Izabela Kowalczyk

Izabela Kowalczyk is a French-Polish artist living and working in Marseille, France.
Born in 1975, she grew up in Poland where in 2002 she obtained her Masters of Art diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łòdź.

Her early influences – the Polish constructivists from the 30's like Katarzyna Kobro, Władyslaw Strzemiński, Maria Jarema - aroused her interest for artists and architects like Kazimierz Malewicz, Aleksander Rodczenko, groups The Stijl and Bauhaus.
Izabela's future investment in the questioning of the nature of space and its perception, by searching for a convergence between two-dimensional images and three-dimensional objects had already announced itself by her early fascination for the work of Elsworth Kelly, Sol Le Witt, Frank Stella or David Tremlett.

A few weeks of residency at Art School in Stuttgart, Germany in 2000 and a four month stay in London, UK in 2001 let her discover, among others, Tony's Cragg sculptures oscillating between an abstraction and a kind of figuration remaining in it, and the sculptural and graphic work of Eduardo Chillida.

In 2002 Izabela was a grand-holder of the French government, that allowed her to study at the Aix-en-Provence Art School and obtain a diploma in 2005.
Since the...

2002 Master of Arts, Fine Arts Academy, Łódź, Poland

2005 D.N.S.E.P., École Superiéure d'Art, Aix-en-Provence, France

Selected group exhibitions:

2019
- The London Group Open 2019, The Cello Factory, London, UK

- Galerie La Ferronnerie / Brigitte Négrier fête ses 30 ans ! Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France

- Duo Jérémie DELHOME / Izabela KOWALCZYK, Espace GT, Mundart, Marseille, France

- Duo Yifat GAT / Izabela KOWALCZYK, Atelier Séruse, Marseille, France

2018
- Papiers mesurés, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France

- Avant travaux, 224, rue Paradis, Marseille, France

2017
- Champs Libres, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France

- Aesthetica Art Price 2017, 100 contemporary artists presented in FUTURE NOW : 100 Contemporary Artists anthology, Aesthetica Magazine, York Art Gallery, York, UK Exhibition at York Art Gallery, York, UK

- ABSTRACT WALL PAINTINGS III 2017 #DE STIJL 100 YEARS, 3th International wall abstract painting festival, Marcel Pagnol Culture center, Fos-sur-Mer, France

2016
- Black&White Project, Look&Listen & Transmitter Gallery, New York, USA

- Izabela Kowalczyk & Laurent Galland, La Belle Absente, Paris, France

- Paper / Paris - pop up mini art fair, Look&Listen, Paris, France

2015
- Formats Raisin [Hors les murs], Galerie Martagon, Arteum MAC Chateauneuf-le-Rouge, France

- 13th ...