KAROLINA BREGUŁA portfolio

KAROLINA BREGUŁA portfolio

Karolina Breguła born 1979 Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. She has graduated from National Film Television and Theatre School in Łódź, Poland, European Academy of Photography in Warsaw and photography school GFU at Folkuniversitetet in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a visual and conceptual artist; she creates photography, video installations and actions. She is particularly interested in the subjects of diversity and equality, relations between people in big societies and relations between people and art. Beside her art she creates social campaigns, teaches photography at the Warsaw School of Advertising and runs a non-commercial record label.

solo exhibitions some group exhibitions 2011 Wschodnia Gallery Archive Reconstruction, Galeria Wschodnia, Łódź, Poland 2010 Good Neighbors, Halo Galeria, Olsztyn, Poland Let them see us, Akademickie Centrum Kultury, Lublin, Poland Good Neighbors, Galeria Szara, Cieszyn, Poland Summer in the middle, Plac Konstytucji, Warszawa 2008 Artistic emergency service, Galeria XS, Kielce, Poland The married women (Karolina Breguła & Ola Buczkowska), Galeria znad Wisły, Vilnius, Lithuania Lovebook, Galeria Pauza, Kraków, Poland 2007 Power, Museum of Cinematography, Łódź, Poland Lovebook, Galeria 65, Warsaw, Poland The married women (Karolina Breguła & Ola Buczkowska), Galeria Nowych Mediów, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland Video camera, Galeria Nowych Mediów, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland 2006 All I see is the palace, Polish culture days, Uppsala, Sweden All I see is the palace, Desigh Hu, Budapest, Hungary The married women, (Karolina Breguła & Ola Buczkowska), Galeria Program, Warsaw, Poland The married women (Karolina Breguła & Ola Buczkowska), Galeria FF, Łódź, Poland Warsaw, Galeria Kawiarnia, Warsaw, Poland Let them see us, Collegium Polonicum, Słubice, Poland Let them see us, Fachhochschule, Potsdam, Germany Let them see us, Main LIBS, Frankfurt, Germany 2005 All I see is the palace, Galeria Jubileuszowa Pałacu Kultury i Nauki, Warsaw, Poland All I see is the palace, Galeria Traffic, Warsaw, Poland Let them see us, Neues Rathaus, Gottingen, Germany Let them see us, Landtag, Stadt- und Landesbibliothek, Potsdam, Germany Let them see us, Jugendzentrum Glad-House, Cottbus, Germany Let them see us, Börgeramt Innerstadt, Köln, Germany 2004 An artist for sale (Karolina Breguła & Wojciech Rudzki), Jazzgot, Warsaw, Poland Let them see us, Galeria 5, Górnośląskie Centrum Kultury, Katowice, Poland Let them see us, Galeria INTACTO, Katowice, Poland Let them see us, Goethe Institute, Bucharest, Romania Let them see us, Atrium der ver.di Bundesverwaltung, Berlin, Germany 2010 Brzuch Atlasa, Galeria Atlas, Łódź, Poland Open City Festival, city space, Lublin, Poland Homo Ars Erotica, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland Failier in art, Galeria Emdes, Wrocław, Poland 2009 Kolekcja Zdarzeń sztuka istnieje poza obrazem: pokaz kolekcji Dariusza Bieńkowskiego, Galeria Atlas, Łódź, Poland Video Punkt, Galeria Studio, Warsaw, Poland 2008 Iluzja jako źródło cierpień, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko Biała, Poland Red Eye Effect, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland Polsk kvinnodagbok, Konsert&Kongress, Uppsala, Sweden Biennale of Young European Art Supermarket Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland Pętle czasu, Festiwal Józefa Robakowskiego, Łodź, Poland Free Form Festiwal, Fabryka Trzciny, Warsaw, Poland Samsung Art Master, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland Versus, Fotospace, Festiwal WrocławNonStop, Wrocław, Poland 2006 Poza, Real Artways, Hartford, USA Love and democracy, Centre for Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Gdańsk, Poland Film School student exhibition, Galeria 65, Warsaw, Poland 2005 EAF diploma graduation exhibition, Galeria Wozownia Toruń, Poland Festival of Photography in Łódź, Poland 2004 Wrocławnonstop, II Festiwal Młodej Sztuki, Wrocław, Poland Biennale of Young European Art Supermarket Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland Love and democracy, Art Poznań, Poznań, Poland From Targowa to Złota, Warsaw, Poland 2002 Art Poznań Targi Sztuki, Poznań, Poland House of Photography exhibition, Galeria Strefa, Warsaw, Poland 2001 Tretton, GFU diploma graduation exhibition, Galleri 5, Stckholm, Sweden 2003 Let them see us, Galeria Towarzystwa Sztuk Pięknych Pałacyk, Warsaw, Poland Let them see us, Galeria Burzym & Wolff, Cracow, Poland Let them see us, CSW Łaźnia, Gdańsk, Poland Let them see us, Zagłębiowski Instytut Sztuki, Sosnowiec, Poland Let them see us, Galeria Czarna Łódź Podwodna, Wrocław, Poland

Let them see us 2003 photography Let them see us is series of portraits of Polish homosexual couples, who went for a walk holding hands. The pictures of the exhibition were used as a part of a billboard campaign under the same name.

Warsaw 2005 photography Warsaw is a series of pictures showing a lonely plastic reindeer s journey through a huge city. The series is a symbolic and absurd history of somebody who is different and lonely.

THE MARRIED WOMEN 2006 photography/video work by Karolina Breguła and Ola Buczkowska The married women is a series of portraits of two women, friends, who stay in a very close relationship to each other, and who are founding in their friendship something, what they can t find in their relationships with men. The authors, by photographing themselves, wanted to show that not only a picture of their friendship, but also relationships between all women.

ALL I CAN SEE IS THE PALACE 2006 collage All I can see is the Palace is a series of 50 works done in the collage technique in the year of the 50-anniversary of The Palace of Science and Culture in Warsaw. It portraits The Palace as an observer of everything that has happened in the world and Poland during the 50 years of its existence. It shows it in the context of events and icons of the past years. The project was meant to make the people stop accusing the building for it s inglorious roots and finally accept it as it is.

LOVEBOOK 2006 photography/video Lovebook is a series of works taken with a mobile phone camera. Small sized mobile phone pictures are artificially enlarged to the exhibition purpose. This process caused the intense blur. The purposeful procedure of destroying the image emerges the unreal shapes which can be perceived as a night dream. It was loneliness, emptiness, longing and despair which I meant to emphasize in my pictures. The snatches of life I tried to form could be described as a stream of consciousness rather than a sequence of down to earth approach to life.

66 conversations about contemporary art 2007 text 66 conversations about contemporary art are the record of my 66 interviews with people who are not professionally connected with art. By conversations I try to recognize the testes and needs of a person who is not prepared to read art.

VIDEO CAMERA 2007 video Video camera is a film in which I recite video camera manual in all European languages at the same time presening its contents by moving my hands. My aim is to show video camera as a carrier the character of which is so documentary that each presentation done by means of it is comprehensible intelligible and obave the linguistic borders. MY LITTLE PROFESSIONAL APPEAL 2008 video I created the movie when Hoza Gallery (a private flat gallery on the fourth floor of a house placed at the end of a backyard, behind a locked gate) invited me to present my works. It was the time when I started to think about the dialog between art and the people, who are not particularly interested in it. I decided to take the opportunity to present my point of view to the group of artists gathered in the gallery.

good neighbors 2007/2008/2009 actions Good neighbors is a photo and video documentation of my eight visits to the eight neighboring countries. In each I was making a different neighborly gesture as usually the people living close do. The neighbors borrow sugar or baking powder from each other, water the plants or walk the dog when a neighbor is away, they sometimes ask each other for coffee or watch tv together. Such situations were the subject of my actions. The aim of my project is to capture the contemporary mutual relation of the societies living very close.

Artistic emergency service 2008 action I am sorry that art is so often helpless against problems of everyday life. I am so sorry that it is so freaking cold on the railway station in Kielce*. I don t want to be indifferent to the tragedies happening around me. I m strongly determined to face them. It is my duty as an artist to bring the Artistic Emergency Service into existence. It will use old indispensable means to struggle with small distresses. If it is necessary I will not hesitate to contradict the image of an artist as charlatan or holy creator and use my artistic tools in a trivial way deprived of the magic. * There is a phrasal verb in Polish Piździ jak w Kieleckim na dworcu (it is as cold as on the railways station in Kieleckie) which is used in the whole country meaning it is bitterly cold. I wish my work to serve the human.

regular levitation 2009 video Regular levitation is a series of short films dealing with the insignificance of the everyday life and the human need to escape from it. It contains pictures of short scenes spying annonymous single characters who seem to be drawn from their normal day for a moment. All the characters` moves show an odd and absurd silent conspiracy which is to make them be able to fly away. Unfortunately, the only flight that thay are able to give themselves is the levitation that turns out to be nothing more than a holy suffering.

Summer in the middle 2010 installation Summer in the middle was a minimalist sculpture in a form of a big warmed up white cube that was put at a socialistic square in the centre of Warsaw in the middle of winter. Inside the cube there were four projections of documentary movies showing the same square in the middle of summer. The project was upposed to give the illusion of moving in time into summer as well as comment on the coldness of the surrounding architecture and influence consciousness of the public space.

Telescope 2010 installation The project is taking up a subject of difficulties in relations between the people of different nations and cultures. The telescope, which is placed in a viewing point of the city, is working through surprise. It unexpectedly confronts the viewer with a nice and friendly person of a different nation or culture. The telescope is putting its audience in the uncomfortable situation by forcing them to an unplanned and maybe unwanted contact. At the same time it shows what is hiding behind the curtain of fear for the unknown.

Art lover 2010 installation The project is a picture of a person,everyman, who is not an expert on art. Although he often understands it in a different way than the artists and the critics suggest, it gives him a real pleasure to commune with art. The picture is presented as a big format light box in the public space in the context of a big and recognizable art institution.

Art translating agency 2010 internet site Internet translating agency is an internet site which helps everybody who has a problem with understanding any piece of art. The agency will collaborate with translators - art lovers who will suggest their own interpretations. All questions and answers will be available for all the users of the page.

USEFUL ART 2011 actions work in progress A series of repetitions of known artistic gestures in the changed cotext which gives them additional new useful meaning.

WSCHODNIA GALLERY ARCHIVE RECONSTRUCTION 2011 action Reconstruction is the archive preperation for the project Usefull art.

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