Agata Czeremuszkin-Chrut
Gallery
Vita
Born in 1983 in Czestochowa, Poland. Lives and works in Warsaw.
1998-2003
2003-2008
2003-2008
2007
2008
2008
2011-2012
2011-2014
2015-2018
2015-2019
2019
Academy of Fine Arts, Czestochowa, PL (Graphic Design-Publishing)
Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław
Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław, PL, Painting
Edinburgh College of Art UE Socrates-Erasmus Scholarship
Edinburgh College of Art, UK, Painting Department
MASTER OF ART Diploma, Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, PL, postgraduate education
Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland, Promotion
Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (PhD)
PhD Diploma in Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, PL
Credo
"Painting is my primary tool for describing the world; it serves to glorify it or sometimes negate it. At the same time, my practice consists of a recording of emotions and observations, often unconscious, expressive, and highly intuitive. They oscillate around a person, his or her dependence on others, mutual influences, constraints, or manipulations. I am interested in life, energy, the body, and all biological processes. In a gradual process of their transformation, body images are deformed and deconstructed so that they can be reassembled. I strive for formal simplification, reducing superfluous things to achieve greater intensity and credibility in my message. Brushes against abstract organic forms. In art, I value freedom above all else—my own and that of the recipient. I avoid over-intellectualization; I do not puncture my art with gibberish of socially or politically correct information. I also leave the viewer the Freedom of interpretation. I don't try to be literal; I often leave most things unanswered by choosing a suggestive title—still enigmatic, but slightly directing the viewer toward my train of thought. I use photographic material in my work. These are usually photos found on the internet or in the press, or stills from films. The press itself alone provides an unlimited arsenal of materials and ideas for collages on paper, which I use as sketches for my oil paintings. What also helps me in the creative process is the omnipresent chaos and crowd that surrounds me. The subcutaneous pulse of the metropolis, which has a life of its own, and at the same time the anonymity and alienation that accompany city life, are my impulses for artistic expression.
Agata Czeremuszkin-Chrut
Laudatio
In the paintings of Agata Czeremuszkin-Chrut, I see figures that resemble a tangled bundle. Spontaneously, this brings to mind the exploration of the earliest artistic expressions of young children, which begin with the primal tangle and the primal cross. In Agata Czeremuszkin-Chrut’s work, however, it is more appropriate to describe them as bundles of energy, composed of wild brushstrokes applied to the canvas like whip lashes. At the same time, this painting also possesses sensitive, seismographic qualities. Occasionally, fluid paint runs down in thin rivulets, emphasizing expressiveness and spontaneity. To the emotionality of color is added the expression of gesture.
Amid this tangle of color traces—which do not cover the entire canvas but are usually concentrated in a central area—human body forms suddenly emerge: bent legs and arms, roughly sketched, and even heads. Other shapes also appear, geometric planes resembling a stage, on which this furious dance—or should I say struggle, confrontation, or wild erotic scuffle—takes place. This stage, confirmed by the titles of the paintings, is everything found in and around the bed: pillows, blankets, sheets. A play, then, of suggested exposure and gestural concealment, artistically balanced, simultaneously provocatively open and discreet.
The artist writes in a statement, reflecting what seems to be her experience of city life (quote):
"What helps me in the creative process is the ubiquitous chaos and the crowd that surrounds me. The hypodermic pulse of the metropolis with its own life, and at the same time the anonymity and alienation that accompany urban life, are my impulses for artistic expression." (end quote)
She also cites Francis Bacon in very stark terms. Bacon wishes (quote):
"His pictures should look like traces of human presence and memories of past events, like a snail leaving its slime behind." (end quote)
Laudation by Reinhard Fritz, 1995–2011, President and Board Member of the Neue Gruppe, BBK, and jury member; involvement & exhibition curation of the Große Kunstausstellung at the Haus der Kunst, Munich.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2009
2008
"Image documentation" Museum of Czestochowa, PL
"Cwiczenia z organizmow zywych" Warzywniak Gallery, Gdansk, PL
To be titled, EC Gallery, Chicago, USA
Paper – Canvas – Wall , MOSART, Gorzów Wielkopolski, PL
Minimalization, 022 Gallery, OW ZPAP, Wroclaw, PL
"Body language" Agora Gallery, Wroclaw, PL
„Łóżka” Elektor Gallery, MCKiS, Warsaw, PL
„Zmysły Sztuki” Museum – Palace in Wilanow, Warsaw, PL
„Skin on skin”, EC Gallery, Chicago, USA
„Pisz litery!” Długa Gallery BOK – Bolesławiec, PL
„Works on paper” EC Gallery Chicago, USA
„Paintings” EC Gallery, Chicago, USA
„127qm of painting” - mural painting in Browar Mieszczanski, Wroclaw, PL
“Bloom” project, - realization of mural painting in Bloom! Hotel, Brussels, Belgium
Group Exhibitions
2019
2017
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
STORIES Frauen Power UNTERWEGS, Polish Exhibition Center Munich, Germany
Short Stories Junge Gegenwartskunst aus Polen, Galerie Strzelski, Stuttgart, Germany
International Art Symposium, Rawicz, PL
PlainAir Painting, OW ZPAP, Swietokrzyskie Mountains, PL
Nord Art, Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
"Small Wonders" Detroit, USA
Taboo, Victorian Artists Society Gallery, Melborne, Australia
Interference, Polish-German art project, Second Home Project, Berlin, Germany
Nord Art, Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Star rituals, The Old School Art Residency, Gorna Lipnitsa, Lovech, Bulgaria
8. Biennal of Miniatur Art, Gaude Mater, Czestochowa, PL
LINEARIUM, Pionova Gallery, Gdansk, PL
The Marian Michalik V Competition for Young Painters, City Gallery, Czestochowa, PL
„Skin on skin”, EC Gallery, Chicago, USA
Interference, Polish-German art project, Sokolnicki Fort Gallery, Warsaw, PL
Nord Art, Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
The Third Triennal of Polish Contemporary Painting, BWA Rzeszow, PL
„Uczta u mistrzów” Palace of Art, Cracow, PL
„FALA" interdisciplinary exhibition, Wave, Baltic Art Gallery, Koszalin, PL
„Art'n bloom” painting on textiles, Bloom! Hotel, Brussels, Belgium
„Within young figuration” Platon Gallery, Wroclaw, PL
”Spring Benefit-Kaledoscope”, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
”The second Triennal of Polish Contemporary Painting” BWA Rzeszów, PL
"The Marian Michalik IV Competition for Young Painters” City Gallery, Czestochowa, PL
"Triennal of small painting forms”, Torun, PL
“Intimacy” Flying Gallery, Warsaw, PL
“Reflections” Polish Center of Wisconsin Gallery, Franklin, WI, USA
“Paintings: Body, Object, Texture” EC Gallery, Chicago, USA
BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw, graduated exhibition, PL
International Screenwriter’s Festival in Bourges, France
“Girls of the professor” exhibition in Browar Mieszczanski, Wroclaw, PL
“Around the Coyote” (curator's choice - curated by Shannon Stratton), Chicago,USA
“The best of the Fest”, Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago, USA
“Examination of self and body”, Chopin’s Theatre, Chicago, USA
“Blue and Black”- Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland