Paulina Penc

Paulina Penc – multimedia artist, jazz- experimental vocalist, artivist, feminist, activist for equal women’s rights. Born in 1980 in Częstochowa, Poland. She received her MFA with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland in Leon Tarasewicz Studio. Laureate of the Visual Spa 2016. She explores socio-cultural identity, spirituality, sexual politics, social media, feminist threads and femininity, referring to her strength, intuition and emotional intelligence. She adresses the theme of life and death based on shamanism and own experiences. She questions the systemic approach to world order. She practices post-apocalyptic DJing, mixing a multitude of symbols. She expresses her ideas in a cleansing, trance-like state both in visual arts and in music.
In her paintings she refers i.a. to cultural changes, personality disorders associated with the virtual world and artificial intelligence .“The interface has a big influence on the way people communicate. A completely new poetics is emerging. We are organisms connected to a computer. Moreover, we live in a time of post-truth” – says the artist. As a jazz- experimental vocalist, she undermines a traditionally understood musical work with its closed form and specific notation. ...

2011-2013 MA studies at the Department of Media Art and Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, graduated with the highest grade

2012-2013 Studied at the Department of Sound Engineering at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw

2009-2011 BA studies at the Department of Media Art and Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Honours degree

2004-2009 Studies at the Department of Conservation and Renovation of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

2023, “Fukkatsu”- Individual exhibition, Konduktorownia, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Częstochowa, Poland

2023, “NFT’s”- a temporary trend, or the future of the Art World?”- lecture, Algorand, International Conference, Wrocław

2022, “Fukkatsu”- essay in the publication “Traces of Sisterhood”, curators: Eliza Proszczuk, Ewa Chomicka, Publishinh house: Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

2019 “100 flags” – collective exhibition, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź

2019 “100 flags” – collective exhibition, Awangarda Gallery, BWA Wrocław Galleries of Contemporary Art

2019 “To be a woman”- collective exhibition, Crisis Cafe, Warsaw

2019 Co-founder of the Surwiwalki group on behalf of the Women’s Rights Center in Warsaw, co-creator of the Surwiwalki Manifesto

2017 Art from Paulina Penc’s perspective, Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw

2017 Exposition of painting from series Creator, Burakowska 14- Open area- Events places, Warsaw

2017 Performance of experimental music and vocal, Paulina Penc, Krystian Batyjewski, Lava Avant-garde Film Festival, Cracow

2016 Collective exhibition “An Animal”,Bardzo Biała Gallery, Warsaw

2016 Collective exhibition “I Believe In”, Bardzo Biała Gallery, Warsaw

2016 Expo...