ABOUT MY WORK
I was born in Poland in a time when Eastern Europe was behind the Iron Curtain. I grew up in a totalitarian system under the shadow of World War II.
As a young artist I felt an urge to create and express the reality I saw around me and to make art was my way to survive in this confusing and difficult times.
I started by drawing and painting but as I got older the work evolved to be more about sculpture, objects and installations. I became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the 1980`s and graduated in 1992. That same year I moved to Norway. Since then I have lived and worked in Norway but have always had close contact with Poland.
I worked figuratively for many years and was concerned with absurdities and paradoxes. Eventually I found the figurative language limiting so I also began to work non-figurative. The non-figurative form has brought me closer to conveying reality. The aesthetics of the works were given a more pragmatic and epistemological role.
Thematically my work focuses on temporality, impermanence and the undefined.
Materials used are characterized by history, often recyclable materials such as wood, straw, hemp, metal and I put these in a new context.
EDUCATION
1986 /92
The Academy of Fine Arts
Warszaw, Poland
Faculty of painting and sculpture
1989 /90
New York
International internshi
1992
The Academy of Fine Arts
Warszaw, Poland
Magister´s degree
EXHIBITIONS
2020
Prosjektrom Vestfold Kunstsenter, YouMe, soloprosjekt
Outdoor, uteromsprosjekt, Kunstled Veierland
2019
Galleri Ask, Åsgårdstrand
2009/20
Project Veierland, kunstprosjekt på Veierland i forbindelse med eget verksted og Kunstled Veierland.
2006
Separatutstilling Vestfold Kunstsenter, Tønsberg
2004
Visning av tredimensjonale verk, Wilh. Wilhelmsen, Lysaker
2004
Galleri Iskunst, Oslo, separatutstilling
2002
Galleri Iskunst, Oslo, separatutstilling
2001
Månedens kunstner, Vestfold fylkeskommune
1997
Galleri Nebb X, Oslo
1996
Galleri Nebb X. Oslo
1993/01
Nittedal kunstforening, juleutstilling
1991
Galleri Pawilion SARP, Warszawa
1987
Galleri Stodola, Warszawa
PROJECTS
2020
DKS-turne, Innlandet fylkeskommune (Oppland) Avlyst grunnet COVID19
2017/19
Formidling av DKS produksjonen En Helt Surrealistisk Opplevelse (EHSO) i Troms og Hedmark fylker.
2016
Formidling av EHSO i forbindelse med The Big Draw, Hedmark.
Etablering av Kunstled Veierland med støtte fra Vestfold fylkeskommune.
2014 – 15
Produsent og formidler av DKS-produksjonen ”En helt surrealistisk opplevelse”med støtte fra Vestfold Fylkeskommune, flere skoler i Vestfold.
2009 – 13
Kunstskolen i Åsgårdstrand, undervisning i skulptur og tegning.
2011
Invitert til lukket konkurranse, minnesmerke for vietnamesiske-båtflyktninger, Bygdøy, Oslo
2009
Utforming av Hellige Olav monument, skulptur i bronse, Den Katolske Kirke i Tønsberg
2006 – 07
Herstad dagsenter, Nøtterøy. Skulptur og tegnelærer.
2001-03
Utforming av messehagel til Veierland kirke.
1999
Utsmykking/ utforming av resepsjonen i Helsinki Sanoma mediesenter Helsinki.
1998/99
Utsmykking /utforming av kulisser i utstillingen ved Hardangervidda Natursenter, Eidsfjord
1997
Råde bronsestøperi, støper