Kasia korzeniecka biography definition
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It’s all about trust
Sergej Timofejev
10.09.2021
What was it like to open your own gallery in the middle of 2021? An interview with Polish art gallerist Gunia Nowik
What was it like to open your own gallery in the middle of 2021, when world is full or uncertainly and instability? How do you believe the gallery should look and operate nowadays? We decided to discuss it with Gunia Nowik, who opened her gallery in Warsaw at the very beginning of July this year.
A beautiful and energetic woman, Gunia Nowik is originally from Warsaw, but for a few years now, she has lived between Berlin and Warsaw, where she just opened the Gunia Nowik Gallery, located in the city center. She is not a newcomer to the art world; she was previously co-running the Pola Magnetyczne (Magnetic Fields) gallery, which opened as an exhibition space in a private apartment back in 2012. After this experience, in 2021, she decided to take her own path.
Gunia Nowik is surprisingly sociable
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Afterlife is a visual dialogue conducted between Szymon Rogiński’s photographs and the timeless structures of Katarzyna Korzeniecka’s works, created using the marbling (Ebru) technique.
The publication addresses one of the most difficult topics: life and death, the begravning branch, and the dignity of deceased persons and their mourning loved ones. Without judgement or evaluation, it shows the Polish reality and provokes reflection.
The begravning establishments depicted in the photographs are in places that are bustling with life, in-between grocers and wedding dress designers, surrounded by neon signs and omnipresent ads encouraging us to consume. In the empty scenery of nocturnal landscapes, Rogiński freezes with the silent objectiveness of the camera the pieces of reality where life encounters the metaphysics of death. The brutal aesthetics, banners and promotions all conceal the marketing approach of the funeral branch, where pursuit of worldly possessions definitively wi
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Katarzyna Korzeniecka
Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Warsaw Academy of Arts in Leon Tarasewicz’s studio. She creates works on paper, makes photographs, videos and objects. The artist is interested in the deepest structures of reality and possible means of their reproduction. Korzeniecka specializes in a method called ebru – paper marbling, which she masters, as she puts it, "in collaboration with nature". By the use of gestures such as punctuating, brushing, blowing and dripping of the pigments on the water surface, she makes toned abstractions, bringing to mind natural forms. The poetic character of her work is like an antidote to ubiquitous mass produced imagery. She lives and works in Warsaw.
Images
Untitled (Water Pendulum), 2024, own technique based on ebru on cotton paper, 140 x 89,9 cm, 55,12 x 35,39 in
A Map and the Pendulum, 2024, own technique based on ebru on plaster, pendulum smycke, unique, 61 x