Renata Jaworska

Renata Jaworska
Renata Jaworska 2017
Born1979
NationalityPolish
EducationKunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Known forPainting, Drawing
Notable workMaps and territories (2017-2021)
MovementContemporary art
Websitehttps://www.renatajaworska.com

Renata Jaworska (born 1979 in Zwoleń, Poland) is a Polish contemporary visual artist. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Salem, Germany.

Early life and education

While still a student of the Józef Chelmoński High School of Fine Arts[1] in Nałęczów, Jaworska visited the exhibition "Znaki, symbolei wizje"[2](Sings, Symbols and Visions) by Jörg Immendorff at the National Museum in Warsaw in 1998. This influenced the choice of her future academy and master. After graduating from high school at 19 she was accepted at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and she moved to Germany to study.

From 2000 to 2006, she studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf art history under Prof. Werner Spies, Prof. Siegfried Gohr and painting in the class of Prof. Jörg Immendorff as his master student. In 2006 she received her academy diploma with distinction from Prof. Peter Doig at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

During her studies she designed the stage design[3] for the one-act operatic monologue La voix humaine, by Jean Cocteau and Francis Poulenc. This project was created as part of the collaboration between the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The opera was performed in the auditorium of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2002 after the opening speech for the Rundgang by the rector of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Markus Lüpertz.

Work

Since 2017 Renata Jaworska has been dealing with literary works. Her exhibition "Maps and Territories" (Les carter et les territories based on the novel by Michel Houellebecq) at Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych w Kielcach [1] showed series of the paintings with the theme. In Jaworska's work, the maps are her source material to deal with questions of belonging through the topographies and districts. The starting point for her was the map material that, thanks to the Internet and smartphones, is now available in all conceivable scales and sections, even of the most remote corners of the earth. To prepare for a trip, it is still a good idea to study the maps of the unknown territory. To get an idea of what to expect by looking at the roads, borders and topographic areas, to plan your route and look for the fastest, shortest, most interesting way. It is a form of appropriation of the previously foreign territory.[4]

At Galeria 58,[5] she showed a series of works created for this exhibition. She investigated the relation between sound and space. She was looking for answers about belonging to a certain territory, religion and society. The start for these new works was the bell donated by her great-great-grandfather Jan Skrzypczak to the garrison church of Sw. Stanislaw in Radom. Between 2018 and 2019, numerous drawings as well as large-scale works on paper are created. Jaworska deals in these years with the theme: "localization". The artist let the viewer of her works look at an area from a bird's eye view, at urban structures, cartographically defined. But they are not scaled down images of a place, although they find their basis in real map material. Urban structures with their streets and areas are clearly recognizable in their layout, but they are not differentiated further.[6]

Jaworska works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, film, objects and interventions in public spaces. Her works are exhibited internationally, most recently including Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 2019, 5th Biennale of Drawing in Nuremberg in 2019,[7] Museum of Villingen-Schwenningen,[8] Germany 2019, BWA w Kielcach in 2018,[9] Dumbo Arts Festival [2], Brooklyn NY in 2014,[10] L'Esposizione Internazionale d'arte "Piccola Germania" Mostra Internazionale, Lido di Venezia in 2009.

Her works are in numerous private[11][12] and public collections.[13]

Exhibitions

Beginning with her first institutional show, Von Pferden und Affen,[14] at the Museum Ludwig in Koblenz[15] in 2007, Jaworska also had a solo exhibition at the Romanian Embassy in Warsaw in 2008, super Land, super Rheinland[16] in Museum Ratingen[17] in 2018 and the "Maps and Territories" based on a novel by Michel Houellebecq at the Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych BWA w Kielcach in 2018.

Jaworska received several grants in Germany,[18] Poland,[19] Slovenia,[20] Greece[21] and the US.[22] In 2007 she was a scholarship holder of the Lepsien Art Foundation[23] Luxemburg / UAE. During her stay in London in 2010, she created the video project "119-minute-circle. The International Congress at the Whitechapel Gallery"[24] which was presented at the Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso[25] in Münster in 2018 as a part of the large-scale project "Peace" and "Rethinking Guernica" at the Museo Reina Sofia,[26] among others. Jaworska was selected for a project in collaboration with, among others, National Museum of Contemporary History MNZS Ljubljana[27] in Slovenia, Galeria Labirynt in Lublin, Poland and National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens EMST[28] in Greece.

References

  1. ^ "Students and alumni's of the Jozef Chelmonski". lpnaleczow.com.
  2. ^ Immendorff, Jörg (1998). Signs, Symbols and Vision. Muzeum Narodowe. ISBN 9788371000126.
  3. ^ "La voix humaine". www.renatajaworska.com. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  4. ^ König, Alexandra (2018). Renata Jaworska. Landschaftsmalerei (in German). Dr. Alexandra König Museum Ratingen. pp. 6–9. ISBN 9783926538741.
  5. ^ Redakcja (2017-02-28). "Radom. Nowa wystawa w Galerii 58 - ciekawe obrazy inspirowane dzwonem i literaturą". Echo Dnia Radomskie (in Polish). Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  6. ^ Heitland, Vanessa Charlotte (2019). Verortung. Gedanken zu den Werken von Renata Jaworska (in German). Düsseldorf. p. 9. ISBN 9783948270001.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ "Renata Jaworska – Zeichnungen – Galeriehaus Nürnberg Nord" (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  8. ^ "Renata Jaworska". Villingen-Schwenningen (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  9. ^ "Renata Jaworska". Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych w Kielcach (in Polish). Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  10. ^ DUMBO, Arts Festival. "Dumbo Arts Festival 2014".
  11. ^ "Die Sammlung Hartmann". Kehrer Verlag (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  12. ^ "Editionen 07/08". Lepsien Art Foundation (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  13. ^ "Programm". www.polnisches-institut.de. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  14. ^ Reifenscheid, Beate (2007). Klasse Immendorff. Von Pferden und Affen (in German). Verlagsgruppe Geuer und Breckner GmbH. pp. 82–83. ISBN 9783939452096.
  15. ^ "Ausstellungsrückblick 2017 - 2003". Ludwig Museum (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  16. ^ "Museum Ratingen: Renata Jaworska - Super Land. SUPER Rheinland". City of Ratingen.
  17. ^ Stacherska-Jung, Roma (2018). "Renata Jaworska. Niezwykły sukces polskiej artystki w Niemczech". Deutsche Welle.
  18. ^ "Jahrgang 07/08". Lepsien Art Foundation (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  19. ^ Lublin, U. M. "IMPROVISA – Life in Motion. Przedstawiamy zwycięzców i zwyciężczynie!". lublin.eu (in Polish). Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  20. ^ "IMPROVISA – Življenje v gibanju - MNZS". www.muzej-nz.si. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  21. ^ "IMPROVISA – Life in Motion". Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  22. ^ "Residencies". Salem Art Works. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  23. ^ "Renata Jaworska". Lepsien Art Foundation (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  24. ^ Marstine, Janet (2012). Artist, museums, ethics. Routledge. p. 143. ISBN 9780415658560.
  25. ^ RenataJaworska (2018-05-11). "Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso - Künstlergspräch mit Renata Jaworska". RENATA JAWORSKA (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  26. ^ "119-minute circle. The International Congress at the Whitechapel Gallery | Repensar Guernica". guernica.museoreinasofia.es. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  27. ^ "Improvisa – Življenje v gibanju - MNZS". www.muzej-nz.si. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  28. ^ "IMPROVISA – Life in Motion | EMST". Retrieved 2021-08-22.

Further reading

  • Jansen, Gregor (2019) "Ein aus der Orientierung geratenes System. Zu den aktuellen Werken von Renata Jaworska" Text is piece of the book: Renata Jaworska, Malerei, Zeichnung, Bühnenbild, Original Verlag ISBN 978-3948-270001
  • Gaude, Alexander (2018) "Stimme, Bild und Nation" is piece within the book "119-minute circle. The International Congress at the Whitechapel Gallery" Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso, Grupello Verlag ISBN 978-3-89978-317-9
  • Zacharko-Łagowska, Stanisława; Monika Cybulska (2018) "Maps and territories" BWA w Kielcach ISBN 978-83-950017-9-6
  • Renata Jaworska (2015) "Eine Explosion wie von 30 Atombomben" im Städtischen Museum Engen + Galerie / Jaworska, Renata. - Düsseldorf : Grupello, 2015 ISBN 978-3-89978-233-2
  • Thaler, Jürgen (2012) "Im Auftrag der Schrift" Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek Bregenz, KEHRER Verlag ISBN 978-3-86828-291-7
  • Kucharko, Agnieszka (2010) Young Polish Art Festival. Deconstruction Project (London, England). OFF Pres, London ISBN 978-0956-394613
  • Reifenscheid, Beate (2007) "Klasse Immendorff. Von Pferden und Affen" Verlagsgruppe Geuer und Breckner ISBN 9783 939452-09-6