ARTIST PROFILE

Malgorzata Dawidek

  • Poland (b. 1976)
  • Currently in London, United Kingdom.
  • Polish visual artist. Her artistic interests are located between visual arts, literature and anthropology. She is focused on the phenomenon of the body as a text, storage of memories and bodygraphy.

REPRESENTATION

  • Muzalewska Gallery
  • Poznan, Poland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016

  • Bodygraphy, Wozownia Art Gallery, Torun, Poland.

2015

  • Conversio, Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

2014

  • Ponglish, Muzalewska Gallery, Poznan, Poland.
  • The Topography of Intimacy, The Art House, Wakefield, United Kingdom.
  • Circle (performance), Aula Gallery, Fine Art University, Poznan, Poland.

2013

  • Body Stories, Wozownia Art Gallery, Torun, Poland.

2011

  • Fold-ups, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland.
  • te[k]sts, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Errata, Muzalewska Gallery, Poznan, Poland.

2007

  • Good bye, till tomorrow, AT Gallery, Poznan, Poland.

2006

  • Fragments, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016

  • DADA Lives!, Blue Ash Gallery, Cincinnati, United States.
  • Landscape and Memory, Chazou Gallery, Kamloops, Canada.
  • Illegibility, The Art Stations Foundation, Poznan, Poland.

2015

  • Displacement, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Nami Gallery, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic Of.
  • Poetry in Visual, Gallery of City Museum of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
  • Landscape and Memory, Johnston Central Library Gallery, Cavan, Ireland.

2014

  • Ponglish. The Game, UCL Festival of the Art, London, United Kingdom.
  • On the Language, The Body and The Art, UCL Festival of the Arts, London, United Kingdom.
  • NET – Dialogue Art (II), Profile Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.

2013

  • 12 Rooms, Muzalewska Gallery, Sky Tower, Wroclaw, Poland.
  • Voice and Phonem, Silownia Gallery, Poznan, Poland.
  • Causes and Effects, BWA Gallery, Poznan, Poland.

2012

  • WroCONCRET, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland.
  • Delicacy, BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora, Poland.

2011

  • Contemporary Art Show, Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld, Germany.

LOCATION

  • Born 1976 in Poland.
  • Lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

EDUCATION

  • 2015 - 2019
    Slade School of Fine Arts // UCL, London, United Kingdom
    PhD in Intermedia (Individual Researcher)
  • 2004 - 2008
    Adam Mickiewicz University, ART HISTORY, DEPARTMENT OF MODERN ART, Poznan, Poland
    PhD in Contemporary Art History (Prof. Piotr Piotrowski)
  • 1998 - 2002
    Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
    Master of Fine Arts in Drawing (Prof. Jaroslaw Kozlowski)
  • 1997 - 2001
    Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
    Master of Fine Arts in Painting (Prof. Jerzy Kalucki)

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2012
    "Young Poland" Award
    Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland
  • 2010
    National Centre of Culture Award for the best doctoral thesis in the field of culture
    National Centre of Culture, Warsaw, Poland
  • 2010
    Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
    Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland
  • 2004
    The Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant
    The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, United States

RESIDENCIES

  • 2015
    Artistic Residency, Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom

MEMBERSHIPS

  • 2014 - Present
    The Art House, Wakefield, United Kingdom

COLLECTIONS

  • City Museum of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
  • Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
  • InSitu Art Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
  • Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld, Germany
  • Liberature Institute, Krakow, Poland