Uncategorized – Beata Kozlowska

Mental Geography at TwentySix Gallery

Posted on August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 by beatakozlowska — Leave a comment

Mental Geography

Solo art exhibition by Beata Kozlowska

4-15 September

Opening hours Wed-Fri 11-5 / Sat-Sun 10-4

Mental Geography features a series of abstract paintings by Beata Kozlowska. With an affinity for a sense of transience, Kozlowska works with colours, shapes and lines, often employing haphazard grids, an overload of forms, and handmade stencils. Her use of grids and geometry is inspired by a range of disparate aesthetics, including modernist abstraction, architecture, constructivism and post-painterly tradition.

Kozlowska explores the process of finding harmony amidst contradictions, as she plays with opposing elements, such as chaos and structure, destruction and reconstruction. The resulting works become a reflection of the artist’s pursuit for balance within the composition.

Join us for the opening night of Beata Kozlowska’s solo exhibition in Te Whanganui-a-Tara on Thursday the 5th September 5.30pm. There will be refreshments provided.

Poetics of Geometry at Thistle Hall Gallery

Posted on December 20, 2023August 29, 2024 by beatakozlowska — Leave a comment

Poetics of Geometry, a solo exhibition features new abstract paintings by Beata Kozlowska. Over the last several years Wellington-based artistic journey, Kozlowska delves into the painterly medium, focusing on the language of abstraction. Poetics of Geometry ‘explores unique visual associations from geometric shapes, analogous to the play of language in poetics. Kozlowska employs elements like colour, shape, texture, form and structure to manifest in varying scales and frequencies, mirroring nature.

The term “Geometry” originates from the Greek words ‘geo’ (earth) and ‘metrein’ (to measure). Kozlowska’s work explores the interplay between poetics and geometry, employing geometric shapes, lines, haphazard semi-grids, and multiple layering techniques. Embracing negative space and concealing specific areas in her compositions, she engages in an unpredictable and playful process that challenges traditional geometric laws. This emphasis on the freedom of abstraction invites viewers to explore multiple interpretations.

The artist improvises with contrasting elements, exploring the tension between structure and chaos, reflecting the uncertainties of the world. The manipulation of forms and improvisation defines Kozlowska’s artistic process, driven by the quest for internal balance within the composition.

Beata Kozlowska in front of ‘ Walls out of Solid Air’ acrylic on canvas, 90×60 cm, 2023.

Weaving Light and Space- upcoming Show at the Thistle Hall Gallery in Wellington 5-11 December 2016

Posted on November 5, 2016November 29, 2016 by beatakozlowska — Leave a comment

“Weaving Light and Space”
Multidisciplinary Art exhibition by Beata Kozlowska and David Moraton
Thistle Hall Gallery, Wellington 5th -11th December 2016
PV: Mon 6-9 pm

“Weaving Light and Space” is a first New Zealand based collaborative art exhibition by two visual artists with artistic careers in the UK: Beata Kozlowska and David Moraton.
The exhibition showcases their recent art works made in Wellington. Lines, strings and light are recurrent elements and main motifs of both artists’ installations, paintings, drawings and videos. Wherever placed three-dimensionally or represented on a bi-dimensional surface, these lines connect each other in weaving structures, mapping the space that they live in, creating complex organic forms and casting lights and shadows. Both artists find commonality in using lines and light to evoke the transcendental through abstract images, which constitute an integral part of their visual languages.

‘Theatre of Colour and Movement’. Art Collaboration between Beata Kozlowska and David Moraton at Toi Poneke, Wellington, New Zealand

Posted on September 10, 2016July 7, 2023 by beatakozlowska — Leave a comment

Theatre of colour and movement, is a collaborative project made in Toi Poneke Art Centre betweeen David Moraton and I. We are two artists who collaborate and join commonalities in our practices. Our collaboration revolves around the concept of interdependence as we are showing how two artists can fully blend and interrelate to create a combined artwork.

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Hidden Stories, art project in Toi Poneke, Wellington NZ

Posted on August 5, 2016July 7, 2023 by beatakozlowska — Leave a comment

Hidden Stories, art project in Toi Poneke, Wellington NZ is a project exploring the idea of connectivity and freedom of associations. Being on the other site of the Hemisphere, made me inspired to develop further experimentation with line and integrating cut-outs painted drawing. Cut-outs are essential element of the installation and they have no fixed place on the imaginary map of the inhabited space of the studio . The geography of the mind, in a way referring back to my early series of work Mental Geography ( London, Studio Voltaire), is an attempt to disperse any possible compositional frame and open a performing space, where the presence come about.

Upcoming NZ ART Show 3-6 June 2016

Posted on May 20, 2016May 20, 2016 by beatakozlowska — Leave a comment

I am delighted to announce that I was selected to participate as a solo panel Artist during the NZ Art Show, one of the largest, Affordable Art Fairs in New Zealand.

I will be showing my newest series of work on paper and also some of my previous work made in London.

I am hoping to meet some interesting people and art lovers here on the new land, in Wellington, one of the most exciting artistically capital in this part of the world.

DATES:

PREVIEW – Thursday June 2, 12.30pm – 2pm

Exclusive access to the show for Friends of the 2015 NZ Art Show: browse the art and make your purchases at your leisure.

Then return later in the day for the Gala party.

GALA EVENING – June 2, 6.30pm – 9.30pm

SHOW DAYS – June 3 – 6

Doors sales available

Friday and Saturday: 10am – 7.30pm
Sunday: 10am – 6pm
Monday: 10am – 4pm

For more information

http://www.nzartshow.co.nz

Arteles Art Residency in Finland

Posted on January 5, 2016May 20, 2016 by beatakozlowska — Leave a comment

I am in Finland with my artistic collaborator, who actually happens to be my husband as well one of the greatest blessings in my life. The art residency is held in Arteles Creative Centre, situated about 70 km away from Tampere. We, along with another 9 artists invited to the residency programme at that time, are creating as a response to Nature and the mystic landscape in a completely remote space, with a limited access to internet and urban areas. We are looking forward to seeing Northern Lights. We will also possibly be able to open further collaborations with artists, and travel. After that, there are further exhibitions, artistic collaboration in London and also abroad still in process which I am very much looking forward to.

Link to the Arteles Residence Website

Here some of my newest experiment with the light projection and shadow. Finnish Landscape surprises me with amazing long shadows, throwing on the bluish, dry snow.

The freezing cold weather ( -31 degrees Celsius) makes me feel internally hibernating and prompts to draw like frozen icicles on paper, created unexpectedly, with all the consequences of its ‘fragile stability’.

Ransome’s Dock and Chrom-Art Collaboration in Battersea Luxury Apartments London

Posted on November 20, 2015May 20, 2016 by beatakozlowska — Leave a comment

Ransome’s Dock

October 2015

I am excited to announce that two of my sculptures from the El Dorado series from 2011, have been selected to be on loan with the Luxury apartment at Ransome’s Dock in the heart of London.

Ransome’s Dock is a collaboration with boutique firm of architects and property developers CPLD. Chrom-Art supplied paintings, photographies and sculptures for the marketing of two bespoke luxury riverside apartments in Battersea, London.

The ex- apartment of Victoria Beckham along with the view of my Sculpture El Dorado has been also published in Italian Edition of Vanity Fair Magazine.

For more information:

http://www.chrom-art.org/art-loans/