Dorota Buczkowska (b. 1971, Warsaw), Untitled (Designer Toy)

Biography
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art and at the Department of Sculpture, in the famous "Kowalnia" - studio of Professor Grzegorz Kowalski. She also studied at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques Villa Arson in Nice and at the University of Warsaw, where she completed Gender Studies. She works in various media: painting, drawing, installation and video. Using metaphor, her works address themes of transience, erosion of matter and physiological processes. She reaches hidden in the subconsciousness of human behavior. She takes up themes of integrating trauma, taming what has been repressed, as in the project "A Year at the Sanatorium" or "The Spa." Her works are distinguished by the workshop of painting and graphic design. The form is often open, understated, abstract. Buczkowska's work is characterized by a specific, authorial handling of the luminosity of the colors used. The artist's solo exhibitions have been presented many times in Warsaw galleries. In addition, her solo exhibition was part of the Liverpool Biennale in 2009. Buczkowska's works have taken part in important group exhibitions: at Warsaw's Zachęta and CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Poznan's Arsenal Gallery, as well as museums and galleries in Tel Aviv, Paris, Vienna and the Biennale of Contemporary Sculpture in Australia. The artist lives and works in Warsaw.