Inspired by the representation and transcription of natural phenomena and of the landscape in general, I am interested in all forms of studies of the natural environment (data recording, diagrams, maps, animations, probes etc.).
With my work I try to understand and systematise natural events represented in technical language and to give them a pictorial quality. It is about the processes of organisms, physical metamorphoses and technical constructions. I have long been fascinated by man’s attempt to tame natural processes and to schematise them through science and magic.
In my artistic work, I try to create, through images, that small moment when we cultivate the illusion of mastering, possessing and understanding. The desire to appropriate or to fix. The so-called temporary transitional phases between the “state of matter” are the starting point for my video, animation and drawing projects.
It is the unstable physical processes such as condensation or melting that, not giving definitive answers, provoke a state of alertness in the viewers. By introducing the viewer/observer into the state of uncertainty and disarray caused by the loss of control over natural phenomena, I consciously mobilise his perception. The relationship between man and his environment occupies an important place in my approach.
I try to bring out the emotions linked to the different manifestations and situations that result from the “circulation” in the current landscape.
It is not only about physical movements in space, but also about the reflection on the continuum of the landscape with its different forms. The image of reality is transformed in my work into patterns with various media such as video, painting or drawing.
-Dorota Buczkowska
Dorota Buczkowska studied drawing and painting at the Warsaw School of Fine Artsa and she also holds a degree in gender studies.
In 2004, she graduated from the Faculties of National School of Fine Arts at the Villa Arson in Nice.
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Selected press:
Raffles Europejski Hotel Warsaw Collection (PL )
Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL)
Polish Art Foundation ING
PKO S.A Collection
Museum of the Sculpture, Marl (DE)
State Collection Vienna (AU)
MoBy Museum Tel –Aviv (IL)
Grounding, Galeria Jednostka, Warszawa (PL)
In between, MOS, Gorzów Wklp (PL)
Presence, Galeria Sztuki, Olsztynie (PL)
Evoking a sculpture, Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Painting, Rodríguez Gallery, Poznań (PL)
Health Resort Królikarnia Sculpture Museum, Warszaw (PL)
The expérience of présence, Platan Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Tickle the palate, Starter Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Nicht alle Teile sind vollständig, Skulpturenmuseum, Marl (DE)
Plain bile would come from the liver, U-jazdowski, Zamek (PL)
Research project, Studio Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Replicants, Galeria Sztuki BWA, Katowice (PL)
Under The Bridge, Liverpool Biennale (GB)
Interror, Czarna Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Transitional Conditions, CRAC, Sete (FR)
Circulations, Zak Gallery, Berlin (DE)
Two years in the clouds, Czarna Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Everybody Anybody, Galerie Steinek, Wiedeń (AT)
What about Abstraction, Stefan Gierowski Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Blood unites and divides, Polin Museum, Warsaw (PL)
www.eyes-on.at, Fotogalerie, Wien (AU)
I Hardly Ever…., Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL)
Lorne Sculpture 2011, Biennale of Contemporary Sculpture (AU)
Curated by_vienna 2011, Stainek Gallery, Wien (AT)
WANI, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris (FR)
Journey around the skull, U-jazdowski, Zamek (PL)
Factory, Museum of Bat Yam, Tel Aviv (IL)
Videos Europa, Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporain, (FR)
Dew point, Raster Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Award at the Biennale Lorne Sculpture Australia (AU)
Pro Helvetia CRIC Sierre Center, (CH)
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant,
The Polish Season in Israel, Tel – Aviv (IL)
Center for Contemporary Art, Synagogue of Delme (FR)
Bundeskanzleramt – Federal Chancellery, Wien (AT)
Scholarship in Centre National des Arts Plastiques Villa Arson, Nice (FR)
