Natalia Wiśniewska

Bio

Natalia Wiśniewska

I draw, sculpt, work with my voice and write. I have spent the last four years in Australia. I left my artistic identity to undertake various jobs in the service, health and entertainment industries. This period taught me to express myself in a new language, culture and allowed me to find a vision of private art to support my own therapeutic processes. I carefully review the mechanisms that stand in the way of expressing authenticity: traumas experienced and inherited, depressive states, personas created by family relations, relationships or the experience of illness. These complex operating systems used to handle overly difficult reality are subjected to sensitive observation. I am interested in the dynamics of their functioning and the game they play with their host.

Photo by: Katarzyna Branicka

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2025

  • Śpik śnik. Muzykofilia Festival. IX: KOSMOSNY, Cultural Center of Dwór Artusa, Galeria Artus, Toruń
  • High functionality, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń

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)

2023

  • Hypnosis, Good Space Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2022

  • Upaniszady, Oda Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych, Piotrków Trybunalski

2021

  • ACT micro festival of dialogue and artistic activities, S Gallery (UMK), Toruń

2019

  • Vanishing, Trafostacja, Szczecin

2018

  • Transgresje Festival; Calm, Movie theater Grunwald, Toruń
  • Rat Catcher, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław

2017

  • The Hygienists, Supermarket Art Fair 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 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 Work place, Hala FAT, Wrocław
  • The Silence of Sounds, Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław, Wrocław
  • The Eagle has landed: Apollo 11 – 45 years later, Galeria Sztuki Wozownia, Toruń

2015

  • The young wolves. 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 Forbidden acts, Wrocław
  • Off the record, UP Gallery, Berlin, Germany

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 Interactions, ODA Ośrodek Działań Artystycznych, Piotrków Trybunalski
  • Video Art Festival Points of View, 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

SCHOLARSHIPS

2017/2018

  • Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements

2017

  • City of Toruń Scholarship in the Field of Culture, Toruń

2015

  • City of Toruń Scholarship in the Field of Culture, Toruń

2013

  • Marshal’s Scholarship of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship, Toruń

2009

  • Scholarship of the Marshal of the Wielkopolska Region, Poznań

RESIDENCIES, AWARDS

2024

  • Two-month artistic residency from the Culture Moves Europe program of the Goethe Institute, BANSKÁ ST A NICA Contemporary, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
  • One-month artistic residency Sculpture Everywhere, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko

2018

  • Artistic residency Valley of Harmony, Harmony of Culture Foundation, Kopaniec (Izera Mountains), 2018

2013

  • LOCIS residency, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Ireland, 2013
  • Finalist of the 3rd Edition of the Grey House Foundation Competition, Kraków, 2013

2012

  • Honorable Mention, To Draw. 5th National Drawing Exhibition, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, 2012

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

2018

  • Conducting frottage workshops Architecture as part of Creative Playground at Księży Młyn. On the trail of culture, Łódź
  • Conducting frottage workshops Urban Relief as part of Creative Playground at Księży Młyn. On the trail of culture, Łódź

2017

  • Conducting a lecture/meeting for seniors On the line of words, Kamienica Inicjatyw, Toruń
  • Conducting a lecture on exhibitions at the Miłość Gallery for seniors from the Sunny Rubinkowo Senior Club, Galeria Miłość, Toruń

2015

  • Preparation and conducting of original workshops for youth as part of the National Centre for Culture program Native – Add to Favorites, Bydgoszcz
  • Author’s guided tours of the Hard Space exhibition, Galeria Miłość, Toruń

2014

  • Organization of Zofia Krawiec’s lecture, Love Performance, Toruń
  • Author’s workshops for youth at the Synagogue, Fordon Night of Art, Bydgoszcz

CURATORIAL WORK

2023

  • Mark Arnott. Let me show you the world in my eyes, Galeria 371, Sydney, Australia

2017

  • Black square on a white background lives in the view from my window. Tobiasz Jędrak, Galeria Miłość, Toruń
  • Hygienists, group exhibition, Supermarket 2017 Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden

2016

  • Tytus Szabelski. Impossible Forms, Galeria Miłość, Toruń
  • Urban Observatory: Resources, post-plein-air exhibition, Galeria Miłość, Toruń
  • Liliana Piskorska. SCUM, Galeria Miłość, Toruń
  • Katarzyna Malejka. Hidden Defect, Galeria Miłość, Toruń

2015

  • 99,965, group exhibition, Galeria Miłość, Toruń
  • Defensive Adaptation. Norbert Delman, Galeria Miłość, Toruń

2014

  • Delectatio Morosa. Karolina Żyniewicz, Galeria Miłość, Toruń
  • Conversation with a Cat, group exhibition, Galeria Miłość, Toruń

2011

  • Organization of the BUT BYDGOSZCZ! exhibition, as part of the Bydgoszcz Congress of Culture, Bydgoszcz

CONFERENCES

2015

  • Curatorial meetings, Galeria Szara, Cieszyn

2013

  • LOCIS, symposium summarizing the international residency project LOCIS, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Ireland
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