MAGDA WEGRZYN Bio (162 WORDS) Magda Wegrzyn (1986) is a

MAGDA WEGRZYN Bio (162 WORDS) Magda Wegrzyn (1986) is a

MAGDA WEGRZYN
Bio (162 WORDS)
Magda Wegrzyn (1986) is a Polish born visual artist, doctoral candidate, artistic researcher
and independent curator. Magda currently is a visiting DFA researcher at the Finnish
Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and DFA researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts at
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. Magda’s work addresses connections between
visual perception, technology and communication – calling upon a tangible contact during
processes of interaction. Magda also tests Shannon & Weaver’s The Mathematical Theory
of Communication possible use to art research with a special emphasis on Recent
Contributions to The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Warren Weaver.
Magda was honoured several fellowships (CIMO Fellowship, Scholarship of The President
of Torun, Pomeranian Voivodeship Artistic Scholarship) and has participated in various solo
and group exhibitions in Poland and Italy since 2010. Her work has been featured in a
various magazines and portals such as: Musli Magazine, Notes Na 6 Tygodni, Poland Art,
Artinfo, Kulturalny Torun, O.pl, Gazeta.pl Torun, MMTorun, O.pl, eSanok.
Research Statement ( 174 WORDS)
The artistic research of Magda Wegrzyn addresses questions of perception and
communication in tune with aesthetics, digital technologies and the medium of painting.
Speaking of painting - from the context of digital technology - she calls upon a tangible
contact during the process of interaction with it. She examines how digital culture affects
the perception of a medium in case of being both: a painter and a receiver. Her interest
considers how virtual reality of a screen affects virtual reality of painting. She reflects on
the idea of a taste of 'digital look' and a manifestation of beauty in this medium. Magdas
current interests reflect upon articulation in painting, in tune with visual rhetoric understand us communication of visual image as contrary to verbal messages as well as the
function of the image and its impact on the public. She is interested in Claude Shannon and
Warren Weaver: The Mathematical Theory of Communication and its possible use in art
with a special emphasis on Recent Contributions to The Mathematical Theory of
Communication by Warren Weaver.
Exhibitions & publications (117 WORDS)
Selected individual exhibitions are, i.e. Take Me to The Wonderland at BWA, Sanok,
Poland and Przefestival, CoCA (2012); In The Hall of Pumps, Bielanska Water Station
(2012) and Boolean Operations, Wozownia Art Gallery (2011), both Torun, Poland.
Selected group exhibitions are DREAMERS' CONGRESS, (2013) at CoCa inTorun; IN
OUT (2011) at CCA Laznia, Gdansk and ZARAZ (2011) at BWA, Wroclaw; Frame by
Frame (2011) at Riso Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo and Capolinea,
Galeria Spazio Canatella in Palermo (2010). Magda's work has been featured in various
magazines and portals such as: Musli Magazine, Notes Na 6 Tygodni, Poland Art, Artinfo,
Kulturalny Torun, O.pl, Gazeta.pl Torun, MMTorun, O.pl, eSanok.
CV Long (618 WORDS)
Education:
2013 DFA Visiting Researcher, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland
2011-2013 DFA Researcher, Nicolas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
2006-2011 Faculty of Painting, MA, Nicolas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
2010 Accademia di Belle Arti, Palermo, Italy, (Erasmus exchange)
Awards:
2013 Finnish Government Scholarship Pool, CIMO Grant
2013 Scholarship of The President of the Torun
2012 Marshal of The Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Artistic Scholarship
2010 Marshal of The Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Artistic Scholarship
2005-2006 Prime Minister Scholarship
2005-2006 Culture Minister Scholarship
2005-2006 Krosno Mayor Scholarship
2004-2005 Krosno Mayor Scholarship
2004 Memoriam Foundation of Anna Kobak-Pisowacka, AKAPI Scholarship
Residencies:
2014 HOW TO SHOW? LAB FOR RESEARCH AND ART, Europäische Gesellschaft für
Forschung und Kunst, Berlin, (DE)
2014 Berlin Residence, Brunnenstrase 45, Stokholm Royal Institute of Art, Academy of
Fine Art in Helsinki (DE)
Individual Exhibitions:
2014
Upcoming: Carbon Copy, Secondhome Projects, Berlin( DE)
THESAMEONBOTHSIDES = THE SAME ON BOTH SIDES, MD_S Gallery, Wroclaw
(PL)
2012
Take me to the Wonderland, BWA, Sanok (PL)
Take me to the Wonderland, Przefestival, CoCA, Torun (PL)
In the hall of pumps, Bielanska Water Station, Torun (PL)
2011
Boolean Operations, Wozownia Art Gallery, Torun (PL)
Sketchbook, Vistula Gallery, Torun (PL)
Beyond a plane of a Painting, Culture Center Court Artus, Torun (PL)
Beyond a plane of a Painting, Fruit Gardens I, II, Forum Gallery, Torun (PL)
Around the Form and Place, Regional Center for Cultural Borderland, Krosno (PL)
2010
Painting, Faculty of Mathematic and Computer Science Gallery, Torun (PL)
Big Yellow, Ruins of St. Nicholas Church, Torun (PL)
Untitled, (Bologna), Streets of Bologna (IT) Untitled, (Etna), Volcano in Katania (IT)
Restoring of art-recycling of art, Gallery 011, OdNowa, Torun (PL)
Playing with the form, Gallery Egoist, Torun (PL)
2009 Painting, In-constant Gallery, Torun (PL)
2008 Collected Painting, Gallery Five, Torun (PL)
2005 Scholars of Foundation AKAPI, Gallery Na Jatkach, Wroclaw (PL)
2004 Scholars of Foundation AKAPI, Pasaz Gallery, Iwonicz Zdroj (PL) Scholars of
Foundation AKAPI, Regional Museum of Adam Fastnacht, Brzozow (PL)
Group Exhibitions:
2013
Dreamers’s Congress, CoCa, Torun, (PL)
2012
In the hall of pumps, Second Hand, CoCa, Torun (PL)
The Olimpian, Regulacja Odbioru, CoCA, Toun (PL)
Optional Exercises, A coincidence or a method, CoCA, Torun (PL)
3 rd Festival Out OF Control Production, Weglowa 10, Bialystok (PL)
The Olimpian, Open Exhibition Festival, Lodz (PL)
Drawings (of) the nature, TO DRAW, Faculty of Mathematic and Computer Science
Gallery, Torun (PL)
Beyond the plane of the painting, DIPLOMA SHOW 2012, CoCA, Torun (PL)
2011
IN OUT, CCA Laznia, Gdansk (PL)
ZARAZ, BWA, Wroclaw (PL)
Campers with landing, CoCA, Torun (PL)
Sopot Fringe Festiwal, Sopot (PL)
Campers, CoCA, Torun (PL)
Frame by Frame, Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia (IT)
Sketchbook, Vistulla Gallery, Torun (PL)
Young Art Auction, Marchand Exhibition Salon, Warsaw (PL)
Young Art Auction, Auction House in Sopot, Warsaw Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
2010
Capolinea, Gallery Spazio Canatella, Palermo (IT)
Erasmus Two, Palazzo Sanata Rosalia, Palermo (IT)
Young Art Auction, National Gallery of Art at the Center of Haffner, Sopot (PL)
I st Camera Obscura Photo Meeting- Otworzenie, Stargard Cultural Center, Stargard
Szczeciński (PL)
2009 Young Painting from Torun, Gallery Egoist Torun (PL)
2006 Talents, temperaments, personalities – Scholars of Memoriam Foundation AKAPI,
Pasaz Gallery, Iwonicz Zdroj (PL)
Career progression:
Professional experience:
2011 – 2013 Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. Conducting
classes: Painting in Architecture and Painting for Graphics with NCU Prof. Krzysztof
Pitula.
2012 Center of Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland. Collaboration during one year
project called: Przeprojekt. A curator of the exhibition: A Coincidence or a Method.
2011 The Foundation UTU, Torun, Poland. Realization of animations for
project: Soundwalks (Dźwiękospacery).
2010 -2011 Festival Opening – Meetings with pinhole photography, (Otworzenie –
Spotkania z Fotografią Otworkową). Creating meetings, preparing workshops dealing with
pinhole photography, helping heads of the festival in coordinating events during the
festival, realization of animation for the festival.
Magda Wegrzyn is a member of:
(GNW) Galeria nad Wisla
Przeprojekt