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List Of Polish Contemporary Artists
This is a list of Polish contemporary artists: __NOTOC__ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S–Ś T U V W Z–Ż A * Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930-2017), sculptor * Wiesław Adamski (born 1947), sculptor * Kazimierz Adamski (born 1964), sculptor * Janusz Akermann (born 1957), painter and professor of Fine Arts in Gdańsk * Paweł Althamer (born 1967), sculptor, performance artist, installation artist * Sylwester Ambroziak (born 1964), sculptor B * Stanisław Baj (born 1953), painter * Tomasz Bajer (born 1971), sculptor, visual artist * Agnieszka Balewska (born 1967), painter, performance artist * Mirosław Bałka (born 1958), painter, sculptor, installation artist * Krzysztof Bednarski (born 1953), sculptor * Zdzisław Beksiński (1929–2005), painter, photographer * Jan Berdyszak (1934-2014), installation artist * Kiejstut Bereźnicki (born 1935), painter * Alicja Buławka-Fankidejska (born 1983), ceramist * Bogna Burska (born 1974), installation artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish People
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe. The preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland defines the Polish nation as comprising all the citizens of Poland, regardless of heritage or ethnicity. The majority of Poles adhere to Roman Catholicism. The population of self-declared Poles in Poland is estimated at 37,394,000 out of an overall population of 38,512,000 (based on the 2011 census), of whom 36,522,000 declared Polish alone. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora (the '' Polonia'') exists throughout Europe, the Americas, and in Australasia. Today, the largest urban concentrations of Poles are within the Warsaw and Silesian metropolitan areas. Ethnic Poles are considered to be the descendants of the ancient West Slavic Lechites and other tribes that inhabite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicja Buławka-Fankidejska
Alicja Buławka-Fankidejska (born 1983) is a Polish artist, ceramist, and sculptor. Biography Alicja Buławka-Fankidejska graduated from the State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Gdynia-Orłowo in 2003. Later she studied at the Faculty of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (2005-2010). Since 2013 Alicja Buławka-Fankidejska works as an assistant in the Studio of Artistic Ceramics at the Department of Sculpture and Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. Work She works mainly in artistic ceramics, exploring alternative methods of firing. She is fascinated by the experimental approach to creative activities related to ceramics and influencing different senses through her art. Together with the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, she organises and leads the plein-air "Ceramics Alternatively". From 2014 to 2018 Buławka-Fankidejska, and her husband Dmitrij Buławka-Fankidejski, created ceramic and aluminium objects on the elevations of the buildings in Ogarna Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Grzybowski
Peter Grzybowski (16 June 1954 in Kraków, Poland – 29 August 2013) was a Polish multimedia and performance artist and a painter. He studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (ASP), graduating in 1982. He first performed in 1981. He was a figure in the Polish performance art movement of the 1980s, performing individually and with Awacs Group (1982–87) and KONGER (1984–1986). From 1985 he lived in the USA. Until 1996 he had exhibited painting works (e.g. in OK Harris Gallery, New York, Fusion Arts Museum, New York, DeCordova Museum Lincoln, MA, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, National Building Museum Washington DC, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Galleria Arsenal, Poznan, Exchange Gallery, Lodz, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery Kraków, Zachęta Gallery Warsaw, Grand Palais and others). His paintings imitate objects such as photographs, boards, marble and metal plates. They are included in collections such as: John Hechinger Collection, Norton Center for the Arts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krzysztof Gliszczyński
Krzysztof Gliszczyński (born 16 January 1962, Miastko, Poland) is a Polish painter from Sopot. He studied at the State College for Visual Arts (PWSSP) in Gdańsk between 1982–1987,Krzysztof Gliszczyński ''Arsenalart.com'', accessed December 2010 and is now a professor in the department of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts there.Urszula Szulakowska Materia Prima. De-Re-konstrukcja malarstwa. ''Państwowa Galeria Sztuki'', 2009. Sopot. Retrieved 17 December 2011. Gliszczyński attended State Grammar School for Visual Arts in |
Major Waldemar Fydrych
Waldemar Andrzej Fydrych "Major" (born April 8, 1953) is a Polish activist and founding leader of the Orange Alternative movement in Poland. Early career Fydrych was born in Toruń, Poland on April 8, 1953. He is a graduate of the History and History of Art Faculty of the University of Wrocław. Fydrych began his independent public activity in the 1970s. He created a branch of the Independent Students Union (NZS) in Wrocław and launched the Movement for New Culture in the city. He was also one of the co-organizers of a massive peace march that took place in April 1981. During the Martial Law, many Poles first made acquaintance with Fydrych's work through his picturesque dwarf images painted on building walls, covering up the paint that was used to cover up anti-regime slogans. The Orange Alternative Starting in 1986, he began organizing a chain of happenings, which were eventually named the "Orange Alternative." These happenings involved hundreds up to thousands of participant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Fangor
Wojciech (pronounced: ) Bonawentura Fangor (15 November 1922 – 25 October 2015), also known as Voy Fangor, was a Polish painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Described as "one of the most distinctive painters to emerge from postwar Poland," Fangor has been associated with Op art and Color field movements and recognized as a key figure in the history of Polish abstract art. As a graphic artist, Fangor is known as a co-creator of the influential Polish School of Posters. Between 1953 and 1961, he designed over one hundred posters working alongside Henryk Tomaszewski, Jan Lenica and others. After briefly conforming to the style of Socialist Realism during the Stalinist regime in Poland, Fangor had moved toward non-objective painting by the late 1950s. Fangor's 1958 exhibition titled ''Studium Przestrzeni'' at Salon Nowej Kultury in Warsaw, organized together with Stanisław Zamecznik, had sought to create an immersive display space and incorporate Fangor's abstract painting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stasys Eidrigevičius
Stasys Eidrigevičius (born 24 July 1949 in Mediniškiai, Lithuania) is a painter and graphic artist. Biography Eidrigevičius graduated from the College of Fine Arts and Crafts in Kaunas in 1968. In 1973, he obtained a diploma from Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1980 he has lived in Poland. Eidrigevičius is active in many artistic fields, such as: oil painting, book-plate, book illustration, studio graphics, and photography. He has been interested in posters since 1984. Major awards Major awards: Gold Plaque for children's book illustration at Biennial of Book Art in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (1979, 1981, 1989), Grand Prix (1991); Gold Medal at International Biennial of Exlibris in Malbork (1980); Honorary Mention at Exhibition of Small Graphic Forms in Łódź, Poland (1979); Grand Prix for book illustration in Barcelona, Spain (1986); Grand Prix at International Biennial of Posters in Lahti, Finland (1989); 3rd Prize at International Biennial of Posters in Warsaw (1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasia Domanska
Kasia Domanska (born 15 February 1972 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish painter. She studied in the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she graduated in 1995. She has participated in numerous individual and group exhibitions. Domanska’ paintings have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions including the National Museum in Warsaw, she was selected for acceptance into the Biennales in Florence, The National Festival "The Supermarket of Art" two times and she has been a finalist the Art & Business competition "Painting of the Year" two times. Her work has been published in many media publications such as ELLE ''Elle'' (stylized ''ELLE'') is a worldwide women's magazine of French origin that offers a mix of fashion and beauty content, together with culture, society and lifestyle. The title means "she" or "her" in French. ''Elle'' is considered the w ..., Artinfo, Sztuka, Warsaw Business Journal, Rzeczpospolita, Twoj Styl Magazine, Wp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Duda-Gracz
Jerzy Duda-Gracz (March 20, 1941 in Częstochowa – November 5, 2004 in Łagów) was a Polish painter. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1968. His work was exhibited in over 187 national and international exhibitions and can be seen at the Polish National Museum in Warsaw, in the museum of the Jagellonian University in Kraków, in the Collegium Maius, the Museum of Earth at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Municipal Museum in Ghent, the BAWAG Foundation in Vienna, the Vatican Collection and in galleries and collections in many other countries such as the Louvre in France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac .... References Artnet.com - Jerzy Duda-Gracz* ''Jerzy Duda Gracz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michał Cała
Michał Cała (born in 1948 in Toruń) is a Polish photographer. Having graduated from Warsaw University of Technology, he moved to Tychy and from 1975 to 1992 he photographed the Silesian landscape. The most important result of his work was a series of black-and-white photographs called ''Silesia''. He was particularly interested in labourers' housing districts, old ironworks, coal mines and enormous coal heaps. He was also taking pictures of people, who lived in that environment. The author is a laureate of many photography competitions. On two occasions he won Grand Prix at Biennale of Polish Landscape in Kielce in 1979 and 1983. As a result of his partnership with Galeria Zderzak in Kraków in years 2004-2006 he published black-and-white album ''Silesia''. The second important black-and-white series created by Michał Cała is ''Galicja'' (about south-east Poland). He was also the author of the exhibition ''Paysages de Pologne'' shown in Galerie Contraste in Bordeaux in 1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Bereś
Jerzy Bereś (September 14, 1930 in Nowy Sącz, New Sącz – December 25, 2012 in Kraków) was a Polish sculptor, author and performance artist. Creativity In his work he used artistic manifestations. His works and projects are often political and ethical statements, preaching the demand of the "creative act" on the subject. Jerzy Bereś developed his own unique style, but his practices were related: happening and these performance, although I never admit to any relationship with these trends in the arts demonstrations, calling their actions (actions, " Masses "). Beres' Art is an art symbol, a metaphor, and a metaphysics. His art is the result of a dispute with known artist of the twentieth century such as the dramatists Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Witkacy, Tadeusz Kantor, Kantor and conceptual artist, Marcel Duchamp, Duchamp. Artistic activity In 1956, he completed a program in sculpture in the Academy of Fine Arts. Jan Matejko, Academy of Fine Arts in Xawery Dunikowski. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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