Karolina Bielawska
Karolina Bielawska mixes various techniques and sculptural materials such as bituminous masses, plasterboard, enamels and varnish in her paintings to reveal diverse abstract impressions and a meditative meticulousness.
Bielawska’s distinctive use of black and blue hues, curved and angular abstract shapes are often derived from architectural and local historical prototypes, including structural motifs from iconic Polish modernist villas built in the first half of the 20th century. At first glance, Bielawska’s compositions resemble projections of geometric solids: the humps corresponding to elliptical orbits, the multiplied slopes and peaks to wave amplitude or self-replicating fractals. There is always a calmness in anticipating what might come next. Yet beyond the subtle interplay of colours, texture, and shapes, her canvases are first and foremost conceived as sites of transformation that speak of emotions and states of mind – about dreams, finding, struggling for and building a place of one’s own.
Karolina Bielawska (b. 1986) lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. Bielawska graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2015 and was among the finalists for the STRABAG Artaward International in 2021. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including Connective Tissue, Galeria Wschód, Warsaw (2023); Soft, Hidden, Exposed, Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong (2022); Fields, Wschód Gallery, Warsaw (2021); First World Problems: Life Before Death, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw (2019); Biennale de La Biche, Guadeloupe (2017); and Mimicry, State Ethnographic Museum, Poland (2015).
