It is never possible to separate the life and works of an artist:
one reflects the other in an ever fascinating play of cross-references
and reminiscences that, depending on the artist’s inclinations and
style, emerge in different forms and ways.
In the case of Katarzyna Bak, the social and cultural contrasts of
her homeland, Poland, combined with the vital, hostile and majestic
power of the nature of the place, have played a fundamental role in
achieving the intense and synthetic expressive force that characterises
her painting style. The artist states ‘(…) the nature and forms of the
landscape that accompanied my early years, the nature I breathed in,
would later prove to be one of my most powerful sources of inspiration’.
It was already in these ‘early years’ that Katarzyna speaks of, the
1980s when she was a teenager, that her vocation and passion for art
emerged, attending first the Art School and then the Faculty of Art
Education in Czestochowa, where she had the opportunity to study and
practice painting, drawing, photography and printmaking. Her university
experience heightened her artistic awareness, which resulted in a cycle
of lithographs she designed and produced, under the guidance of the
artist Prof. Grzegorz Banaszkiewicz, entitled ‘Life and Death’.
Thanks to her mastery of techniques, Katarzyna Bak develops her own
personal distinctive stylistic trait, recognisable in both figurative
and more conceptual works: an energetic gesture that immediately
translates into a mark on the canvas, capable of conceptual works: an
energetic gesture that immediately translates into a mark on the canvas,
capable of capturing and crystallising that which by its nature is
constantly changing and which the eye, alone, is unable to grasp: a
sensation, a body, a feeling, nature and its atmospheric phenomena.
The themes that the artist has investigated and brought together in
cycles of paintings and drawings, in their variety, are starting points,
springboards from which reflections on universal conditions take their
impetus. The artist does not seek a faithful representation of the
subject, the observer’s attention is not captured by the individual
details that make up the work: through a work of synthesis,
simplification and distillation of the image, what remains is its
essence, thus becoming symbolic and universal.
After graduation she moved to Italy, where she works as a
multidisciplinary artist. She usually presents work through
installations, painting, drawing, and digital media, photography and
performance.
Since 1996 very active professionally, she has exhibited in Poland, Belgium, Spain, Germany, England, Malta and Italy.
EXHIBITIONS
2025 “Traces – Second Act – Andante (2)”, Painting. International Contemporary Art Exhibition Domus Octavia – Narni, Italy.
2025 “Works on Paper”. Painting and Drawing. ArtExhibitionLink/Gallery Uno Projektraum Berlin/- Berlin, Germany.
2025 “Tracce – Primo Atto – Allegretto (1) Painting.“Alternatywy 33” –
XII International Art Review, Galeria 33, Ostrow Wielkopolski Poland.
2024 “Without limits”, Painting and Drawing.
ArtExhibitionLink/Gallery Uno Projektraum Berlin/Artist Studio Rome.
Roma art Week – Rome, Italy.
2024 “Homodeus – one of us” The dilemma of the ManGod, Painting.
Biennale Space Castello 96 New Contemporary Art Space. Venezia, Italy.
2023 WAITING FOR …”, Painting, Drawing, Installation. Solo
exhibition. Artistic residence – Kulturbahnhof Leisnig e.V. Leisnig,
Germany.
2023 “Corpologie VII”, Painting. Ospizio Giovani Artisti OGA,
Contemporary Art, Collective exhibition. Roma Art Week. Roma, Italy.
2023 “Tabula Rasa”, Installation. “Primo Biennale internazionale d’Arte della Riviera Romana” – Ladispoli, Italy.
2023 “Woman Act”- ACCIÓN CORPORAL, Painting and Drawing. Cuttoo – Espacio artístico y cultural Madrid, Spain.
2023 “THE APPARITION – Partial Visions”. Painting.
ArtExhibitionLink/Gallery Uno Projektraum Berlin/- Berlin, Germany.
Gallery UNO Projektraum Berlin is participating in the Festival 48 Std.
Berlin-Neukölln with the exhibition – Playground.
2023 “Traces – Second Act – Andante (2)”, Painting and Installation. MulinoArt – Gaiole in Chianti, Italy.
2023 “Eye of the Storm”, Painting and Drawing. Dom Kultury – Koniecpol, Poland.
2023 “THE APPARITION – Partial Visions”. Painting. MAD WEEK – The Video Game, Malta.
2022 “Traces – First and Second Act”, Painting and Installation. RAW –
ArtExhibitionLink/Gallery Uno Projektraum Berlin/Artist Studio Rome –
Rome, Italy.
2022 “Traces – Second Act – Andante (2)”, Painting and Installation.
ArtExhibitionLink/Gallery Uno Projektraum Berlin/- Berlin, Germany.
2022 “Homodeus – one of us”. The dilemma of the ManGod, Painting.
Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea del Gattopardo – Palma di Montechiaro,
Agrigento, Italy.
2022 “Interrupted code”, Painting. be**pART Atelier Montez – Roma, Italy.
2021 “Traces – First Act – Allegretto (1) – the invisible in the visible”, Painting. Il laboratorio – Rome, Italy.
2021 “Woman Act”, Painting and Drawing.
Tradition-Transmission-Transgression, international meeting of women
creators – Festival, – Allyon, Spain.
2021 “Black and White” Between Hell and Heaven, became conscious,
Performance. Contemporary Art Exhibition-Between Hell and HeavenXX/21,
Dante – Agnani, Italy.
