Małgorzata Widomska
Widomska Malgorzata - Colonies in the Krolewskie Sands, 2025, oil plot, 200x200cm - photo Adam Gut
Małgorzata Widomska is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where in 2003 she received her diploma with distinction in the painting studio of Prof. Mieto Olszewski, with an additional component in the textile and screen-printing studio of Dr. Aleksander Widyński. She also studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw. In 2013, she earned a PhD in Fine Arts from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, with a doctoral thesis titled “The Illusion of My Presence”, supervised by Prof. Adam Brincken.
In 2006, she was awarded the Second Prize at the “Gardens” Painting Biennale held at the BWA Gallery at Książ Castle in Wałbrzych.
As an artist, she works in painting, painterly installation, drawing, and art writing. Occasionally, she also curates exhibitions.
She describes her approach to painting as follows:
“A painting is not pure abstraction. I’m not just playing with form. All of my works are rooted in a specific story that I carry in the back of my mind—usually something from the past and tied to a strong personal experience. I find that I can best process that experience through the language of abstraction. Figurative work, being descriptive, may effectively evoke an image—a memory—but only abstraction allows me to retrieve the feeling from the past. I believe that the continuation of an experience becomes more real through abstraction.”
As an academic teacher, she has collaborated with the Institute of Artistic Education at the Academy of Special Education in Warsaw, where she led courses in drawing and painting as well as delivered monographic lectures. She currently teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice.
She lives and works in Warsaw.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
- 2023: Kolor pogody, Galeria 35a × Galeria Śmierć Człowieka, Warsaw; The Wave is the Sea, Galeria Piekary, Poznań
- 2022: School, Pool, Home, Sky over Ukraine, Białobrzeska 7, Warsaw; Harmonious Transition, APS Gallery, Warsaw
- 2017: Cave, lokal_30 Gallery, Warsaw (with her brother Michał Bugalski)
- 2016: Un Petit Mort, Różnia, Warsaw; Pathosformeln, Galeria Piekary, Poznań (with her brother Michał Bugalski)
- 2014: Place, Żak Gallery, Gdańsk; Aesthetics of Memory, Museum of the Sochaczew Region, Sochaczew
- 2013: The Semblance of My Presence, Floriańska 22 Gallery, Kraków
- 2012: Everything Has Ceased, Piętro Wyżej Gallery, Katowice Cultural Centre (with her brother Michał Bugalski)
- 2009: My Mother Has Disappeared, Lamelli Gallery, Kraków
Group Exhibitions
- 2024: Egzamin dojrzałości, Galeria Śmierć Człowieka & Inne Towarzystwo, Warsaw
- 2022: Collection, Inne Towarzystwo, Warsaw; With Family, Inne Towarzystwo, Warsaw
- 2014: Leon Wyczółkowski Competition, Municipal Gallery BWA Bydgoszcz
- 2011: Touch, Klimy Bocheńska Gallery, Warsaw
- 2007: Gardens, BWA Jelenia Góra
- 2006: Gardens, BWA Wałbrzych – Książ Castle
- 2005: Ascending, Hanki Sawickiej 1, Sochaczew
- 2004: The Paint Shop, Museum of the Sochaczew Region, Sochaczew
- 2003: Naturally Nature, Gdańsk Cultural Center, Gdańsk
- 2000: Theory of Matter, Academy of Fine Arts Building, Vilnius, Lithuania
