Alicja Buławka-Fankidejska (born 17 February 1983) is a Polish artist,
ceramist
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and sculptor.
Biography
Alicja Buławka-Fankidejska graduated from the State Secondary School of Fine Arts in
Gdynia
Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With an estimated population of 257,000, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk ...
-Orłowo in 2003.
Later she studied at the Faculty of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in
Gdańsk
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(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 Gdańsk.]
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, Szeroka Street, Rybackie Pobrzeże Street and Świętojańska Street in Gdańsk. That was part of a larger project called "Gdańskie Fasady OdNowa" coordinated by City Council of Gdansk and "Urban Forms" Foundation (]Łódź
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), which focused on the restoration of building elevations in the Main City area in Gdańsk.Bydgoszcz
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Art Centre.
Selected works of art
* 2015 – "Into the Wild"
Important exhibitions
* Cluj International Ceramics Biennale (2013, 2015)[
* Gdansk Art Biennale (2016, 2020)]France
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(2019)Spain
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(2019)[
]
Prizes
* 2013 – Distinction at Cluj International Ceramics Biennale[
* 2015 – Award of Excellence at Cluj International Ceramics Biennale][
* 2015 – Awards of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk]
References
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1983 births
Living people
People from Starogard Gdański
21st-century Polish sculptors
21st-century Polish women artists
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk alumni
Polish modern sculptors
Polish women sculptors
Polish ceramists
Polish women ceramists
21st-century women sculptors