Natalia Anna Kalisz

Natalia Anna Kalisz was born in 1988 in Poland. Her work combines graphic techniques with oil painting, photography and drawing. The works reference different visions of the world’s origin, personal ideas about human nature, the cycle of birth, as well as life and passing. She’s guided by the idea of what is primal and existential. She draws inspiration from both late Gothic altars and eighteenth-century classicism, as well as nineteenth-century symbolic painting.

Her artistic portfolio includes seven solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. She received many awards, including the Artistic Scholarship of the Mayor of Lodz in 2014. During her scholarship programme she released an art. book illustrated with a series of images that combine different forms of printing, as well as drawing and painting techniques.

In 2016 she was awarded the Wiesław Nowicki Prize, which is a recognition of her entire body of work for national culture and the city of Lodz. Since 2014 she has been a member of the Lodz Artist’s Association El Art.

Natalia Kalisz’s studio is in a nineteenth-century workers’ home. The premises feature a graphic, painting and photographic studio. Several times a year the studio doors o...

Kalisz graduated from the Faculty of Graphics and Painting at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Art in Poland.

AWARDS

Wiesław Nowicki Award/ For the achievements in painting and graphic and the activity for the national culture and the city of Lodz/ 2016

The city of Łódź President's Scholarship Programme for artists and persons working for and promoting culture/ Łódź /2014

Project of the performance “Painting unites people-Art Informel “/ The competition for Students of Łódź ,, We create locally ”/ Łódź 2013

The Award of the City Gallery of Art in XXIX Władysław Strzemiński “Fine Arts” competition / Łódź/ 2012

The Award of the AD REM association in XXIX Władysław Strzemiński “Fine Arts” competition / Łódź/ 2012

The Award of the monthly ,,Kalejdoskop'' in XXIX Władysław Strzemiński “Fine Arts” competition / Łódź/ 2012

INDIVIDUAL

„Orchard of Isztar”/ Kalisz- Graphic/ ELArt Gallery / Łódź/ 2017

“Vanitas- Kohelet's Book” / Graphic and painting / Galeria Pod Plafonem / Wrocław/ 2016

“The dream about Arche” / Foto Cafe 102 Gallery / Łódź/ 2014

“Graphic & art book” / Galeria Pro Arte Studio / Łódź / 2014

“Crux” / Graphic, painting, photography/ City Art Gallery in Łódź Re Medium / Łódź / 2013

“Natalia Anna Kalisz- Graphic, painting, photography 2010 – 2013” / Galeria Pro Arte Studio / Łódź / 2013/ within the Lodz Design Festival 2013

“GRAPHIC” Natalia Anna Kalisz / Gallery 144 grafiki / Łódź/ 2012

“Under the Eyelids” / Graphic and painting 2010-2012 / Galeria Alternatywna / Łódź/ 2012


COLLECTIVE

4th Art Biennal/ ODA/ Piotrków Trybunalski/ 2017

26th International Biennial Exhibition of Modern Exlibris/ Malbork Castle Museum 2017

4th Independent Salon of Young Artists from Łódź/ ASP Gallery , Izrael Poznański Palace/ Łódź/ 2017

Acuerdo en Desacuerdo / San Jose / Costa Rica / 2016

3rd Independent Salon of Young Artists from Łódź/ ASP Gallery and Bałucka Gallery / Łódź 2016

Acuerdo en Desacuerdo- W czerni i Bieli/ Galeria Nacional / Costa Rica 2015

2nd Independent Salon of Young Artists from Ł...