Born in 1990 in Nowogard, Poland. Lives and works in Paris.
Katarzyna Wiesiolek, who graduated from ENSBA in 2018, has shown her work in many group shows as : Galerie Éric Dupont, Salon de Montrouge and Art Paris.
She received first place in the Pierre David-Weill Drawing Prize in 2017 and second place in the contemporary drawing prize from the Cabinet of Drawing Jean Bonnat in 2018.
As an artist, she entices the viewer to enter into her world through narrative images. Through her chosen themes, she offers to share her singular and subjective point of view as the truth. The subject - which varies with each series - is a substitute, a metaphorical representation of the eye and which becomes almost marginal. Her drawings are born from her memories, often in resonance with her personal life – she spent her childhood in the polish countryside and next to the Baltic sea.
Katarzyna works from a space of her own contemplation that brings her richness . Through the images she reproduces – which are not a report, nor fiction, nor testimony – she restored and conveys the emotions that she likes to share.
Her commitment is subject to deeply intimate and sensitive aesthetic choices. Her work, very particular and of a rare intensity; melancholically evokes the ephemeral, the transience of time.
Francoise Docquiert
Née en 1990 à Nowogard, Pologne. Vit et travaille à Paris.
Katarzyna Wiesiolek est diplômée de l’ENSBA en 2018. Elle a montré son travail dans différentes expositions collectives : Galerie Éric Dupont, Salon de Montrouge, Art Paris.
Elle a reçu, en 2017, le Premier Prix de dessin Pierre David-Weill de l’Académie des beaux-arts et, en 2018, le deuxième prix de dessin contemporain du Cabinet des dessins Jean Bonnat.
Dans son travail, elle tire parti des images pour s’approprier et explorer une narration dans laquelle elle cherche à faire directement entrer le spectateur. Ni reportage, ni fiction, ni témoignage, ses dessins restituent des émotions.
Parce qu’elles naissent de sa mémoire, ses œuvres entrent souvent en résonance directe avec sa vie personnelle, puisant dans un espace de contemplation fondamentalement intime, qui lui est propre et qui fait sa richesse.
Affirmant la mise en forme comme élément producteur de sens, elle assume des choix profondément sensibles, intenses, évoquant la mélancolie, l’éphémère et la fugacité du temps.
Francoise Docquiert
EDUCATION
2014-2018 Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris
2013-2014 Ecole nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges
2012-2013 Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2010-2014 Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw
ARTS RESIDENCIES
2020-2021 Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris
2019-2020 Casa de Velàzquez, Madrid
2018 Art residency, Lourmarin
EXHIBITIONS AN PRIZES
2020 Publication, Beaux-Arts Magazine, march 2020
Atelier Velázquez, Loo&Lou Gallery, Paris
2019 Reexistir, Blanca Soto Gallery, Madrid
Galeristes 2019, Carreau du Temple, Paris
Paréidolie, Marseille
Art Paris 2019, Paris
2018 Même les étoiles sont des mirages, ENSBA, Paris
Galeristes 2018, Carreau du Temple, Paris
Group show, Eric Dupont Gallery, Paris
Drawing room 018, La Panacée, Montpellier
63ème Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge
Prix de dessin contemporain 2018 (Second prize), Paris
Selection - Prix Ikart Artistik Rezo, Elephant Paname, Paris
2017 Prix de Dessin Pierre David-Weill, Institut de France, Paris
The Big Mosaic, Ibrahim’s khan, Paphos
2016 Wroclaw - Capitale Européene de la Culture, Galerie CROUS, Paris
Espaces, Atelier Gauthier, ENSBA, Paris
2015 Bez rozu, Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Poznan
2014 Group show, Pokusa Gallery, Wiesbaden
Prize of students of Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen,
IX. International Biennial of Drawing, Pilsen
Publication-Interview, Arteon magazine, march 2014
Honourable mention, Derwent Art Prize, Mall Galeries, London
2013 Grand Prix, «Postawy», Wrocław
2012 Certificate of highest quality - short list VIII.International Biennial of drawing Pilsen 2012, Pilsen