Agata Czeremuszkin-Chrut

Painting is my main tool of describing the world, it serves its glorification or sometimes negation. Simultaneously, my actions constitute of a record of emotions and observations, often subconsious, expressive, and very intuitive ones. They oscillate around a person, his or her dependence on others, mutual influences, constraints, or manipulations. I am interested in life, energy, the body and all biological processes…and fascinated by that which has its own anatomy, weight, scale, heat. In the step-by-step process of their transformation body images are deformed and deconstructed so they can be assembled anew. I strive for simplification of form.

I reduce superfluous things in order to achieve more intensity and credibility in my message. My creation, despite being expressive and figurative, brushes against abstract organic forms. In art, I value freedom above all – my own and that of the recipient. I avoid overintellectualization, I don’t pierce my art with a gibberish relay of socially or politically correct information. I also leave viewer with the freedom of interpretation. I don’t try to be literal, I leave most things unanswered often by choosing a suggestive title – still enigmatic, but slightly directing the viewer to ...

2015-2018 Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, PL, PhD studies
2003-2008 Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, PL, painting
2011-2014 Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, PL, postgraduate - education
2008 Edinburgh College of Art, UK, painting department

Solo exhibitions (selection):
2015 "Image documentation" Museum of Czestochowa, Poland
2015 "Cwiczenia z organizmow zywych" Warzywniak Gallery, Gdansk, Poland
2014
To be titled, EC Gallery, Chicago, USA
2013
Paper – Canvas – Wall , MOSART, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
Minimalization, 022 Gallery, OW ZPAP, Wroclaw, Poland
2012
"Body language" Agora Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
„Łóżka” Elektor Gallery, MCKiS, Warsaw, Poland
„Zmysły Sztuki” Museum – Palace in Wilanow, Warsaw, Poland
2011
„Skin on skin”, EC Gallery, Chicago, USA
2009
„Pisz litery!” Długa Gallery BOK – Bolesławiec, Poland
„Works on paper” EC Gallery Chicago, USA
2008
„Paintings” EC Gallery, Chicago, USA
„127m2 of painting” - realization of mural painting in Browar Mieszczanski, Wroclaw, Poland
“Bloom” project, - realization of mural painting in Bloom! Hotel, Brussels, Belgium


Group exhibitions (selection):
2015
International Art Symposium, Rawicz, PL
PlainAir Painting, OW ZPAP, Swietokrzyskie Mountains, PL
Nord Art, Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
"Small Wonders" Detroit, USA
2014
Taboo, Victorian Artists Society Gallery, Melborne, Australia
Interference, Polish-German art project, Second Home Project, Berli...