GrażYna Smalej

I move between different styles, combining abstraction with figuration. Concerning themes and my color palette, I have no restrictions, with one exception: I avoid dramatism in depicted situations. Only the scale between extensive backgrounds and minor human figures or vehicles is constant. I am inspired by Dutch painting, especially by Peter Breughel. I like to think of my paintings as a kind of poetry without words.

2001 - graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow with the Master of Fine Arts degree.

Individual Exhibitions:
2022 – About happiness, Flow Art House, Warszawa
2020 – "Leaf, shoot, flower", New Era Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland
2019 – "Pollen on top of a strong spring bent into a bow", RW8 Gallery, Zamość
2017 – “Welcome to the best of worlds!”, Piekny Pies Club, Krakow
2017 – “The Bees”, Solvay Centre for Contemporary Art, Krakow
2017 – “Aleph”, one paiting exhibition, Pierwszy Stopien Club, Krakow
2017-"Summit Day", Modoso, Warsaw, Poland
2014- "Anywhere escape", Contemporary Art Center Solvay, Krakow, Poland
2013-"Hydrophiles and Dendrons", Sanocka Gallery BWA, Poland
2012- “1/500 s and more”, Mostowa ArtCafe, Krakow, Poland
2012- “The principle of droplet”, Black Cat Gallery, Krakow, Poland
2011- Katarzyna Napiorkowska Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2011 - “Self-dissolution”, aTu Gallery, Lublin, Poland
2011 - Kraina Sztuki Gallery, Jasło, Poland
2008 - Katarzyna Napiorkowska Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2004 - “Self-dissolution”, Gaude Mater Gallery, Częstochowa, Poland
2003 - Gil Gallery, Krakow, Poland
2002 - Schody Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Group Exhibitions:
2023 - All Seasons of Landscape, Contemporary Polish Painting, IMO Gallery, Stary Sącz, Poland
2020 - "Nie zatrzymasz rzeki" ("You won't stop the river"), a co...