DOROTA BUCZKOWSKA – born in 1971 in Warsaw.
A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, she is one of the most important artists in Poland. She was a student in the class of prof. Grzegorz Kowalski at the Faculty of Sculpture of The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1999– 2003), and also studied at the Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art at the same academy (1991–1998), and at Gender Studies at the University of Warsaw (2002).
Her internship in the prestigious Centre National des Art Plastiques Villa Arson in Nice (2002– 2003), along with several exhibitions – at the Polish Institute in 2003, at the CRAC in Sète in 2008, at Le Fresnoy in 2009, and at the Fondation d’enterprise Pernod Ricard the in 2011 – put her on the map of the arts in France.
Dorota Buczkowska uses different means of expressions: painting, drawing, graphics, sculpture, video, photography and installations. In her works she often looks into subjects of circulation of matter in nature, treating it as a space for metaphorical exploration, sometimes tinged with surrealism and poetic subtlety. She is absorbed in the physiology and subjectivity of plants, the constant transformation of human and non-human bodies. She employs metaphors grounded in physiology, representing abstract shapes that suggest biological structures, processes of circulation, and in general living organisms interrelated in a kind of ecosystem in which color, gesture, light, and matter are combined in different textures and formations.
She lives and works in Romania.
Grants & residences:
2011 – Award at the Biennale Lorne Sculpture, Australia,
2011 – Pro Helvetia CRIC Sierre Center,
2010 – Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant,
2007 – Residence in Tel Aviv, The Polish Season in Israel,
2005 – Artist in Residence, Center for Contemporary Art, Synagogue of Delme,
2004 – Artist in Residence, Bundeskanzleramt – Federal Chancellery, Vienna,
2003 – French Scholarship in Centre National des Arts Plastiques Villa Arson, Nice.
Works in collections: Raffles Europejski Hotel Warsaw Collection; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Stradom House Art Collection; Polish Art Foundation ING; PKO S.A. Collection, Warsaw; Museum of the Sculpture, Marl; State Collection Vienna; MoBY – Bat Yam Museum, Tel Aviv, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała.