BAZOWSKA Natalia (b. 1980), Glow, 2015

oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm, signed on the back

Bażowska's main fascination is the concept of life itself, and since 1998 all her activities have revolved around this issue. Between 1999 and 2005 she studied medicine at the Silesian Medical University. In 2007, she took up doctoral studies at the Department of Psychiatry and painting at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. For several years, her academic work was intertwined with her art, complementing each other. In 2010, she defended her doctorate related to both fields. Since 2011, she has been solely concerned with creativity, studying the relationship between life and art. From the beginning, Bażowska has used various media whether installation, sculpture, video or painting and drawing. Her works are an analysis of social and interspecies relations. She questions their interpretations and analyzes the concept of the experience of being human and existence.

Selected solo exhibitions:

2021 "Mirror of the Soul," Gallery One Second, Szczecin.
2020 Confidentiality, Gallery 12, Cieszyn
2018 Territory Tamed, BWA Olsztyn
2016 "External memory," Blanca Soto Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2016 "12 per minute," Tabakalera International Center for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastian, Spain
2016 "Steppe Soul," Rodriguez Gallery, Poznań, Poland
2015 "Luna," CCA Kronika, Bytom
2015 "Structure of Change," Art Agenda Nova, Krakow
2015 "Lodge", Zachęta Project Place, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw,
2014 "Comfort Zone", Cracow, m² Gallery, as part of "Andels presents".
2014 "Open Space", Cultural Center, Katowice, Poland
2014 "ID" m² Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2013 "A lifetime of stress", Sound and video installation , Bunkier Sztuki Krakow
2012 "Rodzisko", CCA Kronika, Bytom
2011 "Room to talk with animals", Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, Poland

Selected group exhibitions.
2022 Exuberance. Atlas of Infinite Possibilities. 20th anniversary of the Artistic Journey of Hestia competition. PGS Sopot2021 Refugia, Arsenal Gallery, Poznan.
2021 We are present, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
2021 We are blooming, Hos Gallery, Warsaw
2021 Butterfly Effect, Arttrakt Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
2020 More than one animal, Gallery 12, Cieszyn
2020 Eureka or I Discover, Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw.
2020 Komorebi, BWA Katowice, Katowice.
2019 Palace of Art. Young Polish Painting. National Museum in Gdańsk
2019 Under the luscious green moss someone hid white bones, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk.
2018 "Landscapes of the Anthropocene", Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk.
2017 "Clouds_Forests" 7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 "The simultaneity of events", CCA Torun, Poland
2017 "His white feathers, illuminated by the sun, shone like the sun itself", Henryk Gallery, Cracow, Poland
2017 "Phoenix Syndrome," Gray Gallery, Katowice, Poland
2016 "Second Skin," Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, Poland
2016 "Out of the way", Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin
2015 "What is hidden- current art from Silesia", State Art Gallery,Sopot
2014 Triennale of Young Art, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko
2014 Survival, art review, Wroclaw
2014 "Mleczne zeby" Witches' Tower, Slupsk.
2013 Biennale of Painting "Bielska Jesień," BWA Bielsko-Biała.
2013 Biennale of Young Art "Fish Eye 7" , Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art
2013 "Milky Teeth", BWA Katowice
2011 "Grenzgänger", Marke.6, Neuen Museum, Weimar, Germany
2011 "Wolf very bad", Nova Gallery, Cracow, Poland
2011 "Ktokolwiek widział, ktokolwiek wie", Galeria Kronika, Bytom
2011 Participation in the cultural program of the Polish Presidency of the EU 2011,
2010 "Replicants", BWA Katowice

Selected awards and scholarships:
2020 Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
2017 Distinction at the 43rd Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale, ArtInfo portal
2016 Entry in the passports of Polityka
2013 1st Modessque International Painting Competition, honorable mention
2013 Geppert Competition, two nominations
2013 "New Image/New Look," UAP Artistic Award; Collectors' Award
2011 Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2011 First Prize of the Young Art Review "Fresh Blood", "Socato", Wroclaw, Poland
2011 Scholarship of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship, project: "Rodzisko".
2011 Artistic Journey of Hestia, main award