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Iwona Demko (b. 1974), Charms of the City, 2010

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Estimations: 2 004 - 3 118 EUR
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material, sponge, welded wire construction, glowing LEDs in the eyes and motion sensor;
Bitch: 34 × 45 × 13 cm; Dog 49 × 36 × 14 cm;
Author's label: "Made by Iwona Demko".

Provenance:
private collection, Warsaw

Work exhibited:
- Atrefacts X - The Unbearable Materiality of Being, Contemporary Art Gallery, Przemyśl, 2010.
- EM Galerie, Drachten, Netherlands, 2011
- Suburbs project, Nova Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2011
- Suburbs project, Alte Schiebekammer Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2011
- Art Reserve, 2nd Meeting of Independent Art, Lanckorona, 2012
- Sweet disease, BWA City Gallery, Tarnow, 2012
- Academy in Bronowice, Bronowicka Gallery, Cracow, 2013
- Presences and Returns, BWA, Sanok, 2014
- Pattern, warp, weft. Art vs. Design? vol. 2, Artifex Gallery, Vilnius, 2015

Sculptor, visual artist, exhibition curator, feminist, activist, author of books, researcher, professor and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow - one of the most prominent figures in Polish contemporary art. She creates sculptures, objects, installations, site-specific works, videos and works in the Internet space. In her work she draws on such artistic practices as participatory art, herstorical empathy, post-artistic activities, relational art, feminism, wikiartivism. Iwona Demko's flagship color in both her artistic work and private life is pink. In 2012, she received her doctorate in fine arts in the discipline of fine arts on the basis of a dissertation entitled Vaginatism and a sculptural work entitled The Vagina Chapel. In 2016, she received her habilitation in the field of fine arts, in the discipline of fine arts on the basis of her work anioly.net. The work dealt with the theme of female prostitution. In 2000, she stayed in Toulouse, France, as a scholarship holder at the École des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Appliqués. In 2019, she received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Program Council of the Orońsko CRP. Since 2019, she has led the Intermedia Extension of Sculpture Workshop at her alma mater as an ASP professor. She has participated in more than 160 exhibitions at home and abroad, including the National Museum Poznań, CCA in Gdańsk, CRP in Orońsko, CCA in Toruń, MOCAK.
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XXXVII AUCTION: CONTEMPORARY ART
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01 June 2023 CEST/Warsaw
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1 559 EUR
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2 004 - 3 118 EUR
Hammer price
2 272 EUR
Hammer price without Byuer's Premium
1 893 EUR
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146%
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