Agata Bogacka
Agata Bogacka. Photo: Michał Polak. Courtesy the artist and Gunia Nowik Gallery
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 the use 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.
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Publications:
Agata Bogacka. Paintings 2016–2022, ed. Gunia Nowik, 77 Press Philip Niedenthal and Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw 2023
Agata Bogacka, ed. Łukasz Gorczyca, Państwowa Galeria Sztuki w Sopocie, Sopot 2012
Agata Bogacka. Diaries, ed. Joanna Kordjak, Zachęta – Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warszawa 2011
Selected collections:
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, National Museum in Gdańsk, The Bank Austria Creditanstalt, The ING Polish Art Foundation, Museum Jerke, Jankilevitsch Collection, ASOM Collection, Galeria Studio Collection