PAULINA TARANEK

Graduate Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, specialization Conservation and Restoration of Art – Painting. Makes not only conservation and restoration objects of art, but also creates paintings, drawings mixing both techniques. Paulina Taranek has been selected to receive the Erasmus Scholarship Antwerp 2011/2012 and also took a part in Second International Artistic Symposium Szymbark 2013.  Featured by Artist Portfolio Magazine (California, USA). An article about her painting has been published
in the April 2020 issue. Life is Art Magazine USA, Los Angeles.
Paulina Taranek was placed in the group of the Faces of the Future at the turn of 2020/2021
Czestochowa. From July 1, 2021, her works can be seen at the exhibition on the pandemic „Coexistence”
at the Museum of Krakow.

AWARDS

Winner of the Art Competition National Geographic Poland „Maluję, co widzę – symbol miasta w stylu Picassa” – interpretation of the city symbol in Picasso style, Kraków „Lajkonik”, 2018.

Artwork was used as a promotion of National Geographic series „Genius: Picasso”.

žCooperation as part of the above-mentioned competition with Fox Network Group Poland, the distributor of the National Geographic channel.

II Lap Koschaztky Kunst Preis, Wien, 2015

Honour Award in International Portrait Competition G.J. Steenke 2014.

Jury Award and Audience Award in National Polish Competition

Magia Dzielnicy Czterech Wyznań Wrocław 2013.

1st Award in National Polish Painting Competition Zadra 2012.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

IV. 2019 – „Paulina Taranek’s Painting”, Galeria pod Arkadami, Częstochowa

II-III. 2019 – „Big City Light”, City Art Gallery BWA Częstochowa

X.-28.XI.2018- Exhibition in Galeria Dobrej Sztuki “Wejściówka”(Muzeum Częstochowskie, OPK Gaude Mater, siedziba Gazety Wyborczejw Częstochowie, “Skrzynka”), Częstochowa

2018 – „Cityscapes”, Żywa Gallery Stalowa 52, Warsaw

2016 – „Explication”, Pod Baranami Gallery, Pod Baranami Palace, Kraków

2013 –Perspektywy, Wanilia i Pieprz Gallery, Kraków

2013 –Naturalnie nienaturalnie, Tori Gallery, Częstochowa

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

X. 2019 – San Diego Art Fair, San Diego, USA

VII. 2019 – „Poland & Japan”, EMP Gallery,  Tokyo, Japan

V.2019 – „Stop Smog”, 11th European Economic Congress, Katowice

 V.2019 – International Art Fair Vancouver, Canada

 IV.2019 – „Japan & Poland”, exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations, Embassy of Japan, Warsaw

 IV.2019 – Stop! Smog, Dom Polski South in Brussels, Belgium

 2019 – Exhibition „Stop! Smog „: – Ustroń as part of the Conference” Fighting smog in rural and spa areas „- Jan Długosz University of Humanities and Natural Sciences in Częstochowa, lecture of Jerzy Buzek” Will we fight smog? Will we protect the climate? Energy transformation of Poland and Europe „- Zabrze, II International Scientific Congress” Sustainable Development – Perspectives for the future „- Częstochowa Museum – Good Art Gallery – Gliwice -” What do we breathe? Seminar and exhibition Stop! Smog „

Participation as an Artist in Art FreshFestival Hotel Sheraton, Warszawa, 2015

2014 – Final exhibition of Dzieło Plastyczne Competition, 4 Ściany Gallery, WKiRDS, ASP Kraków

2014 –G. J. Steenke, Community Center Gallery Spichrzów Island, Elbląg.

2014 –Autenticost v umeni ?, Univerzum PF UKF Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia.

2014 –Polemiki artystyczne, Nowy Sącz Museum.

2014 –Autentyczność w sztuce ?, Promotion Gallery Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.

XI-XII. 2013 – Autentyczność w sztuce ?, Szymbark 2013.

2012 – plein air exhibition Zator 2012, Szklana Gallery, Zator.

2010 – plein air exhibition Harenda 2010, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.