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Bolesławiec artistic community – Katarzyna Rott

I am truly in love with painting my oil paintings, even if I don't paint very often, I would say hobbyistically. They are dozens (and in my mind hundreds) of unfinished canvases that I don't judge by correctness, artistic level or quality. They are paintings from a particular space and dream border, they are simply mine (or I have access to them)."
Katarzyna Rott

This post from the series “Boleslawiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Boleslawiec – 30 years of local government” implemented by the Museum of Ceramics and the Boleslawiec Cultural Center – International Ceramics Center

Katarzyna Rott was born and raised in Bolesławiec. After her studies, she emigrated to the United Kingdom, from where she returns to Poland on the occasion of various artistic projects. She is a glass artist (Secondary School of Fine Arts in Jelenia Góra), photographer (Secondary Vocational School – S. Wyspiański School of Artistic Crafts in Jelenia Góra) and art teacher (University of Arts in Poznań), but she creates in many different techniques. She is a co-founder of the creative team Silverclock, and since 2011 she has also run an art studio under this name, previously functioning as a photographic studio. There are five main areas of interest in her work:

Costume Design

In the UK, she made bespoke costumes for the gothic music festival in Whitby and the steampunk festival in Lincoln. In Poland, she has designed and made costumes for role-playing game conventions, as well as imaginative theatre (LARP).

In September 2013, she started working with the Grand Theatre – National Opera in Warsaw. First, as an assistant costume designer, she participated in the preparation of the staging of the comic ballet “Don Quixote” by Ludwig Alois Minkus. In February 2015, she made her debut on the chamber stage with the costumes for the ballet show ” Pupa” based on the works of Witold Gombrowicz, which also used animations by her.

Other significant challenges included designing costumes for productions for the youngest audiences: the show ” Calliya” based on Hans Christian Andersen and the ballet “Carnival of the Animals” with music by Camille Saint-Saëns. From November 2020, she is working on the costumes for the new ballet production ” Don Quixote” for the Castle Opera in Szczecin. This is the most complex project in terms of character and number of costumes in her career to date.

The costumes for the performances designed by Katarzyna Rott are largely based on the idea of dressing the “bodies in the flesh” in a simple and completely transformative way, without restricting the dancers and acrobats’ freedom of movement. Their characteristic feature is the painterly treatment of materials, which are decorated by hand or using specially designed printed patterns.

Illustration and related arts

In parallel to costume design, she is involved in creating illustrations for art books, including the collection of fairy tales “The Fish That Became a Bird”. She has also developed the visual concept for the fantasy novel ” The Iron Bear and the Treading Cat in Search of the Silver Clock”, which she co-authored.

In addition, the artist is involved in lettering in the fullest sense of the word, graphic design, where – as in the case of illustration – she combines traditional and digital techniques. The means of expression she uses determine the final shape and style of her works as much as their subject matter.

Leatherwork

In 2017, Katarzyna Rott began using natural leather as an artistic material. She designs and handcrafts original jewellery collections, utility accessories and costume accessories for individual commissions. In December 2019, she received a named certificate authorising her to use the quality mark Polskie Rękodzieło/Polish Handmade w leatherworking category.

Oil painting on canvas

In this traditional technique, the artist has been creating since 2006. Since then, she has been working on two coexisting and interpenetrating series: “Architectural” and “The other side of the mirror”. The ever-growing collection of paintings includes canvases ranging in size from tiny (20 x 15 cm) to gigantic (triptych 210 x 510 cm).

They are all “afterimages of the imagination”. It is a hybrid of semi-abstraction, surrealism and synthetic cubism, which may allude to real forms, although not necessarily. The most important thing is the structure, the guiding colour tonality, the multi-faceted angles of vision, the simplified forms on a flat, heavy background. It is an attempt to capture a vast, ever-changing space that visualises itself through the broken structure of architectural forms.

Engraving on glass

She began her adventure with this colourless material when she was still at art high school. It was one of the things she had to learn as part of the core curriculum. However, it did not end with just doing a few tasks in practical classes, but developed into a technique that she perfected over a long period of time on hundreds of objects.

Over time, her greatest passion became free-hand engraving – no sketch, no stencil, just a seed of an idea – the art of hand-drawn glass ritual, the main idea of which is the line that creates a milky-transparent world, full of linear creations, dragon fish and spatial forms, conjured up on the surface of a glass or mirror.

We invite you to take a closer look at the work of Katarzyna Rott and the Silverclock team

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Silverclock Costumes & Leatherworks
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Bolesławiec artistic community – Katarzyna Sas

In my creative life, I am mainly occupied with areas where light plays a huge role in perception, as it can change the mood, colours and intensity of a composition. These changes fascinate me. What else? Emotions and understated content. For me, art should have meaning, tell a story - probably a different one for everyone - and evoke emotions. It should not leave the viewer indifferent.
Katarzyna Sas

This post from the series “Boleslawiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Boleslawiec – 30 years of local government” implemented by the Museum of Ceramics and the Boleslawiec Cultural Center – International Ceramics Center

Katarzyna Sas is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, where she obtained a diploma in industrial form design in the studio of Prof. Włodzimierz Dolatowski at the Faculty of Interior Design and Industrial Design in 1999. There, she also completed postgraduate studies in 2008 in the field of fine arts disciplines in architecture, specialising in stained glass, receiving her diploma in the stained glass studio of Dr. Ryszard Więckowski.

For over twenty years she has been associated with the Youth Cultural Centre in Bolesławiec, where, as a teacher-instructor, she is involved in the artistic education of children, young people and adults. Since 2009, she has also been running classes for seniors at the Bolesławiec University of the Third Age. Her teaching work brings her a lot of satisfaction, as it is an opportunity to meet wonderful people – small and big artists. Her creative work is dominated by artistic textiles (batik, silk painting) and glass (stained glass, glass mosaic). In addition, she is involved in spatial design realisations and jewellery forms.

We invite you to watch video reports from exhibitions featuring Katarzyna Sas.

Opening of the exhibition “Three Women – Three Matter”.

Vernissage of the post-exhibition of the atelier run by Katarzyna Sas at the Youth Cultural Centre in Bolesławiec

EXHIBITS

1998 „Presentations 98″, MDK Gallery, Zgorzelec

1999 Municipal Gallery, Wrocław

2004 „Beyond this…” exhibition of MDK instructors, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2008 „She and He”, Concordia Gallery, Bolesławiec

2009 Exhibition of graduates of Primary School No. 4, Bolesławiec

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

Kliczków Castle

2010 Bautzen District Office, Bautzen (Germany)

2011 „Artists for Bolesławiec”, BOK-MCC Gallery, Bolesławiec

2012 „Finally!”, Old Theatre Gallery, Bolesławiec

2013 Polish Institute, Prague (Czech Republic)

„Without borders”, Pumpwerk, Siegburg (Germany)

2014 „Without borders”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2017 „In search of art, science and passion – graduates of the I Liceum Ogólnokształcące in Bolesławiec 1946-2016″, State Archive in Wrocław Branch in Bolesławiec

2019 „Three Women – Three Matter”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

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

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Krystyna Gay-Kutschenreiter

I have always been fascinated by the question of transience, of a kind of insignificance, of states that are difficult to grasp, especially in clay, which by its very nature is cohesive.
Krystyna Gay-Kutschenreiter

This post from the series “Boleslawiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Boleslawiec – 30 years of local government” implemented by the Museum of Ceramics and the Boleslawiec Cultural Center – International Ceramics Center

Krystyna Gay-Kutschenreiter was born in Łódź. As a result of the turmoil of war, she ended up with her family in the Borderlands, only to find a shelter in Malopolska and Lower Silesia after the country’s liberation. After graduating from high school in Wrocław, she took up studies at the Faculty of Arts at M. Kopernik University in Toruń. At the time, she never imagined that her future life would be closely connected with ceramics. As she confessed in an interview with Katarzyna Żak (“Rocznik Bolesławiecki 2008”), she even felt “physical repulsion towards clay, which dried on her hands”. However, when she decided to move to the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Wrocław (now the E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts), she chose the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass – primarily because of the outstanding personalities who made up the faculty. Initially, she was fascinated by industrial design and, towards the end of her studies, by sculpture. Ceramics as a sculptural material therefore became a natural direction of artistic exploration for her. She obtained her diploma in 1961 in the atelier of Prof. Rudolf Krzywec and became a member of the Association of Polish Artists already in 1962.

In 1964, persuaded by friends, she came to Bolesławiec and settled here permanently. For more than 30 years, she taught ceramics at the Basic Vocational School in Bolesławiec (now the Major H. Sucharski General and Vocational School Complex in Bolesławiec). Today, her alumni can be found in almost every Bolesławiec ceramics factory. She was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit for her achievements in teaching. During this period she actively participated in workshops and open-air meetings.

In 1990, Krystyna Gay-Kutschenreiter opened a new, extremely fruitful chapter in her life by taking on the role of artistic commissioner of the All-Polish Ceramics and Sculpture Plein-Air, held in Bolesławiec since 1964. She faced a very difficult task, as the period of political transformation proved to be extremely unfavourable for culture and art. However, thanks to her commitment, ingenuity and perseverance, she coped admirably. Under her guidance, the plein-air exhibition was transformed into an event of international stature, with the participation of artists from all over the world. On her initiative, post-exhibitions were presented in many Polish cities, as well as in Germany and the Czech Republic, becoming a showpiece of Bolesławiec as a ceramics capital. She was the organiser and curator of 55 post-exhibitions. As commissioner, she ensured that each exhibition was accompanied by a professionally prepared catalogue. The last plein-air under her supervision took place in 2005.

Despite her numerous professional duties, the artist has always managed to find time for her own work, which consists of ceramic sculptures and unique ceramics. All of her works show clear inspiration from nature – fluid, dynamic shapes made up of wavy, intertwining lines testify to a strong fascination with the world of plants. However, the organic form is not an end in itself, but merely a starting point, a stimulus to reflect on the phenomenon of life, on its strength and fragility at the same time.

Krystyna Gay-Kutschenreiter’s works can be found in the collections of: Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec, Bolesławiec Cultural Centre – International Centre for Ceramics in Bolesławiec, National Museum in Wrocław and Poznań, Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, BWA in Jelenia Góra, Kunstforum Piaristen in Vienna and in private collections.

We invite you to watch a composite of archival footage prepared by Television Bolesławiec on the occasion of the award of the medal ‘Meritorious for Culture Gloria Artis’ to the artist.

AWARDS, DISTINCTIONS AND DECORATIONS

1983 Award of the Head of the City of Bolesławiec

1994 Badge of the Minister of Culture and Art for “Meritorious Service to Culture”.

1998 Award of Jelenia Góra Governor

1999 Gold Decoration of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers

1999, 2004, 2010 Award of the Mayor of Bolesławiec

2012 Placing a plaque with the artist’s handprint in the Avenue of the Great Ceramists of Bolesławiec

2016 Bronze Medal for Meritorious Culture Gloria Artis awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage

Honorary Award of the Mayor of Bolesławiec for the Promotion of the City

Honorary Citizenship of the City of Bolesławiec

2017 Award of the Marshal of Lower Silesia for Special Achievements for the Region

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1983 Ceramic sculpture, Pomeranian Dukes’ Castle, Szczecin

1984 Ceramic Sculpture, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

1989 „Kuby” and “Ażury”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

1987 Ceramics, Gallery of Fine Arts, Cracow

1989 „Ceramic Impressions”, Empik Gallery, Jelenia Gora, Poland

1991 Ceramics, Muzeum Okręgowe, Gorzów Wielkopolski

„Interlacing”, BOK Gallery, Boleslawiec

„Interlacing”, Municipal House of Culture, Zgorzelec

1992 Ceramics and sculpture, Vitroart Gallery, Świdnica

2001 „Magic of a Tree I”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2002 „Magic of the Tree II”, Jacob Böhme House, Zgorzelec

2005 „Associations”, Promocja Gallery, Jelenia Gora

2006 „A Capriccio”, “Format Gallery”, Bolesławiec

2007 „Yes”, House of Jakub Böhme, Zgorzelec

2008 „Perfect Opposition”, Gallery MM, Chorzow

2009 „Klatki”, Galeria na Piętrze, Zabierzów

„Klatki. Repercussions”, Regional Museum, Myślenice

„Around Structure”, Gallery in Vauxhall Palace, Krzeszowice

2010 „Fluctuations”, BOK-MCC Ceramics Gallery, Bolesławiec

2013 „Gardens” – joint exhibition with Janusz Moniatowicz (photography), Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2014 „Garden of mysteries” – joint exhibition with Janusz Moniatowicz (photography), Natural History Museum, Jelenia Góra

2016 „Multiplicity”, Town Hall, Bolesławiec

2019 „Duet” – joint exhibition with Stanisława Wojda-Pytlińska (painting), BOK-MCC, Bolesławiec

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1965 Exhibition of Sculpture – Second Lower Silesian Plein-Air (Ziębice), Silesian Museum, Wrocław

1966 Exhibition of Sculpture and Ceramic Forms – III Lower Silesia Plein-air (Bolesławiec), Museum of Architecture and Reconstruction, Wrocław

1967 Exhibition of Sculpture and Ceramic Forms – IV Lower Silesia Plein-air (Bolesławiec), BWA Salon, Wrocław

Exhibition of purchases of the Silesian Museum in Wrocław

„Polish Applied Art”, Archaeological Museum, Wroclaw

1968 District exhibition – painting, sculpture, graphics, Silesian Museum, Wrocław

Sculpture exhibition – V Lower Silesian Plein-air (Boleslawiec), BWA Salon, Wroclaw, Poland

„Polish Ceramics and Glass”, Silesian Museum, Wroclaw, Poland

1969, 1970 VI Lower Silesia Sculpture Plein-air, Museum of Architecture and Reconstruction, Wrocław

1969 „Polish Applied Art”, Silesian Museum, Wrocław

1972, 1973 „The Art of Copper Belt”, City Museum, Legnica

1972,1973, 1992, 1993 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Exhibition of Bolesławiec Visual Artists, Bolesławiec

1973 International ceramics exhibition, Abbots’ Palace, Gdansk Oliwa

1974, 1976 „Presentations”, Museum of Architecture, Wrocław

1976-80, 1984, 1986 „Presentations of the Jelenia Góra milieu”, Salon BWA, Jelenia Góra

1977 „Exhibition of Wroclaw Art”, Gallery of Contemporary Art “Avant-garde”, Wroclaw, Poland

1979, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989 BBiennial of Polish Ceramics, Książ Castle, Wałbrzych

1983 „Panorama of Jelenia Góra Art”, Szczecin

1984 „Panorama of Jelenia Góra Art”, Bolesławiec

1985 „Aktualności plastyki dolnośląskiej”, Wrocław

1985, 1987 „Lower Silesian Sculpture”, Museum of Architecture, Wrocław

1988 „Aktualności plastyki dolnośląskiej”, Wrocław

„District exhibition of fine arts”, Warsaw

1992 „Polish Ceramics of the 20th century”, National Museum, Wrocław

V Triennial of Religious Sculpture, “Propozycje” Gallery, Cracow

„Continuations”, Gallery of Contemporary Art “Awangarda”, Wrocław

1997 „Visual arts of the artists of the Nysa Euroregion”, Regional Museum, Jawor, Poland

1998 „After fifty”, Historical Museum, Wrocław

1999 „After Fifty”, City Museum, Stargard Szczeciński

2001 „Continued – Ceramics 2001″, Historical Museum, Wrocław

2002, 2003 Ceramics, MDK Artistic Salon, Chodzież

2002 „Polish Ceramics from the Thaw 1956-65″, National Museum in Wrocław

2004 „Polish Ceramics and Glass of the 20th century”, National Museum, Wrocław

2008 10th Triennial of Religious Sculpture, Palace of Art, Cracow

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

2011 „After 100″ – jubilee exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of ZPAP, Gallery of Ceramics and Glass, Wrocław

2014 „50 Years of the Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-air – jubilee exhibition”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2017 „A cross-section through the International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-airs in Bolesławiec”, Science and Art Centre “Stara Kopalnia”, Walbrzych

2018 „Pole – Artist – Ceramist”, Bolesławiec Triennial, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

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

FOREIGN EXHIBITIONS

1980, 1986, 2005 Dresden (Germany)

1987 Malmö (Sweden)

1993 Mozyr (Belarus)

1993, 2000 Pirna (Germany)

1994 Siegburg (Germany)

1995 Munich (Germany)

1996 Markersdorf (Germany)

2003-2005 Vienna (Austria)

2005 Český Krumlov (Czech Republic)

Prague (Czech Republic)

2007 Česká Lípa (Czech Republic)

2014 Leipizg (Germany)

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Krzysztof Brzuzan

Krzysztof Brzuzan was born and raised in Bolesławiec. He first came into contact with real art in primary school through Mieczysław Żołądź, a pupil of Antoni Kenar. When encouraged by the artist to make some sculpture, he brought the finished work, causing enthusiasm and disbelief. He continued his artistic education at the First Secondary School in Bolesławiec under the tutelage of Jolanta Ajlikow-Czarnecka. He passed the entrance exam for the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków on the first attempt thanks to a highly acclaimed set of works in wood. He obtained his diploma in the sculpture studio of Professor Marian Konieczny.

After graduation he moved to Rzeszów, where in 1980 he took up a job as an art teacher at the State Secondary School of Fine Arts. At first he taught metalwork and then, for many years, woodcarving (according to an original didactic programme). In 1980, he also won a competition for the reconstruction of a monument to Adam Mickiewicz in Rzeszów, which was important for his further artistic career. He has been an active participant in the cultural life of the city from the very beginning and has repeatedly won prizes in the local competition “Painting, Graphics, Drawing, Sculpture of the Year”. He is well known to the citizens of Rzeszów for his bronze sculptures located in the city space, including the statue of a juvenile delinquent aiming a slingshot at a street lamp.

In his works, he uses stone, wood, metal and ceramics, often combining these materials. Monumental and sacred sculpture occupies an important place in his work. In his art, he refers to many cultural tropes, from the great classics to folk artists. However, regardless of the form or material used, he always tries to say something about man and his condition in the contemporary world.

This post from the series “Boleslawiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Boleslawiec – 30 years of local government” implemented by the Museum of Ceramics and the Boleslawiec Cultural Center – International Ceramics Center

SELECTED SCULPTURAL REALISATIONS

Adam Mickiewicz monument, Rzeszów

Monument to “Rascal with a Slingshot”, Rzeszów

Monument to Jan Pakosławic, Rzeszów

Sculpture of Crucified Christ, Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, Rzeszów

Monument to John Paul II, Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Zaczernie

Monument to John Paul II, Regional Rehabilitation and Education Centre Hospital, Rzeszów

Monument to Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko, Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Salvation, Rzeszów

Plaque in memory of Mira Kubasińska , Old Cemetery, Rzeszów

Busts of Tadeusz Kantor, Jerzy Grotowski, Zdzisław Kozień and Józef Szajna, Wanda Siemaszkowa Theatre, Rzeszów

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2007 Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2014 „My Sundays”, Diocesan Museum, Rzeszów

2015 „My Sundays”, Gallery of the Wicker Centre of the Municipal Cultural Centre, Rudnik nad Sanem

2016 „14×3″, Gallery Na Najwyższym Poziomie, Elektromontaż Rzeszów S.A., Rzeszów

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 Post-exhibition of the 5th All-Polish Ceramic Plein-Air for teachers of art schools “Ceramic Dialogues”, CENTRUM Gallery Nowa Huta Cultural Centre, Cracow, Poland

2007 Post-exhibition of the 6th All-Polish Ceramic Plein-air for teachers of art schools “Ceramic Dialogues”, Museum of Wiśnicka Land, Nowy Wiśnicz; Museum of Industry (no longer existing branch of the Museum of Technology), Warsaw

2009 Post-exhibition of the VIII All-Polish Ceramic Plein-Air for teachers of art schools “Ceramic Dialogues”, The Wiśnicka Land Museum, Nowy Wiśnicz; Municipal Gallery of Art, Municipal Public Library, Limanowa

2010 Post-exhibition of the 8th All-Polish Ceramic Plein-Air for teachers of art schools “Ceramic Dialogues”, Centre for Promotion of Culture Praga-South, Warsaw

Anniversary exhibition – Anna Hass-Brzuzan and Krzysztof Brzuzan, BWA Rzeszów

2014 Post-exhibition of the 10th All-Polish Ceramic Plein-Air for teachers of art schools “Ceramic dialogues”, BWA “U Jaksy”, Miechów

2017 „In search of art, science, passion – graduates of the First High School in Bolesławiec 1946-2016″, State Archive in Wrocław, Branch in Bolesławiec

2018 Post-exhibition of the 12th All-Polish Ceramic Plein-Air for art school teachers “Ceramic dialogues”, Wiejska Gallery, Chełmno

2019 Post-exhibition of the XIII All-Polish Ceramic Plein-Air for teachers of art schools “Ceramic dialogues”, Dwór Karwacjanów Art Gallery, Gorlice

2020 Post-exhibition of the XIII All-Polish Ceramic Plein-Air for teachers of art schools “Ceramic dialogues”, Piotr Michałowski Municipal Gallery of the Complex of Art Schools in Rzeszów, Rzeszów; “So many worlds” Gallery, Oświęcimskie Centrum Kultury, Oświęcim

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

PARTICIPATION IN OPEN-AIR WORKSHOPS

2005, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2019 All-Poland open-air ceramic workshop for art school teachers “Ceramic Dialogues”, Nowy Wiśnicz

2019 Fourth International Painting and Sculpture Plein-Air “Frydman 2019”, Frydman

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Magdalena Gazur

It is people who are an inexhaustible source of my inspiration. I look at them, listen to them, ask them questions, and the emotions they convey to me in this way I try to reflect in my ceramic patterns. I don't look back, I look for freshness, uniqueness. And this is what I find in hand-made ceramics. For it is a surprising, unpredictable and unruly matter.
Magdalena Gazur

This post from the series “Boleslawiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Boleslawiec – 30 years of local government” implemented by the Museum of Ceramics and the Boleslawiec Cultural Center – International Ceramics Center

Magdalena Gazur is a graduate of the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław – she obtained her diploma in 2006 in the 1st Applied Ceramics Design Studio led by Professor Lidia Kupczyńska-Jankowiak. Between 2005 and 2006, she also studied at the University of Wolverhampton (UK) at the Faculty of Ceramics (2006) and at the Faculty of Graphic Communication (2005-2006). In 2010, she completed the postgraduate course “Design Design in New Product Development Management” carried out by the Institute of Industrial Design in cooperation with the Warsaw School of Economics. Since 2013, she has been working at Fabryka Naczyń Kamionkowych “Manufaktura” in Bolesławiec as a chief designer and member of the team responsible for building the plant’s brand.

Although after her studies she became an assistant in the ceramics design studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, she did not intend to devote herself to designing industrial forms. She first came to Bolesławiec in 2009 as a participant in the 45th International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-Air. In 2010-2011, she served as the commissioner of this plein-air. During the plein-air workshops, she was often a guest at the ” Manufaktura”, thanks to which the owners of the plant noticed her talent and offered her cooperation. Soon, still as an external designer, she created the first breakfast set, which was very well received. As a result, she was offered permanent employment. Since then, she has already designed several unique collections combining the search for new product developments with the tradition of Bolesławiec ceramics. She is most sentimental about the first of these, entitled “The 1960s”, as she makes no secret of the fact that she is greatly influenced by the Polish industrial design of the 1960s and 1970s.

Magdalena Gazur is also the initiator and co-author of the “Polish Table” project, as part of which three Lower Silesian producers: Bolesławiec Manufaktura, Porcelana Krzysztof from Wałbrzych and Huta Szkła Kryształowego Julia from Piechowice, have jointly created three sets of dishes combining stoneware, porcelain and glass. The breakfast set No. 1, which is part of this collection, was awarded the “must have” mark at the Łódź Design Festival in 2016.

She considers looking at human behaviour at the table and translating it into forms and shapes in the design process to be very important and the most difficult part of her work. It is only then that she sees how much she still has to learn. And although he is aware that the efforts of a designer are often invisible to the ordinary user, he is not discouraged by this, because his work is guided by the motto: “the best design is the one you can’t see”.

Magdalena Gazur also works as a lecturer in the Department of Interdisciplinary Activities in Ceramics and Glass at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. At the same time, she is involved in computer graphics and exhibition activities. She has curated many exhibitions on contemporary industrial design. Collections of vessels designed by her can be found in the collections of the National Museum in Kraków and the National Museum in Wrocław.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS

2005 Group exhibition “New Designers”, London (UK)

2007 Distinction in a competition for a gadget promoting Wrocław

New Faces – New Work” group exhibition, The Gallery at Bevere, Worcester (UK)

2007/2008 Exhibition Wolverhampton Society of Artists, Art Gallery, Wolverhampton (UK)

2008 Distinction in ” Identification of Place” sculpture competition

Distinction in the competition for the development of the space of the Xawery Dunikowski Boulevard in Wrocław

2009 Group exhibition “Wrocław Design”, Łódź – Braunschweig (Germany)

Collective exhibition “Design- Antidesign”, Museum of Architecture, Wrocław

IV Bienal Internacional de Cerámica “Ciudad de Talavera”, Talavera de la Reina (Spain)

Collective exhibition “non objective”, Łódź Design Festival

Post-exhibition of the 45th International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-airs, Bolesławiec Cultural Centre, Bolesławiec

2010 International Ceramic Exhibition “European Ceramic Context”, Bornholm

Post-exhibition of the 45th International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-air, Arsenal Gallery, Wrocław, Poland

2011 Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for the project “Urban Jewellery”.

Prize of the Rosenthal company for a set of plates ” Stamp” at the Arena Design fair in Poznań

Award in the competition for the best packaging of the year “Pearl among packages” in the category Free Style, at the Art of Packaging fair in Poznań

2013 “must have” distinction for the “Modern” collection designed for the Stoneware Factory “Manufaktura” in Bolesławiec, Łódź Design Festival

2015 “must have” distinction for a breakfast set designed as part of the “Polish Table” collection, Łódź Design Festival

2018 Exhibition “New design in Bolesławiec ceramics”. – presentation of the “Flower Line – Roses” collection, Bolesławiec Cultural Centre – International Ceramics Centre, Bolesławiec

Exhibition “Polish Culture Trip 2018” – presentation of the “Flower Line – Roses” and “1960s” collections, Gdańsk , Poznań, Szczecin

“Night with Design” – presentation of the collection “Flower Line – Roses”, Interior Gallery “Domar”, Wrocław

Exhibition ” Circle/Dot/Dash” – curator of the exhibition, presentation of the collection “Flower Line – Roses”, Łódź Design Festival

2019 Distinction for the collection “Flower Line – Roses” at the International Trade Fair “Trends Solutions” in Frankfurt

Curator of the exhibition “Tribalism”, “Night with Design”, “Domar” Interior Gallery, Wrocław

Curator of the exhibition/project “On the Table”, Łódź Design Festival

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Magdalena Olga Konieczna

My paintings begin in nature, then I already play with colour, subjecting shapes to delicate syntheses. I pass light through the lead drawing, creating "divisions". I experience matter, saturate a stained-glass window with a glow seeping from somewhere in the depths of the painting or ignite the composition with a colourful blaze. I put this painterly adventure into the framework imposed by medieval craftsmanship.
Magdalena Konieczna

This post from the series “Boleslawiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Boleslawiec – 30 years of local government” implemented by the Museum of Ceramics and the Boleslawiec Cultural Center – International Ceramics Center

Magdalena Konieczna was born, lives and works in Bolesławiec. She is a graduate of the Higher School of Pedagogy in Częstochowa, where she obtained a diploma in graphic design under the direction of Professor Ewa Zawadzka in 1999. In 2010, she supplemented her education with a specialisation in stained glass in the studio of Ryszard Więckowski at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Her work with stained glass inspired her to search for new directions of artistic expression related to the fusing technique, which involves melting sheets or pieces of glass. Her creative interests also include easel painting, batiks, design and photography. An important place in her oeuvre is occupied by exlibris. The artist likes to experiment with different materials, combining various artistic techniques.

Since 2000, Magdalena Konieczna has also been heavily involved in the artistic education of children and young people. At the St. Wyspiański Youth Cultural Centre in Bolesławiec she runs studios for printmaking and multidirectional art, while at the International Ceramics Centre in Bolesławiec she runs a glass and stained glass workshop. Her pupils regularly win prizes and distinctions in nationwide competitions.

We invite you to watch a film snapshot of Magdalena Konieczna’s stained glass exhibition ” Divisions of Light”, which took place in 2014 at the Copper Museum in Legnica.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2000 “Fishki by Konieczna”, Format Gallery MBP, Bolesławiec

2006 „Magdalena Konieczna and her pupils”, Format Gallery MBP, Bolesławiec

2011 „Divisions of Light”, BOK-MCC Gallery, Bolesławiec

2013 „Exlibris”, exhibition at the Second Secondary School, Bolesławiec

„Batik”, BOK-MCC Gallery, Bolesławiec

2014 „Divisions of light – stained glass”, Copper Museum, Legnica

2016 „Exlibris”, Piast Castle, Legnica

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

1992 „Gallery of the Young” , Pegasus Club, Bolesławiec, Poland

1996 „Pracownia Grafiki”, MDK Gallery, Radomsko

„Press CDN Graphics”, Czestochowa

1998 MDK Gallery, Zgorzelec

„Graphics”, Gallery “Untitled”, Czestochowa

„Graphics”, Upper Silesian Centre of Culture, Katowice

1999 „Exhibition of the Graphic Arts Studio”, BWA, Czestochowa

„Exlibris”, Exlibris Gallery, Podgórze House of Culture, Krakow

„XIII National Youth Photography Review”, BOK Gallery, Bolesławiec

„III International Competition for Exlibris”, Gliwice

2000 “Exlibris per al. Segle XXI”, Barcelona (Spain)

“Zu neuen Ufern”, Kunstpreis des Kulturforums Dreilandereck e.V., Zinzendorf (Germany)

„IV Krakow Biennale of Polish Exlibris”, Krakow

2001 „Koszelówka 2001 Post-exhibition”, Rawa Mazowiecka

2003 „5th International Exlibris Competition”, Gliwice

„Exlibris Competition Exhibition”, Ankara (Turkey)

2004 „Beyond This”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

„IV International Review of Woodcut and Linocut Exlibris by Paweł Steller”, Katowice, Poland

2005 „21st National Exhibition of Art Teachers’ Works”, BWA, Rzeszów

„VI International Competition for Exlibris, Gliwice, Poland

„Looking for a place”, exhibition of the artistic group “Informal”, Municipal Public Library, Bolesławiec

2006 „Bolesławiec, a city without borders…”, BOK Gallery, Bolesławiec

2007 „International Competition for Exlibris dedicated to Wincent Pol”, Gdansk

„23rd National Exhibition of the Works of Art Educators”, BWA, Rzeszów

„Great Poles in Exlibrises”, Pauline Monastery on the Rock, Kraków

„Aviation motifs in exlibrises”, Museum of Polish Aviation, Cracow

2008 „She and He”, Concordia Gallery, Bolesławiec

„Exlibris Contess Library of Bodio Lomnago”, Bodio Lomnago (Italy)

„Xylon Argentina Seccion de Xylon International Sociedad de Grabadores”, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

2009 „VI International Review of Woodcut and Linocut Exlibris named after Paweł Steller”, Katowice (Poland)

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

„50 anni di attivita di Arti Grafiche Colombo”, Gessate Milano (Italy)

„XXV National Exhibition of the Works of Art Educators”, BWA, Rzeszów

The First International Biennale Exhibition of Small Graphic Forms and Ex-libris “The Belovezhskaya Pushcha”, Brest (Belarus)

„Exlibris associacion of Vojvodina”, Novi Sad (Serbia)

„First International Contest Exlibris”, Somma Lombardo (Italy)

„5th International Competition Exlibris Biblioteca”, Bodio Lomnago (Italy)

„VII Exlibris International Bienal “The forest of utopy”, Mexico (Mexico)

2011 „1st Annual Photo Exhibition SF Camera”, Gallery “Długa: BOK-MCC, Bolesławiec

“Artists for Bolesławiec”, BOK-MCC Gallery, Bolesławiec

“Boundless fascination with art”, BOK-MCC Gallery, Bolesławiec; Gallery in Kamenz (Germany)

2012 „2nd Annual Photo Exhibition of the Camera and Objective Associations”, Gallery Długa BOK-MCC, Bolesławiec

„23 Masters of Polish Exlibris and Small Graphic Form”, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Brest, Belarus

2013 „3rd Annual Photo Exhibition SF Camera”, BOK-MCC Gallery, Bolesławiec

2014 „60th Anniversary of MDK”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2015 „5th SF Camera photographic exhibition”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2017 „6th and 7th SF Camera photographic exhibition”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2018 „8th Annual SF Camera Photo Exhibition”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2019 „9th Annual SF Camera photographic exhibition”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

„Photographic Exhibition SF Camera”, Gallery “Klatka”, Lwówek Śląski

2020 „10th Annual SF Camera Photography Exhibition”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

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

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Mariusz Ochocki

Regardless of the inspiration in the creative process, I am constantly looking for the perfect design, drawing from both tradition and modernity. I believe that dinnerware must not only be beautiful, but also functional.
Mariusz Ochocki
Interview with the artist, "Ambiente" 2017, no. 1

This post from the series “Boleslawiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Boleslawiec – 30 years of local government” implemented by the Museum of Ceramics and the Boleslawiec Cultural Center – International Ceramics Center

Mariusz Ochocki was born in 1962 in Bolesławiec. He is a graduate of the State Higher School of Visual Arts (now the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts) in Wrocław, where he studied in the sculpture studio under Prof. Feliks Kociankowski and in the ceramic technique and technology studio under Prof. Stanisław Szyba.

He is involved in ceramic design, sculpture and printmaking. In 1991 he started working at the Cooperative of Artistic Crafts “Ceramika Artystyczna” in Bolesławiec as a mould designer. Since 2012, he has held the position of chief designer and artistic director at this company. His forms are mainly based on simple geometric shapes, such as a sphere or a cuboid. In his most recent designs, the dominant shape is the truncated cone.

The introduction of solids with truncated sides in place of oval ones has created a new space for the application of simple geometric motifs that wrap around the surface of the vessels. His new collections, particularly the sushi set, have been received with great interest, becoming one of the most frequently purchased sets in the Asian, American and European markets.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1998 „Contemporary stoneware of Bolesławiec 1948-1998″, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2000  “Bolesławiec Graduates of the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Wrocław”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2000-2020 “Ambiente” International Trade Fair, Frankfurt near Main river (Germany)

2002 “Designers of Artistic Ceramics”, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2003 „Contemporary Design of the Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna” in Bolesławiec”, Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec, Bolesławiec

2009 „Artists of the Bolesławiec Area”. – presentation of works of contemporary visual artists connected with the Bolesławiec region, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2012  Presentation of ceramic products by the Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna”, Tokyo (Japan)

2013 „Art from fire. Stoneware vessels of the Handicraft Artistic Cooperative ” Ceramika Artystyczna” in Bolesławiec”, Central Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec, Łódź

2013-2019 „New design in Bolesławiec ceramics”, Bolesławiec Cultural Centre – International Ceramics Centre, Bolesławiec

2015 „Stoneware from the Artistic Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna”” in Bolesławiec”, Krystof Kluk Museum of Agriculture, Ciechanowiec

2016 „Nature motifs on Bolesławiec ceramics”, Kepler Science Centre – Nature Centre in Zielona Góra

“Art from fire. Stoneware vessels of the Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna” in Bolesławiec”, Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec, Sierpc.

“Z bolesławieckiej gliny” – exhibition of the Association of Ceramic Communities of the Republic of Poland, Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

“From the clay of Bolesławiec”, Museum of Travel – Palazzo della Guardia, Vietri sul Mare (Italy)

2017 “Z bolesławieckiej gliny”, Gallery Mi.MO, Banco Monte dei Paschi di Sienna, Town Hall, Faenza (Italy)

“From the clay of Bolesławiec”, Polish Institute, Rome (Italy)

“Good Design 2017”, Institute of Industrial Design, Warsaw (Poland).

2018 “Dobry Wzór 2018”, Institute of Industrial Design, Warsaw

Presentation of ceramic products of the Handicraft Cooperative “Ceramika Artystyczna”, Tokyo, Nagoya, Matsumoto (Japan)

“Pole – Artist – Ceramist”, Gallery of the Tourist Information Point, Bolesławiec

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

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2018 “Design of the Year for Culture” – special award from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for the special design qualities of the coffee set in the “geometric solids” decoration

“Good Design 2018” – award from the Institute of Industrial Design in Warsaw for the special design qualities of a collection of fish-shaped bowls and platters in the “cobalt clouds” decoration

2020 Award of the Mayor of Bolesławiec for the promotion of the city in 2019 in the field of culture

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Marta Kisiliczyk

In order to immortalise an object or a landscape on canvas, I must first be delighted by it, even fall in love with it.
Marta Kisiliczyk

This post from the series “Boleslawiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Boleslawiec – 30 years of local government” implemented by the Museum of Ceramics and the Boleslawiec Cultural Center – International Ceramics Center

Marta Kisiliczyk was born in Wrocław, but grew up in Bolesławiec. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where she obtained a diploma in painting and artistic textiles.

She lived in London for over 10 years, where she travelled to reach an international audience with her work and to establish herself in one of the most important art markets in the world. She has spent the last few years travelling to different corners of the world, discovering new landscapes and tuning her senses to perceive all the richness of the natural world, which has long since become the main theme of her work. She currently divides her time between Europe and Southeast Asia, which has become a second home for her for some time.

The characteristic texture of her paintings is certainly an important element of her work, but the artist herself claims that it is the colours and dynamics that make her paintings original. Marta Kisiliczyk paints through her emotions with the aim of creating a specific understanding, a relationship between her work and its audience.

For years, her paintings have been exhibited at London’s most popular art fair, the London Affordable Art Fair, as well as at such prestigious exhibitions as the London Art Fair and the London Art Biennale. They can be found in art galleries in the UK, Italy and other European countries. They are part of many international art collections in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Poland and South Africa.

In 2018. Marta Kisiliczyk received an invitation to participate in the prestigious Chianciano Art Biennale in Tuscany, where she won first prize, awarded by the International Association of Art Critics. In 2019, she was honoured in Rome with the International Prize Michelangelo ” for her revealed artistic talent, a testimony of immense creativity”. The artist’s work can be viewed on her website and Facebook profile.

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Marta Małoszyc

The viewer waits for visual and emotional aesthetic values. The artist can only anticipate his or her reaction to a certain extent if he or she acts with a specific intention, be it to shock, intrigue or soothe and reassure. Having the gift of creation, the artist should use it skilfully.
Marta Małoszyc
"The most important thing is to be moved...", interview with the artist, Katarzyna Żak, "Bolesławiec Yearbook 2013"

This post from the series “Boleslawiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Boleslawiec – 30 years of local government” implemented by the Museum of Ceramics and the Boleslawiec Cultural Center – International Ceramics Center

Marta Małoszyc was born in Krzepice near Częstochowa. Between 1993 and 1998 she attended the Jacek Malczewski State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Częstochowa, where she learned the basics of ceramics, painting, drawing and composition. From the very beginning, she wanted her works to be spatial, not limited to the plane of paper or canvas, which is why ceramics became her favourite material. In 2003, she graduated from the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, where she studied in the Unique Ceramics Studio of Prof. Irena Lipska-Zworska and Prof. Lidia Kupczyńska-Jankowiak.

In 2004, she started working at Zakłady Ceramiczne “Bolesławiec” as a mould and decoration designer. From 2008 to 2017, she held the position of promotion specialist at this company. In 2018, she returned to design. At that time, she created a series of vessels called ” Boats”, alluding in shape to the characteristic slender boats used in the Far East. When designing the vessels, the artist pays attention to the coexistence of utilitarian, visual and ergonomic functions, so that the vessel fits perfectly in the hands and provides the user with a sense of comfort. At the same time, she takes care of the aesthetics and shape of the vessel, which should harmonise with the place or space.

In addition to her professional work, she is involved in unique ceramics, painting and drawing. In 2005- 2007, 2017 and 2020, she was among the participants of the International Sculpture and Ceramics Plein- Air in Bolesławiec.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS AND FAIR PRESENTATIONS

2001 ‘Plastic Hopes of Częstochowa’, City Art Gallery, Częstochowa

2002 Exhibition of drawings from the atelier of Prof. Leszek Mickoś, Wrocław

2003 Diploma exhibition, Gallery of Glass and Ceramics, Wrocław

2004 Exhibition of finalists of “PRO DECO 2004” competition, Warsaw

2005 “Torebka”, “Dizajn” Gallery, Czestochowa

“Before the Fumes Fall. Ceramics of the Young 2005” – exhibition of the unique ceramics studio of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Wrocław, Lubin, Bolesławiec

2005-2007, 2017 Post-exhibitions of the International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-air in Bolesławiec, Bolesławiec

2007 “Different Faces of Ceramics”, Museum of Industry, Warsaw

“Contemporary Design of the Ceramic Works “Bolesławiec”” Sp. z o.o , Museum of Ceramics, Bolesławiec

2011 “After the Hundred”, 100th Anniversary Exhibition of the Association of Polish Artists

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

2019 Presentation of utilitarian vessels, Ambiente 2019 trade fair, Frankfurt n. Main (Germany)

2019 ” New design in Bolesławiec ceramics”, BOK-MCC, Bolesławiec

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

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2007 Award of the President of Zakłady Ceramiczne “Bolesławiec” for the “Set for Two”.

OTHER

2006 Happening “Tea Tower” as part of the Bolesławiec Ceramics Festival

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Bolesławiec artistic community – Martyna Woźnica-Chrostek

Martyna Woźnica-Chrostek was born in Bolesławiec. She took her first steps in art under the guidance of Czesław Matyjewicz and Magdalena Konieczna. She continued her artistic education at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, majoring in sculpture in the atelier of Professor Grażyna Jaskierska-Albrzykowska. Currently lives and works in Düsseldorf.

In her work, she focuses mainly on interpersonal relations and what results from them, and their influence on the perception and shaping of space. She tries to use a variety of materials and modes of action. She creates installations and sculptural objects, designs elements of small architecture, and organises happenings and performances.

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

This post from the series “Boleslawiec artistic community” was prepared within the framework of the project “Boleslawiec – 30 years of local government” implemented by the Museum of Ceramics and the Boleslawiec Cultural Center – International Ceramics Center

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2012 “Beware of these places”, group exhibition, MDS Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland

2013 “Spatial relations. Human Relations”, diploma exhibition, BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland

Final exhibition of the 11th edition of the “Hestia’s Artistic Journey” competition, Ergo Arena, Sopot, Poland

2014 2014 Installation “Urban greenery”, 12th Survival Art Review “City – inflammatory state”, Wrocław

Performance “Flags of Art”, Festival Underwater Wrocław on the Waves of the Oder, Wrocław

2015 “Is it art?”, solo exhibition, BOK-MCC, Bolesławiec

Performance “Dehumanisation”, 13th Survival Art Review “Prohibited Acts”, Wrocław

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

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