Katarzyna Wendland

BIOGRAPHY // ENGLISH

Born in Szczecin in 1979. 2015 – co-founder of the Pinata Art Group Since 2016, founder and president of the board of the Piñata Foundation (www.pinatagroup.com) . Co-organizes cultural events promoting contemporary art. He has experience as a juror in various art competitions, exhibition curator, coordinator of artistic and artistic-educational projects, and photographers. A member of the Association of Polish Artists since 2007. In 2006 she graduated from easel painting, painting in architecture (wall painting and stained glass) also defended the annex from drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Winner of the prize Professor Stanisław Borysowski in the discipline: painting 2003/2004 UMK / Toruń. She participated in individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad (Germany, Ireland). Author of educational programs, art workshops, co-organizer of outdoor plein-airs. She works in contemporary painting, painting in architecture and design. She also practices drawing in her own techniques. The adopted creative strategy refers to internal life, constant change and movement. She is interested in the issue of light, acquired experience and emotional feelings, which are then transposed in a synthetic way into the language of art. Various technologies and media are used in painting and drawing.



PERSONAL
EXHIBITIONS:



2023 Follow the Sun 2022/2023 Galeria Dworzec Zachodni przy Akademickim Centrum Kultury i Sztuki Od Nowa / Toruń

2021 „Pogranicze abstrakcji” z Alicją Wieczorek / Związek Polskich Artystów Plastyków / Toruń

2019 exhibition at the
festival 3.FOSA FULL OF CULTURE / NEW MEDIA WEEKEND / with Alicicja Wieczorek /
Miejski Ośrodek Kultury Amfiteatr / Radom

2019 FOLLOW THE SUN, Gallery of Polish Artists Association in district of Toruń, Toruń2018 „Pinata
Crusades”
 with Alicja Wieczorek and Grzegorz
Wawrzyńczak, West Pomeranian Museum in Bytów

2018 „AQUAPRESJA
04″
with Alicja Wieczorek and Grzegorz Wawrzyńczak The Center of Culture and
Art. Water Supply Tower, Konin

2017 „TRES PINTEROS”
with Alicja Wieczorek and Grzegorz Wawrzyńczak GOK, Raciążek

2017 „AQUAPRESJA” with Alicja
Wieczorek and Grzegorz Wawrzyńczak, Gallery 011 club From Nowa, The Hall of
Pomp Museum of water supply and sewage system, Toruń

2017 „All along the watertower”
with Alicja Wieczorek and Grzegorz Wawrzyńczak / Dom Muz, Toruń

2017 „DYFUZJE” / Academic Space of
Arts, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus
University,Toruń

2017 „AQUAPRESJA 03”
with Alicja Wieczorek and Grzegorz Wawrzyńczak / Water Tower Gallery, Płock

2017 „AQUAPRESJA 02”
with Alicja Wieczorek and Grzegorz Wawrzyńczak / Gallery of the Tower of
Pressure , Museum of water and sewage systems, Bydgoszcz

2015 ” Illustrated Space” with Alicja Wieczorek / The
Museum of Writing and Printing in Grębocin

2014″Irij” Community Cultural Centre in Raciążek

2009„Painting”Individual exposition, House of
Muses, Toruń

2006„stratosphere„– Individual exposition accompanying
New Art Exhibition, „ Piwnica Pod Aniołem”, Toruń

2005„Painting„– Individual exhibition, Children’s
Creative Art Centre and Gallery in Torun



JOINT
EXHIBITIONS:

2024 Real 10 Ogólnopolska wystawa malarstwa / Galeria Region / Koszalin

2024 I Ogólnopolski Plener Malarski, wystawa poplenerowa agroturystyka „Dobre Czasy”/ Radosław

2024 „Dzieła Annale 2022/2023” Związek Polskich Artystów Plastyków, Toruń

2023 CZAS-RUCH-PRZESTRZEŃ III Ogólnopolskie Biennale Rysunku (pozakonkursowo) Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej we Włocławku

2023 „Dzieła Annale 2022/2023” Związek Polskich Artystów Plastyków, Toruń

2023 „XX Mogileńskie Spotkania Plastyczne”, Magazyn Zbożowy, Mogilno

2022 „Dzieła Annale 2021/2022” Związek Polskich Artystów Plastyków, Toruń

2021 „XIX Mogileńskie Spotkania Plastyczne”, Magazyn Zbożowy, Mogilno

2021 „CZAS – RUCH – PRZESTRZEŃ” II Ogólnopolskie Biennale Rysunku (pozakonkursowo), Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej we Włocławku

2021 Dzieła Annale ZPAP Toruń 2020/21 / Galeria Związku Polskich Artystów Plastyków / Toruń

2021 12. Aukcja Charytatywna Na Rzecz Dzieci z Autyzmem Aperio- wystawa przedaukcyjna Galeria u Jezuitów, Poznań 

2020/2021 „ŚWIATŁOCZUŁOŚĆ” Ogólnopolski przegląd malarstwa kobiet, Galeria ZPAP, Toruń

2020 „PANDEMIA. SZTUKA W CZASACH ZARAZY” Ogólnopolska internetowa wystawa pokonkursowa.



2020 Konstelacje – Poza Horyzont / national post-competition exhibition / Gallery of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers / Toruń

2020 Works of Annale ZPAP Toruń 2018/19 / Gallery of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers / Toruń

2020 Exhibition „To
celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Toruń’s return to Poland” Gallery of
the Association of Polish Artists and Designers, Toruń

2019 TIME – MOVEMENT –
SPACE (out of competition) Nationwide non-competition exhibition / Gallery –
Academic Space of Art at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the
Nicolaus Copernicus University / Toruń

2019 Abstract / Opening
in NIGHT MUSEUMS / Gallery in the attic at the State Higher Vocational School
Stanisława Staszica / Piła

2019 XVIII Mogileńskie
Spotkania Artyczne / Sala widowiskowa MDK / Mogilno

2019 Works of Annale ZPAP
Toruń 2018/19 / Gallery of the Association of Polish Artists Artists / Toruń

2019 Art Exhibition
Katharsis / Dom Polski / Bydgoszcz

2019 Exhibition of
painting Adam Siałkowski i guests / Galeria Sztuki Toruń Plaza / Toruń

2018 II art confrontation
„SPACE” / 
Mazovia Institute of Culture,
Gallery TEST,Warsaw

2018 Pro Polonia Jubilatea – 100 lat – ,Gallery of Polish Artists Association in
district of Toruń

2018 9. Charity Auction for Children with Autism Aperio – pre-auction
exhibition – 
Municipal Gallery Arsenał, Poznań

2018 SUMMER – House of the Muses ul.
Podmurna, Toruń

2018 exhibition of art related to the auction of the XXI century (VII /
IX auction) / 
Contemporary Art Gallery 101 project
Warsaw

2018 – Open air in Płotow, open-air
exhibition, 
Zagroda Styp-Rekowskich branch of
the West Pomeranian Museum , Płotowo

2018 Young Art Fair Toruń 2018, Artus
CourtToruń

Annale – 2017/2018, exhibition of
members of the Toruń constituency ZPAP , Gallery of Polish Artists Association in district of Toruń

2018 – „III Kuyavian-Pomeranian historical travels”, voivodeship post-competition exhibition, Cultural Center Teutonic
Castle, (Distinction) Toruń

2018 exhibition accompanying the
auction of XXI century art 
/ Contemporary Art Gallery 101 Projekt,Warsaw

2018 „Na Rabe” exhibition after
outdoor / a branch of the West Pomeranian Museum, Płotowo

2017 The After Plein-Air Exhibition „Plener Hawaje” / Stara
Wiśniewka

2017 „17th Mogilyn Art Meetings” Fundamental Activities „On the Road”, Mogilno

2017 „ITER PER TEMPUS – OR BACK TO THE PAST” exhibition accompanying the project, Culture Center Teutonic castle, Pinata
Toruń Foundation, Toruń

2017 AQUAPRESJA – intermedia exhibition, Water Supply Tower of Old Bielany, Torun

2016 ORGANIZATION OF THE PLEIN-AIR,
collective exhibition for the Museum of Writing and Printing, Grębocin

2016 circles – an open air exhibition of ZPAP members, ZPAP Gallery, Toruń

2016 „I Kujawsko-Pomorskie historical journeys”, regional art contest, Cultural Center Teutonic Castle, Toruń

2014 VIII Polish Art Festival , „Celtic
– Slavic vision of woman”
, The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland

2014 `Galernicy” -Collective exhibition, House of
Muses, Toruń

2011 “Presentations” The Hothouse of Palace Complex in Lubostroń

2011 XXXVII Competition of Polish Artists
Association in district of Toruń .` Masterpiece of the year 2010`, The Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń

2010 Collective exposition of Polish
Artists Association in district of Toruń.` Masterpiece of the year 2009`, The Wozownia Art
Gallery, Toruń

2009 XXXV Competition of Polish Artists
Association in district of Toruń.` Masterpiece of 2008 the year`, The Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń

2008 XXXIV Competition of Polish Artists
Association in district of Toruń.` Masterpiece of the year 2007`, The Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń

2007 VII Biennale of Small Painting forms,
The Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń

2006/2007 „Diploma” Gőttingen University, Gőttingen, Germany

2006„Diploma``, The Interior Gallery Arpol , Toruń

2006„Postmodernism in Art``, Feliks
Nowowiejski Musical Academy, Bydgoszcz

2005/2006„Artists of Torun School from the Collections of Andrzej Lubawy``, Ks. dr Władysław Łęga Museum, Grudziądz

2005 The post open-air exhibition of Polish National Open Air Painting „Master and the Students„, Dębno; The Pomeranian Dukes’ Castle
Szczecin