WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE

Kowalska Karolina


Was born in Krakow in 1978. In 2002, she graduated from the Faculty of Graphics of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. She also studied animation at the Hogeschool Gent in Belgium. In 2006, within the frames of the Artist In Residence programme, she stayed in Forum Stadtpark Graz in Austria; in 2007, she received a creative grant of the Minister of Culture. She works in the field of photography, installation, video, and animation. She lives and works in Krakow.

Kowalska has participated in multiple individual and collective exhibitions at home and abroad. She presented her works in Essen, New York, Frankfurt am Main, Tokyo, and Stockholm. Her most important exhibitions include: Crash test - 2006, Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow; Young European Creation – 2007, Institute of Polish Culture, Paris; Gallery for Wintertime - 2007, Zak Gallery, Berlin; Polowanie na przedmioty within the framework of the 4 Photography Biennale, Galeria Arsenał, Poznań; Chłopaki i dziewczyny (Boys and Girls) - 2004, Narodowa Galeria Sztuki Zachęta, Warsaw.

www.karolinakowalska.pl
Optical illusion


The project assumed the use of five 2.38 x 5.04 m billboards was a series of optical illusion patterns installed in the city space. Advertisements was replaced with prints of mobile optical illusions created by Akiyoshi Kitaoka, a professor of psychology at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. They gave the impression of a hypnotic movement. Advertisi\ng nothing, they constitute a type of a trap of perception.



Project curators: Dobromiła Błaszczyk, Piotr Sikora

Pictures: Weronika Szmuc



WarSZAWA

The WarSZAWA project was constituted by a red 14 x 82 cm neon-light located in the area of Krakow’s railway station. Two letters from the red neon-sign announcing WARSZAWA, fashioned after the authentic WARSZAWA GŁÓWNA [Warsaw Central] neon-sign from the Dworzec Główny [Warsaw Central] in Warsaw, have been switched of, thus creating a play on words - W...SZAWA.


Picture: Weronika Szmuc

10 - 22/06/2009

Optical illusion

12 - 22/06/2009

WarSZAWA

Krakow
Rajska Street;
Królewska Street no 53-55b;
Focha / Emaus Streets;
Matecznego Roundabout / Wadowicka Street;
Sukiennicza Street / Koletek Street
Central Railway Station
entry to the Magda tunnel