Olga Lewicka


Olga Lewicka is a visual artist. Polish born, she lives and works in Berlin. Her practice focuses on painting, but it also encompasses installation, collage, performance, text and artist book.

Biography

Olga Lewicka studied at the Art Academy in Wrocław. In 2005 she won the and was awarded the price for young Polish painting. In 2007 she was nominated for Views – The Deutsche Bank Foundation Award for the most interesting young artists on the Polish art scene. In 2010 she was awarded the “Młoda Polska” Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship for young artists.
Between 1997 and 2002 she also studied philosophy and literature at Wrocław University, New York University and Europa-Universität Viadrina. In 2003 she completed a doctoral thesis on aporia in art discourses, which was published by Wilhelm Fink Verlag in 2004, under the title “Pollock. Verflechtung des Sichtbaren und des Lesbaren”.
In her work Olga Lewicka deals with the status of the image and the art work in contemporary society. In research and project based works she mostly deals with painting, examining its possibilities and understanding it as a political argument rather than representation or illustration.
In examining painting, with all its options and reservations caused by its long history, she interrogates and plays off the forces of differences and shifts, to eventually initiate emancipatory visual processes.

Selected exhibitions

Solo

  • 2012 . Mapping a Prospective All-Embracing Structure #1 at Wroclaw Contemporary Museum
  • 2012 at Verein zur Förderung für Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
  • 2011 at Galeria Entropia, Wroclaw
  • 2009 There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes at lokal_30, Warsaw
  • 2005 at Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

    Group

  • 2012 at Zwinger Galerie, Berlin, curated by Gunter Reski and Hans-Jürgen Hafner
  • 2011 at Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznan, curated by Anna Czaban
  • 2010 at Galeria Działań, Warsaw, curated by Grzegorz Borkowski and Fredo Ojda
  • 2009 at Inspiracje Art Festival, Szczecin
  • 2008 at Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
  • 2007 Views 2007 – , Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
  • 2004 , inszeniert, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, curated by Matthias Mühling

    Selected publications and lectures

  • 2011 PANORAMA. Materials for Mapping a Prospective All-Embracing Structure. . Poznań: Morava Publishing House
  • 2010 Wie Polens Königsweg nun zum Irrweg wird. and
  • 2007 Samson, or Contemporary Art. Obieg, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, no 1&2/2007
  • 2007 AURORA. Zwischen Nacht und Tag. Ein Ausstellungs- und Buchprojekt zwischen Berlin und Wrocław in zwei Teilen. Artist book. Wrocław: BWA Awangarda
  • 2007 Aurora. Utopie und Surréflexion. In: S. Diekmann/T. Khurana, Latenz. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos
  • 2006 . In: V. Beyer/A. Haverkamp/J. Voorhoeve, Das Bild ist der König. Repräsentation nach Louis Marin. München: Wilhelm Fink
  • 2005 . Lecture at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
  • 2005 . Verflechtung des Sichtbaren und des Lesbaren. München: Wilhelm Fink