Izabela Maciejewska Born on 25 July 1975. A graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. She defended her diploma thesis in 2002 in the Multimedia Department and Photography Laboratory at the Visual Education Faculty. A graduate of the L. Schiller National Film, Television & Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTviT), where she defended her diploma thesis in 2007 in the Creative Photography Laboratory at the Cinematography and Television Production Department.
The scope of her activities encompasses installations, video art, photography and sculpture. She combines various media in her works. The major theme of her formally diverse productions is metamorphosis – transformation of one form into another. In her work tackles the problem of loneliness, stigmatization and alienation of a human being - „ misfit”; sense of exclusion and the search for own identity. Izabela also touches the topic of universalism, the collective unconsciousness concept and the ritual nature of art.
Her artwork are part of collection of The City Art Gallery in Lodz, University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, Associazione Culturale Modern Contemporary Art - MoCA in Venice and in private collections in Poland and abroad.
Awards and distinctions:
2017
- 2nd Installation, Sculpture & Performance Prize, CELESTE PRIZE 2017, London, UK
- Finalist ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE, Venice Arsenal, Italy
2016
- Finalist of competinion Open Call / Think Tank lab Triennale International Festival of Contemporary Drawing, Wroclaw
- Finalist CELESTE PRIZE 2016, London, UK
2014
- People’s Choice Award, Passion for Freedom, London Art Festival 2014.
2002
- Nominated to an award for the film Sacrum , 3rd National and 2nd International Independent
Film Festival Film of Tomorrow 2002, Warsaw, Poland
1995
- 2nd place in the National Photography Competition for Art Schools – Young Art, Gdynia,
Poland
Solo & group shows (selection):
2017 - „CELESTE PRIZE 2017", finalist exhibition, 9th International Contemporary Art Competition, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, UK
- Avan_Granda, Art Propaganda Centre, The City Art Gallery in Lodz, Poland
- Finalist Exhibition ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE, Venice Arsenal, Italy
- „L’amour à l’avant-garde", Art Propaganda Centre, The City Art Gallery in Lodz, Poland
- „Hidden motiv”, Imaginarium Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2016 - Finalist Exhibition, CELESTE PRIZE 2016, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, UK
- Emily Dickinson’s Room, The City Art Gallery in Lodz, Poland
- „Open Call / Think Tank lab TRIENNALE” - Internacional Festival of Contemporary Drawing, Galeria ARTTRAKT, Wroclaw, Poland
„Three Trees”, performance, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
CRACOW GALLERY WEEKEND, The Grey House Gallery, Cracow, Poland
2015 - The studio of socially engaged art "The Districts”, Lublin, Poland
2014 - Passion for Freedom, London Art Festival, Embassy Tea Gallery, London, UK
2013 - 22stMedia Festival: Man in Difficulties, The Film Museum, Lodz, Poland
2010 - 2stArt and Documents Festival, Museum of Art, Lodz, Poland
2009 - Sacrum, video-art, Purchases of The City Art Gallery in Lodz, Poland
- Art after hours, „Łaźnia” Contemporary Art Centre, Gdańsk, Poland
2008 - Photographers of the Future, Art Propaganda Centre, The City Art Gallery in Lodz, Poland
2007 - About ourselves, Art Propaganda Centre, The City Art Gallery in Lodz, Poland
2005 - Rudimentum Imaginis, FF Gallery, Lodz, Poland
- International Contemporary Art Fairs, St’art 2004, Strasburg, France
2004 - Photography Days, Commercial Photography Gallery, Cracow, Poland
- „Photo-creations and experiments”, Northausen, Germany
- Photo-objects, 3rd International Photography Festival, Film School Gallery, Lodz,
Poland
2003 - Exhibition of the Best Diploma Works – in the Academy of Fine Arts, Central
Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland
2002 - National Film Festival Film of Tomorrow, Warsaw, Poland
