Berenika Pyza

Drawing and painting invariably are my first and simpliest way to project and express my admiration for the beauty of what I am able to see.

Every day I try to observe ordinary, insignificant phenomena. I find in them reflections of important events, small testimonies of our participation in eternal circulations.

I create spatial objects for the body and the environment. I work in the fields of performance art, soft sculpture and costume design and puppets making. I work individually and with the performative Zapora Group.

I am interested in various types of relationships and dependencies, as well as the circumstances in which the balance of power changes. Currently, I am devoted to the study of the process of "extension" of play, the intrusion of play into the time of seriousness. I look for those moments when fun exceeds certain established norms, becomes a misdemeanor and, consequently, changes its current definition.

2018 – 2021 PhD studies, University of Arts Magdalena Abakanowicz in Poznań, Inter-Faculty Environmental Doctoral Studies, Faculty of Sculpture,
doctoral dissertation supervisor: prof. dr Janusz Bałdyga;

2015 – 2017 Master's studies, University of Arts Magdalena Abakanowicz in Poznań, Faculty of Sculpture and Spatial Activities, Master's degree obtained under the direction of
prof. dr hab. Andrzej Banachowicz;

2012 – 2015 BA studies, University of Arts Magdalena Abakanowicz in Poznań, Faculty of Interior Design and Scenography, major: Stage Design, specialization: Fashion Design, bachelor's degree obtained under the direction of
dr hab. Anna Regimowicz-Korytowska prof. UAP.

2022 "Playground" Exhibition presented as part of the 6th Wielkopolska Festival of Photography named after I. Slides, Pasaż 47, ul. st. Marcin 47, Poznań, object, action;
2021 "Impermanent - photography and sculpture", exhibition, Rozruch Art Gallery, Poznań;
"Pointer", an object interacting with the audience;
2021 Survival XIX Art Review "You won't go anywhere", Kotłownia Pafawag, Wrocław;
"Pointer", an object interacting with the audience;
2021 "Przestrzeń Zine #3 Moment Zwrotny - vol. 2", exhibition, "Magiel" Gallery of Contemporary Art in Wielichów; "Security measures", video-performance;
2020 "Attempt 2020", exhibition, video show - part 5, Art Gallery of Jana Tarasin, Kalisz;
"Make exercise in my blood", video;
2020 "Parametr", online exhibition as part of Poznań Art Week, http://www.projektantspace.pl/parametr/, "Warm and nice", video-performance;
2019 2nd Biennale of Artistic Textiles in Poznań "Przekroje / Threads / Reports", exhibition, Museum of Applied Arts, Branch of the National Museum in Poznań; "Cultivations from the imagination", installation;
2019 "Action Lublin! Chapter 3. Activities in Places”, exhibition, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin;
"Local excavations", field performance, video, object;
2018 "Comfort ...