Margaret Scholtysik

She is a Polish-German contemporary artist based on Crete.
She works primarily with picture, drawing, instalation.
She attended The Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk and Warsaw.

Art is the opposite of chaos for her and painting is the most sensitive record of personality, giving her the greatest opportunities for discovery and at the same time the most complete document of her spiritual search and transformation, her attitude towards family, religion, politics, science, nature and tradition. The painting issues, that she explores, strongly relate to tradition which is a constant source of inspiration, both intellectually, artistically and as a workshop. Her studies around the meaning of color deepen her painting and enable the construction of her own aesthetics based not only on psycho-physiological but also psychoanalytical experiences. The selection of the painting means used by her is the ground, the foundation for the content it contains.

Scholtysik is the granddaughter of deadly enemies who fought during the II World War on opposite sides of the front line. Next generation, her parents, they loved each other very much and with this love they tried to erase sad past. So, she was raised in the home were fatal past were bu...

1983 - 1986 Academy of Fine Arts Gdansk, Poland
1986 - 1989 Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw, Poland
Diploma (MFA) 1989 - Painting and drawing (the promoter: Prof. Raimund Ziemski)
• Secondary specialization: The problems of painting in architecture and the human environment (the promoter: Prof. Ryszard Winiarski), Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

2015
• Birth of the Machines II - Exhibition at the District Office in Warsaw-West, Ożarów, Poland.
2014
• 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War – exibition at the Warsaw-West District Office, Ożarów, Poland
2012
• SCOPEArtShow 2012, New York, USA (Project funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.)
• Manifesta, Hasselt, Belgien
• SCOPEArtShow 2012, Miami, USA (Project funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.)
2011
• Warsaw Berlin Express:
- Coop Cafe Kunsthaus, Berlin, Germany
- GlogauAir, Berlin, Deutschland
- Galerie Emma Goldman Hotel, Berlin, Germany
- Tacheles Arthouse, Berlin, Germany
(Project funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.)
• Galerie Emma Goldman Hotel, Berlin, Germany.(Project funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.)
2010
• Galerie Maneki Neko, Warsaw, Poland
• Coop Cafe Kunsthaus, Berlin,Germany (Project funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.)
2009
• International Art Show SCOPE Miami, USA (Project funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.)
2007
• Theatre Wytwórnia,Warsaw, Poland
• Uzbekistan through the eyes of Polish artists, T...