Karolina Jarzębak
photo of Karolina jJrzębak, courtesy of Jak Zapomnieć Gallery
Born in 1990 in Kraków. A graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where she completed her diploma in 2017 in the studio of Professor Andrzej Bednarczyk. She works with objects, installations, video, and performance. Founder of the Jak Zapomnieć gallery (since 2018) and co-founder of Galeria 404 (2015–2017) in Kraków. Her practice is centered around phenomena occurring online — on forums, chats, and in online games — from which she builds new narratives. She materializes internet memes using traditional techniques, such as marquetry.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions, including at Galeria Widna, Szara Kamienica Gallery, Galeria Henryk, BWA Wrocław Główny, Gdańsk City Gallery, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Bielska BWA Gallery, BWA Katowice, Galeria Promocyjna, Zachęta — National Gallery of Art, the Tadeusz Kantor Art Documentation Center CRICOTEKA, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Odesa (Ukraine). She was awarded the Grand Prix ex aequo at the 2023 Bielska Jesień. She has taken part in residencies at the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko and MeetFactory in Prague. She lives and works in Kraków.
Exhibitions
2025
When Doors Close, Walls Rise, Galeria Jak Zapomnieć, Kraków
Y, wystawa inaugurująca Cracow Art Week w Pałacu Sztuki, Kraków
Samozaoranie, BWA Bielsko Biała, Bielsko Biała
2024
Each Rivulet ,Each Pulse, Each Vein, group exhibition, Jak Zapomnieć Gallery, Cracow
Visual Arts Festival. Relations part 4, group exhibition, XXI Gallery, Warsaw
From The Ashes, group exhibition, Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw
I am living in your walls + Performem, solo exhibition, Jak Zapomnieć Gallery, Cracow
All my brothers I’ve ever killed, group exhibition, Jak Zapomnieć Gallery, Cracow
2023
They sharing memes you’ll clouddn’t even phantom, solo exhibition, Szara Kamienica Gallery, Cracow
Unknown, group exhibition, Podbrzezie Gallery, Cracow
Mazury Club & Crash Club x Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Warsaw
Final exhibition of the laureates of the Bielska Jesień competition, BWA Bielsko Biała, Bielsko Biała
2022
From my window I can see all the Żabka shops, Jak Zapomnieć Gallery, Cracow
Interior, BWA Katowice, Katowice
I Was Lookin’ Back to See if You Were Lookin’ Back at Me to See Me Lookin’ Back at You, Museum of Nowa Huta, Cracow
Z kurzu w kurz, Tadeusz Kantor Documentation Centre CRICOTEKA, Cracow
Is it real, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice
Artistic Residency at MEET Factory, Prague
2021
Hurt Durr, Ośrodek Dokumentacji Sztuki Tadeusza Kantora CRICOTEKA, Kraków
Czysty Kryształ, Galeria Promocyjna, Warszawa
Zachodzące słońce ma tutaj kolor niebieski, Galeria Jak Zapomnieć, Kraków
