30x30, oil on canvas, 2021
Katarzyna Smigielska, started her journey with art at the Reja17 Studio in Wroclaw and continued through studies at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Wroclaw University of Technology, postgraduate studies in painting at the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts and postgraduate curatorial studies in Contemporary Art Mediation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. On a daily basis, she practices easel painting, drawing and photography. Recently, she has broadened her interests to include ceramics. As of December 2021, she is a city visual artist in Wroclaw.
In her works, she pays special attention to the human body (especially the female body) in connection with emotions, as well as emotions themselves and human existence. He creates a personal painterly language, with which he uses figurative forms to convey his attitude to the world, past and future, and the condition of the human individual .
EXHIBITS & ARTISTIC PROJECTS:
2013 - individual exhibition "Extremities", Turbulence, Wroclaw
2014 - individual exhibition "Moods", Formats, Wroclaw
2014 - participation in the collective exhibition "Woman's DNA" at POSK Gallery in London
2014 - individual exhibition "Chasing the white bunny", DNA Skytower Gallery, Wroclaw
2016 - individual exhibition "WONDERLAND", DNA Skytower Gallery, Wrocław
2016 - individual exhibition "Painting by Katarzyna Śmigielska", SOFITEL, Wrocław
2017 - participation with Aleksandra Wiszniewska, Aneta Gwóźdź and Małgorzata Jabłońska in the exhibition Energy is a Woman - SD Gallery - Szucha 8 Warsaw
2018 - group exhibition "Interventions, Mediations". -Piasek - Judaica Wrocław
2018 - participation in the collective exhibition 26th Exhibition of Applied Graphics - Recepcja Ruska Street Wrocław - logo design of the Forum of Architects of Cities ( UM Wrocław)
2018 - individual exhibition - WRO DZIEWCZYNY - 100 portraits - Klub Proza Wrocławhttp://dziennikarstwo.uni.wroc.pl/aktualnosci/26-wystawa-grafiki-uzytkowej-wernisaz/
2018 - realization of the cover and illustrations for the Icelandic-Polish magazine ROK 04.2018. - 11.2018 - cooperation with Wroclaw Revitalization Sp. z o.o. in the organization of the art competition "Show Oławskie" and the organization of the post-competitionexhibition
2019 - co-design of the poster for the exhibition BEAUTIFUL WROCŁAW - competition for the best architectural realization
2019 - creation of the Independent curatorial initiative Ładne and theopening of the PROZY Gallery (full function - curator) - until February 2020 (cooperation ended due to sanitary regulations preventing such activity during the pandemic
2021 (February) opening and running of Gallery No. 22 on pl. Solny
02.12.2022 - art auction for the benefit of Tomek Glowacki - Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw
