KW - Contemporary Artist
Polish-French visual artist graduated from several fine arts schools in France and abroad: ESBA-MoCo in France (mention, 2018), Warsaw (congratulations, 2017) and Poznan in Poland (congratulations, 2015).
PhD in Arts, specialty: Audiovisual Arts (UPV Montpellier 3). Lives and works in Montpellier. His artistic work is part of his theoretical research.
His works have been exhibited at several exhibitions in France and abroad: Poland, Ireland, Spain, Canary Islands, Netherlands ...
Wyrembelska's artistic projects question the cultural standardization, human relations and the mechanisms of power.
The artist creates immersive projects, transforming the existing space into a total work of art. Her favorite expression techniques are painting and video installation.
Through her highly expressive works, the artist opens up a reflection on the role of contemporary media and encourages people to promote authenticity. It is the consciousness and the unconsciousness of the individual who lives in society that is at the heart of his approach.
Creating Great Wave, artist's art studio, F
Creating Swimmers, serigraphy, sil print, ESBA-MoCo, F
Creating Voices of silence, Espiguette, F
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Curriculum Vitae
Awards & Grants
2020
Grant of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland - Online Culture.
2019
Prix Big Awards Barcelona - the 3th place
Damer House Award - video show in Dublin
2018
The 68th edition of the Jeune Création (Young Creation) - video show in Paris and Strasbourg
Exhibitions
Solo show
2023 - 2024 (upcoming projects)
Solo show : Domaine de Biar, Lavérune
Solo show : La Chapelle, Sommières
Solo show : Barcelone
2022
Solo painitng's show, Roche Bobois Paris, Montpellier – Lattes, November - December
Solo photo-collages' show, La Coquille, Montpellier, September - December
Solo painitng's show, Argence-Argence Real Estate Agency, December 2021 - February 2022, Montpellier.
2021
Asylum, solo painting show, City Dental Clinic Poznan, Poland
2020
Solo show, L'Espace Saint-Ravy Gallery, Montpellier, F
2019
Mimicry, video, photo and bamboo installation, Hotel Baudon de Mauny, with Mirousha Thomann, Montpellier, F
Swimmers, silk print exhibition, Vialla&Dossa&Marillat, Notary Office, Montpellier
Solo Show, The Cage Gallery, Barcelona, ES
Phantom, video installation, Hotel Baudon de Mauny, Montpellier, FR
2016
Uniform, performance, Gallery of Esbama, Montpellier, FR
2014
Mask – alter ego, paintings, Kontrapunkt Contemporary Art Gallery, Poznan, PL
2013
Café Blue, Poznan, PL
Group show
2022
Out of touch, MECEN exhibition, Baudon de Mauny, 6 – 20.05, Montpellier
2021
18.06.2021 L'Atelier, video show, Sète, F
10.06.2021 Breathtaking, MECEN exhibition, Baudon de Mauny, Montpellier
2020
Festival de arte Fuerteventura
Festival de arte Lanzarote
2019
Video show exhibition, Instituto Cervantes, Dublin, Ireland
LOOP Barcelona Festival, City Screening, Barcelona, Spain ("Mechanization" and "Mimicry" videos).
Homeland 2019 "Changing your Mind", Damer House Gallery, Roscrea, Ireland
ORCO DAY (Journée Orco) - PhD School, Site St Charles, Paul Valéry University
2018
LOOP Barcelona Festival - a platform for video art, artists' films and moving image practices.
La Kermesse, "Wish Tree" (installation), curator: Bernard Marcadé, La Panacée - Art Contemporain - Montpellier, F
Video show within the confines of the 68th edition of the Jeune Création (Young Creation) exhibition, Palais des Etudes, Cour vitrée of École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts School), Paris, F
Video show within the confines of the 68th edition of the Jeune Création (Young Creation) exhibition, Syndicat Potentiel in Strasbourg, F
Chambres avec vues, video show within the confines of the exhibition Crash Test, La Panacée - Art Contemporain - Montpellier, F
Miredo, Rencontre Amour, UNI T’ES, Gallery of Esbama ESBAMA (MoCo), Montpellier, F
2017
15th Warsaw Art Fairs in Kubicki Arcades of the Royal Castle
Ghost Hunters, Esbama, Château de Castries, FR
Diploma expo, Spokojna Gallery, Warsaw, PL
WYSIN project n°4 within the confines of the exhibition Retour sur Mulholland Drive,
La Panacée - Art Contemporain - Montpellier, FR
2015
Mimicry, National Ethnographic Museum, Warsaw, PL
2013
Bogdan Wegner & students, Pentagon Gallery, Radom, PL
2012
Action – Auction, Kolektyw 1A Gallery, Poznan, PL
Performances.
2020 Digital Performance
2019 Mimétisme, Baudon de Mainy (Mirousha Thomann)
2018 Phantom, Baudon de Mauny, Montpellier, F
2017 Urban London Performance, London, UK
2016 Mechanization, ESBA-MoCo & Voices of silence, Montpellier, FR
2015 Mimicry, Poznan, PL
Workshops
2013
Meeting of Art and Social Action organized by Poznan Univeristy of Fine Arts, Trzciel, PL
Film Workshop organized the Faculty of Animation, Poznan University of Fine Arts, Skoki, PL
2012
Meeting of Art and Social Action,Trzciel, PL
Painting workshop with Czech artist Lenka Vitkova, Stain Talk, Poznan University of Fine Arts
2011
2 weeks painting workshops organized by School of Architecture and Visual Arts, Volterra, IT
2010
2 weeks painting workshops organized by School of Architecture and Visual Arts, Canterbury, UK
Education
2018 - currently
PhD Degree in French, Field of study : Cinematographic and Audiovisual Arts,
Paul Valéry University in Montpellier, FR
2016 - 2018
Master’s degree, diploma of Visual Arts, DNSEP with mention, L’École supérieure des beaux-arts de Montpellier (ESBA - MoCo), June 2018, Montpellier, FR
2017
Master's degree diploma with mention of excellence. Field of study : Media Art, specialization : photography, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, PL
2016
Certificat CAO - 3ds Max ECCC European Computer Competence Certificate, 3D Technology Park, Poznan, PL
2011 – 2014
Bachelor’s degree, Field of study : Painting, specialization : easel painting, University of Fine Arts, Poznan, PL
2011
XXXV National History of Art Competition, Finalist, Warsaw, PL
High School Diploma, The Karol Marcinkowski Polish – French High School and Secondary School, Poznan, PL
Artistic approach
Kate Wyrembelska was born in Poznan, Poland in 1992. She studied easel painting at the University of Arts in her home city (2011-2014). She received a master diploma in photography with mention of excellence from Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw in 2017. She was awarded an Erasmus scholarship for study at the Academy of the Arts / École supérieure des beaux-arts de Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole (ESBAMA-MoCo) Montpellier, France. Awarded an Erasmus scholarship for an internship in the Creative Agency Blue Drop Studio, she moved for four months to London, United Kingdom, to work as a photographer. Accepted as a regular student at the ESBAMA - Montpellier, she graduated in 2018 (DNSEP diploma with mention). KW lives and works in Montpellier. Currently, PhD student in Audiovisual Arts in Paul Valéry University of Montpellier.
The video work of KW named "Mimicry" was showed during the exhibition in National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw in 2015. Her other video Mecanization was selected to few video shows within the confines of the 68th edition of the Jeune Création (Young Creation) exhibition. Firstly showed in Paris in Palais des Etudes, Cour vitrée of École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts School), ; then in the Syndicat Potentiel in Strasbourg in May 2018. In Februrary - March 2019 she presented her last artworks from the series "Swimmers" (painting, photo, video & silk print) during the indyvidual exhibition in The Cage Contemporary Art Gallery in Barcelona. In 2019 she participated in the LOOP Barcelona International Video & Film Festival with her videos "Mimicry" and "Mecanization" and also in exhibition in Instituto Cervantes in Dublin. In April 2020 she shows her works (video, serigraphy, painting) during her individual exhibition "Swimmer" in the public city Gallery L'Espace Saint Ravy in Montpellier.
Her artistic projects focus on issues of cultural standardization, submission to authority, mechanisms of power. It also touches on the question of mechanization as well as its conflict with human nature. The human being, a man’s conscience and unconsciousness are at the heart of her approach.
Glitches - digital and analog errors - become for artist a method of criticism. In the world of today we are surrounded by a fake images on television, in advertising, as well as in social media. The beautiful images make us dream and feed our illusions. She invites the spectator to discover her video installations and to delve into a dream world, to dive into the illusory space where we cannot really define what is real and what is imaginary. She considers that the social networks allow to show the best side of our life to the others and to create a new virtual identity. Artist believes that sometimes, this digital mask becomes stronger than our physical face. The myth of the perfect body, whether male or female, is presented in all forms. In our civilization, more and more determined by technique, the body becomes an instrument, a real machine.
What is our space of freedom, compared to the environment around us? The individual does
not live alone, but within a society. How can we prevent individual consciousness from
reflecting the society of which the individual is a member? Our tastes, the representation we
make of ourselves and others, our perception of reality, etc. Does not all this necessarily
reflect the time, the culture to which we belong? Could we say that our conscience would then
be nothing more than a room of recording events and influences? Is our freedom all relative
and limited...?
These questions are at the heart of her research. She is best known for creating experimental
video installations. Her work is often described as surreal, uniformed, having a preoccupation
with the human body. Her last artworks could be categorized as glitch art. Her works
generally treat issues related to identity, group psychology, system and control, order and disorder,
desynchronization and deformation.
KW