"DRAGON" / Asia-Pacific Museum, patinated bronze, granite, signed ABW, 2003, 18.5x12x8 cm. 1/10.
Anna Beata Wątróbska-Wdowiarska(born 17 I 1960, Warsaw, Poland) -sculptormedalist, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts inWarsaw from 1981 to 1987. She completed herspecialization in medal making in the studio of Prof. Zofia Demkowska.She completed her diploma in the studio of Prof. Stanislaw Slonina. The diplomawork was awarded the Prof. Marian Wnuk medal.Lane and minted medals can be found in foreign and domestic collections, museums and private individuals.Hisartistic achievements include more than two hundred realizations of beaten medals. He isa member of theInternationalFederation of Medal Making FIDEM and ZPAP.
For 20 years she has been cooperating with the Mint of Poland SA and the National Bank of Poland,for which she realized a series of coins commemorating the Smolensk tragedy (a gold coin with portraits of Maria and Lech Kaczynski), and is currently realizing a series of coins with portraits of Polishkings according to medals ordered by Stanislaw August Poniatowski.
In his work, he does not limit himself to flat relief, but realizes spatial sculptural forms, from small form to monument.
Individualexhibitions
● Medals and plaques, Museum of MedallicArt, Wroclaw 1998.
● Medallicart , Museum ofKurpie Culture, Ostrołęka 1999.
● Two generations - Stanisława Wątróbska-Frindt, Anna Wątróbska-Wdowiarska, Museum in Brodnica 1999.
● Medallicart , Historical Museum of the Cityof Warsaw, Warsaw 2000.
● Medallic artexhibition , Museum of the Silesian Piasts in Brzeg, Brzeg 2004.
● Medallion exhibition, Beijing - Shanghai, China 2013.
● Between space and illusion, sculpture and medalexhibition, Doha,Qatar 2014.
● Author 'sexhibition at Prom Kulturyclub , Warsaw 2016.
●Space and its illusion, ZPAP, Warsaw 2018.
●The illusion of space, Mazovian Museum in Plock, 2022.
Collective exhibitions
● III National exhibition of medals in Toruń 1987.
● Zofia Demkowska's studio, Warsaw 1989.
● 2nd Triennial of portraitsculpture in Sopot 1989
● FIDEM, Helsinki 1990
● FIDEM, Budapest 1994
● FIDEM, Neuchatel 1996
● International symposium of medals, Kremnica 1996
● FIDEM, The Hague 1998
● Tunnel of Time. Warsaw sculpture of the end of thecentury, ZPAP Warsaw District 1999
● I International Biennial of Contemporary Medals, Seixal, Portugal 2000
● FIDEM, Weimar 2000
● Syndrome of the Millennium Breakthrough, ZPAP Warsaw District 2000
● II International Biennale of Contemporary Medal, Seixal, Portugal 2001.
● Sacrum - today, Kielce 2001
● Polish medal making ofthe 1990s, Museum of Medal Art,Wrocław 2001
● FIDEM, Paris 2002
● Polish-American medallic artexhibition 2001-2002, Colorado Springs ,USA - Wroclaw, organized by ANSA and the Museum of Medallic Art in Wroclaw.
● Polish Medallic ArtExhibition , Belgium 2002, organized by the Museum ofMedallic Art in Wroclaw.
● 1st International Exhibition of Medallic ArtMasaccio 600, Israel 2002.
● 2nd International Exhibition of Medallic Art Anime Spiritus Violin, Israel 2002.
● PolishMedal FIDEM2002, Museum of Medal Art, Wroclaw,Poland
● 30 years of theAsia-Pacific Museum, Nusantara 2003-2004
● FIDEM, Seixal 2004.
● VII Autumn Art Salon, Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski 2004.
● III International Biennale of Contemporary Medal, Seixal, Portugal 2004.
● IV International Biennale of Contemporary Medal, Seixal, Portugal 2005.
● VIII Autumn Art Salon, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski 2006
● Budapest 1956, 2006
● FIDEM, Colorado Springs 2007
● From the Danube, Vistula and Vistula rivers - medal exhibition, Wroclaw, Budapest ,Kremnica, Uherskie Hradiste2007-2008.
● 5th International Biennale of Contemporary Medals, Seixal, Portugal 2008.
● Between Light and Shadow, WarsawDistrictsculpture exhibition 2009
● 1st Sculpture Exhibition, NovotelGarden Gallery, Warsaw 2010.
● Obsession or fascination, Warsaw District sculptureexhibition, 2010.
● FIDEM, Tampere, Finland 2010
● Polish and Lithuanianmedal making -history and presentday , Samogitian ArtMuseum , Plunge,Lithuania.
● Sculpture exhibition, Novotel Garden Gallery, Warsaw, 2011.
● From the Danube, Vistula and Vistula rivers - medal makers and their works, 10th exhibition 2012
● FIDEM medallionexhibition , Scotland, United Kingdom 2012.
● Human Dimension,sculpture exhibition, 2013
● Visual dance,French-Polish painting and sculpture exhibition, Warsaw 2014
● Genesis, OW ZPAP sculpture exhibition 2014, FIDEM medallionexhibition , Sofia,Bulgaria 2014
● exhibition and auction of artworks for Syria, Asia and PacificMuseum , Warsaw 2015.
● FIDEM medallionexhibition , Belgium 2016.
- FIDEM medallion exhibition , Canada 2018.
Awards
● 2nd place in a closed competition announced by the Department of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts and the head of the City of Lowicz on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of Lowicz (beaten medal), 1986.
● Award for artistic level by the Hungarian Numismatic Institute, FIDEM (cast medal), 1994.
● Third place in the FIDEM congress medal competition (beaten medal), 1996
● First place in the competition announced by theMarie Sklodowska-CurieTributeSociety and the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of radium(minted medal),1996
Second place in a competition announced by the Warsaw City Hall for a medal dedicated to the 400th anniversary ofthe capital city of Warsaw (minted medal), 1996
● First place in a competition announced by the Chancellery of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland for a Sejm medal(cast medal), 1996
● 2nd place in the 1st International Competition in Tel Aviv(cast medal), 2002
● Honorable Mention in the Second Tel Aviv International Competition (cast medal ), 2002
● Special Prizeawarded by the BassisSchool of Sculpture in the 2nd Tel Aviv International Competition (lana medal), 2002.
● First place in the International Coin Competition organized by the Japanese Mint (plaster design), 2003.
● Third prize in the competition of the 7th Autumn Art Salon in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski (Dante Europeo), 2004.
● 3rd place in the International Coin Competition organized by the Japanese Mint (plaster design), 2004.
●honorable mention in the competition of the VIII Autumn Art Salon in OstrowiecSwietokrzyski (diptych Kropla), 2006
● 3rd prize in the International Coin Competition organized by the Mint of Japan (plaster design ) (together with Magdalena Dobrucka), 2006
● 2nd prizein the 2011International Coin Contestin St. Petersburg for the Silver Coin of the Year (Icon of Our Lady ofSmolensk).
● Third prize in the 2011 International Coin Contest in St. Petersburg for the Silver Coin of the Year (Slavic Woman).
● First prize in theBeauty of Animals International Competition in China, 2015.
- First prize in the 2020 FIDEM International Representative Medal Competition.
