Agata Bogacka
Painter, born in 1976 in Warsaw. After she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2001, she quickly became known for her highly stylized, synthetic, figurative paintings–"a painterly diary of mental states” in which she noted down emotions and feelings she had for her near and dear ones. Over time, her paintings evolved and direct references to reality or fragments of reality became increasingly abstract. Her most recent works are based on configuration of planes with theuse of tonal transition. The gradient she uses symbolizes blurring and setting the boundaries, while directly referencing complex relations existing between people. These relations can be understood more broadly, include various modes of coexistence: political, social, oppressive, or conciliatory.She lives and works in Warsaw.
Exhibitions
2024
Conflict Enabler, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznań, Poland
2023
Stories of Lasting (with Iza Tarasewicz), Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2022
System of Divisions, Museum Jerke, Recklinghausen, Germany
Fields of Conflict, Edel Assanti, London, UK
Inequality, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2021
Divided View, BWA Tarnów, Poland
2020
Demonstration of Pictures, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, Poland
Compositions of Dependencies, Glassyard, Budapest, Hungary
2019
The Law of Balance, Svit, Prague, Czech Republic
2018
Relationship, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, Poland
2017
Paintings, Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, Poland
Crowd, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland
2014
The Egg, Instituto Buena Bista, Curacao, Country of Curaçao
2012
Paintings, Ring Gallery, Legnica, Poland
2011
Topos, PGS Sopot, Poland
Diaries, Aando Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
Diaries, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2009
Plan of the Journey, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
Returns, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland
The Walk, Platan Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2007
Second Half of Heart, Potocka Gallery, Cracow, Poland
2006
Heart, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2005
Did You Love Me?, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
2004
Et si je te faisais traverser le pont?, Espace Croise, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Roubaix, France
2003
Art of Beautiful Artists (with Anna Baumgart), independent city space, Warsaw, Poland
Come with me / Komm mit mir, Polnishes Institut, Berlin, Germany
I’m Bleeding, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland