Malgorzata Dawidek

Małgorzata is a visual artist and researcher. Her artistic interests cover the visual arts, literature, and certain medical matters. Dawidek's practice is focused on the conflict between the condition of the human body and discursive language. It addresses aspects of corporeality as a continuous narration, a text ‘in process’, which she describes as 'bodygraphy'.
In her art Malgorzata combines a wide range of media encompassing performance, photographs, video, written drawings, and installations.

The artist has been awarded, inter alia, Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage grants (2002, 2004, 2020), Young Poland’ scholarship for young artists (2012), a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2004-2005), British Federation of Women Graduates grant (2017-2018). Her works were selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2016 and awarded the Signature Art Prize in 2020.

2015-present: Slade School of Fine Arts/UCL, London, UK, PhD, Practice-Led Research Programme, Intermedia

2004-2009: Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, PL, Ph.D. in Humanities (1st Class)

1997-2002: Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland, MA Painting (1st Class Honours)

1996-2001: Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland, MA Art Education/Drawing (1st Class Honours)

Selected Solo Shows

2020 - Notations, performance, and video-essay, Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, UK – online show

2018 - Foreign Body, The Old Stable Gallery, VARC, Highgreen, UK

2017 - Biomety and Other Stories, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław, PL

2017 - Bodygraphy, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, PL

2014 - The Topography of Intimacy, The Art House, Wakefield, UK

2014 - Circle [performance art], Aula Gallery, University of Art Poznań, PL

2011 - Fold-ups, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, PL

2011 - te[k]sty/te[x]sts, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, PL

Selected Group Shows:

2020 - The Signature Art Prize, Somerset House, Autograph Collection Bankside Hotel, Londyn, UK

2020 - Contested Spaces, Foundry Gallery, Londyn, UK

2019 - Humanising Medicine, Bart's Pathology Museum, Londyn, UK

2019 - Illness as a Source of Art, National Museum in Poznań, PL

2019 - Caressing History, Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi, India

2018 - About Me, Loosen Art, Rome, IT

2017 - Illegibility. Palimpsests, Pan Tadeusz Museum, Wroclaw, PL

2016 - Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition, Jerwood Space, London, UK

2016 - A Place, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, PL

2016 - DADA Lives!, Blue Ash Gallery, Cincinnati, USA

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