Najlepszy Dyplom

biography

Education:

2002 – 2008
Comprehensive School of Fine Arts in Katowice
2008 – 2011
Bachelor’s degree in history – University of Silesia, Faculty of Social Sciences,specialization - education and teaching
2011 – 2016
A Master’s degree in Art – Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice,Faculty of Art: Graphic Art

Proffesional training: 

art plein airs and organization of XIV Festival od High Art in Bytom 31.05.2013-8.06.2013

Individual exhibitions:
- “Spiritual seance” exhibition of graphics, paintings and photography 6.03.2014-31.03.2014, Galeria Pod Łukami MDK ,,Ligota”
- “Osteology” exhibition of photography, 25.04.2014-10.05.2014, Klakier Gallery
- ”Aeternitas” exhibition of photography, paintings and sketches 29.06.2014-15.07.2014, hairstylist workshop Agnieszka Marcińczak
- ,,Inspiracje literackie”/’Literary inspirations’, Secret Garden paintings, 17.10.2014-11.01.2015, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków
- ‘Secret Garden’ paintings, 3.11.2016-3.12.2016, Galeria Pojedyncza, Katowice

Collective exhibitions:
- ,,Teraz sito!”/”Silkscreen now!” exhibition of silkscreen workshop, 10.04.2013-10.03.2014, Katofonia, Katowice
-,,Instynkt lalki”/”,Instinct of a doll” exhibition dedicates to Hans Bellmer, 7.05.2013 - 4.09.2013, Muzeum Historii Katowic
- XIV Festiwal Sztuki Wysokiej/XIV Festival of High Art 8.06.2013, Galeria Stalowe Anioły, Bytom
- ,,Adaptery”/ “Adapters” exhibition of interpretations of literature workshop, 12.06-2013-11.07.2013, Dom Oświatowy Biblioteki Śląskiej, Katowice
- ,,Ludzie z metalu”/ “People made of metal” exhibition of intaglio workshop, 28.02.2014 - 31.03.2014, MDK’ ,,Południe” Piotrowice, Katowice
- XV Festiwal Sztuki Wysokiej/XV Festival of High Art 14.06.2014, Galeria Stalowe Anioły, Bytom
- ,,Metal w Katofonii”/“Metal in Katofonia” exhibition of intaglio workshop, 8.05.2014-8.07.2014, Katofonia, Katowice
- post competition exhibition of 4th edition of “A book well designed - let’s start with children” ,9.05- 1.06.2014, Rondo Sztuki, Galeria +, Katowice
- XV International Biennial of Small Graphic Forms and Ex-libris, 6-7.09.2014, Museum Of The City Of Ostrów Wielkopolski
- ‘’Starterprijs”/”Starter Price”, paintings, 6.11.2014-28.11.2014, Wintergarden in Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium
- Art contest “Grafiek” exhibition, “Road Not Taken intaglio” series, 21.11.2014-19.12.2014, Cultuurcentrum Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium
- illustrations presented in Book Market, 21-23.11.2014, ,,Spodek” Voivodeship Sport and Show Arena, Katowice
- “Gezichten”/”Faces”, printmaking, 23.11.2014-7.12.2014, Washboard Art & Jazz Cafe, Antwerp, Belgium
- post competition exhibition of 4th edition of “A book well designed - let’s start with children”, accompanying event to Conrad’s Festival in Cracow, 17.10-14.11.2014,Galeria Fundacji Sztuki Nowej ZNACZY SIĘ, Kraków.
- ,,Skupienie”/”Focus”, mini print exhibition, 17.04-22.05.2015, Łazienna Gallery, Poznań
- International Figurative Drawing ‘Figurama’ 2015, 25.02-31.05.2015 Seul, South Korea, 30.03-2.05.2015 Plzen, Czech Republic, 18.05-31.05.2015 Wrocław, 20.06-20.09.2015 Kuks, Czech Republic
- ,,Studencki obraz roku 2015”/ “Student Painting of the Year 2015”, 23.04-8.05.2015, Dagma Art, Katowice
- Connections North, mini print online exhibition. 24.04.15-now
- 4th International Biennale for Miniature Graphics, 28.04-25.05.2015, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
- Student Art Festiwal - sSAFka 2015, 16.05-06.2015, Academy Of Music, Katowice
- XXV International Biennial Exhibition of Modern Ex-libris in Malbork, 7.06-30.09.2015, Malbork Castle Museum
- V International Print Making Competition, 17-31.05.2016, Kadikoy Caddebostan Cultural Centre Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
- XI International Graphic Competition for Ex Libris, 10.06. 2016, Municipal Public Library, Gliwice
- ,,Studencki obraz roku 2016”/ “Student Painting of the Year 2016”, 16.06-23.06.2016, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice
- International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2016 ROC, 25. 06-28.08 2016, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
- Diplomas 2016 - The Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice graduate exhibition, 27.06-17.07.2016, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery
- BPSC, 8.09-7.10.2016, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice
-Art Noble, 10.09-30.09.2016, Żyrardów
- 9th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms Vilnius 2016, 4–29.10. 2016; Vilnius Graphic Art Centre gallery “Kairė–dešinė”, Lithuania
- Bucharest International Print Biennale – BIPB 2016, 7-20.11.2016, Cultural Center “Palatele Brâncovenești, Bucharest, Romania
• Grand Prix Contest Franciszka Eibisch Foundation, 3-6.12.2016, Katarzyna Napiórkowska’s Gallery, Warsaw Publications:
- photography series “Aura of the past” in international publication ,,Doc! Photomagazine” no 4 October 2012
- presentation of current artistic achievements in intercollegiate magazine ,,kARTki” no 1 October 2013
- photography series “Aeternitas” in international publication “F-Stop” photomagazine, October 2014
- intaglio graphics in book ed.. M. Markiewicz, A. Stronciwilk, P. Ziegler, Pomiędzy tożsamością a obrazem, University of Silesia, Katowice 2016

Awards:
- Honorable Mention at XV International Biennial of Small Graphic Forms and Ex-libris 6-7.09.2014, Museum of the City of Ostrów Wielkopolski
- Honorable Mention at “Student Painting of the Year, 23.04.2015, Dagma Art, Katowice
- Honorable Mention at XI International Graphic Competition for Ex Libris, 10.06. 2016, Municipal Public Library, Gliwice
- BPSC Prize for the best diploma of the year 2016, Katowice
- Grand Prix Prize at Franciszka Eibisch Foundation, 3-6.12.2016, Katarzyna Napiórkowska’s Gallery, Warsaw
- Mentioned Prize II Bucharest International Print Biennale – BIPB 2016, 7-20.11.2016, Cultural Center “Palatele Brâncovenești, Bucharest, Romania

Obscure dictionary is an artist book, which may seem cool, scientific, tanathological approach. In fact, under the guise of raw diagrams and dictionary definitions lies a quiet melancholy caused by the loss, and the ascertainment that "death will remain beyond us." Book  refers to the type of thesaurus dictionary . However, it denies its utilitarian purpose, which is to define words, explain them to make them intelligible.

The starting point become word "obscure"  meaning something vague and used in situations where we can't describe or identify something. Latin "obscurus" means something dark, which in turn goes back to the Indo-European root word that was associated with covering something. Starting from a variety of synonyms of the word obscure, from the initial absence of a definition, cleared up, connected to each other,  a groups of meanings which I divided into four main groups, ie .:
1. vague  - the word resulting directly from the obscure words in his critical, uncertain, undefined, uncertain nature; gradually referring to something amorphous, ambiguous, mysterious, a secret, puzzle
2. hidden  -  covered, thus preventing of knowing, finally - buried
3. mist - grouping words for something nebulous, impenetrable, in the second stage bind to  white, gray, winter, also fading and ashes
4. dark - the words circling around darkness, shadows, lack of light and brilliance referring to the night and dusk, and then pointing to the gloom, sadness, mourning.

Finally synonyms for obscure words began to have closer ties with the dying, pointing to the real essence of the unknown - death. In this way, my dictionary linked to the cemetery as the book, text of culture with gravestones as its charts. 
            The language (synonyms of obscure and at the same time english words from poems of romantic period) and imaging (tombstone portraits) are the expression of death, yet incomprehensible phenomenon. It's not without significance is the fact, that the cemetery was introduced in the sphere of art by english poets, which were given the name of the ‘graveyard poets’). Words of the dictionary and their associated symbolic representation were comprised in graveyard poetry and were continued in the subsequent Romanticism poetry, in particular, elegiac compositions, which have also become part of the dictionary. Poetic  part of the dictionary opens flagship poem by Thomas Gray – ‘Elegy written in a country churchyard’ from 1751, contains almost all the mentioned symbolic. By nightfall, and inherent in the darkness and black, the surrounding space becomes unknowable, mysterious, opaque and uncertain. Silence is opposed to the sounds of life, dying of nature during the winter period with black, white and gray colors bring a feeling of emptiness and isolation in barren winter landscape. White refers us to whitening bones and cadaverous pallor, the impenetrable gray to fog, covering clouds, age and ash. Black is the colour of mourning and biodegradation.
Individual words, grouped in the dictionary and very often occurring in poems from XIX century, are listed as in the original poem lines and left at the original location in their verses. The words out of context still allow to read he atmosphere which accompanying poems, while leaving a feeling of detachment, isolation and decay. Poems are decomposed into words. The disappearance of words is a kind of gradual decay leading to the final silence.
            In the dictionary I regard photographs of gravestones as the words. For me representation of a person is a symbolic expression of something unspeakable, what I am trying to identify and define. It is both an attempt to restore and preserve the memory, which is doomed to failure, but nevertheless it is taken as an extension of their lives, and an expression of  compassion for nonexistence