Katarzyna Kmita was born in 1972 in Nowa Ruda, Poland. In 1996, she earned a diploma in painting from the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. In 1996, she received the Minister of Culture and Art Award "Promotions '96." In 1998, she received the Rector's Award of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław in the "Eugeniusz Geppert Competition." In 2006, she was awarded at the "Rybie Oko" Biennale of Young Art for a series of works that combined elements of Polish folklore and pop culture. She was also recognized by the "Łossskot" magazine as one of the most interesting figures in culture in 2007. She has received the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship three times (2011, 2017, 2022), as well as the "Kultura w sieci" scholarship in 2020. In 2022, she was awarded the Presidential Scholarship of Wrocław.
Chosen solo Exhibitions:
2023 "Contrafactur" Municipal Museum of Wrocław, Old Town Hall, Wrocław
2023 "Parade or Resemblance to People and Events," MOS, Gorzów Wielkopolski
2021-2022 "Cross-section" Geppart Gallery, Wrocław
2021 "Exercises in Imagination" as part of the Wrocław 70/20 Symposium, Museum of Architecture, Wrocław
2020-2021 "Foyer" Muranów Cinema, Krupa Gallery, Warsaw
2020 "Portrait Studio" as part of the "Kultura w Sieci" program on Instagram @pracowniaportretowa.kasiakmita
2019 "Horizontal Panorama. Codes" Krupa Gallery at the TIFF Center as part of the Artistic Scene of the 19th New Horizons IFF, Wrocław
2016 "Who Would You Be If You Could Be Who You Want" Geppert's Apartment, Wrocław
2013 "Menu" Manhattan Gallery, Łódź
2012 "Cut-Paste" Olimpia Gallery, Kraków
2012 "Must Have It" BWA in Bielsko-Biała
2011 "Must Have It" BWA in Wrocław
2011 "Souvenir Shop" Kordegarda, Warsaw
2011 "Good Because It's Polish" Galeria-1, Olympic Center, Warsaw
2010 "Cutouts" Polish Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 "Cutout Parade" Flying Gallery, Warsaw
2009 "Cutouts" Polish Institute, Budapest, Hungary
2007 "Cutouts" BWA Wrocław, Bielska Galeria Sztuki, Ustka, Galeria Zero, Berlin, Germany
2002 - "The Soothing Effect of the Plural Number" Karowa Gallery, Warsaw
Chosen group Exhibitions:
2023 "If We Want Everything to Stay the Same, Everything Must Change," Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław
2023 "Critical Mass," Oblatów 4, Katowice
2021 "Hello Helka. A Short Story on Paper and War," Warsaw Uprising Museum, Warsaw, with the late artist Janina Róża Giedroyć-Wawrzynowicz
2018 "Schrödinger's Cat. In the Face of Tradition," Municipal Gallery, Wrocław
2017 "Bielska Jesień" BWA Bielsko-Biała
2016 "Art Seeks IQ" exhibition as part of ESK 2016, NFM, Wrocław
2016 "SURVIVAL 14" Fabryka Automatów Tokarskich, Wrocław
2016 "HANDMADE WORKS" Olimpia Gallery, Kraków
2015 "IS/ISN'T" MWW, Wrocław
2015 "OSTRALE'15" Dresden, Germany
2015 "Arte Laguna Prize" Venice, Italy
2015 "16 Years" Olimpia Gallery, Kraków
2014 "MIDNIGHT SHOW II" BWA Design, Wrocław
2014 "SURVIVAL" former building of the Institute of Pharmacy at the Medical University of Wrocław
2014 "Planetary System" Municipal Gallery, Wrocław
2009 "20 YEARS AFTER POLISH ART AFTER COMMUNISM" Dam 27, Amsterdam, Netherlands, BiB in Sassenheim, Netherlands
2009 "folk-art-NOW!" Guter Bahnhof, Bremen, Germany
2007 "Herzlich wir kommen" Pokusa Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany
2007 "Idolatry" Klima Bocheńska Gallery, Warsaw
2006 "Rybie Oko 4" Baltic Gallery of Art, Ustka
2003-2006 "Survival Art Review" University of Wrocław, Browar Mieszczański, Main Railway Station, Wrocław
2001 "XXXV All-Poland Painting Competition - Bielska Jesień" BWA, Bielsko-Biała
2000 "Most Dangerous Brushes" Xawery Dunikowski Museum, Warsaw
1998 "XVII Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting" BWA, Szczecin
1998 "National Exhibition of Young Painting - Eugeniusz Geppert Competition" BWA Wrocław
1997 "Bielska Jesień '97" Bielska BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biała
1996 "Promotions '96" State Art Gallery, Legnica
Awards and Scholarships:
Presidential Scholarship of Wrocław 2023
Minister of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship 2022
Minister of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship "Kultura w sieci" 2020
Minister of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship 2017
Finalist of the 10th ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE, Nappe Arsenale, Venice 2016
Minister of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship 2011
"Łossskot" magazine recognition for the most interesting cultural figure of 2007
Award at the "Rybie Oko 4" Biennale
"ELLE Trophy" Award
Minister of Culture and Art Award "Promotions '96"
Rector's Award of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, "Eugeniusz Geppert Competition"
Works in Collections:
Lower Silesian Society of Fine Arts
Art Collection of BWA Bielska Gallery
Krupa Art Foundation
kontakt@kasiakmita.com
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