Dorota Buczkowska

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Bio

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.

Dorota Buczkowska – A Year in the Sanatorium

Water or ice? Fog, drizzle, thaw? Or perhaps half-ice and half-water? In Dorota Buczkowska’s new works, there are far more states of water than physics would suggest. Natural subtleties and nuances create a framework for the stories of characters the artist brings to life. This is a procession of strange figures: a woman with one eye, a girl taming a beast, a pair of girls who stared at their reflections in the surface of a fjord for too long.

Buczkowska creates them and gives them a voice through drawing interventions on photographs from Norway’s Sogn og Fjordane. Thus emerge tales of madness, aberration, and the strangeness hidden even in everyday gestures and the practice of life, where the main objective is to survive in adverse conditions of cold and dampness.

The artist’s drawn works supplement the narratives about the relationships of the characters and their internal landscapes. These are stories told in the first person, mainly by women. Fragmented, abrupt, and not always adhering to the strict rules of logic, they are both simple and specific. They can be treated as a universal collection of advice that might work—to some extent—in any geographical location and near any body of water.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2024 – Inner Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wrocław
2022 – Grounding, Jednostka Gallery, Warsaw
2022 – Layers, Koszykowa 35, Warsaw
2021 – In-Between, MOS Gorzów Wielkopolski
2020 – Presence, BWA Olsztyn
2018 – Bringing Sculpture to Life. Dorota Buczkowska, Michał Smandek, BWA Bydgoszcz
2017 – Guesthouses, BWA Zielona Góra
2016 – Painting, Rodriguez Gallery, Poznań
2016 – Sanatorium, National Museum – Królikarnia, Warsaw
2015 – Emulsion, Archeology of Photography Foundation, Warsaw
2014 – Kingdom, BWA Tarnów
2014 – Returning to the Riverbank, Starter Gallery, Warsaw
2014 – The Experience of Presence, Platan Gallery, Budapest
2013 – Tickle the Palate, Starter Gallery, Warsaw
2013 – Not All Parts Are Complete, Polish Institute, Düsseldorf
2012 – Nicht alle Teile sind vollständig, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl
2012 – Ordinary Bile Came from the Liver, CSW Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2011 – Not All Parts Are Complete, Czarna Gallery, Warsaw
2009 – Under the Bridge, Liverpool Biennale
2008 – Transitional Conditions, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitanie, Sète
2007 – Circulations, Żak Gallery, Berlin

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2024 – Rebel Garden, Musea Brugge, Bruges
2023 – Intimate Ecologies, Irene Laub Gallery, Brussels
2021 – Female Fame, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl
2017 – Everybody Anybody, Steinek Gallery, Vienna
2017 – What About Abstraction?, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw
2017 – Blood Unites and Divides, Polin Museum, Warsaw
2016 – Departure, Bielska Autumn, BWA Bielsko-Biała
2016 – How to Survive a Love Storm over Water, Archeology of Photography Foundation, Warsaw
2014 – On Coming into Being and Vanishing, BWA Katowice
2014 – Warsaw Photo Days, Kordegarda, Warsaw
2012 – Fotogalerie, Vienna
2012 – I’m Almost in Every Exhibition, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2011 – Lorne Sculpture 2011, Biennale of Contemporary Sculpture, Lorne
2011 – curated by_vienna 2011, Steinek Gallery, Vienna
2011 – WANI, Pernod Ricard Enterprise Foundation, Paris
2011 – Journey Around a Skull, CSW Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2010 – Paris Photo 2010, Paris
2009 – Factory, MoBY – Bat Yam Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2009 – Videos Europa, Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporain, Tourcoing
2008 – Red Eye Effect, CSW Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2006 – Dew Point, Raster Gallery, Warsaw