Artist: BOGUSŁAWA KOSZAŁKA
Country: POLAND
Title: The Absent
Size: 45 x 60 x 1.5 cm
Technique: forming, dyeing, sewing, gluing; material: linen cloth, linen threads, synthetic fabric (organza), polyurethane foam (stiffening)
Year: 2022
Biography: Bogusława Koszałka was born in Gryfice. She is a graduate of the State Higher School of Visual Arts (now University of Arts) in Poznań. She obtained her diploma with honours in Prof. Wojciech Müller’s Drawing Studio. She completed her I and II degree qualifications in design arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź at the Faculty of Textiles and Clothing. Until 2013, she was artistically and professionally connected with Poznań. Bogusława Koszałka is currently a professor at the Department of Interior Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin. She works in unique fabrics and miniature weaving. She is interested in bionic structures as forms that organize space. The process of building objects results from the multiplication of forms by way of unique multiplication. The struggle with matter implies research in the area of digital graphics. She has presented her works at 12 individual and over 80 collective exhibitions – both nationwide and abroad. There is invariably a strong link to the sea, where she grew up, at the core of her work. Bogusława Koszałka’s awards and distinctions include: Grand Prix at the “Z krosna do Krosna” 4th International Artistic Linen Cloth Biennial in the Museum of Crafts in Krosno (2006); ERA ART statuette – in the field of textiles, the National Painting and Unique Textile Biennial in the Museum of the City of Gdynia (2007); Distinction at the 8th International Baltic Mini Textile Triennial, The Museum of the City of Gdynia (2010); Grand Prix at 7th International Biennial of Painting and Unique Textile, The Museum of the City of Gdynia (2013); Nomination for the Award for the best work at the 13th National Exhibition of the Polish Tapestry, Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź (2016).