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“Ceramika Artystyczna” Spółdzielnia Rękodzieła Artystycznego

Post author By Maciej Nawrot
Post date 24 February 2023

"Artistic Ceramics" Artistic Handicraft Cooperative

From Bolesławiec clay - 2021

"Ceramika Artystyczna" Spółdzielnia Rękodzieła Artystycznego

“Ceramika Artystyczna” Spółdzielnia Rękodzieła Artystycznego (Artistic Ceramics Handicraft Cooperative) started its activity in 1950 on Polna Street, in the buildings of the pre-war Julius Paul ceramics factory. Initially, the plant functioned within the structures of the Folk and Artistic Industry Headquarters. In 1990, the company was relocated to the premises at 23 T. Kościuszki St. Today, the plant, expanded and equipped with the latest technology for ceramics production, provides employment for several hundred people, which places it among the largest in the area.

The company’s products are highly valued for their quality and design. In addition to utility crockery, they include jewellery, furniture handles, cutting boards, figurines and sushi sets, which are extremely popular on Asian markets.

The dishes currently on offer were designed in terms of form by Bronisław Wolanin, artistic director and chief designer from 1964 to 2012, and Mariusz Ochocki, who has held this position since 2012. Among the most distinguished decorators are Maria Ciszewska, Anna Pasierbiewicz, Teresa Liana, Maria Starzyk, Maryla Iwicka, Irena Mączka and Jacek Chyła. The factory currently offers 1,400 ceramic forms and over 7,000 decorations signed by 24 designers.

The cooperative’s products have won many awards and distinctions at home and abroad. The company exports them to 27 countries worldwide. Some products have found their way into the collections of Polish national museums. In addition, they are eagerly used by film set designers, not only in Poland, but also abroad. The cooperative also carries out orders for the needs of various organisations and institutions, including the American CIA. It is also worth recalling that it made the service for serving the meal on board the plane on which Pope John Paul II flew from Poland to Rome in 1997.

Selected designs

Vases, form and decoration: Bronisław Wolanin

Set of bowls, form: Mariusz Ochocki, decoration: Maria Ciszewska

Set of bowls, form: Bronisław Wolanin, decoration: Maria Ciszewska

Tea service, form: Mariusz Ochocki, decoration: Maria Ciszewska

Tea pots, form and decoration: Bronisław Wolanin

Elements of tea service, form and decoration: Bronisław Wolanin

Set of bowls, form: Bronisław Wolanin, decoration: Maria Ciszewska

Set of containers, form: Bronisław Wolanin, decoration: Teresa Liana

Set of bowls, form: Bronisław Wolanin, decoration: Maria Starzyk

Dishes, form: Bronisław Wolanin, decoration: Anna Pasierbiewicz

Bowls, form: Bronisław Wolanin, decoration: Jacek Chyła

Bowls, form: Bronisław Wolanin, decoration: Teresa Liana

"Artistic Ceramics" Artistic Handicraft Cooperative

Set of containers, form: Bronisław Wolanin, decoration: Maria Ciszewska

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Anna Stawiarska

Post author By Maciej Nawrot
Post date 20 February 2023

Anna Stawiarska

I have this affliction of talking to clay. I only tell her compliments. I stroke it and pat it in a friendly manner. I praise her for her grace and nobility. We like each other." - Anna Stawiarska, Catalogue of the exhibition "Ceramics

Anna Stawiarska

Katalog wystawy “Ceramika”, Miejska Galeria Sztuki MM, Chorzów 2013

This post from the series “Bolesławiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Bolesławiec – 30 years of local government” carried out by the Museum of Ceramics and the Bolesławiec Cultural Centre – International Ceramics Centre.

Anna Stawiarska was born in Gliwice and came to Bolesławiec when she was twelve years old. She is a graduate of the State Higher School of Visual Arts (now the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts) in Wrocław, where in 1980 she obtained a diploma in ceramic design in the studios of Prof. Irena Lipska-Zworska and Prof. Rufin Kominek. In 1993, she received a first degree qualification in fine arts in the artistic discipline of small sculptural form. She deals with drawing, but above all she is a ceramicist. She makes landscape reliefs and intimate spatial forms that allude in texture, shape and colour to natural objects such as rocks, minerals and fossilised plants. She is not tempted by extravagant and complicated compositions, as she considers them contrary to the nature of the material. The artist has mastered to perfection the combination of ceramic masses with different plastic properties and colours. Firing such complex mixtures requires a perfect mastery of technology based on numerous trials and experiments. However, the end result is always to some extent a coincidence – and that is the magic of ceramics.

Anna Stawiarska has devoted a large part of her life to teaching and therapy of people with disabilities through art. In 1987, she began working at the Institute of Fine Arts of the J. Długosz Academy (now the University of Humanities and Sciences) in Częstochowa, where she organised a ceramic sculpture studio and developed a curriculum for it. In 1993, she participated in the creation of a branch preparing for the profession of ceramist- decorator at the primary school for intellectually disabled youth in Katowice and for nearly 10 years she ran her own ceramic studio there. In the period 2003-2013 she was a lecturer of courses “Art and knowledge of culture in a reformed school” and “Pedagogical therapy with art therapy” at the faculty of pedagogy at the Higher School of Humanities and Economics (now the Academy of Humanities and Economics) in Łódź. In the period 2007-2016, she also worked as an assistant professor in the field of graphic design at the Silesian College of Information Technology and Medicine in Chorzów. At the same time, she taught sculpture lessons at the High School of Fine Arts in Tarnowskie Góry. In addition, she was involved in the organisation and development of therapeutic projects organised by the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology (Department of Art Therapy) of the University of Silesia and the Silesian Library in Katowice.

In addition, she conducts art therapy and art education classes in out-of-school facilities based on an original programme. In the years 1992-1998 she was a teacher at the Youth Palace in Katowice, and from 1996 to 2003 she worked as an instructor at the Training and Rehabilitation Workshop “Unikat” in Katowice.

Anna Stawiarska is also keenly involved in social activities. In 1994, she was among the founders of the Association for Supporting Creativity and Development of Disabled People “Unikat” and served as its president until 2000. She was also a founder and long-term vice-president of the Association of Chorzów Artists. Since 2000, she has been secretary of the Social Council of the Municipal Art Gallery “MM” in Chorzów. He is also the founder and president of the Association for Supporting Creativity and Art, established in 2011. Association for the Support of Creativity and Development AKME. Between 2016 and 2019, she ran a ceramics studio as part of the Chorzów Senior Academy. Since 2015, she has been running a ceramics studio at the Municipal Cultural Centre “Batory” in Chorzów.

In 2007 she received the Award of the Mayor of the City of Chorzów in the field of culture, and in 2010 she was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit

1985 Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

Gallery “Jatki”, Wrocław

Gallery “Plus”, Chorzów

1988 Salon BWA, Bytom

Gallery “Plus”, Chorzów

Anna Kareńska Gallery and Stage, Poznań

1990 Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Częstochowa

Gallery “Plus”, Chorzów

Gallery “Vitro Art”, Świdnica

Gallery “Art Deco”, Katowice

1991 “In the Garden of Eden”, Open Gallery of Ceramics, Wrocław, Poland

1992 “About Stone”, BWA Gallery, Częstochowa

1993 “Small Things Not Necessary”, Gallery “Inny Śląsk”, Tarnowskie Góry

1995 “On Stone cont.”, Museum of Ceramics, Boleslawiec

1997 “Texture, structure, colour”, Gallery 9, Prague (Czech Republic)

2000 “In the Garden of Eden”, Salon BWA, Częstochowa; Municipal Art Gallery “MM”, Chorzów

2001 “In the Garden of Eden cont.”, BWA Salon, Książ Castle, Wałbrzych, Poland

2002 ”Small unnecessary things cont.”, Gallery “Fryna”, Ruda Śląska

2005 “Places”, Gallery “Steel Angels”, Bytom

„Grain”, 25th anniversary of creative work, Miejska Galeria Sztuki “MM”, Chorzów

2008 “Perfect Opposition”, City Art Gallery “MM”, Chorzów

2009 “Around Structure”, Vauxhall Palace Gallery, Krzeszowice

“Triple Portrait”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2010 Ceramic sculpture exhibition, “Unikat” Gallery, Chorzów

2012 “Parallelism of Structures”, National House, Cieszyn

2013 “30 and 3 by 3″, 30th anniversary of creative work, Miejska Galeria Sztuki “MM”, Chorzów

1983, 1985, 1987, 1989 Biennial of Polish Ceramics, Książ Castle, Wałbrzych

1983-1994 Post-exhibitions of the Polish Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-air in Bolesławiec, BOK Gallery, Bolesławiec; BWA Salon, Jelenia Góra; BWA Salon, Wrocław

1991 ”Place – a collection of moments”, Salon BWA, Częstochowa

“Jurassic Autumn, Salon BWA, Częstochowa

1992 5th National Triennial of Religious Sculpture, “Propozycje” Gallery, Kraków

1995 6th Kraków Triennial of Religious Sculpture, Zachęta Society, Kraków

Post-exhibition of the International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-air in Bolesławiec, BWA Salon, Jelenia Góra; Ossolineum, Wrocław; “Gra” Gallery, Warsaw

1997 ”Decentrisme. Dialoque avec invisible”, Polish Institute, Paris

“A l’aube du siècle nouveau”, Paris

2nd Portrait Triennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Radom

1998-2019 Autumn Exhibition of the Association of Chorzów Visual Artists, Chorzów Museum; City Art Gallery “MM”, Chorzów

III Autumn Exhibition of Fine Arts, Salon BWA, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski

1999 ”Attitudes. Flat and spatial in metal and stone”, Galerie 9, Prague (Czech Republic), City Art Gallery, Wrocław; Gaude Mater Gallery, Częstochowa

2000 “Wspólnota 2000. Cross the threshold of hope”, City Art Gallery “MM”, Chorzów; Archdiocesan Museum, Katowice

Post-exhibition of the International Painting and Drawing Plein-air, City Art Gallery “MM”, Chorzów

“Artists of 20th Century Częstochowa”, City Art Gallery, Częstochowa

Post-exhibition of the International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-air in Bolesławiec, Ossolineum, Wrocław

2001 “Vystava Stdrużeni Chorovskych Umelcu”. City Theatre, Zlin (Czech Republic)

“Together and Apart”, Termoli (Italy); Polish Institute, Rome; Gallery of Contemporary Art, Opole; Municipal Art Gallery “MM”, Chorzów

“Painting, Sculpture, Graphics”, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kolobrzeg; Municipal Art Gallery “MM”, Chorzów

VIII Kraków Triennial of Religious Sculpture, Franciscan Monastery, Kraków

2002 Everything and More – Painting – Graphics – Sculpture, “Stara Kordegarda” Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2004 XI Biennale of Sacred Art “Sacrum 2004”, BWA salon, Gorzów Wlkp.

“Ceramic Dialogues”, Castle New Wisnicz; Nowa Huta Cultural Centre, Kraków

“Artists – Museum. Art of Earth and Fire”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

“Naposled in malem”, Galerie 9, Prague (Czech Republic)

“Encounters”, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław

Post-exhibition of the International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-air in Bolesławiec, City Museum, Wrocław; Gallery of Contemporary Art “Profil”, Poznań; Gallery of the Polish Institute, Prague (Czech Republic), Castle, Český Krumlov (Czech Republic)

“Schlesischer Kunst”, Galeria Villa Herus, Remagen (Germany)

2009 “Art, Education, Science”, BWA Gallery, Częstochowa; BWA, Opole

VIII Festival of High Art, Steel Angels Gallery, Bytom

“Painting and Sculpture”, Limanowa Land Museum, Limanowa

2010 Post-Plenary Exhibition of the 1st International Post-Industrial Plein-Air, Miejska Galeria Sztuki “MM”, Chorzów

2011 XI Festival of High Art “Between the Sun and the Moon”, Gallery “Steel Angels”, Bytom

2012 Post-exhibition of the 2nd International Post-Industrial Plein-Air, City Gallery of Art “MM”, Chorzów

2020 “Artists of the Bolesławiec Area”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom

Zamek Książ Art Centre in Wałbrzych

Municipal Gallery of Art, Częstochowa

Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec

Museum in Chorzów

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Barbara Kozłowska-Trojnar

Post author By Maciej Nawrot
Post date 20 February 2023

Barbara Kozłowska-Trojnar

The shape is always a challenge, how to overcome and tame the material. The most crucial stage of creation is when I have to wrestle with myself as much as my spatial imagination and manual " shape guiding" skills allow.

Barbara Kozłowska-Trojnar

Catalogue of the exhibition "Pole - Artist - Ceramist" Trienalle Bolesławiec 2018

Barbara Kozłowska-Trojnar was born in Augustów. She studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts (now the E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts) in Wrocław at the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass in the studio of docent Krystyna Cybińska. In 1985, she obtained a diploma in ceramic design under docent Halina Olech. In 1985-1997 and 2004-2018, she worked as a designer at Zakłady Ceramiczne “Bolesławiec”, for which she created approximately 300 designs of utility vessels, pots and garden forms. Her crockery takes into account the multiplicity of customers’ tastes – they have universal shapes that make it possible to compose various arrangements on the table, changing depending on the dishes served.

Currently, she runs a studio, Ceramika Trojnar, which offers unique and functional ceramics, including sculptures made with the garden in mind, blending naturally into its landscape.

You can find out more about the artist’s work on her website.

Barbara Kozłowska-Trojnar

1986 Annual scholarship for young artists from the Ministry of Culture and the Arts

1987 Annual scholarship of the Governor of Legnica

2004 Award of the President of ZPAP

Distinction in the competition of the Institute of Industrial Design “Good Design”.

Certificate “Best in Poland” in the 2nd edition of the Consumer Product Quality Competition

“Hit of the Audience” at the International Agricultural Fair “POLAGRA-FARM”.

1987 Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

1989 “Ceramika”, Galeria ROHO, Berlin (Niemcy)

2011 “Ceramics”, ZPAP Gallery “First Floor”, Opole, Poland

2015 “Joy of creation”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2016 Gallery of the Auction House “Rynek Sztuki”, Łódź

2018 „In the circle of ceramics”, City Museum, Nowa Sól

1987 Presentation of the design of ZC “Bolesławiec”, Institute of Industrial Design, Warsaw

1988 Presentation of the design of ZC “Bolesławiec”, Budapest (Hungary), Homl (USSR), Karlovy Vary (Czechoslovakia)

1989 Presentation of the design of ZC “Bolesławiec”, Sofia (Bulgaria)

1990 “PWSSP Wrocław 1946-1990″, Gallery “Zachęta”, Warsaw

1992 Post-exhibition of the 28th International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-air in Bolesławiec

1993 “Ceramicy Boleslawieccy” Museum of Ceramics, Boleslawiec

1994 Post-exhibition of the 30th International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-air in Boleslawiec

1995 Post-exhibition of the 31st International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-air in Bolesławiec

1996 Design presentation of ZC “Bolesławiec”, Poznań

“50th Anniversary of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław”, Ossolineum Library, Wrocław

Post-exhibition of the 32nd International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-air in Bolesławiec

1998 Ceramics Unknown, Opatówek, Wrocław, Poznań

1999 Szklane Nieznane – Ceramika Nieznana”, Institute of Industrial Design, Warsaw

2000 Garden of Ceramics, Archaeological Museum, Kraków

2004 Design presentation of ZC “Bolesławiec”, Kraków

2005 Competition exhibition “Dobry Wzór 2004”, Institute of Industrial Design, Warsaw

Post-exhibition of the 41st International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-air in Bolesławiec

2007 Contemporary Design of ZC “Bolesławiec”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2008 VIII International Creative Workshop, Paczków

2009 “Artists of the Bolesławiec Area”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2011 Post-exhibition of the 47th International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-Air in Bolesławiec

2016-2018 “New design in Bolesławiec ceramics”, Gallery “Mała Biała”, Bolesławiec

2016-2017 “From Bolesławiec Clay. Exhibition of the Association of Ceramic Communities of the Republic of Poland”, Polo Museale del Palazzo della Guardia, Vietri sul Mare; Polish Institute, Rome; Museo della Città, Ancona; Municipio Comune di Faenza (Italy)

2017 XXXIX International Competition of Art Ceramic, Gualdo Tadino (Italy)

2018 “Pole – Artist – Ceramist” Triennale Bolesławiec, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2020 Artists of the Bolesławiec Area”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Bronisław Romanowski (1909-1987)

Post author By Maciej Nawrot
Post date 17 February 2023

Bronisław Romanowski

Bronisław Romanowski was born in Utoropy near Stanisławów (now Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast). During World War II, he fought in the ranks of the 1st Polish Army. In 1970 he was awarded the medal “For participation in the battles for Berlin”. After the war, he settled in Bolesławiec. In 1950 he was part of the team tasked with starting up the Julius Paul und Sohn ceramics factory on Polna Street, which was taken over by the Central People’s and Artistic Industry, operating from 1954 as the People’s and Artistic Industry Work Cooperative, and from 1963 to the present day as the “Ceramika Artystyczna” Handicraft Cooperative. Apart from a break in the years 1954-1958, he was associated with the factory until his retirement in 1974. He went down in the history of Bolesławiec ceramics as a creator of unique figurines of people, animals and devils, as well as genre scenes representing typical folk art. Some of these were put into mass production at the end of the 1960s and were very popular with buyers.

B. Romanowski’s ability to work in clay and his love of this material came from his family home. Romanowski picked up from his family home, where there was a strong pottery tradition. His grandmother and mother made pottery used in the household. In order to expand his knowledge, B. Romanowski also visited local potters. He would often travel up to 20 km on foot to learn something new. This passion never died out in him. Even after his retirement, he visited his workshop many times and continued to create distinctive figurines. This led to a collection, part of which is on permanent display at the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec.

The artist’s works are in the collections of the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec and the Ethnographic Museum – National Museum in Wrocław.

We invite you to watch a film about Bronisław Romanowski, prepared by Television Bolesławiec.

Bronisław Romanowski

Figurines, stoneware, coloured glazes

Figurine, stoneware,

Figurine, stoneware, coloured glazes,

Figurine, stoneware, coloured glazes

Figurine (detail), stoneware, coloured glazes

Homestead, stoneware, coloured glazes

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Bronisław Wolanin

Post author By Maciej Nawrot
Post date 17 February 2023

Bronisław Wolanin

"I dream of an ideal design, something timeless. For years, the Rosenthal company has been realising one of Walter Gropius' designs (...). This pattern of dishes is still fashionable because it is timeless, universal, simply perfect. It is my dream and a constant challenge at the same time."

Bronisław Wolanin

I dream of the perfect design - an interview with Bronislaw Wolanin, Katarzyna Żak, "Rocznik Bolesławiecki 2008"

Bronisław Wolanin was born in 1937 in Bełżec. In 1956, after graduating from the High School of Fine Arts in Zamość, he enrolled in the Department of Ceramics at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wrocław. He obtained his diploma in 1962 in the atelier of Professor Julia Kotarbińska. In the same year he began working as a teacher of ceramics at the Basic Vocational School in Bolesławiec. In 1964 he took the position of artistic manager and designer of the “Ceramika Artystyczna” Handicraft Cooperative in Bolesławiec. In 1980 he became artistic director at the “Bolesławiec” Ceramic Works with the task of preparing and implementing a new range of products into production. In 1985, he returned to ” Ceramika Artystyczna”, where he worked continuously until 2012.
During his decades of work, B. Wolanin introduced several hundred new shapes and types of forms and decorations into Bolesławiec design. His designs are influenced by various traditions and concepts of applied arts. In the 1960s, he created a series of vessels inspired by the 18th-century products of Bolesławiec potters, with walls decorated with ribbing or plastic overlays. In the next decade, he designed a collection of vases alluding to Scandinavian design, distinguished by simple, geometric shapes, which were covered with colourful matt, glossy and crystalline glazes by the technologist A. Skowroński. At Bronisław Wolanin’s inspiration, craquelé glazes in pastel colours were introduced. In the mid-1970s, on the artist’s initiative, there was a return to the pre-war, stamp-based method of decoration. The artist favoured the “fish scale” motif and delicate, point-like stamps covering the entire surface of the vessel, as well as a sparing colour scheme based on the traditional cobalt and bronze of Bolesławiec. For Zakłady Ceramiczne Bolesławiec, he created a series of vases and pot covers inspired by flower cups. Juxtaposing different schools and traditions, Bronisław Wolanin showed extraordinary attention to the careful selection of proportions in each designed form.
From the late 1970s onwards, he also created ceramic paintings – porcelain and stoneware tiles of intricately applied tiny petals in subtle tones of brown, black and blue. These intimate compositions are a synthetic record of images of nature and states of mind. Another of the artist’s passions, pursued at plein-air workshops in Czech porcelain factories, was the design of porcelain cups and jugs with complex, fanciful shapes, decorated with variously coloured glazes.
Bronisław Wolanin died in 2013. The Biennale of Ceramic Masters organised by the Porcelain Museum in Wałbrzych and the Unikat Foundation bears his name. The artist’s works can be found in the collections of: National Museums in Warsaw, Wrocław, Szczecin, Poznań and Gdańsk, Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec, Museum of Upper Silesia in Bytom, Museum in Gliwice, Museum of Copper in Legnica, Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse (United States), Cravatica Academy in Zagreb (Croatia) and Museo Internacional de Cerámica Contemporánea in San Nicolás de Los Arroyos (Argentina).
We invite you to view footage of the artist:

An interview from the series “In the world of passion” produced by Lusatia Television

Report from the opening of the ceramics and drawing exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław realised by portal dokis.pl

Bronisław Wolanin

Decanters, 1970s.

Decanters, 1970s.

Plate, l. 60s. 20th century.

Vases, 1970s.

Vases, 1970s-1980s.

Vases, 1970s.

Ceramic painting

Presentation of the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture Gloria Artis, 2011.

PRIZES, AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

1970 Medal for a collection of ceramic sculptures at the International Ceramics Triennial in Sopot
Prize at the Poznan International Fair for “Export Novelties”.
1973 Bronze Medal at the national exhibition “Visual Artists from the Circle of Cepelia”
1983 „Design of the Year” – prize of the Foreign Trade Centre “Minex” at the Poznań International Fair
1987 First prize (Gold Star of Quality) at the Valencia International Fair for Ceramics and Glass
First prize at the 5th Biennale of Polish Ceramics in Wałbrzych
1988 Gold Cross of Merit
1990 First prize at the competition exhibition “Polish Contemporary Ceramics”, Institute of Industrial Design in Warsaw
1991 First Prize of the Minister of Culture and the Arts and Gold Medal at the 5th International Ceramics Triennial in Sopot
1996 „Design of the Year” – award of the Minister of Industry and Trade
1998 First prize in the “Forma’98” competition at the Poznan International Fair
1999 First prize in the international competition for wedding table arrangement at the fair “Ambiente ’99” in Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
2006 „Award of the Year 2005″ of the Wrocław District of the Polish Artists’ Association for the best individual exhibition
2007 Honorable Mention at the International Biennial of Contemporary Mosaics in San Nicolás de Los Arroyos (Argentina)
2011 Bronze Medal for Meritorious Culture Gloria Artis
Honorary Citizenship of the City of Bolesławiec

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS

1968 „Ceramics and Drawing”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec
1969 „Painting, Ceramics and Drawing”, BWA, Wrocław
1972 BWA, Legnica
1973 BWA, Kłodzko
1974 „Bronisław Wolanin’s Ceramics”, Gallery at Journalists, Wrocław
1975 Museum w Jeleniej Górze
1976 District Copper Museum, Legnica
1977 BWA, Wałbrzych
1979 Bronislaw Wolanin’s artistic ceramics, BWA, Jelenia Góra
1980 BWA, Piła
1981 „Bronislaw Wolanin Ceramics, National Museum, Wrocław
1983 BWA, Zamość
1984 Centre of Polish Culture, Berlin (Germany)
Polish Institute in Paris (France)
1986 BWA, Zielona Góra
1987 International Ceramics Fair, Valencia (Italy)
1990 BWA, Jelenia Góra
1992 „Olimpia”, London (United Kingdom)
1994 Malmö (Sweden)
Polish Trade Centre, Toronto (Canada)
1995 Muzeum Nadwiślańskie, Kazimierz Dolny
1997 „Bronisław Wolanin’s Ceramics”, District Museum, Łomża
2000 „Bronisław Wolanin’s retrospective exhibition of ceramics on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna in Bolesławiec”, Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec, Bolesławiec
2004 „Bronisław Wolanin ceramics exhibition”, Poznań International Fair, Poznań
2005 „Bronisław Wolanin – ceramics”, National Museum, Poznań
2006 Historical Museum, Bielsko-Biala
2007 Museo Internacional de Cerámica Contemporánea, San Nicolás de Los Arroyos (Argentina)
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse (USA)
2008 Copper Museum, Legnica
2009 Bolesławiec Cultural Centre, Bolesławiec
2010 Gallery of Contemporary Art, District Museum, Łomża
Cepelia Gallery, Warsaw, Wrocław
2011 Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec
2014 Polish Institute in Prague
Polish Institute in Bratislava
2014-2015 Regional Museum, Chojnów
2016 Music and Literature Club, Wrocław
2018 „Two roads – Bronislaw Wolanin and Edward Roguszczak on their 80th and 90th birth anniversaries”, Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec
„Ceramics and drawings”, Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1965 „XXIII Concorso Internazionale della ceramica d’arte, Faenza (Italy)
1969 „Polish Applied Art”, Moscow, Riga (USSR)
1973 „Polish Contemporary Art 1945-1973″, Duisburg (Germany)
1981 „La Ceramica Contemporanea Polacca”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Faenza (Italy)
1982 „Textile, Ceramics, Glass” Moscow (Russia), Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan), Prague (Czech Republic), Bratislava (Slovakia)
1983 „Ceramists from Poland”, Vallauris (France)
1984 „La céramique do Bolesławiec”, Polish Institute in Paris (France)
1986 „Contemporary Wrocław Art 1945-1985″, Albertinum, Dresden (Germany)
1987 „Internazionale della ceramica d’arte”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Faenza (Italy)
1990 „PWSSP in Wrocław 1946-1990″, “Zachęta” Gallery, Warsaw (Poland)
1992 „Encounters with Poland”, Gallery of Ceramists, Borne (France)
1998 „Polish Design of the 20th Century”, National Museum, Wrocław
2000 „Common Things – Polish Products 1899-1999″, National Museum, Warsaw
2004 „Polish Ceramics and Glass of the 20th Century”, National Museum, Wrocław
2006 „European Ceramic Context”, Bornholm (Denmark).
„Ornamenta Silesiae”, National Museum, Wrocław
2006-2007 „The Challenge of the Tie. The Tie as Croatian Contribution to World Cultural Heritage”, Gdansk, Krakow, Zagreb (Croatia), Vienna (Austria), Sofia (Bulgaria), Berlin (Germany)
2009 „Design – Antidesign”, Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw, Poland
2011 „After the centenary” – jubilee exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of ZPAP, BWA, Wrocław, Poland
2012 „New Opening”, ZPAP exhibition, Warsaw
„We Wrocławians”, DAP Gallery, Warsaw
„Collection or Emotions. Ceramics from the collection of Iwona Siewierska”, BWA, Wrocław; BWA, Jelenia Góra
2013 Bronisław Wolanin Biennial of Ceramic Masters, Museum of Porcelain, Wałbrzych
2014 „Collection, or passion”, Polish Institute in Prague and Bratislava
2017 „Z bolesławieckiej gliny’, Polo Museale del Palazzo della Guardia, Vietri sul Mare; Polish Institute, Rome; Museo della Città i Showroom Contemporaneo, Ancona; Town Hall, Mi.MO Gallery and Banco Monte dei Paschi di Sienna, Faenza (Italy)
2018 „Polak Artista Ceramik” Triennale Bolesławiec, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec
2020 “Artists of the Bolesławiec area”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Dominika Kustosz-Lee

Post author By Maciej Nawrot

Post date 17 February 2023

Dominika Kustosz-Lee

“For me, foreign languages are an essential part of my life. A tool that helps immerse myself in a new world and get to know it from the inside out, intimately. It has given me the chance to explore new ways of expressing myself and seeing the world, and has also allowed me to see my native culture and myself (...) from a different perspective. All of this has created the possibility of combining many dimensions within myself and from this mixture a new self, a new language, a new sensibility continues to emerge.”.

Dominika Kustosz-Lee

This post from the series “Bolesławiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Bolesławiec – 30 years of local government” carried out by the Museum of Ceramics and the Bolesławiec Cultural Centre – International Ceramics Centre.

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Dominika Kustosz-Lee was born in Bolesławiec. It was here that she received her basic musical and artistic education. Already as a child, her fascination with Asia was awakened, which gradually matured and over time focused on art and languages. Both of these passions took her to South Korea, where she has lived since 2008.
She is a graduate of the Faculty of Neophilology at the A. Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She completed a five-year master’s degree in ethnolinguistics, where she studied Japanese, German and English, and a bachelor’s degree in Korean philology. She also studied for a year in the field of art education at the Academy of Fine Arts (now the University of Arts) in Poznań.
In 2010, she was competitively awarded – as one of two people in Poland – a 5-year scholarship from the government of the Republic of Korea, which allowed her to continue her language studies and the art studies she had begun at the Academy of Fine Arts. In Seoul, she graduated from the Faculty of Western Painting at Ewha Woman’s University (the largest women’s educational institution in the world). During her subsequent years of study, she also took classes in Eastern painting, which further enriched her workshop with new forms of expression, another language. She adapted ink to familiar subject matter, traditional eastern brushes that naturally teach a new line and a palette of traditional Korean colours.
Dominica Kustosz-Lee’s artistic explorations mainly revolve around the human body. It is anonymous, and when analysed, selected parts of it are an inspiration to discover its beauty, its lines – its folds and indentations, its ranges of shades and their reflections. The other focal point of her work is colour. She gives the body and space she occupies colours that symbolise herself and express her needs – warmth, joy, closeness, tenderness, passion and ardency.

Untitled (Abstraction I), oil on canvas

Untitled (Abstraction II), Acrylic on canvas

Untitled (Love), C-Type print

Untitled (Pieces of Happiness), oil on canvas,

Untitled (Act I), ink and ink for Korean painting on rice paper

Untitled (Act II), ink and ink for Korean painting on rice paper

Dream, oil on canvas

Dance, Korean paints on rice paper

EXHIBITS

2012 „She & She”, painting/drawing, M. Twerda Gallery, Secondary School, Bolesławiec
2013 „She & Her. On the Road”, painting/drawing, 55th Anniversary of GOKiS Gromadka, Hall of Mirrors, GOKiS, Gromadka
2015 Expert Class Exhibition “,C-Type print, Gyeomjae Jeongseon Art Museum, South Korea, Seoul
2015 Diploma, Painting/Photography, Faculty of Fine Arts, Ewha Woman’s University, South Korea, Seoul

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

2010 Five-year KGSP (Korean Government Scholarship Program) scholarship for a one-year intensive Korean language course and 4-year undergraduate studies at Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul (with the right to choose the field of study), Faculty of Fine Arts, majoring in Western Painting
2015 Award from the National Institute of International Education, a branch of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea, for outstanding academic achievement

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Edyta Orlińska

Post author By Maciej Nawrot

Post date 17 February 2023

Edyta Orlińska

"Ceramics is a magical and exciting path for me, being a record of emotions and capturing a moment whose purpose is sometimes unexpected and surprising."

Edyta Orlińska

note in the exhibition catalogue "Pole - Artist - Ceramist"

This post from the series “Bolesławiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Bolesławiec – 30 years of local government” carried out by the Museum of Ceramics and the Bolesławiec Cultural Centre – International Ceramics Centre.

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Edyta Orlińska was born in Myszków. She is a graduate of the Department of Ceramics and Glass at the E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, where she obtained a diploma in unique ceramic design in the studio of Prof. Grażyna Płocica and applied ceramic design in the studio of Prof. Lidia Kupczyńska-Jankowiak. She travelled to Germany twice on educational scholarships. She studied at the Europa Akademie in Isny im Allgäu (2000) and the Hochschule für Kunst und Design in Halle (2003). She has realised her work at: Ceramic Building Factory in Suchedniów, Porcelany Factory “Ćmielów”, Porcelany Factory “Porcelana Śląska” in Katowice, Walbrzych Graphic Works “Kalkomania” and Stoneware Factory “Manufaktura” in Bolesławiec.
Since 2010, she has been working at the Bolesławiec Cultural Centre – International Ceramics Centre, conducting ceramics classes for children, youth and adults. As an artist she is involved in designing functional and unique ceramics, drawing, painting and sculpture. In the creative process, she is fascinated by her relationship with the material, and the form of her works is strongly influenced by nature, the world of fauna and flora, underwater formations, rock formations and fossils. She has made reliefs her trademark, which – subjected to various transformations – can be delicate and subtle or rough and heavy, and depending on the glaze used, give the impression of a cold and glassy or warm and velvety surface.

Self-portrait, glazed stoneware clay

Vases, glazed stoneware clay

Relief, grog clay

Table, chamotte clay

Rock tablets, chamotte clay

Screens of time, chamotte clay

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1998 „Diplomas 1998″, Piwnice BWA, Kielce
„Drawing, Painting, Ceramics”, Municipal and Communal Cultural Centre, Szczekociny
1999 „Szczekociny Landscape”, Municipal and Communal Cultural Centre, Szczekociny
2000 „South Moravia 1999″, Gallery of the Regional Cultural Centre, Częstochowa
2001 „International Ceramic Workshop Luboradów 2001″, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław
2001 „Solina 2000″, Gallery of the Regional Cultural Centre, Częstochowa
2003 „Beginning”, Castle Gallery, Lubin; Gallery of Glass and Ceramics, Wrocław
„Performance”, City Gallery, Wrocław
2004 „First Fire”, Castle Gallery, Lubin; Glass and Ceramics Gallery, Wrocław
“Ideen für Pflanzgefasse”, Keramionzentrum Frechen, Botanischer Garten, Halle (Germany)
2005 „Before the Fumes Fall”, Castle Gallery, Lubin; Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec
„Diploma 2005″, Browart Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
“Graduates and Teachers for the 60th Anniversary of the Kielce Plastic Arts School”, BWA Cellars, Kielce
“Diploma 2005”, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław
“Best Diploma 2005”, Na Solnym Gallery, Wrocław
2006 „Wrocław Applied Ceramics”, Design Gallery, Wrocław; Institute of Industrial Design, Warsaw
“European Ceramic Context 2006”, Bornholm (Denmark)
“Déjà vu – an exhibition of young people”, ASP, Wrocław, Poland
“Gebrannte Kunst”, Stadtlische Galerie Villa Streccius, Landau (Germany)
2007 „Art Beyond Borders”, post-exhibition of the 42nd International Ceramics and Sculpture Plein-Air in Bolesławiec, Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec; MDK, Zgorzelec; Arsenal Historical Museum; Wrocław; Vodni Hrad Lipy, Česká Lípa (Czech Republic); Norblin Museum, Warsaw
2008 Post-exhibition of the 43rd International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-air in Bolesławiec, Gallery “Długa” BOK, Bolesławiec; Gallery Waldenburg (Germany)
“She and He”, Gallery “Concordia”, Bolesławiec
“Artists of the Bolesławiec Land”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec
2018 „Pole – Artist – Ceramist” Trienalle Bolesławiec, Tourist Information Point, Bolesławiec
2020 „Artists of the Bolesławiec Area”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

AWARDS

1998 Award of the Director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kielce for the best diploma work
2002 1st place in the National Ceramic Competition “New Bathroom Clothes”

SCHOLARSHIPS

2002 Scholarship of the Minister of Culture
2003 Scholarship of the Mayor of the City of Wrocław
2004 Scholarship of the Department of Education and Sport

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Elżbieta Woźniewska

Post author By Maciej Nawrot

Post date 16 February 2023

Elzbieta Wozniewska on the background of her work

"... for everything that lives is unique, yet we are a whole enclosed in time and space. What we can grasp with our senses and reason becomes a universal unity. That is why I give a kind of signal, an injunction to preserve life, because if one element is missing - a character - a hole is created, the whole collapses."

Elzbieta Woźniewska

The world in a cryptogram - a conversation with Elżbieta Woźniewska, Ewa Ołenicz-Bernacka, "Rocznik Bolesławiecki 2017"

This post from the series “Bolesławiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Bolesławiec – 30 years of local government” carried out by the Museum of Ceramics and the Bolesławiec Cultural Centre – International Ceramics Centre.

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Elżbieta Woźniewska was born in Bolesławiec. Between 1980 and 1983 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, at the Faculty of Graphics in Katowice. She then moved to West Berlin, where she continued her studies at the Hochschule der Künste, majoring in visual communication.
After completing her studies, she created graphic art for renowned German book publishers (e.g. Ullstein Verlag, Cornelsen Verlag, Bertelsmann), cultural institutions, advertising agencies and companies. At the same time, she continued to paint pictures, treating them as an imperative of autonomous creativity. After an academic period, she gradually simplified the subject to simple forms opening the way to abstract communication and transcendentalism.
In the early 1990s, she moved to Spain, where she established collaborations with numerous Madrid publishing houses (including Alfagaura, Anaya, Ediciones del Prado, Edaf, Mondadori, Pais Agilar, Tecnos) and the Ministry of Culture there. Inspired by Hittite reliefs from Anatolia, she began working on a series of paintings entitled ” Cryptograms”, which consists of figure-signs symbolising specific concepts such as woman, man, strength, challenge, loneliness, cause, etc. The artist uses them to create ordered compositions, which are like books written in mysterious script, waiting to be deciphered by the viewer. Presented for the first time at a solo exhibition in Madrid, ” Cryptograms ” was enthusiastically received by art critics and viewers.
In 1999. Elżbieta Woźniewska returned to Berlin, where she continued to work as a graphic designer. In 2002, she was invited to participate in the ” United Buddy Bears” campaign under the auspices of UNICEF, in which artists from all over the world were given the task of painting, according to their own ideas, a 2-metre-high figure of a bear – the symbol of the German capital. The bear exhibition was presented in more than a dozen capitals on five continents.
One day Dr Walter Andrees, director of the Staatsbibliothek Preussische Kulturbesitz in Berlin, proposed to Elisabeth Wozniewska to make a unique artist’s book to complement the library’s collection. The result was the first experimental book entitled ” Icons of Polish Womanhood”, in which each page had the form of another letter of the word “womanhood”. Other object-books followed: ‘Aphorisms’, ‘Labyrinth of Time’ and “Gilgamesh”. For the entire series, the artist received a distinction at the 8th TIME International Book Art Festival in 2008, and in 2012. “Gilgamesh” was awarded the Director’s Prize of the St. Staszic Pomeranian Bookshop in Szczecin at the 9th International Book Art Festival CORRESPONDENCE.

Elżbieta Woźniewska

The Three of Them

Cryptograms

Cryptographic Cubic; installation

Icons of Polish Womanhood; art book

Gilgamesh; art book

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1997 „Elżbieta Woźniewska – Paintings and Graphics”, Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec
1998 „Criptogramas”, Galería Gayo Arte, Madrid; Galería Detras del Rollo, Murcia (Spain)
1999 „Criptogramas”, Sala de Exposiciones, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante (Spain)
2000 „Cryptograms”, Polish Cultural Institute, Berlin “Cryptograms”, The Society for Arts, Chicago (USA)
„Cosmopolitan”, SYSECA, Berlin
„Criptogrammas”, Centro Cultural de San Angel, Mexico City; Museo Regional de Antropología de Yucatán, Merida (Mexico)
2002 „Emoticon”, Bulgarian Institute of Culture, Berlin; Elisabeth Zimmerman Gallery, Berlin
2003„El colour y el vacio” (Colour and emptiness), AELE Evelyn Botella Gallery, Madrid (Spain)
2004„Kryptogramme”, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin; VIADRINA University, Frankfurt (Oder) (Germany)
2005„Cryptograms”, Grodzka Gallery, BWA, Lublin, Poland
„Cryptograms Other Worlds”, Polish Institute, Prague (Czech Republic)
“Cryptograms other worlds”, Galerie Tantow, Berlin
2006 „El mundo icónico”, Museo Universidad de Murcia (Spain)
„BilderKosmos”, Galerie Söffing, Frankfurt n. Menem (Germany)
2013 Word or Image, Książnica Pomorska im. Stanisława Staszica, Szczecin (Poland).
„’Threshold of Hope”, Gallery under the Basilica, Berlin
2017 ‘Threshold of Hope”, Gallery under the Basilica, Berlin
Cryptograms”, Humboldt Universität, Berlin 2019
„Parallels”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec
2020 “Parallels”, City Gallery, Wrocław

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1984 Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung, Berlin
Group exhibition „Streufeuer II”, Berlin
1985 Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung, Berlin
Group exhibition „Streufeuer II”, Berlin
1986 Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung, Berlin
Group exhibition „Streufeuer II”, Galerie Friedenau, Berlin
1987 Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung, Berlin
Group exhibition, Konstancja (Niemcy)
„Annäherungen – Polnische Kulturtage in Kreuzberg”, Berlin
Group exhibition, Ballhaus, Berlin
1988 Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung, Berlin
Galerie Friedenau, Berlin
1989 Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung, Berlin
Galerie SIM, Berlin
1990 Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung, Berlin
1991„Zugang nicht gestattet”, Berlin
„Imagen Digital”, Centro Cultural Galileo; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madryt (Spain)
1992 Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung, Berlin
1993 Group exhibition of the Association of Spanish Illustrators “Pintando Poesía”, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (Spain)
1995 Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung, Berlin
„Pintando Poesía”, Athens, Buharest, Mediolan, Neapol, Rome, Utrecht
1997 “Artists of the Bolesławiec Area”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec
2000 „Cosmopolitan”, SYSECA, Berlin
2001 „Cosmopolitan”, SYSECA, Hannover (Germany)
„Visionen zum Tag der deutschen Einheit”, Berlin
„Hommage a Marlene Dietrich”, Berlin
2004 „32 Positions”, Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld (Germany)
2005 „Argumenta”, Atlas Sztuki Gallery, Lodz, Poland
„Motiva”, Austria Center, Vienna (Austria)
„Focus Szymborska”, Galeríe Insel, Berlin; Kunsthaus Rehau – IKKP, Rehau (Germany)
„Little Red Riding Hood”, Galerie ZERO, Berlin
2006 „Roman Triptych”, BWA, Lublin
Concrete art exhibition, Gerard Gallery, Krzewie Wielkie
International Book Art Festival TIME, Łódź
“United Buddy Bears”, Sydney (Australia), Vienna (Austria)
2007 „Constructivo-Concreto-Reductivo-Inteligible”, Centro Cultural Isabel de Farnesio, Aranjuez (Spain)
International Book Art Festival TIME, BWA Wrocław, Lublin, Szczecin
“BWA Collection”, Grodzka Gallery, Lublin
“United Buddy Bears”, Cairo (Egypt), Jerusalem (Israel)
2008 International Book Art Festival TIME, Poster Museum – Warsaw, Chełmek, Częstochowa, Gdynia, Płock, Bremen (Germany)
“United Buddy Bears”, Warsaw, Stuttgart (Germany), Pyongyang (South Korea).
2009 „Intelligible Prozesse”, Künstlerforum, Bonn (Germany)
„Presence and Depth”, Grodzka Gallery, Lublin (Poland)
International Book Art Festival TIME, Konin, Jastrzębie Zdrój, District Museum – Bydgoszcz, Museum of Paper Industry – Duszniki Zdrój
„Polish Artists’ Books from the Turn of 20th and 21st Century”, National Library – Warsaw, Lublin, Kielce
Seoul International Book Arts Fair, Seoul (South Korea).
“United Buddy Bears”, Buenos Aires, Montevideo (Argentina), Berlin
2010 “Europe Concrete – Intelligible”, Villa Dessauer, Bamberg (Germany)
“Book Art. Polish Art Book from the turn of the 20th and 21st century”, University of Łódź Library, Municipal Public Library – Jastrzębie Zdrój, Poland
“United Buddy Bears”, Astana (Kazakhstan), Helsinki (Finland)
2011 „Book Art. Polish Art Book at the turn of the 20th and 21st century’, Centre for Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland
Polish Art Book, Musashino University of Art, Tokio (Japan)
“Collection of the Museum Modern Art in Hünfeld”, Centrum Sztuki Galeria EL, Elbląg
“100-Tage-Kunst/ 100-days-of-art”, Verein Düsseldorfer Künstlerinnen e.V., Düsseldorf (Germany)
„United Buddy Bears”, Sofia (Bulgaria), Berlin
2012 International Book Art Festival KORESPONDENCJA, Plock Art Gallery, City Gallery – Tarnów, Ciekoty, WiM Library – Łódź, BWA Nowy Sącz
International Book Art Exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Art, Toruń
SIBAF – Seoul International Book Fair 2012, Seul (South Korea)
“United Buddy Bears”, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), New Delhi (India), St. Petersburg (Russia)
2013 International Book Art Festival KORESPONDENCJA, ODA – Piotrków Trybunalski, Town Library in Inowrocław, BWA Sandomierz
2nd Artist´s Book Triennial, Martin (Slovaka)
„Mach Kunst”, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin
„United Buddy Bears”, Jekaterynburg (Russia), Mexico City (Mexico)
2014–2017 „United Buddy Bears”, Rio de Janeiro, Havana, Santiago de Chile, Penang, Berlin
2018 “100th anniversary of Independent Poland”, Club of Polish Losers in Berlin
„Buddy Bear Berlin”, Berlin
2019 „Buddy Bear Berlin”, Gwatemala
2020 „United Buddy Bears”, Berlin
“Artists of the Bolesławiec area”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

WORKS IN THE COLLECTION

Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec

Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld

Museum of Book Art, Łódź

Musashino University of Art, Tokio

Galería AELE, Evelyn Botella, Madryt

BWA Gallery, Lublin

Institut für Konstruktive Kunst und Konkrete Poesie, Kunsthaus Rehau (Niemcy)

Książnica Pomorska im. Stanisława Staszica in Szczecin, Poland

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz

Staatsbibliothek Dresden and Frankfurt n. Menem

The Society for Arts, Chicago (USA)

and in private collections in Bolivia, Brazil, Spain, Colombia, Germany, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, USA, Venezuela and Italy

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Eugeniusz Niemirowski (1922-1998)

Post author By Maciej Nawrot

Post date 16 February 2023

Eugeniusz Niemirowski, photo from the archive of Zofia Rydet

"The art of fire cannot be mastered to the end. It constantly brings new surprises. I am also learning something new, I am gaining new experiences day by day, and this will probably continue to be the case as long as I continue to create."

Eugeniusz Niemirowski

(quoted after: Paweł Śliwko, "Eugeniusz Niemirowski - a European artist", "Głos Bolesławca" 1996).

This post from the series “Bolesławiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Bolesławiec – 30 years of local government” carried out by the Museum of Ceramics and the Bolesławiec Cultural Centre – International Ceramics Centre.

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Eugeniusz Niemirowski was born in Lwów. After the Second World War he settled in Wrocław. There he began his studies at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in the painting studios of Prof. Leon Dołżycki and Prof. Maria Dawska. However, during his studies he changed direction and in 1953 obtained a diploma from the Faculty of Glass and Ceramics. While still a student, he became a member of the Association of Polish Artists. From 1965 he belonged to the art collective ” Group 8″. In the 1970s he decided to change his life, left Wrocław and moved to Parzyce in the municipality of Nowogrodziec, where he bought the buildings of an old hydroelectric power station and turned them into a unique ceramics studio.
The artist himself dealt with all stages of creating ceramics, from preparing the masses and glazes through designing and making the moulds, their decoration and glazing to firing. He was known above all for producing artistic utilitarian objects such as vases, plates, bowls and various containers, with strikingly simple shapes. He gave them a unique character by adding decorations in the form of paintings or reliefs deliberately combined with smooth surfaces, often in contrasting colours. He most often used floral and animal motifs, as well as genre scenes with figures in stylised folk costumes. These decorations were often arranged in short thematic cycles, such as “knights” or “musicians”. A separate group of works consists of vessels in which the author’s glazes of varying colour, texture and lustre are the main carrier of aesthetic value.
E. Niemirowski has also become known as a creator of original relief and relief ceramic tiles. His oeuvre also includes full-scale sculptures and sophisticated colour paintings on canvas, which, however, he rarely presented at exhibitions.
E. Niemirowski’s works were exhibited at solo exhibitions in Wrocław, Bolesławiec, Jelenia Góra, Stockholm, Dresden, Semily (Czechoslovakia). The artist has also taken part in group exhibitions in Bolesławiec, Wrocław, Warsaw, Jelenia Góra, Wałbrzych, Olsztyn and Dresden. He has received many distinctions and awards for his work.
E. Niemirowski’s ceramics found their way into the collections of museums in Bratislava, Berlin and Bolesławiec, as well as private collections in Poland, the Czech Republic, France, Belgium, Russia, Germany, Canada and the USA.
In 1983, the studio in Parzyce hosted the well-known Polish photographer Zofia Rydet, who travelled around Poland as part of her “Sociological Record” project, photographing people in the interiors of their homes or workplaces. In Zofia Rydet’s archive (zofiarydet.pl) you can find several photographs from this visit.
We also invite you to read the catalogue published in 1983 by the Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions in Jelenia Góra on the occasion of an exhibition of E. Niemirowski’s works

Vase, relief decoration

Vase, relief decoration

Vases, glossy and matt coloured glazes

Vases, glossy and matt coloured glazes

Eugeniusz Niemirowski

Eugeniusz Niemirowski in his studio, 1983.

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Izabela Zdrzałka

Post author By Maciej Nawrot

Post date 16 February 2023

Stoneware, colourful glazes and engobes, designed by I. Zdrzałka, Co-operative of People's and Artistic Industries in Bolesławiec, 1950s.

Izabela Zdrzałka as born in Załuż (Tarnopol Oblast, now Ukraine), She finished primary school, gymnasium and secondary school in Zbaraż. From 1939 to 1945 she worked in the local hospital. After the end of the war, she settled down with her family in Świebodzice near Wałbrzych.In 1946, she began her studies at the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Wrocław, where she obtained her diploma in the atelier of Mieczysław Pawełka in 1952. While still a student, she was employed at the Work Co-operative of Folk and Artistic Industry in Bolesławiec (currently “Ceramika Artystyczna” Spółdzielnia Rękodzieła Artystycznego), where she was entrusted with the supervision of the emerging paint shop. After completing her studies, she took up the newly created post of artistic director, which she held until 1958.
During this time she worked simultaneously as a mould designer, decorator and technologist. She put into production dozens of original vessels with asymmetrical shapes and soft lines. She developed recipes for coloured engobes, enamels and several coloured feldspar glazes (shades of brown, green and blue) and artistic reduction and crystalline glazes. She used a variety of decorative techniques: under-glaze stamping (using sponge and rubber stamps), enamels on earthenware and coloured glazes (using a cone, later a pear) and sgraffito (ornaments engraved on coloured engobes). Based on these techniques, she designed dozens of decorations that harmoniously emphasised the tectonic nature of the vessel. Initially she used motifs taken from folk art and the Bolesławiec tradition, creating painted and engraved genre scenes. Over time, she abandoned these in favour of abstract decorations in coloured glazes, referring to the style of the applied arts of the time.
In 1958, she left for the private Zakład Ceramiki Szlachetnej ‘Puchalski i S-ka’, where, until 1972, she was also involved in designing vessels, developing new glazes and supervising production. In addition, in the years 1960-1977 she taught drawing and technical drawing in secondary schools in Bolesławiec. After retiring, she designed individual moulds for various manufacturers.
In addition to her professional work, she also created unique ceramics, using the facilities of “Ceramika Artystyczna” and Eugeniusz Niemirowski’s factory in Parzyce. In 1966, she became a member of the Association of Polish Artists. The artist’s works can be found in the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec and the National Museum in Wrocław.

Izabela Zdrzałka

Liqueur set, stoneware, coloured engobe, designed by I. Zdrzalek

Vases, stoneware, coloured glazes and engobes, designed by I. Zdrzałka

Vase, stoneware, coloured glazes and engobes, sgrafitto technique, designed by I. Zdrzałka, 1950s.

Vase, stoneware, coloured glazes and engobes, sgrafitto technique, designed by I. Zdrzałka, 1950s.

Vase, stoneware, coloured glazes and engobes, sgrafitto technique, designed by I. Zdrzałka, 1950s.

This post from the series “Bolesławiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Bolesławiec – 30 years of local government” carried out by the Museum of Ceramics and the Bolesławiec Cultural Centre – International Ceramics Centre.

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1955 Wrocław International Press and Book Club
1962 Club of the Wrocław Association of Polish Teachers
1966–1969 Karpacz
1997 Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1952 “Polish Ceramics 1900-1952″, Silesian Museum, Wrocław
Annual District Art Exhibition, Silesian Museum, Wrocław
1953 Annual 1st May Regional Art Exhibition, Silesian Museum, Wrocław
9th Winter Exhibition of Fine Art, Radom
1st National Exhibition of Ceramics and Artistic Glass, Silesian Museum, Wrocław
1955 “Bolesławiec Stoneware 1945-1955″, Silesian Museum, Wrocław
“The Best Souvenir of Cooperative Production”, Warsaw
1962 The Best Souvenir of Cooperative Production”, Warsaw
Third Exhibition of Interior Design of the Wrocław District, Wrocław
1957 National Exhibition of Interior Design, Central Office of Artistic Exhibitions, Warsaw
Annual District Exhibition of Plastic, BWA, Wrocław
1958 District Exhibition of Interior Design and Graphics, BWA, Wrocław
1959 Exhibition of Visual Arts of the Nadodrzańskie Lands, Central Art Exhibition Office, Warsaw
1960 “Artists in Industry”, Central Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, Warsaw
Second National Exhibition of Ceramics and Artistic Glass, Silesian Museum, Wrocław
District Exhibition of Ceramics and Artistic Glass, Silesian Museum, Wrocław
1962 Third Exhibition of Interior Design of the Wrocław Circle, Wrocław
“Boleslawiec Stoneware in the Creation of Ceramic Artists”, Silesian Museum, Wrocław
1963–1964 Exhibition accompanying the “Spring of Boleslawiec”, Boleslawiec
1965 “Artists in Industry”, BWA, Wrocław
1979 1st National Exhibition of Artistic Ceramics in Walbrzych-Książek
“Bolesławiec Stoneware” Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec
1984 “Bolesławiecka Stoneware”, BWA, Poznań
1989 “Bolesławiec Stoneware Yesterday and Today”, Środa Śląska, Warsaw
“Bolesławiecka stoneware of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries”, National Museum, Wrocław
1992 “Selected Collections of Artistic Ceramics”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec
2020 “Artists of the Bolesławiec Area”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

MAJOR AWARDS

1954 Prize of the Minister of Culture and Art in the souvenir competition, Gdansk
1955 Award of the Minister of Culture and Art for a set of works presented at the exhibition “Bolesławiec Stoneware 1945-1955”.
1956 Award in the competition for a souvenir accompanying the XXV International Poznań Fair
1959 Award of the Minister of Culture and Art for lifetime achievement

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