Katarzyna Swinarska

Katarzyna Swinarska graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. She came out as an artist in 2009 with a series of paintings at 39. Biennale of Painting „Bielska Jesien”.
She works with painting and video which often follows the convention of video performance, she creates multimedia installations and sometimes works as a curator. She defended her doctoral thesis in visual arts in 2014.

Swinarska won first prize at the International Competition for Experimental Films “In Out Festival” (2016) for her video performance “Digressive Identity”. She was the finalist of the Gdansk Biennale of Art (2014, 2016, 2018), finalist of the Triennial of Pomeranian Art (2013, 2016, 2020); she was awarded a bursary of the City of Sopot (2014, 2016), a bursary of the City of Gdansk (2010, 2018, 2021) and a three-month art residency in Switzerland (2012).

Her art works are in the collections of NOMUS — Museum of Contemporary Art in Gdansk, “Wyspa” Art Institute in Gdansk, State Art Gallery in Sopot and in private collections in Poland, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden and the United States.

2021 “Conception” Prześwit Gallery, Warsaw,
2021 “Unseen. Stories of Warsaw Servants” Warsaw Museum,
2021 “Collection in Action” NOMUS, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Gdansk,
2021 “Defiant Hearts” exhibition in private space, Gdansk,
2020 “The Camel Never Forgets” Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Lokal_30, Warsaw,
2020 “Love Naked As Death” painting, performance, Nizio Gallery, Warsaw,
2020 “Skin” painting, Sandhofer Gallery, Salzburg,
2019 "NOMUS. Collection Under Construction", National Museum, Gdansk,
2019 Pébéo Art Prize, Mennier Gallery, London,
2019 “Innocent Colonies” video, installation, painting, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk,
2018 “Black Dress” performance, Artist’s Colony, Gdansk,
2017 "We—The Common Body" video and painting, State Gallery of Art, Sopot,
2016 "SILENT HEADS" painting and installation, Grodno City Art Gallery, Grodno, Bellarus,
2015 "Libres artistes" painting, Galerie Espace Saint-Bernard, Brusselles, Belgium.