Polish contextual artist and curator. She carefully observes the processes taking place in people’s relationships to places, objects or other people (including non-human agents). She is interested in what happens at the crossroads of concepts and meanings. In her artistic practice, she operates a wide formal spectrum. The choice of medium always results from the context and concept of action. For Natalia the creative process is equally important as making the exhibition user-friendly. She is the co-founder and curator of Galeria Miłość (EN: Love Gallery).
Born in Lublin in 1985. She studied at the University of Arts in Poznan (master’s degree in Graphic Arts – Litography, in 2010). She defended her Ph. D thesis at the University Nicolaus Copernicus in Toruń in the field of Fine Arts (2018) prepared under the guidance of Elżbieta Jabłońska. She lives in Sydney in Australia.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2018
Users of warmth. Contextual and participatory activities as methods of creative realisations, S Gallery, Toruń
2017
The Giantess, Kronika – Centre for Contemporary Art, Bytom
The Giantess, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń
2016
Despite Fading Away, Galeria AT, Poznań
2015
Non Breaking Space, Miłość Gallery, Toruń
2013
The Core, the Old Synagogue/Fordon Night of Art, Bydgoszcz
The Reconstructura, The AT Gallery, Poznań
The Core, Center Of Young Art in Częstochowa, Częstochowa
2012
The things not worth to go after, The Wschodnia Gallery, Łódź
2011
Mesotes – Eukratos Anomalia, Otwarta Pracownia, Cracow
2010
The Image/Outrage, The UAP AULA Gallery, Poznań
2009
The Sometime, The WOZOWNIA Art Gallery/Laboratory of Art, Toruń
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2020
Upaniszady, Oda Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych, Piotrków Trybunalski
2019
Vanishing, Trafostacja, Szczecin
2018
Transgresje Festival; Calm, Movie theater Grunwald, Toruń
Szczurołap (EN: Rat Catcher), Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław
2017
The Hygienists, Supermarket Art Fair 2017, Sztokholm, Szwecja
The Fetish, Galerie UAP, Poznań
2016
The Permeation, Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław, Wrocław
Bones of All Men Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Znaki Czasu, Toruń
Survival 14. Art Review „Warsztat pracy”, Hala FAT, Wrocław
The Silence of Sounds, Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław, Wrocław
The Eagle has landed: Apollo 11 – 45 years later, Galeria Sztuki Wozowania, Toruń
2015
The Młode Wilki ‘15 Festival, Akademia Sztuki, Szczecin
To, co jest, i to, co nam się wydaje, że jest, Galeria Szara, Cieszyn
THE YOUNG ART BIENNIAL “FISH EYE” 8, Bałtycka Galeria Sztuki, Słupsk
SURVIVAL 13. Art Review „Czyny zabronione”, Wrocław
Off the record, UP Gallery, Berlin, Niemcy
2014
Limits of globalisation in 4 Mediations Biennale Poznań 2014, CK Castle, Poznań
2013
3. FGH Prize Finalist Exhibition, The Szara Kamienica Gallery/Grey House Foundation, Cracow
Second site [ LOCIS ], The Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Ireland
Epidemic, CoCA Znaki Czasu, Toruń
2012
TO DRAW. 5th All-Polish Students Drawing Exhibition, The WOZOWNIA Art Gallery, Toruń
Performance Art Festival Interakcje, ODA Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych, Piotrków Trybunalski
Video Art Festival Punkty Widzenia, Galeria Manhattan, Łódź
The OFFsceniczny Festival of Performative Activities, Center Of Young Art in Częstochowa, Częstochowa
2010
The Week of Art in Lviv, THXIEHB LVIV, Lviv
2009
Myśli nieuczesane [Thoughts uncombed], Galeria Działań, Warsaw
SCHOLARSHIP
The scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements in the academic, 2017/2018
The Cultural Scholarship of the City of Toruń, 2017
The Cultural Scholarship of the City of Toruń, 2015
The Marshal Office of the Kujawy-Pomerania Province Grant, Toruń 2013
The Marshal Office of the Wielkopolska Province Grant, Poznań 2009
RESIDENCES, AWARDS
Artistic Residency Program Dolina Harmonii (EN: Valley of Harmony), Harmonia Kultury Foundation, Kopaniec ( Izerskie Mountains), 2018
LOCIS, The Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Ireland, 2013
Finalist for the FGH Prize: Contemporary Art Award, Cracow, 2013
The Honorable Award, TO DRAW. 5th All-Polish Students Drawing Exhibition, The WOZOWNIA Art Gallery, Toruń 2012
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
conducting a frottage workshop „Architekstura” (EN: Architexture”) within the “Plac Zabaw Twórczych na Księżym Młynie. Na tropie kultury”/”Creative Playground in Księży Młyn. On the trails of culture”, Łódź, 2018
conducting a frottage workshop “Miejski relief” (EN: Urban relief) within the “Creative Playground in Księży Młyn. On the trails of culture”, Łódź, 2018
conducting a lecture/talk for seniors about my art practise within a series of workshops “On the line of the word”. Townhouse of Initiatives, Toruń, 2017
conducting a lecture/talk about the art shows in Galeria Miłość for seniors from The Rubinkowo’s Sunny Senior Klub in Toruń, Galeria Miłość, Toruń, 2017
Przygotowanie i przeprowadzenie autorskich warsztatów dla młodzieży w ramach programu Narodowego Centrum Kultury Ojczysty – dodaj do ulubionych, Bydgoszcz, 2015
Oprowadzania autorskie na wystawie Twarda spacja, Galeria Miłość, Toruń, 2015
Organizacja wykładu Zofii Krawiec. Miłosny Performance, Toruń, 2014
Autorskie warsztaty dla młodzieży w Synagodze, Fordońska Noc Sztuki, Bydgoszcz, 2014
CURATORIAL WORK
2017
The black square on white lives in a view from my window. Tobiasz Jędrak, Miłość Gallery, Toruń
The Hygienists, group exhibition, Supermarket 2017 Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2016
Tytus Szabelski. Forms of the Impossible, Milość Gallery, Toruń
Urban Observatory: Resources, post-plein-air exhibition, Miłość Gallery, Toruń
Liliana Piskorska. SCUM, Miłość Gallery, Toruń
Katarzyna Malejka. Hidden Flaw, Miłość Gallery, Toruń
2015
99,965, group exhibition, Galeria Miłość, Toruń
Przystosowanie obronne. Norbert Delman, Galeria Miłość, Toruń
2014
Delectatio Morosa. Karolina Żyniewicz, Galeria Miłość, Toruń
Rozmowa z Kotem, wystawa zbiorowa, Galeria Miłość, Toruń
2011
Organiazacja wystawy ALE BYDGOSZCZ! w ramach Bydgoskiego Kongresu Kultury, Bydgoszcz
CONFERENCES
2015
Curatorial meetings / Spotkania Kuratorskie, Galeria Szara, Cieszyn
2013
LOCIS, sympozjum podsumowujące międzynarodowy projekt rezydencyjny LOCIS, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Irlandia