Wela Elisabeth

WELA (Elisabeth Wierzbicka) - A Paris based Polish born painter and sculptor. Was born in Cracow in 1964. She studied at the Cracow Academy of Fine Art from 1984-1989. In 1989 she continued her training at the Ecole Superiore of Fine Art in Paris and started her career as an international artist in several countries. In her Paris studio she paints, draws and makes monumental installations, which borrow ideas from the surface, volume and materials in contemporary painting and sculpture. She works with memory and identity, erasing and dividing time.The artist aim is to co-create with the spectator the totality of the virtual reality of drawing, time and space. "My work focuses on the private et public space, it is a process of transformation of the site by the sculpture, the drawing, the volume, the color, the son... A first of all visual viewpoint the impression is that an abstracted and figurative semi sign choreography that I would have thrown on any materials, in a space two - or threedimensional. An interpretive viewpoint, these signs speak about memory, identity, the appearance, the deletion, the time, the nature...I like to integrate in my work several elements, even contradictory that are going to form a formal entity, a wor...

Cracow Academy of Fine Art from 1984 to 1989
Master of Art in Stanislaw Wejman studio in 1989
1990 - training at the Ecole Superiore of Fine Art in Paris

Individual Exhibitions:
2022 · « Inspiration Nature », Maison du Temps de Jadis, Vernon
2021 · Installation in situ “Entre le Ciel et la Terre”, Grisycode, Grisy-Les-Plâtres
2020/21 · Wela Atelier-Galerie, Gasny
2018 · Jardin de Maison-Atelier Daubigny, Auvers sur Oise
2017 · Sculpture Ephémère : « Ouragan de pommes de pins », Festival « Ville et Campagne », Saint-Leu-La-Forêt
2016 · "Murmures d'Arbres" (avec A. Sobol), Salle Saint-Esprit, Valbonne
2016 · French Institute, Cracow, Poland
2015 · Jola Sidi Gallery, Paris
2014 · BWA Gallery, Kielce, Poland - catalog
2013 · «Common Earth» (Wela and Shigeko Hirakawa), Museum of Japanese Art and Technology Manggha, Cracow, Poland - fold
2012 · Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2011 · International Golf Club, Baillet-en-France
2008 · Orangery and Gardens of Auvers-sur-Oise Castle
2007 · Art Actuel Socles et Cimaises Gallery, Nancy
2006 · Monumental Installations for the Festival of Arts of the Street, Sotteville-les-Rouen
2005 · Cultural Space Martiar Taugourdeau, Bonneval (catalog)
2005 · 14th Theatrical Encounters, Jean Jaurès Space, Tomblaine / Nancy
2003 · Gallery-Studio Wela, Créteil
2000 · Gallery 13, Paris
1999 · Carrefour des Arts, Metz
1999 · Maison des Arts André Marlaux...