Dorota Buczkowska – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Dorota Buczkowska is active in various fields and media, i.e. in drawing, graphics, painting, photography, installations, sculpture and films. In her works she often addresses topics connected with the perception of corporeality, physiology and biology of the body, for the depiction of which she uses metaphors, occasionally tinted with surreal moods and poetic subtleties. Her videos are usually a result of careful observation of the environment, sublimated into moving pictures conveying mysterious, difficult to define contents. The most recent cycle of Buczkowska’s drawings depict soft, organic forms of gentle colours, obtained in result of the use of colourful body beauty products.

Dorota Buczkowska (born in 1971) – student at the Faculty of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (class of professor Grzegorz Kowalski) in 1999-2003, and in 2002-2003 at Centre National des Arts Plastiques Villa Arson in Nice, France. Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. Cooperates with the Czarna Gallery in Warsaw. 

• Selected individual exhibitions:
  • "Dwa lata w chmurach / Two years in the clouds", Czarna Gallery, Warsaw (2007);
  • "Cyrkulacje / Circulations", Zak Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2007);
  • "Interror", Czarna Gallery, Warsaw (2008);
  • "Stany Przejściowe / Transitional States", CRAC Sete, France (2008);
  • "Moving images in public space", Videospread, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2009); Liverpool Biennale, United Kingdom (2009);
  • "Replikantki / Replicants”, BWA Katowice (2010);
  • "Projekt badawczy / Research project", Studio Gallery, Warsaw (2011);
  • "Some fragments are incomplete", Czarna Gallery, Warsaw (2011) and Skulpturenmuseum, Marl (2012).
• The artist also took part in a number of prestigious collective exhibitions, among others in the following:
  • "Dew point", Raster Gallery, Warsaw (2006);
  • "Moja Matka Nie Jest Boska / My Mother Is Not Devine”, Centre for Contemporary Art (CSW) Bunkier Sztuki, Starmach Gallery, Kraków (2008);
  • "Efekt czerwonych oczu / The Red-Eye Effect", Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2008);
  • "Nature Nation", Museum On The Seam, Jerusalem, Israel (2009);
  • "Podróż wokół czaszki / Journey around the skull", Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2010);
  • "Paris Photo", Paris, France (2010);
  • Curated by_vienna 2011, Stainek Gallery, Austria (2011); WANI, Fondation Paul Ricard de Paris, France (2011),
  • Lorne Sculpture 2011, Biennale of Contemporary Sculpture (Australia);
  • "Love for the natural", Arsenal Gallery, Poznań (2011);
  • "Jestem prawie na każdej wystawie / I’m present at almost every exhibition”, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2012);
  • "Happiness is a warm gun", Rizzordi Art Foundation, Sankt-Petersburg.