Ewelina Sosniak

Art “(…) is a very human way of making your life nicer. The practice of art isn’t to make a living. It’s to make your soul grow.”, Kurt Vonnegut once said. Art allows me to arrange the reality in my own, uncompromised way. For me, art is a kind of answer to my various needs, however it is not the answer itself. It is rather a continuous question and a comment on times we live in. I associate many functions with art: emotional, communicative, sometimes purely esthetic, therapeutical and particularly important for me, cognitive and descriptive. I feel the need of self expression and creation and art fully enables me both.
When I paint, what undoubtedly fascinates me is the color, the matter, the process of creation. Painting is the most familiar way of expression for me, the one through which I can fully and most naturally express myself. Interesting, that painting is a kind of sublimation of motives, loose ideas, faces, landscapes and images you have seen somewhere before. It’s as when I am asked if I know what my mother looks like. Of course I know. What does my dad look like? I can recognize him easily. So can I my sister. But when I am asked to paint them exactly the way I can remember them, I am unable to do that. And when I re...

A graduate of Graphics Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. A scholar at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music in Japan. A laureate of numerous competitions and participant of country and foreign exhibitions. Distinguished, among other things, by the Scholarship of Culture and National Heritage Minister in 2010 and by the Scholarship of the City Council in Wrocław in 2008 – for achievements in art. Participant of Pienkow International Art Workshop, organized by Marek Maria Pienkowski’s Foundation, whose collection includes a few of her pictures. She is engaged not only in painting, but also in graphic designing and illustration.

Individual exhibitions:
For Longer, IKEA Kitchen Meeting, Warsaw, 2019

Abatises, Platon Gallery, Wroclaw, 2015

Ewelina Sosniak – Paintings, Junony 12 Gallery, Gdansk, 2014

Seasonal Colors, 81 Stopni Gallery, Warsaw, 2014

RELated, Kuratorium Gallery, Warsaw, 2013

GamES – diploma exhibition, EMDES Gallery, Wroclaw, 2010

HITO – Czytelnia Sztuki, Gliwice, 2010

FLĄDRO-SOŚNIAK, EMDES Gallery, Wroclaw, 2009

Golden leggins, black eye-glass, Tokyo lights, Szewska 36 Gallery, Wrocław, 2009

POLISH LIMITED EDITION project, Design Gallery Foro08, Tokyo, Japan, 2008