ARTIST PROFILE

Justyna Wencel

  • Poland (b. 1977)
  • Currently in Warsaw, Poland.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015

  • 0.5 km of colour, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Earth, Earth, MIejsce Projektów Zachęty, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.

2014

  • Immersion, Centre of Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Gdańsk, Poland.

2013

  • Set memorials free!, Kwiaciarnia Grafiki Studio, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Architecture of transformation (SYNCHRONICITY 2013), Jazdów housing estate, Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

2012

  • Hereditary traits, Gallery 2.0, Warsaw, Poland.

2011

  • Skarpa. Reactivation! POWER CULTURE ENTERTAINMENT, Culture Shock Foundation, Warsaw, Poland.

2010

  • Replacers, Propaganda Foundation, Appendix2 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Hell Heaven, Gallery 2.0, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Queendom, Manhattan Gallery, Łódź, Poland.

2007

  • Friendship Square, Platan Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013

  • Less is more, Propaganda Foundation, Appendix2 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Memory project phase 2, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, United States.

2012

  • Memory project, Wschodnia Gallery, Łódź, Poland.
  • Scent of Woman, Sleńdzińskich Gallery, Białystok, Poland.

2010

  • Moon Hostel and the Movies, Manhattan Gallery, Łódź, Poland.

2008

  • Varsovia saluta Roma, Polish Institute, Rome, Italy.

2007

  • The dream about Warsaw, Polish Institute, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Here a change occurs, Kordegarda, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.

2005

  • Zoom out!, Amok Foundation, Goerlitzer Park, Video Festival, Berlin, Germany.

LOCATION

  • Born 1977 in Poland.
  • Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.

EDUCATION

  • 2012 - 2012
    Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
    PhD in fine arts in New media
  • 2000 - 2005
    Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
    MA in Painting (Jarosław Modzelewski)

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2014
    Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
    Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland
  • 2009
    Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
    Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland
  • 2006
    Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
    Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland