Justyna Baśnik

About artist

Born
1992
Country
Poland

She was born in 1992 in Zduńska Wola. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. She holds a degree in painting under Professor Piotr Błażejewski and in multimedia under Professor Christos Mandzios (2017). Currently, she is pursuing a PhD course in her alma mater. She was awarded a scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in 2016/2017 and completed the Jerzy Grotowski Scholarship Program for PhD students in 2019. Winner of the Collector’s Award during the Young Art Review 'Fresh Blood' (Wrocław, 2017); Co-founder of an artistic group and nomadic gallery called the Church of Nihilists (since 2019) whose members received the WARTO Award of the daily Gazeta Wyborcza in 2020. In 2019, together with Paweł Baśnik and Jędrzej Sierpiński, she initiated the painting project 'Nameless', which gathers a group of artist who won the award of the editorial office of the magazine Szum during the 44th Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2019.

She has participated in a number of group exhibitions, including  'Emerging Lines # 4' at the Latvian Academy of Arts (Riga, 2020), exhibition following the 3rd Leon Wyczółkowski National Painting Competition in Galeria Miejska BWA (Bydgoszcz, 2018), and in numerous other exhibitions staged by the Church of Nihilists as part of the project 'Nameless'.

Works

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