Katarzyna (Kasia)
Krzykawska
Katarzyna Krzykawska is a sculptor with gallery exhibits and site-specific art installations in several countries including Poland, USA, Germany, Spain, Mexico and Taiwan. Her work explores the sociocultural context of landscapes. Krzykawska likes to trace obscured, often uncomfortable facts which are concealed by popular belief and established narratives.
She likes to expose the contradictions of oppositions such as the idealistic utopian versus the pragmatic mundane.
She has been commissioned by various institutions to make park sculptures, monuments, and scenic design.
Krzykawska studied art in Poland and Spain and has received a MA in Sculpture and Art Education as well as PhD, and post doctorate degrees from the Academies of Fine Arts in Cracow and Gdansk. She has taught art at universities in Poland, Italy and Mexico and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Art at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences.
She lives and works in the US and Poland.
Katarzyna Krzykawska
POLAND / USA
2017 Post-doctoral, Department of Sculpture and Intermedia Arts. ASP Gdańsk, Poland
2008 PhD in Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
2000 MA Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
1999-2000 Universidad Politécnica di Valencia, Spain
1998 MA Fine Arts Education. Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland
Forthcoming
2020 American as a Second Language, The Window Project @ machinaloci, Berkeley, USA (solo)
SELECTED SHOWS AND ART PROJECTS
2018 Spirit&Bones by Sarah Bush Dance Project - scenic design, Taube Atrium Theatre, The Wilsey Center for Opera, San Francisco, USA
2017 Landscape Memory, Labolatorio de Artistas Norte 124, Metepéc, México (solo)
Paired, Arboretum Bolestraszyce, Poland (site specific)
2016 Swing, VI Land Art Festival, “Home”, Bubel Łukowiska, Poland (site specific)
2016 Borderline, Szczere Pole Gallery, Kryspinów, Poland (site specific)
2015 Horse and a Polish Case. Disinfection of Polish Romantic Landscape, V Land Art Festival, Stary Bubel, Poland (site specific)
2015 Cutting /Thunder, Arboretum SGGW Rogow, Poland (site specific)
Tears, University of Lviv Botanical Garden, Lviv, Ukraine (site specific)
2014 Cloud, Arboretum Bolestraszyce, Poland (site specific)
Red Hood, Arboretum Bolestraszyce, Poland (site specific)
2013 Confiserie Polonaise, XX1 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
La Originalidad en la cultura de la copia, El Centro Universitario de las Artes, Ciudad Juárez, México
2012 Difficult Cases, U Piotra Gallery, Arboretum Bolestraszyce, Poland (solo)
2012 Stories, BWA Gallery, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland (solo)
2011 Stones, Arboretum Bolestraszyce, Poland (site specific)
# D4213D, XX1 Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
Libroarte, Biblioteca de la Facultat de Belles Arts in Barcelona, Spain
2010 AB Rh +, XS Gallery, Fine Arts Institute, Kielce, Poland (solo)
Wariaty, Alles wird Schoen Gallery, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
Import-Export, Exhibition in collaboration with Waldemar Sulewski and Kioer group, Essener Strasse, Hamburg, Germany
Sztuka, Positionen Polnischer Aktueller Kunst, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
2009 Private Horizontal Line, Kinetic Drawings, Meeting in Zdonov, Czechia (site specific)
Searching for EU Standards, Vilnius, Lithuania (site specific)
Geumgang Nature Art Pre-Biennale, South Korea
2008 International Tsai-mo Ecology Art Exhibition, Taichung City, Taiwan
Katarzyna Krzykawska
EDUCATION
2017
Habilitation in Fine Arts (post-doctoral)
Department of Sculpture and Intermedia Art. Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk, Poland
2008
PhD in Fine Arts
Department of Sculpture. Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
2000
Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture
Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
10/1999-07/2000
Study Abroad
Universidad Politécnica di Valencia (Spain) via Erasmus Exchange Program
1998
Master of Fine Arts Education
Pedagogical University of Krakow. The Art Institute, Krakow, Poland
SELECTED ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES 2008-2020
Teaching Experience at Universities
2017- current
Associate Professor at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Warsaw
Department of Landscape Art
2013-2017
Assistant Professor at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Warsaw
Landscape Art Department
Degree program - Landscape Architecture (BA and MA studies)
- Courses: Drawing, Sculpture as a Form of Expression, Environmental Sculpture and Design
- Sponsor of Bachelor and Master Graduate Diploma Works
2008 -2015
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts. The University of Jan Kochanowski, Kielce
Degree programs - Art Education in Visual Arts (BA, MA and PhD studies) and Design (BA)
- Courses: Multimedia, Public Space Interventions, Sculpture and Architecture – Small Forms, Fundamentals of Graphic Design
- Sponsor of Bachelor and Master Graduate Diploma Works
Visiting Lecturer, Presentations at Academic Institutions, and in Conferences
Nov, 2019
American Iconoclasm and its Traces in “Techniques of Memory” at UC Berkeley, conference: Anti- Monuments, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko, Poland.
Sept, 2019
“Art as a Litmus Paper. The Case of the Polish Countryside”, conference: Understanding the Countryside. Rural Europe in a Post-Global World, IES, University of California, Berkeley.
Feb-Mar, 2017
Lecture series:
“Cultura Popular y Arte Contemporaneo en Polonia y Europa del Este”, La Universidad Autónoma de Estado de México.
Apr-May, 2015
"Contemporary Art in the Provices. Into the Country." Accademia di Belle Arti, Bari, Italy, Erasmus Individual Teaching Program for Teaching Staff Mobility.
Nov, 2012
Lecture series:
"Intervenciones efimeras en la naturaleza" II Encuentro Internacional de Grafica Contemporánea, El Instituto de Arquitectura, Diseño y Arte, La Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, México.
"Inspiraciones: cultura visual de época comunista en diseño y arte contemporánea en Polonia", El Instituto de Arquitectura, Diseño y Arte, La Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, México.
Oct, 2012
"La Bienal Báltico", 7 Foro Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, La Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Facultad de Artes, México.
Mar, 2012
"The Song of Two Songs. Some Words about Contemporary Polish Art", Teaching Program for Teaching Staff Mobility, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bari, Italy.
Apr, 2010
“Between natural and artificial. The Summary of Contemporary Space Realizations in Poland ", Umeni Academy in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.
Selected texts published
Krzykawska K. (2020). The Struggle with Memory in Memorialisation. American Iconoclasm and its Traces in “Techniques of Memory” at UC Berkeley. Sculpture Today IV. Anti- Monuments, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko, Poland, pp.99-106.
Krzykawska K. (2019). A Landfill Penisula as an Experimental Use Space. A Case Study of Albany Bulb. Acta Sci. Pol. Architectura 18 (4) 2019, pp. 51-60.
Krzykawska K. (2017). Jugar, crear, ver, saber. El espacio para experimentar, jugar, descubrir y aprender, La Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, México, pp. 99-119.
Krzykawska, K. (2016). Intervenciones Efimeras en la Naturaleza. Intervenciones Efimeras en el Espacio, La Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, México, pp. 15-26.
Krzykawska, K. (2015). Greenery in the City. The Projector Cultural Magazine, Kielce ISSN 2353-1037 No.3 / 2015; pp. 6-13; http://www.projektorkielce.pl
Krzykawska, K. (2015). To see, to Know, to Feel and to Design. Seeing the Landscape: The Garden and the Landscape Art, Special edition, pp. 142- 156, ISSN 2084-6150.
Krzykawska, K. (2013). Monuments Will Not Save Us. The Projector Cultural Magazine ISSN 2353-1037 No.5 / 2013; pp. 10-15; http://www.projektorkielce.pl
Katarzyna, K. La Bienal Báltico. 7 Foro Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, La Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Facultad de Artes, México, pp. 177-188 ISBN 978- 607- 422- 488- 7.
Holewiński, M. and Krzykawska, K. (2011). Park Directory System and a Small Architecture Catalog of Forms in Holy Cross National Park. Architecture Mountain Region yesterday-today-tomorrow, the International scientific conference of the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning. Podhale State Vocational College in Nowy Targ, Poland 2011 ISBN 978-83-60621-15-8.
Krzykawska, K. (2009). Between the Natural and the Artificial. Polish Sculpture Annals. Volume XIII, Polish Sculpture Center, pp. 159-161.