Proper names in the art of Łódź”.

www.magdamoskwa.art.pl/

Tomasz Musiał was born in 1974.

EDUCATION

1995 - 2000 Academy of Fine Art,  Lodz, Poland

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2004    - Painting. Gallery of Contemporary  Art “Wieza Cisnien”, Konin (Poland)
2004    - Painting. Public Gallery of Art, „Balucka Gallery” Lodz (Poland)
2004    - Painting “Last Supper” – Gallery of Contemporary Art. BWA, Kalisz (Poland)
2005    - Painting, Gallery of Contemporary Art, BWA, Sieradz (Poland)
2008    - Painting , Konduktorownia Gallery, Czestochowa (Poland)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2001    - International Young Art - Sotheby’s - Tel-Aviv, (Israel), The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts New York, (USA)
2001    - 4th National Exhibition of Young Artists, BWA Wroclaw (Poland)
2003    - 36th All-Polish Painting Competition „Bielsko Autumn” BWA Gallery Bielsko Biala, Baltic Contemporary Art Gallery, Slupsk (Poland)
2004    - 20th Modern Polish Painting Festival, Kierat Gallery, Szczecin (Poland)
2005    - „mŁódź – identification”, Centre for the Propagation of Art, Lodz (Poland), Arsenal Gallery, Poznan (Poland)
2005    - „IMAGES OF ‘SOLIDARITY’. SOLID ART”- European Parliament, Altiero Spinelli Building, Bruxelle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Le Grand Hall, (Belgium), Museu d’Història de Catalunya, Barcelona, (Spain)
2005    - „Die verdammten im Haus Schwarzenberg”, Galerie Neurotitan, Berlin (Germany)
2006    - Art Fair ST‘ART 12th International Art Fairs, Strassbourg, (France).
2007    - „Pologne&Paris” - La Genie de la Bastille, Paris (France)
2008    - Biennale of Young Art, „Fish Eye 5” Baltic Art Gallery, Ustka; Bochenska Gallery, Warsaw (Poland)

DISTINCTIONS

1992    - voivode’s of Czestochowa grant.
1999    - mayor’s of Czestochowa grant.
2003    - mayor’s of Czestochowa grant
2004    - 12th National Salon of Art „EGERIA 2004”, 1st Prize
2004    - Rector’s of Academy of Fine Art in Lodz Prize
2006    - 1st International Competition for the Composition of Original Painting - Distinction Prize Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, Athens (Greece)
2008    - Biennale of Young Art „Fish Eye 5”  Curver Poland Prize

www.tomaszmusial.pl

Zbigniew Nowicki was born in 1966 in Lodz, Poland

EDUCATION

Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz, Poland

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2009   -  ”Gravitation of existence” ODA Gallery, Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
2005    -  ”Painting” Marchand Gallery, Białystok, Poland
2003    - ”Paliatives of reality” Promotional Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2002    - ”Mandala of Gods – Subliminal art” Manhattan Gallery, Lodz, Poland        
1994    - ”Self” Grimaud Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 -  ”The Reverse of the medal” Exhibition protest against breaking human rights in Tibet by Chinese government - BOK Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2008 - ”Porn Porn Porn” GAZ Gallery, Lodz, Poland   
2005   -”Triennial exhibition of Polish contemporary drawing” Museum in Lubaczów, Poland
2004 – ”Moving Pictures” – Wandering Gallery RASPUTIN – elevators in Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz, Poland
2003  - “Journey of sens” Jatki Gallery – Nowy Targ, Poland
2000 - ArtLink - International Young Art 2000, Tel Aviv, Izrael
         - ArtLink -  International Young Art 2000, Chicago, USA
         - ArtLink -  International Young Art 2000, Vienna, Austria
1998 - ”Egeria 98 Festival of Art” Ostrów Wielkopolski Gallery, Poland
1998 - ”Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting” Kierat Gallery, Szczecin, Poland