Anna Chmiel

The main question I am asking myself today is: Is ecological coexistence of man with others and with nature possible? And if so, how should we work on it? How do we practise it, and how do we talk about it?
so that we can pass on this knowledge and experience to others?

I feel an almost obsessive need to be outdoors. I create impressionistic, colourful notes in sketchbooks, photographs, field recordings. For me, the outdoors means being in nature with my whole self, with all my senses. I use photographs, but I also need to get my senses and brain to concentrate and remember what I have seen, heard and felt. The image that is later created has a record of time, place, time of day and time of year, it carries emotions, reflections, presence, history and memory.
In an era of crisis and climate change, landscape painting, especially
plein air and field recording, is changing its context. I feel that this is my homage to the beauty of nature and it has its reverse and that is the spectre of doom.
Internally I am working on the task of accommodating and elevating these two realities within myself. The most important task is not to close my eyes, ears and heart.
To feel and reflect, withstanding the tension.

Academy of Fine Arts Cracow
Gestalt Development group
Sumi-e painting school i Manggha Museum Krakow

2023. Ornithological Exhibition
The exhibition organized in Center for Contemporary Art “Wiewiórka” with the Pedagogical University of Cracow.
2023 Performative open-air exhibition entitled. "The Books of Madohora" in defence of the forests, trees and streams of Madohora Mountain. With Rivers Sisters.
2022 'Water in the Landscape' Gallery of the Gdynia Film Centre.

2022 Analogue Animations during a concert at the Art La Trans Festival.

2022 "In the circle of tea" online exhibition, Third Eye Gallery
-2020- ”You won't stop the river” Rivers Sisters

-2019 - 
Tokio National Muzeum Group painting Exhibition.
Group exhibition.

Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha "Paths between; 5 years of Japanese painting in Manggha Muzeum"

Solo exhibition ,Two Drops, Kraków "Flow czyli przepływ"

- 2018 -
Exhibition with Małgorzata Sajkiewicz , Kielce Sklep ze Sztuka Gallery

Group exhibition, Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha

Exhibition with Małgorzata Sajkiewicz, Galeria Trzecie Oko

- 2017 -
Solo show in Jaworzno Poland
Group exhibition in Warsaw " Studio Art and Passion".

- 2016 -
Solo show in Kraków Poland

- 2007 - till now
Regular cooperation in fine art conservation with Dominican Monastery in Cracow (founded 122...