Katarzyna Makieła-Organisty | The Crevices of Being. Waiting for God's Back.
5 December 2025 - 25 January 2026
Contemporary Art Gallery BWA SOKÓŁ
vernissage:
5 December 2025, hour 18:00
An overview of the painting oeuvre of dr habil. Katarzyna Makieła-Organisty, Professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland, including her works from private and institutional collections, as well as her newest paintings, not yet presented to the public.
We invite you to the vernissage on 5 December 2025 at 6 p.m.
Katarzyna Makieła-Organisty
Born in 1984 in Hrubieszów, Poland, she graduated from the Bernardo Morando State Secondary School of Visual Arts in Zamość, Poland. Then she studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, obtaining her diploma in 2009, in the studio of Professor Stanisław Rodziński. Since 2011, she has been employed by her Alma Mater as an Assistant in the studio of dr habil. Janusz Matuszewski, Professor of the Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2024, she has been working at the Academy as its Professor, heading the studio of Painting and Drawing for year I students in the Department of Painting of the Faculty of Painting. Her works have been periodically shown in solo and group exhibitions in Poland and internationally. She works in classic painting techniques – using oil, egg tempera – and is also interested in book illustrating and collage. She keeps a regular sketchbook. The main genre of her art is still life, but also paints landscapes and portraits. The style she feels closest to is realism, often contrasted with flat, synthetic geometric forms.
Born in 1984 in Hrubieszów, Poland, she graduated from the Bernardo Morando State Secondary School of Visual Arts in Zamość, Poland. Then she studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, obtaining her diploma in 2009, in the studio of Professor Stanisław Rodziński. Since 2011, she has been employed by her Alma Mater as an Assistant in the studio of dr habil. Janusz Matuszewski, Professor of the Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2024, she has been working at the Academy as its Professor, heading the studio of Painting and Drawing for year I students in the Department of Painting of the Faculty of Painting. Her works have been periodically shown in solo and group exhibitions in Poland and internationally. She works in classic painting techniques – using oil, egg tempera – and is also interested in book illustrating and collage. She keeps a regular sketchbook. The main genre of her art is still life, but also paints landscapes and portraits. The style she feels closest to is realism, often contrasted with flat, synthetic geometric forms.
THE CREVICES OF BEING. WAITING FOR GOD’S BACK.
THE CREVICES OF EXISTENCE. WAITING FOR GOD’S BACK.
The first part of the title of this exhibition refers to the book „Szczeliny Istnienia” (The Crevices of Being”) by Jolanta Brach-Czainy. In it, I discovered many paths that can be taken to live more consciously. Painting gives me a deep sense of being, whereas painting from life is one of the more important ways to gain such consciousness.
The second part of this title pertains to the point in the biblical Book of Exodus, when Moses wanted to see the Face of God. No man could do this and live, so God, wanting to show Himself to Moses, hid him in you in a crevice of a rock. When God passed by, Moses saw His Back. [Exodus 33:12-23]. In this biblical story I find a promise for everyone who will discover in themselves that longing of Moses’s. God’s “Back” can be best seen from the crevices of everydayness.
Katarzyna Makieła-Organisty
(t/r AK)
The first part of the title of this exhibition refers to the book „Szczeliny Istnienia” (The Crevices of Being”) by Jolanta Brach-Czainy. In it, I discovered many paths that can be taken to live more consciously. Painting gives me a deep sense of being, whereas painting from life is one of the more important ways to gain such consciousness.
The second part of this title pertains to the point in the biblical Book of Exodus, when Moses wanted to see the Face of God. No man could do this and live, so God, wanting to show Himself to Moses, hid him in you in a crevice of a rock. When God passed by, Moses saw His Back. [Exodus 33:12-23]. In this biblical story I find a promise for everyone who will discover in themselves that longing of Moses’s. God’s “Back” can be best seen from the crevices of everydayness.
Katarzyna Makieła-Organisty
(t/r AK)