Iwona Zawadzka

Born in 1981Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland
IWONA ZAWADZKA HAS BEEN INTERESTED SITUATUON OF THE SUBJECT projecting his own illusions when faced with danger, isolation, reduction and an instrumental approach.The painter has collected her own images in the privacy of her home which separated from the aggressive outside world seem innocent and authentic. The not precisely defined gestures are visible under a veil of an intimate dshabill and house chores. A private photo album, composed of a series of girlish postures, is the place to identify female body language. The artist has specifically codified this. She has taken out figures out of their context, combined them into new, separate idol group images, and finally transferred these onto the canvas. Girls dressed in gym leotards are approaching the enigmatic spectrum characters from the canvas The Sneaking In. The illusory, phantasm like target that breaks human intestines is to claim them shortly (The Sneaking In II). The works by the artist put a viewer in the position of separating the reality form the Real. The spectral absorption, just as desires satisfactions, turns out to be incomplete and bringing no fulfillment. It merely stimulates energy fields of desire which per...

Iwona Zawadzka is a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts with a degree in painting. She was studying in Prof Wiesaw Szamborski's studio.2006:- A diploma awarded by the President of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.- Annexe to the diploma in Prof Edward Tarkowski's studio (a mural painting).- A master's thesis entitled About painting under Doctor Anna Lewicka- Morawska.2004-2006:- Pedagogical School in Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2006 she has been an active member of the Cultural Animation Association Meuma'lo - East Studio.Individual exhibitions:2008 - Exhibition of painting, Smolna Center, Warsaw - Exhibition of paintings en title The Six and a Half, The Promotional Gallery, Warsaw2007 - The exhibition en title Looking for myself at the office of Sanofi-Aventis, Warsaw - Exhibition of painting at the office of Ewa Tomaszewska (Senator of the Republic of Poland), Warsaw- Exhibition of painting at the Art Gallery of Katarzyna Napirkowska, Warsaw 2006 - Postgraduate exhibition of paintings in the Warsaw Academy of Fine ArtsCollective exhibitions: 2008 - Exhibition of paintings en title The Summer Salon, The Promotional Gallery, Warsaw 2007 - 17. Polish Young Paintings Review Promotions 06/07, The Gallery of Art in Legni...

Selected exhibitions:
2014 - On the beach and in the big city, Stalowa Gallery, Warsaw
- Our portraits, Pienkow Gallery, Żmudź
2013 - Intricacy, MiTo, Warsaw (individual exhibition)
- Inorganic beings, Gazeta wyborcza, Warsaw (individual exhibition)
- Creative way, The Gallery of Art in Legnica
2012 – Open, Professor wiesław Szamborski and graduates, Gallery -1, Olympic center, Warsaw
- Artists from East Studio, Bochenska Gallery, Warsaw
2011 - Three Scenes, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk (individual exhibition)
- Meanings, BWA, Sandomierz (individual exhibition)
- Polish Biennale of Young Art Rybie Oko 6, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk
- The post-workshop exhibition of International Plein Air “Mark Rothko 2011” , Daugavpils Museum of Regional Studies and Art, Daugavpils
- Warsaw painted, Galerie Beletage, Berlin
2010 - Abstractions, Festival Experyment, Zbąszyń (individual exhibition)
- Scenes II, Galeria Podlaska, Biała Podlaska (individual exhibition)
2009 - To the Side, Agriculture Museum , Ciechanowiec ( the exhibition accompanying the 5th Symposium on Polish Culture ) (individual exhibition)
- Scenes, Cafe Kulturalna, Drama Theatre, Warsaw
- To the Side, Art Salon 49, Warsaw (individu...