b. 1993 in Rydułtowy, Upper Silesia, Poland
based in Warsaw
Kami Mierzvvinsk is a queer interdisciplinary visual artist and performer. Their artistic practice includes painting, installation, works with space, video art and performance. Being strongly influenced by the relationship between human and nature, and between human and his environment, they often touch on issues of minorities and social exclusion in their works. In turn, in their painting practice they are strongly imbued with the concept of anamnesis, the mental act of recalling what the soul saw in the world of ideas before it merged with the body; which is an explanation of knowledge unattainable by human senses. Telling often with the act of painting about the longing for disembodied times, assuming equality across divisions, focusing on the element of spirit and its genderless, fluid matter. Performative painting practice rooted in the culture of the Eastern Culture (e.g. Dansaekhwa, Ink-Wang, Gutai), allows them to visualize a supra-visible mysticism, to show painting that is personal in meaning, being at the same time reflective and ideologically universal.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
*Seascapes, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin, Germany
*Collection Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
2023
*My Body Is Your Body, curated by Paulina Olszewska, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany
*Edges of the Worlds, B93, Enschede, Netherlands (solo exhibition)
2022
*Listasyning, Skrufan, Eyrarbakki, Iceland
*My problem is a woman’s problem: voices of the younger generation, Centrala Spaces, Birmingham, UK
2021
*Milky Way, MIA Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
*Ewa Partum. Galeria Adres. Place, Situation, Occasion, Offer presenting the achievements of Adres Gallery/ My problem is a woman’s problem, W Y Gallery and New Culture and Education Association, Fabryka Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
*Tolerance(s), ArtiFactory, Eos Gallery, Athens, Greece
*National Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts 2020, Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdansk, Poland
2020
*Life isn’t everything, Contemporary Art Gallery MD_S, Wroclaw, Poland (solo exhibition)
*International Student’s Drawing Triennial, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice, Poland
*Drawing Connection, Lower Rowe Gallery Department of Art & Art History, Charlotte, USA
2019
*Third International Student Biennale, Lauba, Zagreb, Croatia
*XI Small Painting Forms Triennial, Gallery Wozownia, Torun, Poland
*7th International Pastel Biennale, BWA Sokół Contemporary Art Gallery, Nowy Sącz, Poland
*Homography / Homography Festival, ArtSpace México, Mexico City; Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico
*Homography / Homography Festival, Saint Géry Place, Brussels, Belgium
*Extending Reality, Amart Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2018
*Auditorium Comicum, Museum of the University of Wroclaw, Poland
*Night on Earth, Contemporary Art Gallery MD_S, Wroclaw, Poland
2017
*How is it?, Gallery Labyrinth, Lublin, Poland
2016
*NOTO, Gallery of the New Art Foundation, Krakow, Poland
2013
*Commencement, industrial storage space in Wroclaw, Poland (solo exhibition)
RESIDENCY
2023
*ARE Holland, Enschede, Netherlands
2022
*SAGA residency, Eyrarbakki, Iceland
AWARD AND DISTINCTIONS
2023
*Nomination to Strabag Artaward International 2023, Vienna, Austria
2021
*Honorable Mention in the National Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts 2020, Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdansk, Poland
*Main Prize for the Best Diploma of the 2020 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland
2020
*Honorable Mention in the International Student’s Drawing Triennial, Katowice, Poland
2019
*Finalist of the Third International Student Biennale, Lauba, Zagreb, Croatia
*Main Prize of the International Young Art Competition Extending Reality, Amart Gallery, Vienna, Austria
EDucation
2020
*MFA, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wroclaw, Poland
2019
*programm exchange Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Scholarships
2019
*Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship in Poland
*Artistic Scholarship of the Mayor of Wroclaw
*Scholarship for the best students of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw
2018
* Scholarship for the best students of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw