Katarzyna Przezwańska ‘Small things’ — within the cycle ‘Inessentials’
Katarzyna Przezwańska (born in 1984)
The artist studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and she works in painting, installation and design. Her works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and at the Avant-Garde Institute in Warsaw, among others. She was the creator of the painted interventions presented during the 2nd edition of Bródno Sculpture Park in Warsaw. Przezwańska collaborates with Kolonie Gallery in Warsaw.
‘Inessentials’ — book summary of exhibition cycles The project ‘Inessentials’, which is planned for the whole year, involving artists, designers and the local community in a series of...
Magdalena Starska ‘To calm’ — actions involving city space within the cycle ‘Inessentials’ Magdalena Starska presents the inhabitants of Katowice with her original design of a root cellar to keep cucumbers. The inspiration for her idea came...
Urban action ‘Empire of Dream’ — Justyna Gruszczyk's olfactory installations in Katowice In her works, Justyna Gruszczyk rejects the visual and engages the audience's sense of smell instead. Scent becomes a matrix containing information that...
‘Eden of the Soul’ Karolina Szymanowska's exhibition — part of a cycle ‘Inessentials’ 26th April (Thursday), vernissage at 6 p.m. The exhibition ‘Eden of the Soul’ (Raj duszny) comprises animations based on archival photographs, and jewellery...
18th October (Thursday), vernissage at 6 p.m. Join us!
In culture, colours have stood for primitivism, wildness, frenzy, decadence, carnival, immoderation and blending of contexts. Whatever was supposed to become urbane, needed to stop offending viewers with aggressive colours, and allow itself to become mollified and decolourized, neutralized. Katarzyna Przezwańska deliberately delights in colours, taking them from the real world — she sort of inserts a probe into reality and transfers colours into her installations. With a passion befitting an antropologist she distils colours from the surroundings and uses them to instil things and places with vibrant energy. Her interventions do not require context, they are received at the level of intuition, and are invariably associated with the strength, health and freshness that the artist brings into any existing space.
