Opening: Friday 10.01.25 at 18:30
Duration of the exhibition: 10.01.25 - 30.01.25
Exhibition curator: Karol Baginski
Free entry
Exhibition of photographs by Małgorzata Mikołajczyk i_land can be read from the level of its title, as a retrospective juxtaposition of fragments of the real world in front of the lens. These are not artistically elaborated postcards from the author's travels to the Atlantic islands, whose character we get to know this way. For the most part, the exhibition is built up by frames with landscapes found in her personal sensitivity, which for us in those places would remain invisible. These abstract photograms with juicy, vivid colors invite the viewer on an island journey. They intrigue the viewer with their forms that evoke emotions and associations. This expressive potential is the key to a relationship with the viewer and extends the simple documentary nature of the photographic medium.
Travel as a creative inspiration is a popular archetype in culture. It turns out, however, that over time it ceases to matter how far we travel and what place we end up in. What becomes much more important is what we ourselves bring to a given place. When asked how the less obvious, abstract works are created, Malgorzata Mikolajczyk answered: Living and working in the urban world, I find my own landscapes. I extract their unique fragments from the obvious and ordinary, sometimes from the remnants of decaying objects or waste. Once photographed, they take on a new and different meaning, and how they look in photographs constantly brings the author the joy of creation.
Photographs from the series i_land created on the islands of Ireland and Iceland, are both landscapes of the imagination and peculiar visualizations of sensibility - Her Imagination Land.
Karol Baginski
About the Artist:
Margaret Mikolajczyk, born in 1958 in Zdunska Wola. She is an experimental physicist by education, but a photographer by profession, having already retired for several years. She worked for years as a press photographer. She was also involved in the didactics of photography: she was an instructor at the Youth Palace, a lecturer at the Warsaw School of Photography and Graphic Design, and from 2013 to the present she has been running photography workshops at the Open Door Association at the "Partners" Center for People with Disabilities. She is active in the field of photographic art. She has had several solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions, including abroad.
He writes about photography on his blog https://www.pisanieofotografii.pl
IG: www.instagram.com/foto.mikolajczyk
page: www.malgorzatamikolajczyk.com
Individual exhibitions
2024 Alternatively, Galeria Na Piętrze, Belchatow
2020 Abstract travel, Chojnickie Centrum Kultury, Chojnice
2020 Untrue Landscapes II, Dragons - Quarantine Gallery, Podlesie
2020 Abstract travel - Obserwacja Gallery, Warsaw
2018 Exhibit at the CCA - group exhibition at CCA Torun
2015 Somewhere - PI Gallery in Zalesie Górne
2012 Cyanotypes - Warsaw School of Photography - as part of the Night of Museums festival in Warsaw
2010 Travel Photos - Museum of the History of the City of Zduńska Wola
2005 Photographs - HADES Hotel Zdunska Wola
1994 Lifeline - Small Gallery ZPAF-CSW, Warsaw
1992 Landscapes not true I - Antigen Gallery - Lodz and Gallery of Photography ZPAF Silesian District in Katowice.
Selected group exhibitions
2024 Interphoto Festival - Street Art Photography, Bialystok
2024 "Red" - Decagon Gallery, Tuscon, USA.
2023-24 Black Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2019-24 ph21 Galerry, Budapest
2020 Women Street Photographers at photo festival in Kuala Lumpur
2020 The Art of Photography" - Valid World Hall, Barcelona, Spain.
2019 "ExibitAround" group exhibition at Trieste Photo Days, Italy.
2019 13th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain
2019 "Street" - Interphoto Festival, Bialystok
2019 "Short Street Stories" Trieste, Italy.
2018 "Exhibit yourself at the CCA" - group exhibition at the CCA, Torun
Awards
2024 First prize, cat.portrait, Theatre Exposed - International Theatre Photography
2023 Second prize in the Open Championship of Photography in Olsztyn
2022 Award at the 17Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain.
2020 honorable mention at the 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain
2018 Grand Prize for the series "Black Protest" in the exhibition "Flowing City" which was presented in October at the Month of Photography in Trieste.
2018 Second prize in the "Disabled" film competition organized by the Audiovisual Institute of the National Film Archive for the film "I am a European"
1991 First prize at the Polish Landscape Biennale in Kielce,
1991 First prize at the Biennale of Mountain Photography in Jelenia Góra.
1991 First prize at the Biennale "Monuments" in Lublin
