Izabela Tarasewicz (b. 1981, Białystok)
Sculptor, drawer, performance artist. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań (Department of Sculpture and Space Activity) and a member of the Penerstwo Group, which was awarded the Guarantee of Culture Prize by the TVP Kultura channel (2011), Tarasewicz conducted a series of workshops at the Arsenał Gallery in Białystok. Entitled “What Divides and What Unites Us”, they focused on the building of relationships between Polish youngsters and the children of Georgian and Chechnyan refugees.
Tarasewicz, who was shortlisted for Polityka’s Passports in 2008 and hailed as one of the most intriguing artists to have emerged recently in Poland, has a great potential. The originality of her activities stems from the themes that she programmatically udertakes as she methodologically analyses existential and identity issues. All her works are founded upon the principle of “preparation”, by dint of which she culls out from the so-called palpable reality weak, painful and marginal elements that connote base physiology and renders them as altered.
Solo exhibitions:
2010 “Moult”, Galeria Stereo, Poznań, Poland
2010 “Adhesion”, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland
2009 “Nugget”, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
2008 “Breadwinner”, Starter Gallery, Poznań, Poland
2008 “Brawn”, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Poland
2007 “Hand made”, Pies Gallery, Poznań, Poland
Select Group Exhibitions:
2011 “Peace”, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland
2010 “Everything”, Kolonie Gallery, Warszawa, Poland
2010 “Transilvania 2”, Arsenał Gallery, Poznań, Poland
2010 “Transilvania”, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland
2010 “Is Your Mind Full of Goodness”, DPT Wigry, Poland
2010 “Group Exhibition”, Czarnowska Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2009 “Elms Threads Bushes” (with Magdalena Starska), Stereo Gallery, Poznań, Poland
2009 “Difference Beyond Difference”, Stary Browar, Poznań, Poland
2008“Establishment (And Its Discontents)”, Centre For Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2008 “Bodies Adream”, Arsenal Gallery, Poznań, Poland
Performance:
2010 “Response”, Felixstowe, UK
“Simple Constructions”, Performance Days, Lviv, Ukraine
2009 “Apnoea”, Stereo Gallery, Poznań, Poland
“Most People Are Dead”, Happening (as part of the Penerstwo Group), Łódź, Poland
2008 “Suitable In- and OutDoor”, Happening (as part of the Penerstwo Group), Poznań, Poland
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http://galeriapies.blogspot.com/2007/04/iza-tarasewicz-hand-made.html