KASIA DOMANSKA (Katarzyna Domańska), born in Warsaw, Poland, 1972. She is a painter working in oil technique. Studied at the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she graduated in 1995. Artist paintings have been the subject of international exhibitions including National Museum in Warsaw, New York, London, during Art Basel, Art Palm Beach, Context Art Miami. Her works are in private collections in Europe and the United States.
The Artists works speak of the affirmation of life and it's fleeting beauty: the sunshine, sparkling bright light bringing out the color intensity, suggesting thoughts of the eternal but often forgotten union between man and nature.
With fairy-tale like colors contrasting and blending into one another, the artist creates a work of purity and balance which does not give rise to worry or confusion, but peace and calm. The compositions give us moments of silence and stillness while transforming her pictures into living forms, pulsating with vital energy, life-giving, like a salty summer breeze, the sound of waves crushing on to the beach, a place where everything is go with the flow, forgetting schedules, rushing and stress, uniquely capturing reality at its most fleeting and temporary. The force and the power in her work is the light, it plays a decisive role in the theme as do the mood and balanced composition. It is brightness, joy, day and life, creating an idyllic climate.
The affirmation of nature and life becomes the background for a symbolic celebration of emotions, moods and reflections. Behind the literal meaning there is another, hidden meaning, which the artist allows to speak freely. Her paintings are testaments to a passion for beauty in all its forms, from the sublime to the everyday
selected exhibitions:
2024 Greg Podgorski Contemporary Art, Switzerland
2023 ToTuart, FLOWERING, solo exhibition, Warsaw
2022 ToTuart, Warsaw
2022 Art Now. Curator's choice, DESA Unicum, Warsaw
2016 Kohana Gallery, solo exhibition, Warsaw
2015 Galleria Gum, solo exhibition, Miami, USA
2014 Kuratorium Gallery, solo exhibition, Warsaw
2014 Kuratorium Gallery, Warsaw
2014 Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, USA
2013 SCOPE BASEL, Untitled Projects | Los Angeles, Basel, Switzerland
2012 ENDLESS SUMMER, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, solo exhibition, New York, USA
2012 CONTEXT Art Miami, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, Miami, USA
2011 BK Contemporary, solo exhibition, Poznan
2009 "SUMMER" Flying Gallery, solo exhibition, Warsaw
2009 "All the best" Flying Gallery, Warsaw
2005 Bochenska Gallery, "SWIMMING POOL", solo exhibition, Warsaw
2005 Bloxham Gallery, Spring back, London
2004 National Museum in Warsaw, "The Painting of the Year 2003". Finalist exhibition. Jury - Dr. Evelyn Weiss, deputy director of the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, prof. Saverio Simi de Burgis, lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.
2003 Bochenska Gallery, 'FL0WERS ARE BEAUTIFUL', solo exhibition, Warsaw
2003 ORIGINATE SHOWCASE, London
2003 FLORENCE BIENNALE, Florence
2003 National Museum in Warsaw, "The Painting of the Year 2002". Finalist exhibition. Jury: Dr. Evelyn Weiss, deputy director of the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, prof. Saverio Simi de Burgis from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and Georges-Michel Kahn - president of the Khan Galerie in Strasbourg.
2002 The National Festival "The Supermarket of Art III" - DAP Gallery, Warsaw
2002 "Warsaw Painting Show" - DAP Gallery, Warsaw
2001 The National Festival "The Supermarket of Art II" - DAP Gallery, Warsaw
2000 National Museum in Warsaw, "Formidable brushes". Curator: Agnieszka Rayzacher, works by such artists: Wilhelm Sasnal, Kasia Domanska, Paulina Ołowska, Zbigniew Rogalski, Dominik Lejman and others.
1997 Brama Gallery, solo exhibition, Warsaw
1996 State Art Gallery, Legnica