Hanna Banaszczyk

I am an artist living and working in Gdańsk, Poland.

I graduated from the Faculty of Painting and Drawing at the University of Arts in Poznań (2017).

I ‘m interested in creating space and distance that feels like the familiar world around us but is ambiguous, general, and abstracted. I believe that the image is a fragment of material and spiritual reality. I treat my paintings as a mental journey through the places. I try to capture what is on the verge of visibility. I study the structures of reality in their passing process, in constant movement and transformation. Creative work is a process that opens me up to the work of memory and imagination.
I deal with painting, photography, drawing, graphics and objects. I like to combine various media in search of a suitable form of artistic expression.

University of Arts in Poznań (2017)

• Participation in the AK30 Project, exhibition of drawing and painting works, Poznań, Poland, 2013
• "Recognition" - collective exhibition, Art Gallery 44, Świnoujście, Poland, 2013
• "No - place" - collective exhibition, Interdisciplinary Festival Fama, Świnoujście, Poland, 2014
• "Metamorphoses of Space" - an exhibition of the AK30 project, Poznań, Poland, 2015
• "Open body" - individual exhibition, Pomeranian meetings with art, Władysławowo, Poland, 2016
• "Open space / closed space", collective exhibition, R20 Gallery, Poznań, Poland, 2017
• "Live and Remember. Pustki 53 ° 52′19 ″ N 17 ° 59′45 ″ E ”, individual exhibition, gallery on Szewska Street, Poznań, Poland, 2017
• 'Beyond Shelf', collective exhibition, Stacja Kultura, Rumia, Poland, 2017
• "Shelf", collective exhibition of the V Painting Studio UAP, University Library, Poznań, Poland, 2017

Awards:
• Uniwersity of Fine Arts Rector's scholarship for the best students, 2014
• The main prize at the FAMA festival for the collective exhibition 'No place', 2014