PERMEATING THE MOUNTAIN 585... | BEATA ZUBA
18 May - 15 June 2024
Gallery of Art BWA SOKÓŁ - JATKI in Nowy Targ
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18 May 2024, hour 18:00
BWA JATKI in Nowy Targ invites to the exhibition of paintings by Beata Zuba, an artist from Kraków, Poland.
BEATA ZUBA
A Krakovian from birth, she graduated from the Painting Faculty of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland in the studio of Prof. Leszek Misiak and Teresa Kotkowska-Rzepecka, Diploma Supplement in the 1st Interdisciplinary Studio under the direction of Prof. Zbigniew Bajek. She completed Pedagogical Study, writing her dissertation in art therapy on “Self-Interpretation Through Colour.”
She works in painting, drawing and photography, and collaborates with the Dr. Andrzej Kowal Psychiatry and Art Association in Kraków. She is a member of the Kraków Chapter of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers. She is a recipient of a grant for promoting Polish culture in the world from the Adam Mickewicz Institute and, in 2021, from the Nishieda Foundation. In 2023, she received a grant from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. She was a finalist in the competition for the Eibisch Award, organized by the Franciszka Eibisch Foundation and in the “My Mountains” competition, organized by the Zamoyski Municipal Art Gallery in Zakopane, Poland. She collaborates with the Villa Decius Institute for Culture of the City of Kraków, where she gives talks in the series “What Does a Painter See Behind the Picture?” and with the Villa Decius Association, teaching classes in painting and leading museum sessions, for which she was nominated for the 2022 Personality of the Year Award by the Gazeta Krakowska (“Kraków Gazette”) and Dziennik Krakowski (”The Krakow Daily”) newspapers.
She participated in 19 solo and many group exhibitions. In 2021, she presented her works in two exhibitions in Japan, invited by the Nishieda Foundation: "Mountain: Wonder and Fear" at its Zuiun-an gallery in Kyoto and at the Tatsuno Art Scene festival in the city of Tatsuno in Hyōgo Prefecture. In 2023, at the invitation of Director Bogna Dziechdziaruk-Maj and under the curatorial assistance from dr Anna Król, she had her solo exhibition titled "Permeating the Mountain” at the Museum of Japanese Art and Technology Manggha in Kraków, Poland. This was an interdisciplinary project (a solo painting exhibition in the Europe–Far East Pavilion, along with a site-specific installation, a presentation of works in the Manggha gardens, and a performative installation on the Kosciuszko Mound in Kraków where, on Japan’s public holiday of Mountain Day (first held in 2016), a large-format banner Flag-Mountain (130 m2) was displayed over its slopes for the very first time in that commemorative structure’s history.
The artist has also shown her projects during international conferences: international in Poland (for example, at the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków) and abroad (such as the 20th International Congress of the International Society of Psychopathology of Expression and Art Therapy in Toulouse, France). Her works have been displayed in numerous solo exhibitions nationally and internationally (at KRKA plc in Ljubljana, Slovenia; CENTRUM Gallery of the Nowa Huta Cultural Center in Kraków, Poland; the Municipal Art Gallery in Częstochowa, Poland; at the Palace of Art in Kraków, Poland; Centre for Contemporary Art Elektrownia in Radom, Poland; the gallery at the Castle of the Dukes of Pomerania in Szczecin, Poland, and many others).
Her paintings from the series "Wide Shut” were used in the documentary „bez-IMIENNI” ("NAME-less"), about the extermination of Polish patients of the psychiatric hospital in Kobierzyn near Kraków by Germans during II World War as part of Aktion T4, directed by Urszula Sochacka (whose father was a prisoner of German concentration camp for Polish children Kinder-KZ Litzmannstadt) and produced by the U siebie - At home Association. The film was one of thirteen receiving special recognition at the Lesser Poland Film Archive competition, as announced at the gala held at the Lesser Poland Art Garden in Kraków in 2015.
Ms Zuba has been fascinated with mountains since she was a child, becoming a ski instructor who taught at the Ski École International and L'École du ski français in the ski resort SuperDévoluy in the commune of Dévoluy in the French Alps. To this day she actively participates in skiing competitions, having received multiple awards at the Polish Amateur Championships of the Polish Ski Association.
She loves the MOUNTAINS to the moon and back.
(ed, t/r AK)
She works in painting, drawing and photography, and collaborates with the Dr. Andrzej Kowal Psychiatry and Art Association in Kraków. She is a member of the Kraków Chapter of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers. She is a recipient of a grant for promoting Polish culture in the world from the Adam Mickewicz Institute and, in 2021, from the Nishieda Foundation. In 2023, she received a grant from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. She was a finalist in the competition for the Eibisch Award, organized by the Franciszka Eibisch Foundation and in the “My Mountains” competition, organized by the Zamoyski Municipal Art Gallery in Zakopane, Poland. She collaborates with the Villa Decius Institute for Culture of the City of Kraków, where she gives talks in the series “What Does a Painter See Behind the Picture?” and with the Villa Decius Association, teaching classes in painting and leading museum sessions, for which she was nominated for the 2022 Personality of the Year Award by the Gazeta Krakowska (“Kraków Gazette”) and Dziennik Krakowski (”The Krakow Daily”) newspapers.
She participated in 19 solo and many group exhibitions. In 2021, she presented her works in two exhibitions in Japan, invited by the Nishieda Foundation: "Mountain: Wonder and Fear" at its Zuiun-an gallery in Kyoto and at the Tatsuno Art Scene festival in the city of Tatsuno in Hyōgo Prefecture. In 2023, at the invitation of Director Bogna Dziechdziaruk-Maj and under the curatorial assistance from dr Anna Król, she had her solo exhibition titled "Permeating the Mountain” at the Museum of Japanese Art and Technology Manggha in Kraków, Poland. This was an interdisciplinary project (a solo painting exhibition in the Europe–Far East Pavilion, along with a site-specific installation, a presentation of works in the Manggha gardens, and a performative installation on the Kosciuszko Mound in Kraków where, on Japan’s public holiday of Mountain Day (first held in 2016), a large-format banner Flag-Mountain (130 m2) was displayed over its slopes for the very first time in that commemorative structure’s history.
The artist has also shown her projects during international conferences: international in Poland (for example, at the MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków) and abroad (such as the 20th International Congress of the International Society of Psychopathology of Expression and Art Therapy in Toulouse, France). Her works have been displayed in numerous solo exhibitions nationally and internationally (at KRKA plc in Ljubljana, Slovenia; CENTRUM Gallery of the Nowa Huta Cultural Center in Kraków, Poland; the Municipal Art Gallery in Częstochowa, Poland; at the Palace of Art in Kraków, Poland; Centre for Contemporary Art Elektrownia in Radom, Poland; the gallery at the Castle of the Dukes of Pomerania in Szczecin, Poland, and many others).
Her paintings from the series "Wide Shut” were used in the documentary „bez-IMIENNI” ("NAME-less"), about the extermination of Polish patients of the psychiatric hospital in Kobierzyn near Kraków by Germans during II World War as part of Aktion T4, directed by Urszula Sochacka (whose father was a prisoner of German concentration camp for Polish children Kinder-KZ Litzmannstadt) and produced by the U siebie - At home Association. The film was one of thirteen receiving special recognition at the Lesser Poland Film Archive competition, as announced at the gala held at the Lesser Poland Art Garden in Kraków in 2015.
Ms Zuba has been fascinated with mountains since she was a child, becoming a ski instructor who taught at the Ski École International and L'École du ski français in the ski resort SuperDévoluy in the commune of Dévoluy in the French Alps. To this day she actively participates in skiing competitions, having received multiple awards at the Polish Amateur Championships of the Polish Ski Association.
She loves the MOUNTAINS to the moon and back.
(ed, t/r AK)
