Bio
Bożenna Biskupska (b. 1952) pursues painting, sculpture, installation, video art, and performance. Her explorations and experimentation have been rooted in figurative art which she processes through abstract forms to develop a unique artistic language showcased in the multifarious project Demarcation of the Image realized in a variety of media over an extended period of time. The passage of time and demarking and arranging space are the artist’s principal concerns and her “alphabet” is based on line, sign, and trace. She experiments with concrete, negative film, and linseed oil but simultaneously explores new technologies to reshape space into her immersive Possible Construction.
Bożenna Biskupska exhibited her works at the 41st Venice Biennale (1984); the 14th International Biennale of Small Bronze Sculptures, Padua (1986); A Woman’s View, Washington (World Bank 1995); NordArt in Büdelsdorf (2000); Form and Colour, Chicago (Forum+ Gallery 2003); Art First, Bologna (2006); SIEGesIKONen/Icons of Victory – transForm, Berlin (2009); Centre of Polish Sculpture at Orońsko (2003); Galeria Zachęta, Warsaw (1986); Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture in Królikarnia, Warsaw (2002); The Artist and the Possible Construction, National Museum in Wrocław (2024); In the Footsteps of the One-Legged, Wallspace Gallery, Warsaw (2024); Cabinet of Possibilities, International Cultural Laboratory, Sokołowsko (2025). She was honoured with the First Prize at the 5th International Biennial of Miniature Textile Art at the Savaria Museum in Szombathely, Hungary (1984). In the same year 1984, she received the Stanisław Wyspiański Prize for Painting and Sculpture and the scholarship of the Minister of Culture and Art. In 2018, she was honoured with the Jerzy Stajuda Award of Art Critics.
In 2004, together with Zygmunt Rytka and Zuzanna Fogtt, she established the Contemporary Art Foundation In Situ to restore the historic building of the former Brehmer Sanatorium at Sokołowsko in the Sudeten Mountains and turn it into the International Cultural Laboratory.
Bożenna Biskupska’s works are in the collections of the Museum of Art, Łódź; State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau; National Museums in Kielce, Szczecin, and Gdańsk; Lubusz Museum in Zielona Góra; Historical and Ethnographical Museum in Chojnice; Archaeological Museum of the Middle Odra Region in Świdnica; Museum of Warmia and Masuria in Olsztyn; Galeria Studio in Warsaw; BWA Galleries in Warsaw and Opole; Zachęta Society for the Encouragement of Arts in Szczecin and Wrocław; Savaria Museum in Szombathely (Hungary). The Humboldt University in Berlin; Polish Museum in Chicago; International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., Bank Pekao S.A. NFOŚiGW in Warsaw; Kokusai Koeki Co. in Tokyo; Galeria Wymiana in Łodź; and in private collections in Poland and abroad.
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