MAJA KRYSIAK
b. 1980, Częstochowa
Visual artist, works in painting, drawing, ceramics, creates objects and installations. She studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where she defended her PhD in art and is currently teaching. Her creative practice is rooted in conscious maturation in relation to the feeling of reality, both bodily and mental. She explores the fluidness and diversity of female identities.
Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2020), awarded during the 47th Winter Salon of the Art Biennale at MCSW Elektrownia (2023). She lives and works in Krakow.
works
coming in 2024: Playground, Kraków House, Nuremberg
2024
Crash Club / U 22, Hos Gallery, Warsaw.
Beware of the voice of the divinely singing mermaids, performance, directed by Marta Ziółek, Lokal 30, Warsaw
Warsaw Mermaids, performance, directed and conducted by Marta Ziółek, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Relief: the Maze, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw.
A+ MNFST, Metropolitan, Warsaw
2023
The Last Show on Earth, interdisciplinary exhibition combining painting installation and performative actions, Emaus Atelier, Kraków (solo)
I’m Standing in Front of the Mirror Like a Dog and Paint a Portrait, HOS Gallery, Warsaw (solo)
A World Beneth the Heels, Kravitz Contemporary London
45th Winter Salon/ Art Biennial, Masovian Center of Contemporary Art Elektrownia, Radom
2022
Mother Queens, Pilipczuk Gallery, Copenhagen (solo)
Pharmacist. Balsamic Garden, City Museum, Tychy
And the Body Became a Soul, Municipal Art Gallery, Częstochowa
2021
On These Noisy, Fiery and Stunning Days, I Move With My Thoughts, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw
Magic Renewal Salon, Widna Gallery, Cracow
Refugees Welcome, 5th Charity Art Auction, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Reviving vol. 2, Pilipczuk Gallery, Copenhagen
