Maria Toboła

Maria Toboła, born in Leszno, 1987. Graduated from Poznan University of Art and completed her diploma in Leszek Knaflewski’s Audiosfera Studio in Intermedia Department. She lives and works in Warsaw. The scope of creative activity: sculpture, performance, video, installation, poetry, singing. In her works she often uses play on words and meaning, irony, absurd, joke. Her projects can be successfully described as stupid and distasteful examples of conceptual art.

Education:
2006 - 2008 Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań (painting department)
2009 - 2012 Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań (intermedia department)
2012 - 2013 Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (intermedia department)

Selected exhibition:
2021  Shadows conceal the earth, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland
2020  There is no such thing as internet, Pogo Bar, KW Berlin, Germany
2019  I’m About to Go Berserk, Lokal30 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, Toboła, don't show off, solo show, Zona Gallery, Szczecin, Poland,
2018  Flow, Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Gdańsk, Poland, CHOKE ON IT, Center of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, Skip the line, Biennale Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland, Don’t you dare to call it work, solo show, Center of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, Here and back again, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2017  THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP, lokal_30,Warsaw, Poland, Hoolifemmes, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw at Open Air Festival, Gdynia, Poland, Schadenfreude, solo show, Stroboskop Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, Funniest home videos, Zona Gallery, Szczecin, Poland
2016  Dirty dancing (with Witek Orski), BWA Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland, Money to burn, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, Midnight Show, BWA Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland, Artist as Urban Alien, Putbus, Germany
2015  Przestrajanie. Leszek Knaflewski and audiosphere, Center of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, Horsefuckers, Center of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, Ministry of Culture Scholarship
2014  Crimestory, Center of Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland, Society is unpleasent, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, As You Can See: Polish Art Today , Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (performace), LET EVERYTHING YOU LOVE DIE!, solo show, Trafo Center of Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland (individual show), Descripion. Artists born about 1989, Wrocenter, Wrocław, Poland, THE ARTISTS, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2013  School of happienes, Viennafair, Wien, Austria, THE ARTISTS, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2012  B.A in Leszek's Knaflewski Audiosfera Studio, Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, AAAkupunktura. Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2011  Shore to Shore, Washington, USA, Young Art Triennale, Center of Contemporary Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland, Alternativ Now! Wrocenter, Wrocław, Poland, Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 20 International Videofestival Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Date of residency: 1. 6. 2022 – 31. 8. 2022