About
Barbara Gryka, an artist from the village of Końskowola (Poland), was born in April 1992. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Faculty of Media Art. In 2019 she graduated from the Studio of Spatial Activities of Mirosław Bałka.
In her practice, she deals with performative activities.
Her work is interested in working with people, not necessarily those who deal with art. Her mother – Beata taught her these skills.
Her favorite activity is talking, she also likes to observe other people, their behaviors, and lifestyles.
She danced in a folk group for ten years from the age of six.
In Architecture from the Inside, she visited her neighbors in the LSM district in Lublin. She knocked on their doors and asked for an interview. She plans to continue visiting modernist Polish housing estates.
In The Motorcycle Dance, she led a group of 8 men on motorcycles dancing the Lublin folk dance.
Winner of the Grand Prize of Hestia’s Artistic Journey, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2019), a prize established since 2002 for the promotion of young Polish art and artistic education.
She presented her works in the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery, Manifesta 14, National Gallery in Prague, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Kaunas Biennale. She has held residencies at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (MACBA), Residency Unlimited, National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens (EMST), Plato Ostrava, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and many others.
Works and lives in Lublin and Warsaw.
| Education | |
| 2021-2025 Ph.D. candidate, Sound Space Studio of Katarzyna Krakowiak-Bałka, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (PL), with the support of Krzysztof Wodiczko, prof. Harvard University (US) | |
| 2021-2022 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE) | |
| 2013- 2019 MA diploma in the Studio of Spatial Activities of prof. Mirosław Bałka, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (PL) | |
| Exhibitions | |
| Solo | |
| 2024 | Dirty Blood, De-risking, Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin (PL) |
| 2024 | The Room of My Own, Strikes Asteroid LA, Los Angeles, CA (US) duo with Magdalena Ciemierkiewicz. |
| 2024 | Venom, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Opole (PL) duet with Daniil Revkovskyi |
| 2024 | "CreArt 3.0 #stringing_together," National Museum, Lublin (PL) duo with Agata Konarska |
| 2023 | Climbing Dance, ŁAŹNIA Center for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk (PL) |
| 2023 | Pomegranate, Kronika Contemporary Art Center, Bytom (PL) duo with Agata Konarska |
| 2021 | Motorcycles Dances, BWA Zielona Góra, (PL) |
| 2021 | Motorcycles Dances, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) |
| 2021 | Dolls, Gallery Grey House, Kraków (PL) |
| 2021 | There are no more valuable things than broken, MOS Gorzów Wielkopolski ( PL) |
| 2020 | Processes, Architecture from the Inside, Tiff Festival, BWA Wrocław (PL) |
| 2019 | News from the city, Zloty Kiosk, Wroclaw (PL) |
| 2019 | Identity is built on little things, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) |
| 2019 | Architecture from the within, Gallery Labirynt, Milk Bar Chochlik, Lublin (PL) |
| 2024 | |
| We open the stable, 66P Subjective Cultural Institution, Wroclaw (PL) | |
| 100 years in the Labirynt, Labirynt Gallery (PL) | |
| Hide from Seek, Performance Festival Malamut, GAFU Gallery, Ostrava (CZK) | |
| Transoceanic Visual Exchange 5, Cultural Center, Lublin (PL) Barbados Museum & Historical Society (BB) | |
| Lublin Triangle, Nadwiślańskie Museum in Kazimierz Dolny (PL) | |
| Amongst the silence seminar, Municipal Gallery Arsenal Poznań (PL) | |
| Materializing Sonic Architectures, performance action in collaboration with Katarzyna Krakowiak-Bałka, Maciej Kryński, Łukasz Horbów, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Berlin (DE) | |
| Superorganism, Magic Carpets, European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 (EE) | |
| Shout, sister, shout! Kronika Center for Contemporary Art, Bytom (PL) | |
| 2023 | |
| Sailor Moon. We save the world - we are young and grandfathered! Labirynt Gallery, Lublin (PL) | |
| MUSEUM IN THE UNDERGROUND, Wrocław off Gallery Weekend, Galeria u Kosałki, Wrocław (PL) | |
| M² - Youth and Dreams, Cranes- Lublin Cultural Awards, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin (PL) | |
| FROM PLACE TO COMMUNITY, FROM COMMUNITY TO PLACE, 14th Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas District Museum, Kaunas (LT) | |
| Nepokoje, Villa Vilekula, Ostrava (CZ) | |
| Half-full, Museum of Royal Lazienki, Warsaw (PL) | |
| Open studios, ART GOYKI 3, Incubator, Sopot (PL) together with Maciej Kryński and Joanna Ostrowska | |
| Tender Points, Narryacje Festival, Institute of Urban Culture, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk (PL) | |
| Climbing Dancing, ŁAŹNIA Center for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk (PL) solo | |
| Pomegranate, Kronika Contemporary Art Center, Bytom (PL) duo with Agata Konarska | |
| Music of the Protest, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice (PL) | |
| 10th Young Triennale: Consolidation / X Трієнале Молодого Мистецтва: Утривалення, Museum of Modern Sculpture, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko (PL) | |
| Secondary Archives, Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade (SRB) | |
| Curort Vieniava, performative actions, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin (PL) | |
| Animation Residencies in the Countryside, Mazovian Institute of Culture, Warsaw (PL) | |
| 2022 | |
| Susijungimas, Kaunas Biennale (LT) | |
| City Telling Festival, Kaunas 2022 (LT) | |
| STREETFIGHT, Warsaw under Construction, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (PL) | |
| No One Belongs Here More Than You, Fotograf Festival, National Gallery in Prague (CZ) | |
| Odnowa/ Renewall, II Biennale Zielona Góra (PL) | |
| THE DISCOMFORT OF EVENING, Performance, Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw (PL) | |
| Manifesta 14, Galeria Kombëtare e Kosovës / The National Gallery of Kosova, Prisztina (XK) | |
| 1 Via Carpatia Art Biennale, Nowy Sącz (PL) | |
| Ми з Вами! / My z Wami!, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| Charity Auction, I Have a Dream, ZODIAK Architecture Pavilion, Warsaw (PL) | |
| 2021 | |
| Digital residency, OP ENHEIM, Wroclaw (PL) | |
| Horizons, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE) | |
| Motorcycles Dances, BWA Zielona Góra, (PL) solo | |
| Motorcycles Dances, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) solo | |
| There are no more valuable things than broken, MOS Gorzów Wielkopolski, ( PL) solo | |
| Dolls, Gallery Grey House, Kraków (PL) solo | |
| Nie som tvoj objekt, Liptovská galéria Petra Michala Bohúňa Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia (SK) | |
| Da Festival! Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (HR) | |
| SOON 61, Starak Family Foundation / Spectra Art Space, Warszawa (PL) solo | |
| MykolaivARTWeek, Платформа MY ART, Mykolaiv (UA) | |
| FROM POLAND WITH LOVE, 01 Gallery, (VR) | |
| The last dance par, Haute School Arts Du Rhin, Project Room, Strasburg (FR) | |
| KOYAANISQATSI, Defilad Square, Studio Gallery Theatre, Warsaw (PL) | |
| Disappearing on the Vistula River, residency, Foundation W788, Kozielec (PL) | |
| Unrealized projects of the last decade, Cricoteka, Cracow Art Week KRAKERS 2021: (NO) HOPE, Kraków (PL) | |
| On the edges of space, Naga Gallery, Cracow Photomonth Festival (PL) | |
| COWGIRLS, BWA Warsaw (PL) solo with Nadia Markiewicz, Julia Dorobińska | |
| Building Memory Within a City of Rifts: Facing Political Collaborationism, Kyiv, Ukraine (UK), Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, Warsaw ( PL) | |
| Guilty pleasure, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice (PL) | |
| 2020 | |
| Censorship Strikes Back & Other Tales, SPOLEK SKUTEK, Prague (CZ) | |
| Arton Review 2020, Foundation Arton, Warsaw (PL) | |
| You’ll Never Walk Alone, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| Secondary Archive, Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation (PL) online | |
| Open Studio, My Flower, Meet Factory, Prague (CZ), Tajskie Kwiatuszki | |
| Open Studio, Melting of the Marzanna, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz (AT) | |
| Performance, Stories are written in mud, CK Lublin (PL), Tajskie Kwiatuszki | |
| SANDRA in the grass, in the context of Turnus, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL) | |
| We are people, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| Theatrical anthology of new utopias, Theatre Zagłębia, Sosnowiec (PL) | |
| Open City, CICI Crossroads, Lublin (PL) | |
| New Normativity. Wrocław ’70 Visual Arts Symposium, Wrocław Contemporary Museum (PL) | |
| Solidarity and Agency, Arsenał Białystok (PL) | |
| Tiff Festival, Processes, Wrocław (PL) solo | |
| Workshop, Museum of Contemporary Art MACBA, Barcelona (ES) | |
| (Un)Applied Arts, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| 2019 | |
| Indwelling, Gallery Grey House, Cracow (PL) | |
| Grassomania, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdańsk (PL) | |
| The International Performance Festival, ECO ART, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok (THA) | |
| The International Performance Festival, ECO ART, Jang-an Creative Yard, Suncheon (KR) | |
| Meet the Neighbours: The Weekend, How do we live together amid the chaos of urban change? Quarantine, Manchester (UK) | |
| Three Plagues, OP ENHEIM, Wroclaw (PL) | |
| Meet the Neighbours, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| Festival Mondial des Cinémas Sauvages Brussels, Brussels (BE) | |
| News from the city, Zloty Kiosk, Wroclaw (PL) solo | |
| Warsaw Preview, Królikarnia, Warsaw (PL) | |
| The heart bites nostalgia, Panorama Shopping Center, Warsaw (PL) | |
| Eye Never Sleeps, BWA Bydgoszcz (PL) | |
| Three Plagues, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| Reconstruction, Fort Institute of Photography, Warsaw (PL) | |
| Identity is built on little things, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) solo | |
| Action Lublin, Chapter 3 Operation on Places, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| Ewa Partum, My gallery is an idea. Galeria Adres Archive Studio Gallery, Warsaw (PL) | |
| Hestia Artistic Journey, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (PL) | |
| IN OUT, Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk( PL) | |
| Hexen Tabor Gore, MOS, Gorzów Wielkopolski (PL) | |
| 100 Flags, Awangarda Gallery BWA Wroclaw, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź (PL) | |
| Pavilion of Ukraine at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (IT) | |
| 2018 | |
| Operation on Places, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (IS) | |
| Videonews, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| 100 Flags, Exhibitions Bureau, Lokal 30, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (PL) | |
| Young Wolves, TRAFO, Obrońców Stalingradu, Szczecin (PL) | |
| Architecture from the within, Gallery Labirynt, Milk Bar Chochlik, Lublin (PL) | |
| Blurborders International Performance Art Exchange, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok (TH) | |
| We could be heroes, Królikarnia, Warsaw (PL) | |
| Hestia Artistic Journey, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (PL) | |
| Чарівник—воркшоп для дітей від Izolyatsia Platform for Culture, Kyiv (UKR) | |
| Art Ingredients an interactive exhibition for children, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| Akcion Lublin 2, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| Art Now, National Museum, Cracow (PL) | |
| 2017 | |
| Videonews, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| How are things? Galeria Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| Performance Nice Words, Center for Contemporary Art, Toruń (PL) | |
| Young Wolves, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin (PL) | |
| Attention! Border, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| Home(sick), Centre for the Meeting of Cultures, Lublin (PL) | |
| InSpriacje, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin (PL) | |
| Dark_Side of the Tour, Gr_und Gallery, Berlin (DE) | |
| Art for the Forest, Municipal Gallery of Arsenal, Poznań (PL) | |
| WAR, Place of Art 44, Świnoujście (PL) | |
| S4, Studio of the Big Room, Warsaw (PL) duo with Agata Rucińska | |
| Grassomania, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk (PL) | |
| Exhibition of Experimental Fabrics, Gallery Bardzo Biała, Warsaw (PL) | |
| Final Effect, Design Magazine sewn in the Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź (PL) | |
| Exhibition of the Studio of Spatial Activities prof. Mirosław Bałka, BWA Tarnów (PL) | |
| Deep Water, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdańsk (PL) | |
| Bad Video Art Festival, A3 Gallery, Moscow (RUS) | |
| Play To This Play, Studio Gallery, Warsaw (PL), with Agata Rucińska | |
| Polish-Japanese Utopia/Dystopia, Spokojna Gallery, Warsaw (PL) | |
| Girlhood, Lokal 30, Warsaw (PL) | |
| 2016 | |
| Videonews, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| S1_92537, Studio Otwock, (PL) | |
| Turn to Lazarus, Gallery Raczej, Poznan (PL) | |
| After the open air at the State Farm, Gallery Monopol, Warsaw (PL) | |
| Studio for Students, Studio Gallery, Warsaw (PL) | |
| Exhibition and Workshop of the Laboratory of Spatial Activities at the National Collage of Art and Design in Dublin (IR) | |
| THERE. Urban Presence as a Form of Artistic Research, PKO Bank Polski (PL) | |
| 2015 | |
| Wola Warm-Up! Wola Museum of Warsaw (PL) | |
| Dialogue, BWA Zielona Góra (PL) | |
| Biennale WRO Test Exposure, Wrocław (PL) | |
| Shame, Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw (PL) | |
| Dialogue, Luna Cinema, Warsaw (PL) | |
| 2014 | |
| Μύθοι. Myths. Students/Artists/Teachers A process of exchange, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma (ITA) | |
| Sikorski Project, TR Warsaw (PL) | |
| Performance, ZOO Warsaw (PL) | |
| Competitions | |
| 2022 | ICIA International Competition for Intermedia Work of Art, Cracow, Grand Prix (PL) |
| 2022 | Cranes - Lublin Cultural Awards, Lublin (PL) |
| 2021 | Da Festival! Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, winner category- dramatic arts (HR) |
| 2020 | Allegro Prize, Contemporary Lynx Magazine (PL/ UK) |
| 2020 | Theatrical anthology of new utopias, Theatre Zagłębia, Sosnowiec (PL) |
| 2019 | Grey House Competition, Cracow (PL) |
| 2019 | Hestia Artistic Journey, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (PL) |
| 2018 | Young Wolves, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Obrońców Stalingradu, Szczecin (PL) |
| 2017 | How are things? Galeria Labirynt (PL) |
| Residences | |
| 2024 | Center of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko (PL) duet with Agata Konarska |
| 2023 | Kronika Contemporary Art Center, Bytom (PL) |
| 2023 | Animation Residencies in the Countryside, Mazovian Institute of Culture, Warsaw (PL) |
| 2023 | ART GOYKI 3, Incubator, Sopot (PL) |
| 2023 | Plato Ostrava (CZ) |
| 2022 | Magic Carpet, Kaunas Biennale (LT) |
| 2022 | Center for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdańsk (PL) |
| 2022 | National Museum of Contemporary Art, EMST, Athens (GR). |
| 2022 | Museum of Contemporary Art, MACBA, Barcelona (ES) |
| 2022 | Sorry No Rooms Available art residence, Użhhorod (UA)-canceled/postponed |
| 2021 | W788 Foundation, Kozielec (PL) |
| 2021-2022 | Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE) |
| 2021 | Digital residency, OP ENHEIM, Wroclaw (PL) |
| 2021 | Tik-Tok residency, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin (PL) |
| 2021 | Apollonia - European Art Exchanges, Strasbourg (FR). |
| 2020 | Museum of Contemporary Art MACBA, Barcelona (ES). |
| 2020 | Self-House Residency, online (PL) |
| 2020 | Erasmus+ National Museum of Contemporary Art EMST, Athens (GR) |
| 2020 | Meet Factory, Prague (CZ) |
| 2020 | Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz (AT) |
| 2019 | Residency Unlimited, NY (US) |
| 2019 | Rebel Art Space, Bangkok (THA) |
| 2018 | "Meet the Neighbors", Gallery Labirynt; collaborations: Quarantine, Manchester (UK), Comedié de Béthune (FR), Grand Theatre, Groningen (NL) |
| 2018 | Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) |
| 2017 | Miejski Ośrodek Sztuki, Gorzów (PL) |
| 2016 | Gallery Raczej, Poznań (PL) |
| Scholarships | |
| 2024 | Scholarship of the Minister of Education and Science for outstanding young scientists, Warsaw (PL) |
| 2024 | Hestia's Artistic Journey grant program (PL) |
| 2024 | Polish Culture in the World, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw (PL) |
| 2023 | Scholarship of the Marshal of the Lubelskie Voivodeship, Lublin (PL) |
| 2022 | Scholarship of the ZAIKS Creativity Fund, Warsaw (PL) |
| 2021-2025 | Ministry of Science and Higher Education Scholarship, Warsaw (PL) |
| 2021-2022 | Polish Culture around the World, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw (PL)-several times |
| 2022 | Cranes - Lublin Cultural Awards, Lublin (PL) |
| 2021 | Bogdanka, Cultural Scholarships in Chatka Żaka, UMCS Lublin (PL) |
| 2021 | Scholarship of the ZAIKS Creativity Fund, Warsaw (PL) |
| 2020 | Artistic scholarship for the implementation of the project, Stories Written in Mud, CK Lublin (PL) |
| 2020 | Occasional Award of the Mayor of Lublin (PL) |
| 2020 | Art Stations Foundation Scholarship, Warsaw (PL) |
| 2020 | ZAIKS Creativity Support Fund Scholarship, Warsaw (PL) |
| 2019 | Scholarship under the Creative Europe program of the European Union for the project Architecture from the Inside (EU) |
| Collection | |
| Center for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdańsk (PL) | |
| Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (PL) | |
| Bank PKO, Warsaw (PL) | |
| ERGO Hestia, Warsaw (PL) | |
| Academic experience | |
| 2021-2022 | Guest Lecture, Cultural Tandem, Wolskie Centrum Kultury, Warsaw (PL) |
| 2021 | Performative lecture, Charles University, Prague (CZ) |
| 2021 | Performative lecture, Haute School Arts Du Rhin, Strasbourg (FR) |
| e-mail: basiagryka@gmail.com |