21/05-03/06/2012
exhibition
Kama Sokolnicka
Not All That Visibly
- Kama Sokolnicka
- (born 1978 Wrocław, Poland). Graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Lives and works in Wrocław. Artistic residencies among others at Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines (CEAAC – European Centre for Contemporary Art Actions) in Strasbourg (2004); received an award at the 8th Festival of Art in Racibórz for her joint work together with Tomasz Zalejski-Smoleń (2008); nominated for the wARTo Cultural Award granted by Gazeta Wyborcza (2010); nominated for the Award of the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation (2011). Cooperates with Waterside Contemporary in London and with the BWA Gallery in Warsaw. Holder of the artistic scholarship granted by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2011). Her works of art constitute part of the collection of the Lower Silesian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, as well as of private collections.
- Selected individual exhibitions:
- 2012 – Disappoint of View czyli stąd też źle widać, BWA Awangarda in Wrocław, Poland;
- 2011 – Gloom with a View, Kordegarda Project (Zachęta National Gallery of Art), Warsaw, Poland;
- 2011 – Reduced Model, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, Poland;
- 2009 – On Whiteness, the Ellipse and Boredom, BWA Studio, Wrocław, Poland;
- 2007 – Relations / Microstatics, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław, Poland;
- 2005 – Defensive Gears, Artists’ Colony, Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland.
- In her works Kama Sokolnicka uses a wide range of techniques and media strategies – she creates collages, using materials among others from her family collection of post-war, mostly German magazines (from the 1950s-1970s), as well as drawings and paintings. Author of site-specific works and video installations. Mainly focused on themes connected with the analysis of the concepts of territory, place, mechanisms of memory and perception of space. In her works she skilfully uses editing and suspense techniques. For the interpretation purposes she also adapts Sigmund Freud’s concept of the unconscious www.kamasokolnicka.com
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