Statement:

Basia is a Polish-born, now in Hamburg / Germany based artist. Her figurative paintings and drawings blend childlike seriousness with freaky beauty. Being aware of constant influences by life, art history and literature she condenses imagination during the painting process and works neither with concrete templates nor the observation of outside objects. She uses oil on canvas and ballpoint on paper. Her aim is to overcome realism humorously without being disjointed or creating synthetic secrets. Figures emerge that oscillate between surreal cartoons and classic melancholy depictions. By using the combination of En face-position, sharp contours and small size canvas the artist confronts the onlooker with naive mental directness and decorative ambiguity. 

” I have been working mainly on one motif since 10 years.The discipline of repetition and the slow activity of oilpainting itself is a kind of calm resistance .The reductionist way to work enables me to stay naive and to keep asking questions about singularity and simultaneity in a painted face. I am following the fascination of a direct gaze in which a subject is constituted. My inspiration is cultural history and the fact that we need sleep and drift away in a natural way.” 

” I like the idea of viewing art pieces in general as individual nodes of overlapping times and ideas. The internet has expanded access to past and current art and is provoking new contexts. Every artist and viewer creates his or her own story of aesthetic perception and topics. This is a great thing to broaden the horizons and observe the waves.” 

 

Education:

  // Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg Lerchenfeld (HfbK)

     University of Fine Arts Hamburg Lerchenfeld

Publication:

"Spiegelattentäter", Maulkorb, Nr.15/09

"Kabelsalat",umLaut-Magazin,Nr.3/09

"geschlossene Gesellschaft",Wildbrot-Wortbild,Ausgabe 2009 

"Muttersprache", Federwelt, Nr.73/08

"auf bewährung",ausserdem Literaturmagazin,Ausg.15, 2008

"mein Bruder hatte Füsse"+"schwarze Witwe in Grammatik",Die Aussenseite des 

 Elements,Hrsg.Jan Wagner, Literaturschachtel Nr.2



Exhibition (selection) / Miscellaneous:

-  SCHAUSPIELSCHULE ARTRIUM SCHAUFENSTER DAMMTOR HAMBURG,  2020

- Red Dot, Hudson NY, AnimalKind-Gruppenausstellung, August 2018

-Illustrations for „Composing a Music of Incidents for Instruments of Meaning“ , A Musical Perspective on Writing Fiction by Hubert Schipkowski, Juni 2018

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/composing-music-incidents-instruments-meaning-hubert-schipkowski?articleId=6418155491054088192#comments-6418155491054088192&trk=prof-post

-ArtBasel, BoxProject, Gruppenausstellung, Juni 2017

-Dollums Magazine Vol.3,Präsentation meiner Arbeit

-Kulturmagazin freshviewer, Ausgabe 13, Künstlerporträt,

-CD-Cover, Album "Karajane" von Lind Bohm (www.avachorda.de),    

-Theater N.N., Puppenbau, November 2012

-HannoVerum Auktionshaus, Dauerausstellung

-WerkstattGalerie, Wasserburg, Dauerausstellung 

-Burg Kalteneck, Gruppenausstellung, März 2011

-Kunsttransit, Karlsruhe, Gruppenausstellung,  Oktober 2010

-Artlas Kunstmagazin Nr.5/2010, Artikel über meine Arbeit von J.Held 

-Taubenstrasse 13, "manchmal ist es anders", Einzelausstellung