ARTIST PROFILE

Agnieszka Jaworek

  • Poland (b. 1985 in Zabrze)
  • Currently in Katowice, Poland.
  • Visual artist. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, PhD. Versatile artist, her practice includes painting, drawing, creating neon signs, objects, installations and video.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I weave and plot. Often, I pick a method which is already perverse at its base, creating dummies and nets, flexing rhizome as language/tongue. I treat art as a way of learning, naming and describing of the reality, on a certain level, a concrete that was reduced to abstracts, that in some semi-real, semi-intuitional realm, can be expressed. They are like a stone thrown into water, ripping and rippling its clear and smooth surface with waves that are spreading in all directions. I observe the phenomenon of biopower and biopolitics. In the theoretical part of my PhD dissertation entitled “Aegrum corpus quassari etiam lenibus solet offensis. Health literacy and illiteracy” (A sick body trembles even when lightly touched. Health literacy and illiteracy) [2017], I propose the concept of health illiteracy.


BIOGRAPHY

Agnieszka Jaworek (born September 7, 1985 in Zabrze, Poland) – Polish visual artist. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, PhD. Versatile artist, her practice includes painting, drawing, creating neon signs, objects, installations and video. She lives and works in Katowice, Poland.


EDUCATION
2017 PhD, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, PL
2013-2016 Doctoral Studies, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, PL
2013 MA Diploma with honors, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, PL
2012 BA Diploma with honors, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, PL


SOLO SHOWS (selection)

2017
QUASSARS, Szara Gallery, Katowice, PL

2014
Zugzwang, Zamek Cieszyn, Cieszyn, PL
Meetings during my absence, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL

2013
Zugzwang, Dwie Lewe Ręce Gallery, Katowice, PL
Drawing process, Sosnowiec Museum, Sosnowiec, PL

2012
Loop, Siłownia Gallery, Poznań, PL


GROUP SHOWS (selection)

2017
I ragazzi di viadellafucina, Idiòt Gallery, Turin, IT
Black hole, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, PL
Connect, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL
Too much life, LAW Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Common bodies, Socato Gallery, Wrocław, PL

2016
Connect, Ply Gallery, London, UK
Parallax #2, Chelsea College of Art​, Triangle Space and Cookhouse, London, UK
Zaczyn, Szara Gallery, Katowice, PL
The own contribution, Aula Gallery, Poznań, PL

2015
18th International Print Biennial, Art Gallery, Varna, BG
7th Triennale of Young Kunszt, Dzyga Gallery, Ikon Museum, Idea Museum, Lviv, UA
PARALLAX, Chelsea College of Arts & ASP, RACIBORSKA 50, Katowice, PL
ŻAR TROPIKÓW, Pod Baranami Gallery, Kraków, PL
North/South, Szyb Wilson Gallery, Katowice, PL
PLUG-IN, Arsenal Gallery, Poznań, PL
TRANSLATIONS, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA

2014
Promocje 2014, Gallery of Art, Legnica, PL
7th Triennale of Young Kunszt, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko, PL
7th International Printmaking Biennial Douro, Douro Museum, Peso da Regua, PT
Habitat, MS 44, Świnoujście, PL
12th edition of the SURVIVAL Art Review: “City – inflammatory state”, Former building of the Department of Pharmacy at the Medical University, Wrocław, PL
Place to breath, Zinc Mill, Katowice, PL
6th National Drawing Exhibition, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, PL
1st MTRS, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL
Granice Malarstwa, Styk Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Greeting from KATO, MD_S Gallery, Wrocław, PL
Polish Contemporary Lithography Review, BWA Gallery, Kielce, PL; Rektorat Gallery, Zielona Góra, Poland; BWA, Rzeszów, PL; Kobro Gallery, Łódź, PL

2013
41st Painting Biennial "Bielska Jesień 2013", Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biała, PL
SPACE AS A TOOl, Sielecki Castle, Sosnowiec, PL
ISPB, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, PL
3rd "Świeża Krew" Young Art Review, Socato Art Gallery, Wrocław, PL
URBILD/ABBILD, lokal_30, Warsaw, PL
Global Print 2013, Theatre Auditorium Municipal of Alijó, Alijó, PT
The Esteemed Graduates of Polish Academies of Fine Arts 2013, Wielka Zbrojownia, Gdańsk, PL
Greetings from KATO, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL
SPACE, Schron Sztuki 6, Opole, PL
MOTHER OF PEARL, MD_S Gallery, Wrocław, PL
Figurama13, FA ČVUT, Prague, CZ; Dom Umenia, Bratislava, SK; OC Nový Smíchov, Prague, CZ; FUD ZČU, Pilsen, CZ
Territories of Drawing, U Jezuitów Gallery, Poznań, PL

2012
5th National Drawing Exhibition, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, PL
3rd National Triennial "Granice rysunku", Miejska Gallery, Rzeszów, PL
2nd Video Art Festival "Punkty Widzenia", Manhattan Gallery, Lódz, PL
Figurama12, FA ČVUT, Prague, Czech Republic; Letiště Ruzyně, Prague, CZ; Avalon Business Centre, Plzen, CZ; UTB, Zlín, CZ

2011
Territories of Drawing, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL
Dog Days, Centrum Kultury Katowice, Katowice, PL

2010
Figurama10, Dom Umenia, Banská Bystrica, SK; Emil Filla Gallery,  Ústí nad Labem, CZ; Centro Cultural, Valencie, ES; Avalon Business Centre, Pilsen, CZ


PROJECTS (selection)

2013
JE SUIS, Place d'Italie, Underground, Paris, FR
Déconstruire / reconstruire / construire la ville – Paris / Berlin / Katovice, L’Auberge des Idées, Paris, FR
The multiply portrait of the curator, Magneet Festival, Amsterdam, NL

2012
VOM PHOTO, International Art Project, DE
Circles of Art Festival, Muzeum Śląska Cieszyńskiego, Cieszyn, PL


AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (selection)

2015/2016
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship for PhD students for outstanding scientific and artistic achievements of international importance
Pro-quality Scholarship for achievements in research and teaching

2014/2016
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice Rector's Scholarship for the best PhD students

2014
Promocje 2014, Silver Spur, Special award for bravery, uncompromising, innovation or sense of humor
44th FAMA Festival, International Art Campus, Neptune Trident, Marshal of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship Award
6th National Drawing Exhibition, Drawing Department Prize
1st MTRS, Honorable Mention
2nd Biennial in Cieszyn, Grand Prize
2nd International Digital Media Triennale in Radom, 1st Prize in Dynamic Picture Category

2013
Program "Polish Culture in the World" by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute Scholarship
The Esteemed Graduates of Polish Academies of Fine Arts 2013 in Gdańsk, Honorable Mention
Painting Biennial "Bielska Jesień 2013", Audience Award for the most interesting artist

2013
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Award

2012/2013
Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for outstanding achievements

2009/2013
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice Rector's Scholarship for the best students

2011
3rd National Triennial "Granice Rysunku" in Rzeszów, Dean's Award