Magdalena Karpińska is a painter. In addition to canvases and papers, she works with textiles (mainly silk) and constructs multi dimentional painting compositions. She explores nature as a vehicle for emotions, symbols, religion and politics.
She treats the work as a visual riddle, moving smoothly between the realism based on the observation of nature, and its deconstruction leading to abstraction.
In her art Magdalena Karpińska makes use of forms of the surrounding nature, their hidden meanings, and mutual relations. She casts doubt on the truthfullness of the painting’s representation, breaking down the image into prime factors, returning to the basic forms of circles and lines.
She is a graduate of Painting Department Of Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw (Poland), where she lives and works.
solo exhibitions:
| 2024 | I was born cold and my sister was born hot, Polana Institute, Warsaw, PL |
| 2024 | How to make a bow, Carvalho Park Gallery New York, USA |
| 2022 | The Journey through shambles, Polana Institute, Warsaw, PL |
| 2022 | A VEIL, BWA w Bydgoszczy, PL |
| 2020 | The Sunshine's gone, Polana Institute, Warsaw, PL |
| 2018 | Too many fingers, Polana Institute, Poland |
| 2018 | Better bitter, Platan Gallery, Budapest, Hungary |
| 2016 | The Cormorants Island, Starter Gallery, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2015 | The black sheep, wild goose and rainbow in the dark - Illustrations, Malmö City Library, Sweden |
| 2015 | Eye, Starter Gallery, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2012 | Lasting things, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Poland |
| 2011 | That’s not how you trim the hedges, Czarna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2011 | Gentlemen, wind is blowing. There won’t be any game in the forest, Wroclaw, Poland |
selected group exhibitions:
| 2024 | Le Luxe 1, Hyperbien Galerie, Montreiul (FR) |
| 2023 | Bella, Polana Institute&Gunia Nowik Gallery&Leto, Warsaw (PL) |
| 2023 | New Golden / Ceremonial , Art Walk Gallery, Warsaw (PL) |
| 2022 | Checkered, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, PL |
| 2022 | Vegetal, See Marais, Paris, FR |
| 2022 | Flora, Sage Culture, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2021 | She - Classicita, Polana Institute, Warsaw, PL |
| 2021 | With Pleasure, Szara Gallery Katowice & Krupa Gallery Wrocław, Poland |
| 2020 | Landscapes of Gaia, Sage Culture, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2019 | Last Place On Earth, Polana Institute, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2018 | Wonder Woman, Polana Institute, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2017 | Love, memory, curiosity; Polana Institute, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2015 | Procedures for the head. Polish Art Today, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia |
| 2014 | Sunrise, Starter Gallery, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2013 | Painters of illustrations, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland |
| 2013 | To draw, Anna Nova Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia |
| 2013 | Where I come from, Illustrative, Direktorenhaus, Berlin, Germany |
| 2012 | Second hand, Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland |
| 2011 | What does painter do, Awangarda Gallery BWA Wroclaw, Poland |
| 2011 | 6tm the Young Triennal, Museum of Contemporery Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland |
awards and scholarships:
| 2024 | Le Luxe 1, Hyperbien Galerie, Montreiul (FR) |
| 2020 | Scholarship of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage |
| 2012 | GrandFront Award for The Wysokie Obcasy cover |
| 2011 | Geppert Competition Award |
| 2010 | Scholarship of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage |
work published in:
ArtMaze Mag, Vogue Polska, Wysokie Obcasy, K Mag, Visegrad Insight, Fathers, KUKBUK and others |