Karolina Witowska

A Polish female artist born in Warsaw on September 4, 1985. From 2005 to 2010 she was a student of the graphics department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2008, the young artist-to-be was granted a half-year Erasmus scholarship at Faculdad de Bellas Artes at Universidad de Granada.
Two years later she received her degree with a vice-chancellor’s award for her project entitled “Inhabitude”, a newspaper. The work had been developed in the Publishing and Graphics Studio run by professor Lech Majewski. In 2010-2011, Witowska took a one-year postgraduate course “Art, public space and democracy – relations and opportunities” at The Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. At present, she is attending the course of “Artetherapy – the therapy against the exclusion” under the auspices of The National Culture Center.
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For several years Karolina Witowska has been occupied with graphic design (poster, publishing graphics). In both design and her artistic activity she is interested in community art projects. She works in a local community environment bringing up neighborhood and coexistence issues. She deals with projects on the borderline between installation, design and drawing. She also runs workshops. In her artistic work she uses sketching as a quick and spontaneous record of the situation. In the ‘Sketch better than…(a completed work)’, her graduation paper, she showed the superiority of sketches above a completed work.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:
- „Tres polacos con nombres raros”, joint painting and drawing exhibition – La Esquina, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2006)
- „Meetings with Graphics”, joint graphics exhibition – Galeria przy Van Gogha, Warsaw, Poland (2007)
- „Warsaw Graphics”, award of the vice-chancellor of The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw for December – ‘The Air’ diptych ” – etching, aquatinta and joint exhibition; Test Gallery, Warsaw, Poland(2007)
- „Speed Dating with Graphics”, exhibition of graphic works with Marta Madej – The cycle of spatial graphics and installation, Studio No 6 , Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland (2008)
- „Conversations with Stones” painting installation Godki, Poland (2009)
- Olsztyn– Dortmund. Two Gardens Project ( 2009-2010) ( www.ogrodwolsztynie.pl )
Co-creating the project, event coordination, running workshops.
„Jungle” Performance – Olsztyn, Poland (2010)
„Gateway” joint installation – Olsztyn, Poland (2010)
„Room” OSB joint installation – Olsztyn, Poland (2009)
„Adam” Mural art– Dortmund, Germany (2009).
- „Unknown Portraits” individual painting exhibition – Magiel Cafe, Warsaw (2009)
- „22 Poster Biennial” joint exhibition – film poster for „Angel Extraminador”, category „Golden Debut” – The Poster Museum , Warsaw (2010)
- „Graduation Works of ASP” joint exhibition, Gallery in Lubelska Street, Warsaw, Poland (2011)
- „Review of Best Graduation Projects of 2009/2010 by 2+3d Magazine” joint exhibition – Cieszyn (Poland), Prague (Czech Republic), Bratislava (Slovakia) (2011) www.graduationprojects.eu
- „Overdesigned?” joint exhibition of projects of members of the Association of Applied Graphic Designers (STGU) at Łódź Design Festival – Łódź, Poland (2011)
- “Polski Box” – joint exhibition of polish artists in Maxo Gallery (drawing and sketches), Barcelona, Spain (2011)
- “Sielce of Architects” – local interdisciplinary project joining architects and citizens – coordinator of workshops, exhibition and debate about public space, Warsaw, Poland (2012)