Grażyna Bartnik upcoming BK Cologne show. February 2013

More info:

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pre Christmas Shopping event

The Others. Photoreport.

We are exhibiting on Stand B10, The Others, 4-6.11.2011 Turin, Italy

Presenting: Kasia Januszko, Grażyna Bartnik, Gagarin

New gallery page officially released

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Zuzanna Soińska. Abstrakcje. Wernisaz wystawy prac na drewnie. 30.09.2011

Wernisaż/Opening: 30.09.2011, 20.00

Wystawa/Exhibition: 1.10.2011 - 1.11.2011

Twórczość Zuzanny Soińskiej to malarstwo pełne inwencji i wrażliwości, którego oryginalna formuła abstrakcji zrodziła się z obserwacji pejzażu pozbawionego ludzkiej obecności. Dla artystki ważne są dla przede wszystkim wartości czysto malarskie - kolor, faktura, światło. Prezentowane obrazy przemieniają bierną materię plastyczną w pulsujący życiem organizm. Jest w tym coś z pierwotnego procesu rozniecania ognia, kiedy z dwu zimnych, martwych polan drzewa zaczyna tryskać iskra, powstawał żywioł.. Malarstwo Zuzanny Soińskiej wpisuje się w światowy poziom sztuki współczesnej. Jest ciekawe dla kolekcjonerów oraz tych, którzy ze sztuką spotykają się po raz pierwszy.
Kurator: Tatiana Rasała

Zuzanna Soińska graduated with honors from the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Paintings and Polychrome Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Thanks to the experience she gathered during her studies, internships and from the conferences worldwide from Australia to U.S.A. her work has the exceptional taste of multicultural breeze. After graduating, she was an intern at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, (University of Cambridge, UK) which is one of the world's leading centers for teaching and research in the conservation of easel paintings. She also gained her experience among other places in Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Dresden, Getty's Conservation Institute in L.A. and National Museum in Warsaw. Zuzanna is a paintings conservator, painter, gilder and copyist. Being a conservator and painter at the same time gives her a unique perspective on the subject of creation. Thanks to the years spent on analyzing the old Masters techniques and technologies, she is fully aware of the significance of the dedication that every work of art requires during creation and combines it with fresh expression and light form. In her work she merges the oil painting with gilding techniques acquiring either ephemeral and fragile forms dancing on the gilded areas or dynamic and powerful shapes seizing the space formed on the painting. The balance of light and shadow on the half glossy half mat surface provide the viewer with additional depth to look into, feel and interprate.

While working as an art conservator Zuzanna is often in very close relations with the works of some of the most known artists. This experience is constantly inspiring her to improve her own style and search for new ways to express herself. She spent some time at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Dresden in Germany. After graduating, she was an intern at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge in Great Britain, which is one of the world's leading centers for teaching and research in the conservation of easel paintings. She also practiced in many conservation departments, for example at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa or Memory Place Museum in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She took clasess from techniques and technology of painting, by copying the Paintings of the Masters in National Museum in Warsaw. She has significant experience in conservation and many completed works including ‘Apollo (or Hymen) crowning a Poet and giving him a Spouse’ by Jacopo Tintoretto among her accomplishment. 

All her experience as an art conservator helped her to create her own painting technique, combined of gilding and oil painting. In her abstract forms she express the essence of her message at the same time leaving wide field for viewers own interpretation.

- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zuzanna-Soi%C5%84ska/190666861005094

- http://bkcontemporary.blogspot.com/p/magorzata-malinowska.html

Grażyna Bartnik. Conceptual Graphics. Exhibition opening 26.09.2011, 18.30

Opening/Wernisaż: 26.09.2011, 18.30
Exhibition/Wystawa: 27.09.2011 - 26.11.2011

Mikael Malton solo trumpet performance: 19.30
Business card lotteries: 20.00 


Grazyna Bartnik works with clear geometric forms maintaining an exquisiteness of minimalistic compositions. Her abstract artworks are conceived as a logical extension of her Recycling art projects.
Creating her artworks she invents her own instruments and discover new ways of using convention tools. This is the concept of creativity leading to the discovery of opportunities of Eco art. Giving a wide range of senses to her conception, she investigates meanings of layering and searches for new structures in objects in a plane.

There is a delicate existans of Mark Rotkos conseption in her artworks. They contact with audience using a pacifying harmony of color expression and composition. Grazyna Bartnik creates capabilities of subtle interaction of artworks with the audience using combinations of colors and structures that traded directly to subliminal consciousness. A reflex perception of dark shades gives a intuitive interaction disclosure precision structures. Primary structures of her works are refined, delicate lines or subtle patterns - it’s a way of centering a space. In fact her art fells like a very strong and manly conception. Her abstract work look like mathematical formulas, it’s a kind of accurately calculated fractals.
Exploring an objectivism of minimalistic art, Grazuna Bartnik draws the viewer into the system of reflective relations with an art-object.

Grazyna Bartnik is a recycling artist with well-developed concepts of art. She is investigating an enchantment of materials from a real life such as cardboard boxes, developing her own creative method by making delicate connections of environmental art and post pop art.
Curator: Katerina Bela

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Gosia Kosiec. Digital Portraits. First Preview. 23.09.2011 18.30

Gosia Kosiec.
Digital Portraits.

New artist in BK Contemporary.
First Preview.
Collectors Cocktail.

Gosia Kosiec,  was born in 1975 in Lodz. She earned BA from Tadeusz Makowski Art College in 1995 and MA from Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz in 2000.
Gosia Kosiec paintings are mostly based on typography. She uses letters, digits and symbols to constract multy-layered works that are either figurative or abstract. These works are a metaphor of a contemporary Babel tower, mixed up languages and cultures; excessive, chaotic information and distorted communication.

This variety of well developed interpretations gives a wide range of reactions and communicative methods for these paintigs. Communicability of Gosia Kosiec artworks had already created a strict provenance position for all her adeptness. Text: Katerina Bela.

Individual exhibitions:

2011 TYPORTRAITS Miva Gallery, Malmo, Sweden

2007 UNCOUNTABLE Bizarre Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2007 TV BABEL Opus Gallery, Lodz, Poland,

Exhibition included in 6th Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures

2007 FACE SALE Tamka Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2005 WWW.HUMAN.COM Gallery Ars Nova, Lodz, Poland

2005 CLOSE UP Agency for Architecture Gallery, Denver, USA

2005 Galeria Balucka, The Municipal Art Gallery, Lodz, Poland

2005 Kunstsalon, Dusseldorf, Germany

2003 Nowa Gdynia Gallery in Lodz, Poland

Two-persons shows:

2008 FRAGMENTED FORMS with CT Nelson, Sellars Project Space, Denver, USA

2005 A.Bator, M.Kosiec, University of Lodz, Poland

Group shows:

2010 IDENTITY OF THE PLACE, I Biennial, Gunter Grass Gallery, Gdansk, Poland

2009 II International Biennale of Painting QUADRO ART, Lodz, Poland

2008 SAINTS AND SINNERS, St Martin Lane Hotel/Gallery Artrepublic, London,UK

2007 I International Biennale of Painting QUADRO ART, Lodz, Poland

2006 Artists for Habitat of Humanity, Loveland Museum, CO, USA

2003 Open Studios Artbook Museum in Lodz, Poland

2002 Artlink 2002 Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2002 Artlink 2002 Elizabeth Foundation for Arts, New York, USA

2002 Artlink 2002 Sotheby’s, Tel Aviv, Israel

2001 Diploma 2000 Central Museum of Textile in Lodz, Poland

1999 4th Review of Young Graphic Design, Katowice, Poland

Awards, scholarships:

2002 Finalist of International Young Art - Artlink 2002, Sotheby’s

1997 Scholarship from Polish Ministry of Culture

Art Fairs:

2008 CAMBRIDGESHIRE ART FAIRS, Cambridge, UK

2008 FORM LONDON, London, UK

2005 ST’ART Art Fairs in Strasburg 10th edition, France

2005 ST’ART Art Fairs in Strasburg 9th edition, France

2004 6thPOLISH ART&ANTIQUES FAIRS Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland

23.09.2011, 18.30Biały Kamień Contemporary
Biały Kamień 2 str.
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Visiting Kasia Domanska workshop

Katerina Bela & Kasia Domańska

Early Lech Bator's Deers just arrived to BK terrace wall

BK portfolio artworks in Rezydencje Magazine 09-10/2010

Nasz artysta Lech Bator w Domotece

Lech Bator jest artysta wielkomiejskim. Fascynuje sie urbanizmem i nowoczesnoscia, ale nie brak mu wrazliwości na losy mieszkancow metropolii. Dobre, złe, bohaterskie czy nieudacznicze czasem po prostu przeciętne charaktery obrazów Lecha spoglądają niepokojąco w dal prawie jak aktorzy na planie filmu. Jakiego? Każdy obraz sam za siebie opowie.

Kurator: Yuriy Stetsyk

Domoteka. ul. Malborska 11, Warszawa

Czas trwania:

10 sierpień o 10:00 - 9 wrzesień o 22:00

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