Biography
The works of Dorota Podlaska often reflect her private life. An important aspect of her artistic work is its narrative character. Her preferred medium is figurative painting for which she developed a peculiar mode of presentation. The artist uses small paintings and objects to create installations. She also creates photo documentations and interventions in galleries and living spaces, and designs books and other publications. Her work has been exhibited among others at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, the Centre for Contemporary Art ‘Laznia’ in Gdansk as well as in Finland, France, Italy, South Korea and Japan.
Dorota Podlaska graduated in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun in 1989. While a student she was involved with several art groups such as Naprzód, Yach-Film where she created video art and realized happenings. In 1993 she co-founded the Water Tower Art Association in Bydgoszcz. She currently lives and works in Warsaw.
Selected individual exhibitions
- 2014
A Feast for Two, performance, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw
Between Languages, Staniszów Palace, Staniszów
- 2013
Kunst gegen Kohle, Höherveg Ateliers 271, Dusseldorf, Germany
A Matter of taste, Austria Culture Forum, Warsaw, Poland - 2012
Lost in Translation, Akiyoshidai Artists Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
Free Translation, Labirynth Gallery, Lublin
Picture Cinema, Muranow, Praha Cinema, Warsaw (6th Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, Warsaw) - 2011
Lost in Translation, BWA Gallery of Art, Olsztyn/Plocka Galeria Sztuki, Plock
30 film cuts, Muranow Cinema, Warsaw
(5th Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, Warsaw)
Places and People, District Museum of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz - 2010
Happy Newspaper Series – Seoksu Market, SAP Art Project, Anyang, South Korea
Courtyard (Wroclaw), Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw - 2009
Courtyard (Bydgoszcz, Torun), Municipal Gallery BWA – Kantorek Gallery, Bydgoszcz
Straight on, Turn Right Past the Suits, Zacheta National Gallery of Art – Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw - 2005
– There and Back, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw - 2003
Hickory Dickory Dock, Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw
Head in the Clouds, One Foot on the Ground, Biala Gallery, Lublin
To Where?, Water Tower Gallery, Bydgoszcz - 2002
Dorota's Library, BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora
Earth is Flat, ON Gallery, Poznan
Beginning, End and Something in-between, exhibition during the Polish Young Art Festival, Open Studio Gallery, Krakow
Hell / Heaven, Witches’ Tower Art Gallery, Slupsk - 2000
I Cry at the Movies, Centre for Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Happy Birthday, Dorotka, My Archives Gallery, Koszalin - 1996
ore of Little Pictures, Kantorek Gallery, Bydgoszcz - 1995
Letters, Painting exhibition, Mózg Gallery, Bydgoszcz - 1994
Flight – Interior design, Water Tower Gallery, Bydgoszcz - 1993
Textiles and painting, ‘85 Gallery, Bydgoszcz – outdoor installation on the 70th anniversary of the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz - 1992
Exhibition of textiles, Trytony Club, Bydgoszcz
Exhibition of textiles, Arche Gallery, Museum of Archeology, Gdansk
Textiles and painting, Municipal Gallery BWA, Bydgoszcz
Enchanted Castle, exhibition of Dorota Podlaska and Stanislaw Stasiulewicz, Kantorek Gallery, Bydgoszcz - 1991
Voyage. Exhibition of textiles, Sculpture Gallery BWA, Warsaw
Voyage. Exhibition of textiles, courtyard of the Voivodeship Conservation Office, Bydgoszcz - 1990
Sail Power Museum. Exhibition of textiles, Kantorek Gallery, Bydgoszcz - 1989
Travel. Exhibition of textiles, Author’s Gallery of Jan Kaja and Jacek Soliński, Bydgoszcz
Selected group exhibitions
- 2016
New Illustration, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
Daily and Festive Rituals, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok - 2015
Austeria, BWA Sokol, Nowy Sacz
Order out of Chaos, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw
Prose of the City, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
- 2014
Adoration of Sweetness, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
It a Bitter Taste - Polishness, BWA Gallery, Jelenia Góra
Midnight Show, BWA Gallery, Wrocław
Let's Talk about Art and Life, LET programme, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski Warszawa
- 2013
Houses Silver like Tents, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Frohefest, Polnish Institut, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Matter of Taste, Austria Culture Forum, Warsaw, Poland
- 2012
Occupy Art - Open Museum - workshops in Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw -
2011
2010
Beeing on the Move. Reflections on Migration, 2011, Litmus Community Space Ansan, South Korea
Collection- New Accquisitions, - Open Museum - workshops in Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
It Will be Better and only Better - BWA Gallery of Art, Olsztyn
Happy Newspaper Series – Seoksu Market, SAP Art Project 2010, Anyang, South Korea
The Truest Love Stories. Allegories of Love in the Contemporary Polish Art, National Museum, Szczecin
Big Up 5, Anglet, France - 2009
The Truest Love Stories. Allegories of Love in the Contemporary Polish Art, District Museum of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz
Gallery of Modern Art, District Museum – Red Granary, Bydgoszcz
Collections. International Collection of Contemporary Art – Centre for Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw - 2008
Reisefieber, Rondo Art Gallery, Katowice
Suavity and Despair, Wozownia Gallery, Torun - 2007
Come, I'll Tell You a Story, Manhattan Gallery, Lodz - 2006/2007
21st Century Painting, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw - 2006
Love Will Forgive You All, or a Short Exhibition About Love, Gallery DLA ..., Torun
In Poland, What Does It Mean?, Centre for Contemporary Art - Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
In Between, Woo Lim Gallery, Soeul (South Korea)
Nomads of Nowadays, Laznia Gallery, Gdansk - 2005/2006
Acquisitions of 2004, District Museum, Bydgoszcz - 2005/2006
Merry Christmas, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok - 2005
Dorota Podlaska & The Randomroutines. Live 2005, Vasa Konsthall, Vasa (Finland)
Impulse. Contemporary Art from Poland, Polish Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany
Egocentric, Immoral, Outmoded. Contemporary Images of Artists, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Regional Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art – National Museum, Szczecin - 2004
Les vents de la Drome, Bell Atelier, La Roche sur Grane (France)
Bustle II, Avant Garde Art Gallery BWA, Wroclaw/BWA, Zielona Gora - 2003
Collection part II. Polish Contemporary Art from collections of Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz, Red Granary, Bydgoszcz
Supermarket of Art, Artists‘ House Gallery, Warsaw
Odra II Oder, Tabakfabrik, Vierraden/2yk Galerie, Kunst Fabrik, Berlin/ Amfilada Gallery, Szczecin
A Woman for a Soul, Manhattan Gallery, Lodz
GARBa (art workshops), Montescaglioso (Italy)
Biennal I Maleri, Vasby Kunsthalle, Vasby (Sweden)
Habitat, National Museum, Szczecin - 2002
Apator Loves Polonia, Gdanska Street, Mill Island, Bydgoszcz
GARBa (art workshops), Montescaglioso (Italy) - 2001/2002
Oikos, 6th edition, Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz - 2001
Bustle, Avant Garde Art Gallery BWA, Wroclaw
Masquerades, Centre for Contemporary Art Inner Spaces, Poznan
Apator Loves Polonia, Torun - 1999
Brain in Frost, or Cold Lettuce, Mozg Gallery, Bydgoszcz
The Brain at BWA Zielona Gora, BWA, Zielona Gora
Lending a Brain, Club OdNowa, Torun
Earth, Air, Heaven, Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz
6th European Artists Meeting, Borne Sulinowo - 2000
Construction in Process. This Earth Is a Flower, Lubostron
Lagadian Stories, Polish Sculpture Centre, Oronsko
Oreste (art workshops), Montescaglioso (Italy) - 1999
‘Na Piętrze’ Gallery, Toruń - 1998
Oikos, 4th edition, Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz
Meitheal / Together, Manorhamilton (Republic of Ireland)
3rd European Artists Meeting, Borne Sulinowo - 1998
A Short Description. Painting exhibition, TPS Dworek Sierakowskich Gallery, Sopot
Pictures for the Well-behaved and the Naughty, ZPAP Okop Gallery, Olsztyn
Dorota Podlaska, Podlaska Gallery, Biala Podlaska
Women, Men and a Few Moments of Agreement Between Them, Water Tower National Art Gallery, Konin - 1995
Polish Impression, a competition realized by Poland-Japan Foundation, Warsaw - 1991
The Diary, Kantorek Gallery, Bydgoszcz - 1990
Painting, graphic arts, textiles, Kantorek Gallery, Bydgoszcz
The Pentagon, the exhibition of visual art of the group Yach-Film, Author‘s Gallery of Jan Kaja and Jacek Soliński, Bydgoszcz - 1989
Critics about us, BWA, Sopot
The Dungeons of Manhattan, Lodz - 1988
To Every Time Its Own Art. Young Artists National Exhibition Arsenal ‘88’, Hala Gwardii, Warsaw
Awards, grants
2013 – Artists Residency, Hoherweg Ateliers, Dusseldorf, Germany
2012 – Artists Residency Akiyoshidai Artists Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
2010 – Grant of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Poland,
Artists Residency in South Korea
2004 – Grant of the Ministry of Culture, Poland,
Svenska Yrkeshogskolan, Nykarleby, Artists Residency in Finland,
Les vents de la Drome, Bell Atelier, La Roche sur Grane, Art Residency in France
2000, 2001, 2004 – Oreste/GaRBA, Artists Residency, Montescaglioso, Italy
2000 – Grant of the Foundation of Culture, Poland
1989, 1990, 1996, 2001 – Grant of the Ministry of Culture, Poland
1998 – Meitheal, Arttists Residency, Manorhamilton, Ireland
1987 – First award at the First National Exhibition of Miniature Painting, Gallery 85, Bydgoszcz
Works in collections:
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Museum of Warsaw Praga, Warsaw
Centre for Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Centre for Contemporary Art ‘Znaki Czasu‘, Torun
Warmia-Masuria Zachęta‘ Association for Fine Arts, Olsztyn
Zachęta‘ Association for Contemporary Art, Szczecin
Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum, Bydgoszcz
private owners