Open City  /  Otwarte Miasto

Festival    of art    in public    spaces

Lublin 2010    Kurator: Krzysztof Żwirblis

/ Karolina Breguła

Born  in 1979.

Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. She graduated from photography school GFU at Folkuniversitetet in Stockholm, Sweden and European Academy of Photography in Warsaw, Poland. She is working on her degree in the National Film Television and Theatre School in Łódź, Poland. She is a visual and conceptual artist. She creates photography, video installations and actions. She is particularly interested in the subjects of diversity and equality, relations between people in big societies and relations between people and art. Beside her art she creates social campaigns, teaches photography at the Warsaw School of Advertising and runs a non-commercial record label.

Her most important photographic projects are: series Niech nas zobaczą (Let them see us) exhibited, among others in: Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art; Centre for Culture Reanimation, Wrocław, 2003; 5 Gallery, Upper Silesian Centre of Culture, Katowice, Goethe Institute, Bucuresti,  Atrium der ver.di Bundesverwaltung, Berlin, 2004; Börgeramt Innerstadt, Köln, 2005; Fachhochschule, Potsdam, 2006; Academic Cultural Centre, Lublin, 2010; also Mężatki (The married women) created with Olga Buczkowska and presented in: Program Gallery, Warsaw; FF Gallery, Lodz, 2006, Galeria znad Wisły, Vilnius, 2008. She is an author of projects in the public space, e.g.: Dobrzy sąsiedzi (Good Neighbors), Szara Gallery, Cieszyn, 2010 or Lato w środku (Summer in the Middle), Constitution Square, Warsaw, 2010.

Chosen group exhibitions: Iluzja jako źródło cierpień (Illusion as a Source of Suffering), Bielska Gallery BWA, Bielsko Biała, 2008; Efekt Czerwonych Oczu (Red-Eye Effect), CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2008; Samsung Art Master, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2008; Kolekcja Zdarzeń – sztuka istnieje poza obrazem: pokaz kolekcji Dariusza Bieńkowskiego (Collection of Events – art exists beyond the image: exhibition of Dariusz Bieńkowski’s collection), Atlas Gallery, Lodz, 2009; Video Punkt – Studio Gallery, Warsaw 2009; Porażka w sztuce (Defeat in art), Emdes Gallery, Wrocław, 2010.

www.karolinabregula.com