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