Winter Is Coming to Grey House Gallery

Sat 29th
Nov
Winter Is Coming to Grey House Gallery

Grey House Foundation presents the works of the finalists for the FGH Competition for young artists at a group exhibition curated by Piotr Sikora.

The exhibition consists of works by five young artists – the finalists of the competition, seven jurors with individual preferences, and the cold finality of victory and loss. The motto and the key to the exhibition was drawn from the series “The Game of Thrones”, providing an ironic comment on the situation of the competition within the context of which the works of the final five are displayed. The form of the competition imposed a need for cool objectivism, and the exhibition arrangement follows this path. Individual works are also characterized by cool sparsity of expressive means and aesthetic sensitivity, offering a basis on which they can be seen as part of particular trends within young Polish art. 

Exhibition opening and the award ceremony:  29th Nov 2014, 7.00 pm

Szymon Szewczyk, b. 1989. 

Graduate of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. His diploma work was made under the supervision of Dr. Andrzej Tobis and Dr. Lesław Tela. He is interested in objects that are easily overlooked and unimportant and he looks for links between seemingly incompatible fragments of reality. His most recent work addresses the contemporary perception of exoticism and tribal cultures. He is also a graphic designer and stage set designer.
http://szymonszewczyk.blogspot.com/ 

Mikołaj Moskal, b. 1985

In the years 2005–2010 he studied at the Faculty of Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and at the Hochschule fuer Gestaltung im Offenbach / Frankfurt am Main. He graduated with distinction from the drawing studio of Joanna Kaiser. He makes drawings and sculptures. He uses a small variety of colours, creating smooth, texture-devoid surfaces with always balanced, closed compositions. In 2011 he co-founded the New Roman collective. 
http://mikimasaki.tumblr.com/ 

Karolina Jabłońska, b. 1991.

Since 2010 she has been studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in the studio of Professor Leszek Misiak. At present she is taking part in Erasmus + programme at the UMPRUM in Prague. She works predominantly in the medium of painting. Her works feature human and animal figures and the motifs of Polish countryside located in unreal landscapes and circumstances. 
http://kjablonska.blogspot.cz/

Lena Dobrowolska, b. 1985. 

She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow at the Faculty of Intermedia and at the Faculty of Photography of University College Falmouth in Britain. She is a laureate of international artistic scholarship programmes in Romania, Germany, and Lithuania. In 2012 her works were nominated for the Foam Talent Award and were selected for the Photomonth ShowOFF section in Krakow. She makes photography and art films, putting special focus on the conceptual aspect of her projects, linked with the strategies of ethics of representation of objects and topics, which are usually addressed by documentary photography (photojournalism).
http://www.lenadobrowolska.com/

Mateusz Choróbski, b. 1987

He studied photography at the University of Arts in Poznań, sound engineering at the University of Music in Warsaw, and spatial arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In his work, he goes beyond the discourse of the medium, drawing from the tradition of ready made, making objects, installations in public space and video works. He constructs multidimensional situations that stretch the structure of the spectacle of reality. 
http://mateuszchorobski.com/ 

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