Gosia Kulik

Gosia Kulik is Polish artist. She sees herself as traveler, a vagabond. Lack of permanent place helps her main- tain constant amazement of the world. She is always ready for a change, fasci- nated by opposites. Even small cultural differences are a source of inspiration for her - during searching for these differences she is in con- stant motion. Kulik works in fields of painting, illus- trations and comics. Gosia Kulik is interested in narrative aspects of the visual arts: relationships and paradoxes between im- ages and between images and words. She playfully invents her own stories about ordinary people who are immersed in unusual situations. Dirty, dark and shameful part of their lives, which she is drawing / writing seemingly appears to be normal. It is exciting for her to discover how helpless and alone they can be when they doing everyday banal activities. Kulik is fascinated by stories about the weirdness, which is generated by a seemingly insignifi- cant details. These ostensibly negligible details are keys to understanding the surrounding reality as well as the whole idea of her works. Irony allows her to show the nonsense of human aspirations towards nowhere. Her inspirations are the things already worn, anachronisms, wh...

01.10.2007 – 15.06.2012 Master of Arts degree specialization in Painting; Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland 01.10.2005 – 30.06.2007 Filological Faculty, specialization: Cultural Studies, Silesian University in Katowice, Poland 01.09.2000 – 30.06.2005 Secondary School-National School of Fine Arts, J. Pankiewicza, Katowice, Poland

June 2013 - group exhibition “Greetings from Kato” curated by Dominika Kowynia, Rondo of Arts Gallery, Katowice, Poland; April / May 2013 - group exhibition of the workshop’s participants, Debut Contemporary Gallery, Notting Hill, London April 2013 - group exhibition entitled ‘The Nacre’, Curated by Paweł Mendrek, Joanna Zdzienicka, Lesław Tetla, ‘Space for the Art’ Gallery, Wrocław March 2013 - ‘P!icture’project - billboard exhibition ( two of my paintings were shown at billboard on Li- gocka Street in Katowice), Ligocka 6, Katowice, Poland February 2013 - collective exhibition; Vibe Gallery, London December 2012 - exhibition organized by the Eibisch Foundation, Catherine Napiórkowska Art Gallery, War- saw, Poland September 2012 - Book Fair in Moscow, Polish Female Comics panel organized by the publishing house and with the support of the Polish Institute in Moscow, Russia July / August 2012 Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, “Great Armory” Gallery, an exhibition of best degree project in Poland May / June 2012 - post-competition, III Trienalle “Drawing Limits”; Rzeszów Town gallery, Poland November / December 2011 “Ssafka” Festival,“Wilson“ Gallery, Katowice, Poland June / July 2011 “Silly season“, Above Floor Gallery in Krystyna Bo...