9.02.2024 / at 18:00 / in the Gallery of the S. Staszic Museum, Pila, 18 Browarna St.
My work has always been closely related to human beings..., flesh and blood, our physicality is the best way to talk about our spirituality. I always think about pain, suffering, our sexuality, corporeality - our human condition....
My latest series SIGNS... - is an attempt to record the presence of another person in our consciousness. All the people who make up our reality, our loved ones, parents, children, lovers, co-workers, actors, celebrities, politicians....
Sometimes the greatest influence on us comes from people we have never met in real life....
They are more real, more present than people who have been part of our lives for years.
Our feelings are selective, we - as people, as artists, are always unfair -.
"...You can't love everyone equally,
our hearts will not consent to it" /Robert Lowell/.
Beata Króliczak-Zajko
...These figures, signs, banners, angels, torsos, self-portraits, visions of death - are interesting and compelling at the same time, because they cannot be understood immediately. They have many subtexts, artistic ambiguities and meaningful mysteries... These figures, incomplete, fragmentary, sometimes partial, laid out for study by an archaeologist or anthropologist. On the one hand, they are an exhibitionist self-exposure, and at the same time a kind of vivisection.
These works have an evocative power, they draw the viewer to themselves, captivate him and sometimes overcome his daily habits, imagination and sensitivity. The viewer is impressed by these huge realizations, in monochrome color, in blacks and browns with a subtle grid of nuances of gray refined drawing....
One has the feeling that they are even bas-reliefs, sculptures of monumental, hieratic form. The form is understated, barely marked, lapidary, ephemeral - and at the same time astonishingly exciting: on the one hand they draw each viewer into their orbit, intrigue him or her, and on the other they seem to repel him or her with their darkness and power.
Dr. Tadeusz Marciniak
...Unique prints in macroformat, made in the author's technique, have been presented in many solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. Beata's work is deeply rooted in the human experience, touching on subjects such as pain, suffering, sexuality, eroticism and carnality. She believes that the physicality of the human form is the best way to express our spirituality. Through her work, she invites us to confront the most invisible part of life - death, which we hide deeper than anything else.
La Galerie VR, Tunis, Tunisia
Beata Króliczak-Zajko - In 1993-98 studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, majoring in Graphic Design. Diploma in 1998 in the Graphic Design Studio, annex in drawing (unique printing). Works with drawing and printmaking, creating unique large-format prints in her own original techniques, and digital media. She also does graphic design /graphic design, book binding, illustration/. She is the author of several solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions and competitions at home and abroad.
Major exhibitions:
- 15th All-Polish Post-Competition Graphic Art Exhibition - Propaganda Art Centre, Lodz /Poland/, 1998.
- 1st All - Polish Biennale of Student Graphics - Post-Competition Exhibition, Gallery Arsenal, Poznań, 1999.
- The Sense of Sacrum - Exhibition to honeur the visit of Holy Father John Paul II in Toruń, Toruń /Poland/, 1999
- Exhibition of Works Awarded and Recognized in the Competition Artwork of the Year 1999, Kunstlerhouse
mit Galerie, Goettingen /Germany/, 2001
- Torun Artists of the 2nd Half of the 20th Century - Town Hall Gallery, Goettingen /Germany/, 2003.
- Art Dea 2003 - Post-Competition Exhibition - ABK Gallery - Warsaw /Poland/, 2003.
- 7th International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola, Gallery Institute and Museum, Bitola, Macedonia, 2012
- POLYGONUM 3 - Exibition of the Artist from The Kujawsko-Pomorski Distric, Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions
in Bydgoszcz /Poland/, 2014
- The 4th International Biennial of Graphic Digital Arts, Gallery of the Gdynia Design Centre - Gdynia/Poland 2014
- The 4 th Bangkok Triennale International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand, 2015
- 1ND INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNIAL LODZ - Lodz/Poland 2016
- POLYGONUM 4 - Exibition of the Artist from The Kujawsko-Pomorski Distric, Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions
in Bydgoszcz /Poland/, 2016
- The 5th International Biennial of Graphic Digital Arts, Gallery of the Gdynia Design Centre The biggest difference is that technology and the internet has speeded everything up tremendously in just a few years. We take the instant transmission of photos and text for granted. As a photojournalist for 60 years, I well recall a different time when I would send packages of undeveloped rolls of film with hand written captions to editors all across the world. DHL and FedEx were vital for my international work, even the regular mail system on occasion. Then digital cameras and the internet came along, changing everything, and a lot more time had to be spent at the computer. Newspapers were the first to take advantage of the technology as they require a quick turnaround for news stories and photo quality was less demanding. It took longer for color magazines to adapt, the sort I worked with, who had to wait until digital photography improved. Online media didn't exist at all until relatively recently but it certainly didn't kill print media, as some predicted. Gdynia/Poland 2016
- 2ND INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNIAL LODZ - Lodz/Poland 2018
- PANDEMIC transgraphia 2020, International Print Triennial Society, Krakow/Poland 2020
- PRINTMAKING MEET 2021 II. International Printmaking Exhibitions, Trakya University, Turkey 2021.
- CHITRANKAN: International Art Exhibition 2021, Only for Women Artists /Top 100 Selected Artists/,
BAG, India 2021
- 10th International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola, Gallery Institute and Museum, Bitola, Macedonia, 2021
- RAW, international online art exhibition by Art Voice Gallery, Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia, 2021
- Proud to be nude, International Printmaking Exhibition, Art Voice Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2021.
- Rhythm of Time, International Printmaking Exhibition, Art Voice Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022.
- 5th International PrintMaking Biennial in Čačak, Print Biennial Graphic - CACAK, Serbia, 2022.
- 7th International Triennial Graphics Competition, Gdansk 2022, Poland, 2022
- NARRATIVE FIGURATION, International Exhibition, Art Voice Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022.
- Who am I - The International Virtual Exhibition, Art Voice Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022.
- Pressing Voices, International Printmaking Exhibition, Art Voice Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023.
- UNSEEN, , International Exhibition, La Galerie VR, Tunis, Tunisia, 2023
- The Naked Face by Art Voice, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023
Awards:
- A special award for the development of word contemporary graphic art, 10th International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola, Macedonia, 2021
- Prizes of the President of Toruń in the Artwork of the Year, Competition in the drawing art category in 2000, 2003
- 1st Prize of the President of Toruń in the Artwork of the Year Competition in the drawing art category in 1999
- Prize of the President of Toruń in the 6th Annals Competition in the drawing art category in 1999
- 2nd Prize in Painting and Graphic of the Month of the Toruń Region in the graphic art category - 1998