Ania Grzymała, Kashub snorting snuff with an alien, 2024

acrylic, canvas, 46 x 55 cm signed and dated on the reverse: ANIA GRZYMAŁA, 2024

exhibited: Czilera Utopia. Scenes from an Ideal World (solo exhibition), CCA "Signs of the Times" Toruń, 2024
reproduced in the exhibition catalog p. 14.

"Grzymała, using the convention of fairy tales in his work, encourages us to adopt a point of view different from our own. Going beyond the subjective perspective and dialogue leading to understanding - across divisions and sometimes even across genres - are her primary tools for change. "*

Ania Grzymała (1997, Warsaw) is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (diploma under Dr. Jan Mioduszewski and Dr. Paweł Boltryk). Her work mainly involves painting, drawing and printmaking. She is the author of a collection of contemporary "Ursynów fairy tales", in which she investigates the origin of phenomena such as power, war and brutality. The painting "Zdejmij mundur, przeproś matkę", which illustrates the fairy tales, aroused great controversy among conservative media and politicians, thus drawing public attention to the problem of refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border. The artist has been repeatedly awarded and honored: winner of the Entry Initiative Award; finalist of the 20th edition of the Artistic Journey of Hestia competition, winner of an award in the form of a residency at the Sokolowsko International Culture Laboratory; honorable mention from the editors of "NN6T", "Contemporary Lynx" and the Royal Talens company in the 10th edition of the New Image New Look painting competition organized by the University of Arts in Poznan. Together with Julia Woronowicz, she is active in the art group Two People. Her works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the State Art Gallery in Sopot, the Center for Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń, among others.

Individual exhibitions :

CCA ZNAKI CZASU, Toruń / CZILERA UTOPIA / scenes from the ideal world.

Promocyjna Gallery / And the rivers will flow with date syrup

Group exhibitions :

Pracownia Wschodnia Gallery / CIEPLARNIA

Picture Gallery of the M. K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas / TAPYBOS TRIENALE

Herclique, Lisbon / A PROFECIA

SURVIVAL, Wroclaw, Brochow Estate / Frenesis and Independence

GSW Opole / Wanting to make everyone happy, you won't please anyone

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw / REFUGEES WELCOME

Bunkier Sztuki in Katowice / Bad Romance

Śluza Gallery in Poznań / How to do school?

Zachęta National Gallery of Art / Anxiety comes at dusk

Mazovian Center for Contemporary Art Elektrownia in Radom / Women Art Power

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw / REFUGEES WELCOME

Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw / UpComing

Future Unfinished Gallery / Your (insert appropriate name here) time is up

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw / HOW TO DO SCHOOL ? / WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 13

State Art Gallery in Sopot / m as youth

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw / FINAL EXHIBITION of the 19th and 20th editions of Hestia's Artistic Journey competition

University of Arts in Poznań / NEW IMAGE / NEW LOOK

Sinfonia Varsovia / THE WHITE AND RED WAR / URSYN TALES AT THE POLISH HOUSE

Karrot / Nutrie in fur, or the exhibition of the art group "Two Persons"

*fragment of text by Natalia Cieslak from the catalog CZILERA UTOPIA. Scenes from an ideal world.