Celina Kanunnikava


Celina Kanunnikava is a Polish-Belarusian artist. Her works are in the collection of Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, and in private collections in Poland and abroad.

Work

Kanunnikava's artworks span painting, computer graphics, and mixed media/installations. They are inspired by architecture and physical materials characteristic for totalitarian regimes, such as widespread use of concrete, gold, and marble. The paintings depict gigantic buildings of the regime power and control infrastructure, including prisons, secret police archives, official buildings, headquarters, and bureaus of official propaganda media. The objects and buildings depicted symbolize not just Belarusian regime but other similar power relations and systems.
The artist is engaged in charity auctions and initiatives in both Belarus and Poland.

Awards

  • "Nowy obraz/Nowe spojrzenie" - main prize
  • Winner of President of Wrocław Award in the 12th edition of Geppert Competition, Wrocław, 2016
  • Medal of Young Art, Poznań, 2017
  • 11. Triennale of Small Art Forms in Toruń, 2019 – III prize
  • Compass of Young Art, Warsaw, 2020

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Internal Diseases, Assembly Gallery, Poznań, PolandInternal Diseases, MBWA, Leszno, Poland, 2017 The Untitled, Assembly Gallery, Poznań, Poland, 2016 Masse und Macht / Mass and power, WOZOWNIA Gallery, Toruń, Poland, 2016 47 milliseconds, Szyperska Gallery, Poznań, Poland, 2013What a beautiful, sunny day, Stara Rzeźnia Gallery, Poznań, Poland, 2012

Group

Great Patriotic, with Endre Tot, Hanna Shumska, Vitalii Shupliak, BWA Bydgoszcz, Poland, 202221 Presentations - Leszno 2020. In the beginning, the weather changed MBWA Leszno, Poland, 2020A thing about collecting. What is all this for? MBWA Leszno, Poland, 2020Paint, also known as Blood. Women, Affect, and Desire in Contemporary Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2019The sadness of modernism: oppression and depression, City Gallery, Wrocław, Poland, 2019Girl and gun, House of Colonels, La Oliva, Fuerteventura, Spain, 2018Island and Atolls: the Mapping of Imagination, WOZOWNIA Gallery, Toruń, Poland, 2017The Next Day, Assembly Gallery, Poznań, Poland, 2016Love. Aids. Riot. Sex. III, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2014