ARTIST PROFILE

Magda Wegrzyn

  • Poland (b. 1986 in Gdynia)
  • Currently in Warsaw, Poland.
  • Magda Wegrzyn is a visual artist, doctoral candidate and independent curator born in 1986 in Poland. She is currently DFA researcher at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland, previously visiting at Kuvataideakatemia in Helsinki.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016

2015

  • Trap Focus, Vaapan Taiten Tila, Helsinki, Finland.

2014

  • Carbon Copy, Secondhome Projects, Berlin, Germany.
  • THESAMEONBOTHSIDES = THE SAME ON BOTH SIDES, MD_S Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.

2012

  • Take me to the Wonderland, Przefestival, CoCA, Torun, Poland.
  • Take me to the Wonderland, BWA, Sanok, Poland.
  • In the hall of pumps, Bielanska Water Station, Torun , Poland.

2011

  • Boolean Operations, Wozownia Art Gallery, Torun , Poland.
  • Beyond a plane of a Painting, Culture Center Court Artus, Torun, Poland.
  • Sketchbook, Vistula Gallery, Torun, Poland.

2010

  • Restoring of art-recycling of art, Gallery 011, OdNowa, Torun, Poland.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016

  • Summer Jam, ABC Gallery, http://www.abcgallery.pl/language/pl/, Poznan, Poland.

2015

  • Bielska Jesień, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko- Biała, Poland.
  • Obserwatorium Miejskie – Granice, MILOSC GALLERY, http://galeriamilosc.pl/, Torun, Poland.
  • INVESTIGATIVE PAINTING, Chimera Project, Budapest, Hungary.

2014

  • _rurality, Gallery Mixer, Istanbul, Turkey.

2013

  • Dreamers’s Congress, Center of Contemporary Art, CoCA, Torun , Poland.
  • Here and There, Spectrum Novum Gallery, Elblag, Poland.

2011

  • 3 rd Festival Out OF Control Production, Weglowa 10, Bialystok, Poland.
  • ZARAZ, BWA, Wrocław, Poland.
  • In Out, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, CCA, Gdansk, Poland.
  • Campers with landing, Center of Contemporary Art, CoCA, Torun , Poland.
  • Sopot Fringe Festival, MCKA, Art Zone, Zatoki Sztuki, Sopot, Poland.
  • Frame by Frame, Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy.
  • Campers, Center of Contemporary Art, CoCA, Torun , Poland.

2010

  • Capolinea, Gallery Spazio Canatella, Palermo, Italy.

LOCATION

  • Born 1986 in Gdynia, Poland.
  • Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.

EDUCATION

  • 2013 - 2014
    Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
    Visiting Doctoral Researcher in Fine Arts
  • 2010 - 2010
    Accademia di Belle Arti, Palermo, Italy
    Erasmus Student in Painting
  • 2006 - 2011
    Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
    M.A in Painting

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2013
     Finnish Government Scholarship Pool,
    CIMO Grant, Helsinki, Finland
  • 2013
    Scholarship of The President of the Torun
    The President of the Torun, Torun, Poland
  • 2012
    Marshal of The Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Artistic Scholarship
    Marshal of The Kuyavian-Pomeranian , Torun, Poland
  • 2010
    Marshal of The Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Artistic Scholarship
    Marshal of The Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Torun, Poland
  • 2006
    Culture Minister Scholarship
    The Ministry of Culture , Warsaw, Poland
  • 2006
    Prime Minister Scholarship
    Ministry of National Education, Warsaw, Poland
  • 2006
    Krosno Mayor Scholarship
    Local Municipality Government, Krosno, Poland
  • 2005
    Krosno Mayor Scholarship
    Local Municipality Government, Krosno, Poland
  • 2004
    AKAPI Scholarship
    Memoriam Foundation of Anna Kobak-Pisowacka, Rzeszow, Poland

RESIDENCIES

  • 2014
     HOW TO SHOW? LAB FOR RESEARCH AND ART, Europäische Gesellschaft für Forschung und Kunst, Berlin, Germany
  • 2014
    Berlin Residence, Brunnenstrase 45, Stokholm Royal Institute of Art, Academy of Fine Art in Helsinki, Berlin, Germany

MEMBERSHIPS

  • 2014 - Present
    Muu Artists Association, Helisnki, Finland
  • 2012 - Present
    Przeprojekt, Center of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland
  • 2012 - Present
    GNW Gallery Vistulla, Torun, Poland