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2015 - 2016
Warsaw Academy of Photography
2005 - 2010
Belorussian State Academy of Arts
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Event: Połączenia
Dates: 12 May 2022 - 27 Jun 2022
Od 12 maja do 27 czerwca zapraszamy na wystawę zatytułowaną “Połączenia”, podczas której prezentujemy prace 5 artystek młodego pokolenia.
Na wystawie eksponujemy prace artystek, które poprzez swoją praktykę artystyczną badają uczucia i ucieleśniają kobiecość. Czerpią inspiracje z połączenia kultur i światów, w których żyją i tworzą. Prace malarskie fińskiej artystki Johanny Alanko powstały w jej pracowni w Łodzi. Białorusinka Dasha Buben od kilku lat tworzy na Saskiej Kępie w Warszawie. Małgorzata Czyż pracuje w Toruniu. Ukrainka Alisa Marchenko wyplatała swoją instalację tygodniami na warszawskim Żoliborzu, a Ewelina Skowrońska nad cyklem grafik na wystawę pracowała w swoim studio w Tokio.
Temat przewodni wystawy„Połączenia” widoczny jest także w wykorzystanych przez artystki technikach i doborze kolorów, pełnym subtelnej, żywej energii. Prezentujemy prace na płótnach i na papierze wykonane w różnorodnych technikach, instalację oraz ceramikę artystyczną.
Event: Control Attempt
Dates: 28 Oct 2021 - 7 Nov 2021
The "Control Attempt" project is a metaphor for how I'm trying to regain control of my life. The year 2020 has shown that controlling events is impossible and unattainable. We can only try to follow the plan, but circumstances caused by a virus or a dictatorship are always stronger than us. A black hole that consumes everything is what an attempt to control the external events of our life is.
The project presents abstract paintings, the main object of which is color. Each selected color is a code for the events and feelings being lived.
The project arose from an artistic practice in which I try to maintain the illusion of control over the liquid paint spreading across the canvas, not allowing it to escape beyond the form I idealize, to keep it within the boundaries of the canvas. This is my kind of meditation, an attempt to find balance in a certain period of time. But as in life, it is impossible to gain 100% control, so there is a lot of room for chance in painting.
Biography
Dasha Buben (1982) was born in Gomel, Belarus. In 2010, she graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. She worked as a photographer and art director for several independent magazines focusing on social issues, feminism, and LGBTQ rights. Due to her activism and involvement in independent media, she felt unsafe under the Belarusian regime and relocated.
In 2016, she completed her studies at the Warsaw Academy of Photography. From 2016 to 2020, her work centered around themes of domestic abuse, feminism, body positivity, and women's health.
After the significant protests in Belarus in 2020, abstraction became the primary form of her artistic expression. Her artistic research shifted towards emotions, physiological states, trauma recovery, and mental health. She utilizes painting, drawing, and other mediums such as light, text, photography, installations, and embroidery. She has held solo exhibitions in Vienna and Warsaw and has participated in group shows in Belarus, Ukraine, Germany, India.
She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
