Dimensions: 114 x 147 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'In the garden | [artist's signature] 2020'.
Exhibited
Natalia Bażowska, "About what the willows hum", ESTA Gallery in Gliwice, 3.03-7.04.2023
Biography
Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Visual artist whose all activities revolve around the concept and idea of life. From 1999-2005 she studied medicine at the Silesian Medical University. In 2007, she took up doctoral studies at the Department of Psychiatry and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. For several years, her academic work was intertwined with her art complementing each other. In 2010 she defended her doctorate related to both fields. Since 2011, she has been exclusively engaged in creative work exploring the relationship between life and art. In 2012 she defended her diploma with honors in the Department of Painting. From the beginning, Bazowska has used various media whether installation, sculpture, video or painting and drawing. Her works are an analysis of social and interspecies relations. She questions their interpretations and analyzes the concept of the experience of being human and existence. She is a two-time scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and a scholarship holder of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship, winner of many competitions including the Hestia Artistic Journey competition (the main prize in 2010). She has exhibited works in many solo exhibitions (among others: 2018 - x "Tamed Territory" BWA Olsztyn; 2016 - "12 per minute", Tabakalera International Center for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastian, Spain; 2015 - "Luna", CCA Kronika, Bytom; 2015 - "Structure of change", Art Agenda Nova, Cracow; Lezże", Zachęta Project Place, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. Participation in group exhibitions (selected): 2021 - Refugia, Arsenal Gallery, Poznań ; "We are present", Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; 2019 - Palace of Art. Young Polish Painting. National Museum in Gdansk; 2018 - "Landscapes of the Anthropocene," Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk ; 2017 - "Phoenix Syndrome," Grey Gallery, Katowice; 2017 - "Clouds Forests," 7th Biennial of Contemporary Art in Moscow, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; 2016 - "Backwards," Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin. He lives and works in Katowice.
