Agata Nowosielska
Painter, curator, art writer.
Aneta Szyłak wrote of my paintings: “Resolute painting, though underpinned by fragility. Highly diverse – at times as if from the hand of more than one person, as Nowosielska delivers stylistic displays and makes turns in her manner of representation – the paintings shown within the bizarre Opera create a sort of cabinet of mirrors, in which – sometimes funny, sometimes monstrous – our stories of uncertainty are reflected.”
She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (diploma in the studio of Prof. Teresa Miszkin in 2006) and at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (studio of Yuji Takeoka). In 2010, she completed her Postgraduate Curatorial Museum Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
She works as an assistant at the Faculty of Painting of the Gdańsk ASP. Represented by Galeria m².
She has shown her work in dozens of solo exhibitions, including at the Artists' Colony in Gdańsk (2005 and 2014: Obok [Next to] as part of the Wczoraj – Dziś – Jutro [Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow] cycle, curators: Sylwester Gałuszka and Mikołaj Robert Jurkowski), Galerie Herold in Bremen (Domino, 2014 and Labyrinth, 2024, curator: Norbert Bauer), Gdańsk City Gallery (W Barok [Into Baroque], 2015, curator: Maria Sasin), BWA in Zielona Góra (Odludzkie [Dehumanized], 2019, curator: Iwona Bigos), CCA Łaźnia in Gdańsk (Nirvana, 2021, curator: Jolanta Woszczenko), Trafostacja Sztuki in Szczecin (Opera Bizarna [Opera Bizarre], 2022, curator: Stanisław Ruksza), Sosnowiec Art Center – Sielecki Castle (Kruche elementy [Fragile Elements], 2023, curator: Adriana Zimnowoda), Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw (Love’s Modern Nature, 2024, with Patricia J. Reis, curator: Anna Ciabach), BWA in Olsztyn (Czułe historie [Tender Stories], 2024, curator: Mariola Balińska), Galeria m² in Warsaw (Squeeze, curator: Matylda Prus, the exhibition was part of Fringe 2024), GSW Opole (All Forbidden Rooms, 2025, curator: Matylda Prus, collaboration: Marta Miś).
In 2020, at the invitation of Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, the painter took part in an outdoor action in which reproductions of works by artists whose exhibitions were delayed due to pandemic restrictions were presented on city advertising spaces in Warsaw.
Agata Nowosielska has received many scholarships and awards. She was awarded, among others, the City of Gdańsk Award in the Field of Culture “Splendor Gedanensis” (for 2021), and is also a laureate of Gazeta Wyborcza's Pomorskie Sztormy [Pomeranian Storms] in the Cultural Storm category. Finalist of the 47th Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale 2025 (Honorable Mention).
The artist's paintings have entered the collections of, among others, the National Museum in Gdańsk, NOMUS New Art Museum in Gdańsk, Haus der Bürgerschaft in Bremen, and Krupa Gallery in Wrocław.
Agata Nowosielska worked as a curator at Club Żak in Gdańsk, where she realized over a hundred projects. She has also curated exhibitions at the CCA Łaźnia in Gdańsk and the Gdańsk City Gallery.
She is the author of texts on art published in the magazines “Panoptikum” and “Exit”.
Magdalena Ujma (Ręcznik [Towel]), Ewelina Jarosz (Czas Kultury), Kamila Wielebska, Agnieszka Wołodźko, Jakub Knera (Szum), and Aneta Szyłak (Restart Mag) have written about Nowosielska's painting.
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It is resolute painting, with fragility lurking underneath. The paintings displayed at the Opera Bizarre exhibition are varied, as if made by more than one person as Nowosielska indulges in stylistic flourishes and shifts from one mode of representation to another. The works add up to a hall of mirrors in which our stories of insecurity, one moment funny and the next moment monstrous, are reflected. (Aneta Szyłak)
The artists' works presented during the Dreams of Gdynia festival are available for purchase.
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