Natalia Bażowska, Steppe Soul 2, 2015

acrylic, canvas, 40 x 50 cm signed, dated and described on the reverse: Stepowa Dusza 2/2015. N.B

Natalia Bażowska (born 1980, Dabrowa Gornicza). Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Graduated with honorable mention from the Painting Studio of Prof. Andrzej Tobis, Ph.D. (2012).

She is the winner of, among others: first prize in the Artistic Journey of Hestia competition (2011), first prize of the Young Art Review "Fresh Blood" at Socato Gallery in Wroclaw (2011), nominated for the Art Prize of the University of Arts in Poznan New Image/New Look and winner of the Collectors' Prize in the same competition (2013). She received an honorable mention in the 1st Modessqe International Painting Competition (2013), two nominations for the 11th Geppert Competition "Attention: painting!" in Wroclaw (2013), an honorable mention at the 43rd Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale in Bielsko-Biała (2017), and participated in the 44th edition of this competition, Bielska Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała (2019). She has been nominated for the Passports of Polityka (2016).
Bażowska's main fascination is the concept of life itself, and since 1998 all her activities have revolved around this issue. From 1999 to 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.

Selected solo exhibitions:
2021 "Mirror of the Soul," Gallery One Second, Szczecin.
2020 Confidentiality, Gallery 12, Cieszyn
2018 Territory Tamed, BWA Olsztyn
2016 "External memory," Blanca Soto Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2016 "12 per minute," Tabakalera International Center for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastian, Spain
2016 "Steppe Soul," Rodriguez Gallery, Poznań, Poland
2015 "Luna," CCA Kronika, Bytom
2015 "Structure of Change," Art Agenda Nova, Krakow
2015 "Lodge", Zachęta Project Place, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw,
2014 "Comfort Zone", Cracow, m² Gallery, as part of "Andels presents".
2014 "Open Space", Cultural Center, Katowice, Poland
2014 "ID" m² Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2013 "A lifetime of stress", Sound and video installation , Bunkier Sztuki Krakow
2012 "Rodzisko", CCA Kronika, Bytom
2011 "Room to talk to animals", Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland

Selected group exhibitions:
2021 Refugia, Arsenal Gallery, Poznań
2021 We are present, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
2021 We bloom, Hos Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2021 Butterfly Effect, Arttrakt Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.
2020 More than one animal, Gallery 12, Cieszyn
2020 Eureka or I Discover, Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw.
2020 Komorebi, BWA Katowice, Katowice.
2019 Palace of Art. Young Polish Painting. National Museum in Gdańsk
2019 Under the luscious green moss someone hid white bones, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk.
2018 "Landscapes of the Anthropocene", Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk.
2017 "Clouds_Forests" 7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 "The simultaneity of events", CCA Torun, Poland
2017 "His white feathers, illuminated by the sun, shone like the sun itself", Henryk Gallery, Cracow, Poland
2017 "Phoenix Syndrome," Gray Gallery, Katowice, Poland
2016 "Second Skin," Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, Poland
2016 "Out of the way", Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin
2015 "What is hidden- current art from Silesia", State Art Gallery,Sopot
2014 Triennale of Young Art, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko
2014 Survival, art review, Wroclaw
2014 "Mleczne zeby" Witches' Tower, Slupsk.
2013 Biennale of Painting "Bielska Jesień," BWA Bielsko-Biała.
2013 Biennale of Young Art "Fish Eye 7" , Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art
2013 "Milky Teeth", BWA Katowice
2011 "Grenzgänger", Marke.6, Neuen Museum, Weimar, Germany
2011 "Wolf very bad", Nova Gallery, Cracow, Poland
2011 "Ktokolwiek widział, ktokolwiek wie", Galeria Kronika, Bytom
2011 Participation in the cultural program of the Polish Presidency of the EU 2011,
2010 "Replicants", BWA Katowice

Selected awards and scholarships:
2020 Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
2017 Distinction at the 43rd Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale, ArtInfo portal
2016 Entry in the passports of Polityka
2013 1st Modessque International Painting Competition, honorable mention
2013 Geppert Competition, two nominations
2013 "New Image/New Look," UAP Artistic Award; Collectors' Award
2011 Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2011 First Prize of the Young Art Review "Fresh Blood", "Socato", Wrocław
2011 Scholarship of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship, project: "Rodzisko".
2011 Artistic Journey of Hestia, main award

Selected publications:
2021 Minority Report, Ergohestia annual report catalog.
2021 Small earthquakes, Essential of the Intelligencer, Polityka Weekly
2019 Grammar of collecting, Aurabilia
2019 Palace of Art. Young Polish Painting. Published by the National Museum in Gdansk
2019 Animals and their People,Brill
2019 46th issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture
2016 NN6t cover story
2016 Artist's Page, Shum Magazine
2016 "Lie on the Ground," Sign, interview
2016 "Women in Art. Art of Women," Silesian Museum
2015 "Dzikusy.New art from Silesia," Marta Lisok
2014 "Death of an Animal. Contemporary zootanatologies", publication of text and selected works, University of Silesia, edited by M.Kotyczka
2014 "Biorhythm of the soul on a giant". , interview, Notes for 6 weeks
2011 "Talking about creativity", interview, ArtPapier

Residencies
2016 12 per minute, Project Room exchange, Tabakalera International Center for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastian, Spain, residency completed with exhibition
2011 "Grenzgänger", Weimar Triangle, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany, residency completed with exhibition
2011 Hestia Artist Journey, New York, USA, residency completed with one month of online coverage