BIO
PhD researcher at The Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan. She deals with sculpture, installation, performance art, costume, and scenography. Creates performative installations of people – sculptures, haptic objects. The main issue of her search is to define sculpture in light of the active presence of a human. Patrycja is the co-author of numerous international projects bordering visual arts, theatre, and new dance. She has collaborated with the Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Museum of Cosmonautics in Zhytomyr Ukraine, Salon Akademii Warsaw, Pawilon Nowa Gazownia in Poznan, Galeria Biala Lublin, Gogolfest Kyiv, Republika Sztuki Tłusta Langusta, Ballhaus Ost. Berlin, Biennial of Textile.
EDUCATION
2021 degree of Doktor sztuki, field: The Arts, Discipline: Fine Arts and Art Conservation
2017- 2020 Doctoral studies, The Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan, Poland
2008 Diploma at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland
2007 Univercidad de Castilla la Mancha, Facultad de Bellas Artes de Cuenca, Spain
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Journey of Autopoiesis (multimedia exhibition), The Serhiy Pavlovych Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics, Zhytomyr, Ukraine
2021 Conscious Structures. The Journey of Autopoiesis (Ph.D exhibition), Barak Kultury foundation, Poznan
2020 Artificial Nature (an internet project as part of the Kultura Dystansu competition, awarded in the Poznań Wspiera competition)
2020 Artificial Nature (exhibition), Inkubator Kultury Pireus, Poznań
2019 Handmade changing room (performative exhibition), Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 One organism (an interactive exhibition), BWA Art Gallery, Olsztyn
2018 An alive room (Performing arts: idea, direction, stage installation, costumes), Republika Sztuki Tłusta Langusta, Poznań
2017 Unlike (exhibition), Art Exhibition Bureau in Kielce
2016 Imaginary beings, (exhibition), Contemporary Art Gallery, ms44, Świnoujście
2016 BESTIAry (exhibition), Galeria Wspólna, MCK Bydgoszcz
2016 BESTIAry (exhibition), Pawilon, Nowa Gazownia, Poznań
2015 The Tailor-Made Art (exhibition), Night of Museums, Pawilon, Nowa Gazownia, Poznan
2015 Cocoonuflage, (an interactive exhibition), Pavilion, Nowa Gazownia, Poznań
2015 Brain Plushashes (performative exhibition), AK 30, Poznań
2009 Four Deadly Sins (performative exhibition), Juliana Outdoor Gallery Zasutowo
2008 Four Deadly Sins performative exhibition), Aula Gallery, Poznań
2007 Evento Cultural Importante, Univercidad de Castilla la Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
2002 Sculpture and painting, ŚOK Świdwin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / FESTIVALS / THEATER & DANCE PROJECTS
2023
Biennale of Art, Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
International exhibition: Ribos/ Borders, Energy and Technology Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
Group exhibition: Ostatni Gasi Światło, Galeria Sztuki Rozruch Poznań
2022
International premiere, dance: (costume, object), Uteri Migrantes, Renata Piotrowska-Auffret, UNPOLISHED I Festival DOCK 11 — Berlin, Germany
International exhibition: Borders /Granice / Grenzen / Кордони / Ribos, St.-Thomas-Kirche, Berlin, Germany
International exhibition: Granice, Galeria Sztuki Rozruch Poznań
Polish premiere, dance: (costume, object) Uteri Migrantes, Renata Piotrowska-Auffret, Ciało/Umysł – Międzynarodowy Festiwal Sztuki Tańca i Performansu, Warsaw
2021
Art Festival: Lernaean Hydra, Goncharenko-Centre, Festiwal Ars Teteriv Stage, Zhytomyr, Ukraine
Open-air installations: Spacja Fest – Poligon Działań Twórczych, Poznań
Group exhibition: Nietwałe, Galeria Sztuki Rozruch, Poznań
International Online Art Exhibition: Dispose to Reuse, Eco Aware Art Gallery,
2020
Online theater show: (costumes) Ewa i ja / Laura Leish
Open-air installations: Naturalnie dzięki, Poznań
Group exhibition: I *** nie wyszło, Galeria Scena Otwarta, Poznań
2019
Opera: (costumes) Entropia, MOJA Muzyka #77, „Zamek” (Castle) Culture Centre, Poznań
Group exhibition: Zwierzę, Rozruch Gallery, Poznań
Performance art: The shape of our bodies, Kyiv Music Fest, Toronto business center, Kyiv, Ukraine
II Biennial of Textile: Art, Museum of Applied Arts, branch of the National Museum in Poznań
Dance, Theater: (costumes) Metamorphosis; a theater performance with movement, projected animation, and live music in collaboration with Ukrainian and Dutch artists, International Festival of Physical Theatre, Kyiv, Ukraine
Group exhibition:Bryła III, Rozruch Gallery, Poznań
Open-air installations:Park Sztuki, Galeria Podlaska, Biała Podlaska
Group exhibition: Korelacje, Stara Rzeźnia, Poznań
2018
Video News, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin
Theater Festival: (stage installation, costumes), Emily: Ewa Kaczmarek / Patrycja PiPa Piwosz / Malina Barwik, Alternatywne Spotkania Teatralne Klamra’2018, OD NOWA, Toruń
Open-air installations: Park Sztuki, Galeria Podlaska, Biała Podlaska
Wild Wood, Kołorking Muzyczny, Poznań
Group exhibition: Bryła II, Rozruch Gallery, Poznań
Group exhibition: Pół żartem, pół serio, Atrium, UAP Poznań
Wejścia | Wyjścia w ramach START, Curators’Lab Gallery, Poznań
Group exhibition: Miłość//Love, Inkubator Kultury – Pireus, Poznań
2017
Group exhibition: Bryła, Rozruch Gallery, Poznań
Group exhibition: Jeder Organismus, Alte Feuerwache Loschwitz, Dresden, Germany
Art Festival: Gogolfest, Kyiv, Ukraine
Art Festival: Zuider Festival, Enschede, Netherlands
Group exhibition: I’m over it, Galeria Biała, Lublin
Theater Festival: (stage installation, costumes), Emily, Nano-dram 2017, Republika Sztuki Tłusta Langusta, Poznań
2016
Dance Festival: (stage installation) Hers ( Nowicka / Piwosz / Sijakovic)‚ Scena Tanca Studio’ (Dance Studio Stage), Warsaw
Performance art: Basilisk, Ukrainian’s Spring Festival, Poznań
Dance, Theater: (costumes) Metamorphosis, Labirynth Gallery – Lublin PL, MAAS podium – Rotterdam NL, MAPA Studio – Haarlem NL, Tolhuistuin – Amsterdam NL, Young One’s festival XL – Zwolle, Netherlands, Les Kurbas Centre – Kyiv, UA, Philharmonia – Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2015
Group exhibition: The journey to the borders of Utopia, Contemporary Art Gallery, ms44, Świnoujście
Dance: (stage installation) Hers ( Nowicka / Piwosz / Sijakovic), Ballhaus Ost. Berlin, Germany
Group exhibition: Pets, The Center for Contemporary Art at to the Old Market in Poznań
Art Festival: Znikający Klub / WRO’ (Disappearing Club / WRO), Wrocław
2014
Group exhibition: People are strange, BWA Art Gallery in Olsztyn
Art festival: Out Of Dream, Generator Malta, Malta Festival, Poznań
Performance Art Festival: Widma Malingradu, Republika Sztuki Tłusta Langusta, Poznań
Art festival: (performance art in collaboration with Ukrainian artists) Stratum, Ukrainian’s Spring Festival, Poznań
2013
Group exhibition: Senses, Salon Akademii, Warsaw
Art festival: Brain Plushashes, Widma Malingradu, Znikający Klub, (Disappearing Club) Gdansk
2012
Performance Art Festival: The awkward ones, Widma Malingradu, Kontener Art, Poznań
2009
International Sculpture Triennial: Crisis of the genre, „Zamek” (Castle) Culture Centre, Poznań
The International Festival of Theatre and Visual Arts Zdarzenia, Tczew
Group exhibition: The artist’s museum and/or work of art. Save for the Future, Galeria ZAK, Poznań
National Exhibition of Drawing, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń
Open Air Exhibition of Sculpture, Gdynia
2008
Group exhibition: Time and art. Save for the Future, Szyperska Gallery, Poznań
2007
Group exhibition: Space and art. Save for the Future, IF MUSEUM Inner Space, Poznań
Film and Arts Festival IMPRESJE in Słupca
2006
Open-air installations: London – Orońsko, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko
COLLECTION
National Museum in Poznan
AWARDS & GRANTS
2021 Polish Culture in the World program of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute; The Journey of Autopoiesis, The Serhiy Pavlovych Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics, Zhytomyr, Ukraine
2021 Art scholarship of the City of Poznan (for achievements)
2021 Cultural Event of the Season 2020/2021 for online performance Ewa i ja, Ewa Kaczmarek (costumes)
2020 Winner of „Ciąg dalszy nastąpi 2…” competition for project Conscious Structures. The Journey of Autopoiesis
2020 Winner of „Poznań Wspiera” competition, for an internet project Artificial Nature
2020 project/ implementation grant „Kultura Dystansu”
2019 Polish Culture in the World program of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute; Handmade changing room, Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 Rector’s Scholarship
2018 Winner of Nanodram 2018, An alive room
2018 Funding for conducting scientific research, University of the Arts Poznan
2017 Winner of Nanodram 2017 (with collaboration: M.Barwik, E. Kaczmarek), Emily
2016 Winner of Czapski Art Foundation
2015 Marshal of the West award for best artistic event Fama Festival
2015 Winner of Czapski Art Foundation
WORKSHOPS / DISCUSSION / RESIDENCIES
2021 Discussion and multimedia exhibition „Performative practices of modernity: how is new music transformed in contemporary art?”, Ukrainian space „Intelligentsia”, Kyiv Music Fest, Ars Teteriv Stage, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 Tutor for the Belarusian artist in Gaude Polonia 2021 program
2021 Residency The Palace collective, Bojanowo, Poland
2020 Residency The Palace collective, Bojanowo, Poland
2019 Discussion „Music and interdisciplinary practices // intersections” Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020-2019 Author’s program of activities for students of Theatrical Costume Studio, The Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan
2019 Author’s program of activities for students of Sculpture and Spatial Activities Studio VII – Performance, The Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan
2017 Author’s workshops „How to domesticate a fantasy animal”, author’s program of family workshops, Arsenal Gallery, Poznań
2015 Author’s workshop project „The Tailor-Made Art” (for children and seniors), Nowa Gazownia, Poznań
2014 visual and dance workshops „Island” (in collaboration with Olga Kebas) Generator Malta, Malta Festival, Poznan
2008 – 2007 Participation in the Laboratory of Creative Education, CZW Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2008 Workshop of Creative Thinking. An interactive workshop introducing the idea of creative thinking in three groups: children, youth, and seniors.
2013 Workshop for youth (Inspirator Association), Poland
PUBLICATIONS
BESTIAriusz / BESTIAry individual art book project, ISBN 978-83-944629-5-2
support: Czapski Art Foundation, Galeria Wspólna, cooperation: M. Barwik (catalogue design and layout ), M. Zakrzewski ( photography)
Istota zmyślona / Imaginary beings, individual exhibition catalog, ISBN 978-83-945067-4-2, published by Contemporary Art Gallery, ms44, Świnoujście
Nie Podobni / Unlike, Art Exhibition Bureau in Kielce, individual exhibition catalog, ISBN 978-83-948408-9-1
Mam to z głowy / I’m over it, publisher Galeria Biała, Lublin, ISBN 978-83-62191-64-2
Zmysły- instrukcja użytkownika / Senses – user guide, publisher: Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, exhibition curator: I. Szmelter, ISBN 978-83-63594-32-9
People Are Strange, publisher: BWA ART Gallery in Olsztyn, exhibition curator: E. Bobińska, ISBN 978-83-89228-92-5
Przekroje / Wątki / Raporty, II Biennial of Textile, ISBN 978-83-955422-0-6
Crisis of the genre, International Sculpture Triennial, publisher: „Zamek” (Castle) Culture Centre, ISBN 978-83-924666-7-3
Zwierzę, exhibition curator: T. Jędrzejewski, WZAR, ISBN 978-83-947682-1-8
Bryła, organizer: WZAR, rozRUCH Gallery, Jeżyckie Centrum Kultury, exhibition curator: T. Jędrzejewski, ISBN 978-83-947682-0-1
Zachować dla przyszłości – Artyści poznańscy. Czas a/i dzieło sztuki / Save for the Future- Poznan artists. Time and art, Interdisciplinary Department for Conservation-Restoration of Contemporary Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, curator: I. Szmelter, M. Korona, DVD, ISBN 978–83–88400–30–8
Zachować dla przyszłości. Muzeum artysty a/i dzieło sztuki / The artist’s museum and/or work of art. Save for the Future, Interdisciplinary Department for Conservation-Restoration of Contemporary Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, curator: I. Szmelter, M. Korona, DVD, ISBN 978–83–88400–42-1
Half-open door, Juliana Outdoor Gallery Art and science research laboratory Zasutowo, publishing house: University of the Arts Poznan, Faculty of Sculpture, project manager: Danuta Mączak, DVD, ISBN 978-83-65578-64-8
Park Sztuki 2018, Park Sztuki 2019, organizer: Bielskie Centrum Kultury, curator: M. Skalimowski