Julia Kurek
Poland
Visual artist, performer, author of video works and installations. Winner of many awards.
About the artist
Visual artist, performer, author of video works and installations. Laureate of many awards, including the City of Gdańsk Award for Young Creators in the Field of Culture, the International Video Art Festival "Now&After" in Moscow, Russia, and the 1st Art Biennale in Piotrków Trybunalski.
She has participated in many exhibitions, festivals, and art reviews in: Belarus, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Germany, Norway, Russia, Romania, Serbia, the United States, Scotland, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, and Italy.
In Poland, her works have been presented, among others, at: MOCAK in Kraków, Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw - LAB cinema, Lokal 30 in Warsaw, ISW in Gdańsk, CSW in Gdańsk, BWA in Zielona Góra, CSW in Toruń, Galeria Labirynt in Lublin, MS2 in Łódź, the Museum of Cinematography in Łódź, PGS in Sopot, and the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko.
Key events:
Solo exhibition "Synthesis" Centro Cultural Casa Talavera, Mexico City, Mexico; exhibition "Moscow Art Communities" Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia; XIX International Video Festival "VIDEOMEDEJA" Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Serbia; Project "Performance Voyage 4" KnockDown Center, New York, United States; International Biennale for Young Art, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia; WRO Media Art Biennale, Wrocław; Biennale of Young Art "Rybie Oko 8" Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ustka.
She also works as a curator, serves on competition juries, writes and publishes texts, and conducts a number of workshops in Poland and abroad.