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BIO ENGLISH – Katarzyna Kukuła

BIO

Katarzyna Kukuła

Katarzyna Kukuła graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow with a degree in painting. In her figurative paintings she focuses on the questions of female subjectivity, bodily vitality, autonomy, and ecstatic pleasure. With the use of surrealist stylistics, the artist depicts the female body as a part of the sphere of nature and its sexual energies as cosmic forces.

Solo exhibitions

2025

Forest life, Varisella Art Gallery, Warszawa, Poland

2023

Heil smile. About how I was smiling, but felt like crying, Modern Art Center „Powerplant”, Radom, Poland

2022

Kukuła & Rzepecki, Cafe Smoke, Kraków, Poland

Maybe one may come to know the whole universe without moving from the couch, Shefter Gallery, Kraków, Poland

2021

Hope in hearts, Barakh Theatre, Kraków, Poland

2019

Intymność with Kasia Karpowicz, Galeria Raven, Kraków, Poland

2018

Exercises in Love, Galerie Pokusa, Wiesbaden, Germany

2017

Springness, Galeria M, Wrocław, Poland

2014

Lovers, Galeria M, Wrocław, Poland

Misteria, Galeria Nova, Kraków, Poland

2013

Light between letters, The Museum of Crafts in Krosno, Poland

2011

Na łonie natury, Solvay Contemporary Art Centre, Kraków, Poland

Selected group exhibitions

2024

Installation in „Nasz ogródek im. Dereka Jarmana” during Cracow Art Week „Krakers”, Kraków, Poland

Neue Wilde. Old Masters – New Paintings, Dom Artysty Plastyka, Warszawa, Poland

4 walls 1, Varisella Art Gallery, Warszawa, Poland

2023

Exhibition of The Grand Charity Auction TOP CHARITY 2023, Conservatory of King Jan III Sobieski`s Palace at Wilanów, Warszawa, Poland

Letters to R., Temporary place 1.0 II-nd Internal Diseases Clinic, Kraków, Poland

Sport Games, Modern Art Center „Powerplant”, Radom, Poland

In the garden of the imagination, Silesia Museum, Katowice, Poland

11th Triennial Sacrum Art I and You / I – It, City art gallery, Częstochowa, Poland

Refugees Welcome. Artists for refugees., Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland

2022

Pharmacist – Balsamic Garden, City Museum in Tychy, Poland

Identity XXIV Sosnowiec Artistic Meetings, Schoen Palace, Sosnowiec, Poland

Passion, Research station Outsider Art, Kraków, Poland

Very erotic exibition, Yeast factory, Cracow, Poland

First birthday of Oxygen gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Happy End art fair, Clearance gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Woman Art Power, Modern Art Center „Powerplant”, Radom, Poland

Woman Art Power, 19 Warsaw Art Fair, Expo XXI, Warsaw, Poland

Post-competition exibition of 12 Young Art Compass, Bolesław Biegas Museum, Warsaw, Poland

2021

Arrhythmia, Research station Outsider Art, Kraków, Poland

Draft, Oxygen gallery, Warszawa, Poland

Under the guise of emotions, Grey house foundation, Kraków, Poland

Andthe body cecame a soul, City art gallery, Częstochowa, Poland

2020

Embodiment, Naga Gallery, Sosnowiec

Freedom Izolation, cafe Kipisz, Łódź

Embodiment, cafe and bookshop Bonobo, Kraków

Earth, in collectivity Shut Up with Sandra Bąk, online exhibition, Zest Hall, Great Britain

Triennial of Drawning, Muzeum Kresów, Lubaczów

2019

Paint, also known as blood – Women, affect and desire in contemporary painting, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland

Licht Luft Scheiße – Perspektiven auf Ökologie und Moderne, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

Freedoms, Cosmopolitan Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Feminał, Gdańs City Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland

Starting Point, NCK, Cracow, Poland

I have no control over her, Księgarnia/Wystawa, Cracow, Poland

Future will be beautiful apartments, Telos, Cracow, Poland

2018

Decydentki, Dom Norymberski, Kraków, Poland

2nd Contemporary Art Review NEW AVANTGARDE, Szyb Wilsona Gallery, Katowice, Poland

2017

Drawing Tutorial, Galeria Biała, Lublin, Poland

42nd Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień, Bielsko Biała, Poland

2016

Flow zoon, Gruning Gallery, Kraków, Poland

2014

Dionysus. Contemporary impression of the myth, City Art Gallery, Częstochowa, Poland

2013

9th International Visual Arts Festival inSPIRACJE Genesis, Szczecin, Poland

Art in Mind Beautiful Dawn, The Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK

A woman’s work is never done, International Cultural Centre, Kraków, Poland

Świńskie obrazki (Dirty pics) , Galeria M, Wrocław, Poland

Ryba piła (Sawfish), Kuku Kuku Group exhibition, Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland

Promotions 2013, 23rd National Young Painting Review, Art Gallery in Legnica, Poland

2012

Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts 2012, Kutnowski Dom Kultury, Kutno; Test Gallery, Warsaw; The Great Armoury, Gdańsk; Arts Palace, Kraków, Poland

International Biennial of Linen Textile Art Z krosna do Krosna (From loom to Krosno), BWA, Krosno, Poland

Team. 11 artists from Kraków take their positions, Konsulat Gallery, Kraków, Poland; Kraków House, Nurymberg, Germany

Art work of the 2011 Competition, finalists’ show, The Academy of Fine Arts Promotion Gallery Promocyjna, Kraków, Poland

2011

Liquid women, Kuku Kuku Group exhibition, Cellar Gallery, Kraków, Poland

W tych pięknych okolicznościach przyrody, part of FAMA festival, Kuku Kuku Group exhibition, Świnoujście, Poland

Siostro Basen, part of FAMA festival, North Swimming Pool Hall, Świnoujście, Poland

Artystyczna Podróż Hestii (Hestia Artistic Journey), Państwowa Galeria Sztuki (National Art Gallery), Sopot, Poland

Królowe Lodów, Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland

Rytmy i rytuały (Rythms & rituals), Museum of Contemporary Art, Radom, Poland

2010

Africa – art & ethnography, The Ethnographic Museum, Kraków, Poland

My space, Floriańska 22 Galery, Kraków, Poland

Czy jest tutaj jakaś historia? (Is there any story here?), Lamelli Gallery, Kraków, Poland

Awards & distinctions

2019

Maria Anto and Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven’ s award  for the Young Polish Artist for courage and overcoming the borders

2017

Honour distinction at the Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2017

Audience Award at the Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2017

Distinction of the Artistic Magazine FORMAT at the Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2017

2012

Rectors’ Award Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts 2012

2011

Honour distinction FAMA festival, Świnoujście, Poland

Honour distinction Art work of the 2011 Competition, The Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland

Finalist, Artystyczna Podróż Hestii (Hestia Artistic Journey), Państwowa Galeria Sztuki (National Art Gallery), Sopot, Poland