painting The Road, by Marta Pokojowczyk
mixed technique on hand-woven linen and hemp canvas, dimensions: 30 x 40 cm
Graduate of Painting at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (2013) and Art History at the University of Wroclaw (2011). She has been working with fabric since 2012. In 2014/2015, as part of the cross-border Erasmus program for young entrepreneurs, she completed an internship at the Helena Loermans Weaving Atelier in Odemira, Portugal. Hand weaving is a key stage in the artist's work, which allowed her to explore the issue of the structure of the canvas as a painting substrate. Creating spatial objects on the loom is a transposition of the artwork from the zone of pure viewing into the area of direct human contact. In 2017, she founded Interweave Studio - Research Atelier in Wroclaw, where art, craft and humanities are intertwined. She is the recipient of a 2019 scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
Exhibitions and awards:
2020 3D Weaving (solo exhibition), PIK Białystok, Poland
2019 Venice Design Week (group exhibition), Art Studio Larkina, Venice, Italy
2019 Humanism of textiles (solo exhibition), Gdynia Design Days, Gdynia, Poland
2019 Half tone (solo exhibition), Pracownia Duży Pokój, Warsaw, Poland
2018 Biennale Tkan Art - honorable mention, Center for Culture and Art, Skierniewice, Poland
2018 EUNIQUE - fair of unique objects, Karlsruhe, Germany
2017 The First Layer, 'Handwoven Canvas' project exhibition, Centro Cultural Emmerico Nunes, Sines, Portugal
2017 Designer's Open Festival, Leipzig, Germany
2016 What has happened since El Greco came to Odemira?, presentation of mantelillo veneziano canvases and interventions at Helena Loermans Handwoven Textiles Atelier, symzpozjum Ignorância & Esquecimento, Odemira, Portugal
2016 Wroclove Design Festival, Aleja Bielany, Wroclaw, Poland
2015 Tales of canvases weavers (solo exhibition), Agora Cultural Center, Wroclaw, Poland
2013 Timelessness (solo exhibition), Galeria na Psiaku, Wroclaw, Poland
2013 Possibility of an Island (diploma exhibition, solo exhibition), Studio BWA, Wroclaw, Poland
2013 honorable mention in the competition Graphics of the semester, Department of Graphic Design, ASP im. E. Geppert, Wrocław
2012 Apoptoza (group exhibition), Studio BWA, Wrocław, curator Magdalena Zięba - Grodzka
2011 Tenants (group project), Agora Cultural Center, Wrocław, curator Magdalena Zięba - Grodzka
2010 Honorable mention in the competition for illustrations to Brian Patten's book titled "The Jumping Mouse". Jumping Mouse, Literary Office and Department of Graphic Design, E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław
