Katarzyna

A visual and intermedial artist, an academic teacher.

In 2002-2007 Katarzyna Tretyn studied in the art department at the Nicolaus Copernicus University.

In 2021 she got her PhD on alma mater. In 2020 she habilitated in the arts in fine arts and art conservation.

Since 2017 she has worked at Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology as a professor where she conducts painting and drawing classes.

Her individual originative way of art oscillates around her creative workshop.  The artist sees the future of art in new technologies, which should base on tradition. That’s why her workshop, first of all, it’s a tradition of embroidery. The author’s art  instrumentation is thread, by the use of which she creates paintings, objects and installations.

In her art, the light is also an important aspect. Exploiting new technologies an author illustrates the cosmic entourage with them.  She takes her inspiration from  science, but first of all, from astronomy.

In her artwork, she inspires in science, and, first of all, in astronomy. In 2015 she started cooperation with Aleksander Jabłoński’s Foundation and Astronomical Observatory in Piwnice near Torun. The effect of this cooperation are artistic projects at the meeting point of two areas: art and science.

Basing on inspiration in science, the author  builds a  human metaphoric picture. As she claims, by the observation of the world we get knowledge about ourselves.