Barbara Gryka

Barbara Gryka was born April 1992 in Puławy (Poland). She started artistic education at the Liceum Plastyczny im. Jozef Chełmoński in Nałęczów. Since 2013 she has been studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, at the Faculty of New MediaArt. She realized BA diploma in the Department of Audiovisual Space prof. Grzegorz Kowalski. A 2019 graduate of the Mirosław Bałka’s Studio of Spatial Activities in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In her practice she deals with performing arts.

Education:
2013- 2019- Masters in Miroslaw Balka Studio of Spatial Activities, Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw (PL)

Selected exhibions:
2020
Open city, Lublin (PL)
New Normativity. Wrocław ’70 Visual Arts Symposium, Wrocław Contemporary Museum (PL)
Solidarity and Agency, Arsenał Białystok (PL)
Tiff Festival, Processes, Wrocław (solo)
Workshop, Museum of Contemporary Art MACBA, Barcelona (ES)
2019
Grassomania, Gdansk City Gallery (PL)
The International Performance Festival, ECO ART,Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (THA)
Meet the Neighbours: The Weekend, How do we live together amid the chaos of urban change?, Quarantine, Manchester (UK)
IN OUT, "Łaźnia" Centre for Contemporary Art , Gdańsk( PL)
Pavilion of Ukraine at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (IT)
2018
Operation on Places, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (ISR)
100 Flags, Exhibitions Boreau, Lokal 30, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (PL)
Young Wolves, TRAFO, Obrońców Stalingradu, Szczecin (PL)
Blurborders International Performance Art Exchange, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

Competitions:
2020 Theatrical anthology of new utopias, Theatre Zagłębia, Sosnowiec (PL)
2019 Grey House Competition, Cracow, Grand Prix (PL)
2019 Hestia Artistic Journey, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Grand Prix

Residences/ Scholarship:
2020 Award of the President of the City of Lublin (PL)
2020 Apollonia – European Art Exchanges, Strasbourg (FR)
2020 Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz (AUT)
2020 Museum of Contemporary Art MACBA, Barcelona (ES)
2019 Residency Unlimited, NY (US)
2019 Rebel Art Space, Bangkok (THA)

Collections:
Galeria Labirynt, Lublin (PL)
Bank PKO
ERGO Hestia
Private collection

Date of residency: 14. 10.–14. 12. 2020