Artist

Venice Biennale display promoting Poland’s Roma community hailed as ‘stupendous’

Titled ‘Re-enchanting the World’, the project by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas sees her become the first Romani artist to ever represent Poland at the prestigious event. Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale/Pawilon Polski na Biennale w Wenecji

Titled ‘Re-enchanting the World’, the project by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas sees her become the first Romani artist to ever represent Poland at the prestigious event.

Stunning war painting finds new home after being abandoned in a bog

Painted by Mexican artist Roberto Marquez, the work was rediscovered last week bearing superficial damage. Inspired by Picasso’s work depicting the bombing of Guernica, the epic painting will now be relocated to a museum in Przemyśl.

Ukrainian artist whose work has become symbol of peace is honoured in Warsaw

Maria Prymachenko’s dazzlingly colourful renderings of life in the Ukrainian countryside showcase a world that is gradually being destroyed by Russian bombs.

National Museum of Warsaw puts Chagall acquisitions on public display

The National Museum in Warsaw has unveiled to the public for the first time a collection of works by renowned artist Marc Chagall.

BBC names Oleśnica artist one of the world’s 100 most “inspiring and influential women” for her baby ‘therapy’ dolls.

Barbara Smolińska was chosen alongside acclaimed authors, Nobel Prize winners and a female Prime Minister for the lifelike dolls. Stunning in their detail, the ‘reborn sugar babies’ have won a raft of admirers, not least among women dealing with loss or trauma.

Artist extraordinaire Stanisław Wyspiański finally gets semi-permanent exhibition in hometown Kraków

Situated a stone’s throw away from the Old Town, the compact 18th-century Old Granary building will host the best of the artist’s work from among the 1,100 pieces that the museum’s mother institution the National Museum in Kraków holds in its collections.

Architect uses classic works of art to highlight ‘blight of garish’ billboard advertising

Using the most recognizable works from the canon of Chełmoński, Gierymski and Kossak among others, Wojciech Januszczyk used 15 famous landscape paintings as the basis of his project before adding a plethora of billboards to these classics.

Wyspiański masterpiece one of 150 artworks to go on show at London gallery to promote artist to ‘wider audience’

Piotr Ostrowski, director of the Workshop of Museum of Stained Glass said: “In his wildest dreams, the artist hoped to show himself to a wider public, but starting out from Kraków, he didn’t have a chance, he was limited by the provincialism of the town and lack of support from Poland, which didn’t exist on the map. For us, this showing is an incredibly exciting moment.”

Down syndrome girl who sent painting to Queen Elizabeth is ‘over the moon’ after receiving an official reply

Wanessa Bąkowska, 12, had written a letter to the Queen and included one of her artworks entitled ‘Earth’. The Queen’s Lady-in-Waiting replied on her Majesty’s behalf saying the Queen was deeply ‘touched’.

3D amber art from contemporary avant-garde designer to open new ‘gold of the sea’ museum in Gdańsk

The art pieces include an amber craftsman’s house, the first art piece in the world manufactured in a 1:6 scale with figures and elements of the interior entirely 3D printed.

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