Opening of Krystyna Piotrowska's exhibition “Portrait of Krystyna”

“Portrait of Krystyna” is the first individual presentation of Krystyna Piotrowska's works in Tarnów. A city close to the artist, where she found traces of her family. The exhibition is of a cross-sectional nature, presenting the artist's works from the early 1980s, to the latest paintings recently painted with inspiration from archival photography seen in a book about Tarnów. We will see well-known cycles, works shown very rarely and paintings presented for the first time. Krystyna Piotrowska is known for her masterful graphics, but the Tarnów exhibition allows you to look at her work more broadly, also presenting drawings, objects, video and painting.

Krystyna Piotrowska

Born 1949 in Zabrze. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow - Faculty of Interior Architecture (1966-1972), at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznań - Faculty of Graphics and Painting (1972-1975), at the Forum Graphic School in Malmö (1985-1990).

He creates works combining photography, graphic techniques and painting. The author of the installation and video. Her work mainly touches on the theme of identification and memory. In the years 2006-2012 she was the author and curator of the exhibition “Projekt Próżna”, in 2014 the curator of the exhibition “Adoration of sweets” in Zachęta, in 2017 the exhibition “Bad women” at the “Zamek” Cultural Center in Poznań. She has repeatedly taught graphic design workshops at the Summer Academy of Art in Salzburg.

Curators: Agata Dymańska, Ewa Łączyńska-Widz

Graphic design: Natalia Sikorska

Poster of the exhibition “Portrait of Krystyna”