Alicja Pruchniewicz

Alicja Pruchniewicz, born in 1993, is a Polish visual artist. She creates large-scale digitally inspired abstract canvases that explore saturated colours, and geometric and organic shapes.

Pruchniewicz takes her inspiration largely from her immediate surroundings and from the mundane, everyday aspects of contemporary society. The virtual world, social media and communications are fascinating to Pruchniewicz. Her works engage with the way that the virtual and digital world influences how we perceive our surroundings and imagery.

When it comes to process and creative techniques, Pruchniewicz has her own specific method for creating canvases. The shapes of her actual canvases and indeed the forms depicted on the canvas are inspired by rough drawings that she quickly sketches. Pruchniewicz will then scale these drawings and transform them into large abstracted acrylic paintings.

Artist on the Rise

Pruchniewicz has presented her work in a solo exhibition, ‘The hidden dimension of painting’, in her native Poland in 2018. In 2017 she received the Polish Ministry of Culture Award and was included in the Kassel exhibition during Documenta 14 at Transmission Art Festival.

2009-2013 Art High School in Szczecin
2013-2018 Master Degree Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław
2019 - PhD student at Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland

PRIZES
2018
•award in contest „Attitudes” ,Gallery Browarart, Wrocław, Polska
•II prize at „Festiwal Malowania”, Wrocław, Polska
2017
•Ministry of Culture Award, Warszawa, Polska
•President of Wrocław Art Award, Wrocław, Polska
2016
•finalist of Grand Prix im. Franciszki Eibisch, Galeria Napiórkowska, Warszawa, Polska
RESIDENCIES
2019
•the Maple Terrace Residency Program, Brooklyn, New York, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
•Sphere, Galerie Bruederstrasse, Goerlitz, Niemcy
•Open portfolio reviev, Akademy of real Knowlege, Gdańsk, Polska
2018
•Offline, Klubokawiarna Mleczarnia, Wro- cław, Polska
•Hidden dimension of painting , Galeria MD_S, Wrocław
•Two thousand square millimeters, Hart Gallery, Wrocław, Polska
2017
•, Browar Mieszczański, Wrocław, Polska
•„on line”, Browar Mieszczański, Wrocław, Polska
2016
•Symetry, Zachodniopomorska Izba Architektów w Szczecinie, Polska
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019
•SsZzUuMm, Art Gallery in Legnica, Polska •International Painting Symposium Exhibition Barbarka, Toruń, Polska •Painting ceramic fabric, Museum in Toruń, Polska
•Spacex7 , Mia Gallery, Wrocław, Polska •6. Uluslararasi Mehmet Nuri Gocen Resim Calistayi, Old Town Tenneries, Hilton, Kusadasi, Turkey
•Salih Karcigoglu Intern...