Marzena Turek Gas

Born
Bialystok, Poland, 27 DEC.1972

Education:
1996 - 2001 MFA, Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Printmaking Department - Katowice, Graphic Design and Painting Diploma.
1987 - 1992 Secondary School of Fine Arts in Nałęczów, Poland. Furniture Design Diploma.

Lives and works in Warsaw. She creates paintings, photographs, graphics, drawings, graphic design, environment, assemblage, ready-mades, installations and actions in the public space. She is experimenting, using various techniques combined with music and movement to communicate with audience. For example: Air Beds, Chili Blood, StepSteps, Live Painting Roller-Skating, Shapes of Colour, Ribbons, Making White/ Making Colour, Felling Colour, Touch&Play...

Painting primarily affects non-verbal areas and therein lies its strength. It may be powerful, strong and sensitive at the same time. An important element of my work is interdisciplinarity, which enables me to build and expand the space of painting with various media from 2D to 3D.
I try to approach each problem differently. This is the easiest way to discover the hidden opportunities and new ideas.
In addition to traditional techniques I use materials such as fabric ribbons, wind, wadding, snow, powder paint, styrofoam, pins, sun, ice.
Marzena Turek Gas

Whether they are footprints on the snowy road, rusty metal pipes or strange useless objects, her art is all about enjoying life and having fun by creating artworks. Wherever she goes, she finds inspiration and discovers graphical meanings of objects. Noga Gallery

Solo exhibitions

2011
Shapes of colour/City Tour, Night of the Museums, SPTL30/32, Studio 12, Warsaw (PL)

2010
Shapes of Colour & Sound (sound by P.Prochnowski), Shoot Me Film Festival, The Hague (Netherlands)
Shapes of Colour & Sound (sound by P.Prochnowski) Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski / Teatr w Oknie (PL)
Making Colours / Ribbons, X Art Meeting, Street Art, action in The Castle Park, Pszczyna (PL)
Shapes of Colour / All Size, 1st Edition / Milano Gallery, Night of the Museums, Warsaw (PL)
Shapes of Colour / All Size, SPTL 30/32, Studio/Gallery 12, Night of the Museums, Warsaw (PL)
Linemotiv, SPTL 30/32, Studio/Gallery 12, Warsaw (PL)

2009
Making Colours & Music (music by P.Prochnowski) SPTL 30/32, Studio/Gallery 12, Warsaw (PL)
Making Colour / Ribbons, Teatr w Oknie - Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski, Gdańsk (PL)
Live Painting Roller - Skating, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk (PL)
All Size - Double Action / Double Night, SPTL 30/32, Gallery 12, Night of the Museums, Warsaw (PL)
Feeling Colour, Villa Marilor, Zakopane (PL)
Women's Day, Galeria Promocji Młodych, Łódź (PL)
United Stars / Making Colour, Hawerkamp Festival, Muenster (Germany)
HOLI WOOD, Domoteka Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
HAIQ, Sushi Tekeda, Warsaw (PL)

2008
Feeling Colour (Piękne I Bestie), Galeria Ateneum Młodych, Warsaw (PL)
Visual+Music, live painting - video, live music, SPTL 30/32, Studio 12, Warsaw (PL)
Air Beds / Feeling Colour, live painting - video, Piksel Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
All Size / Live Painting Roller-Skating, Info Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Chilli Blood, Fresh, SPTL 30/32, Atelier 12, Night of the Museums, Warsaw (PL)
Capricorn, FRESH painting, Galeria Delfiny, Warsaw (PL)

2007
Live Painting Roller-Skating / By Night, The Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw (PL)
Marzena Turek Gas - December 2007 The virtual space of Noga Gallery, London (UK)
Open Studio No. 12, Home Making project, SPTL 30/32, Warsaw (PL)
Document/Action, 12 Gallery, Warsaw's Night of Museums (PL)
Making White / Making Color / Air Beds, MMS/7 project, Fabs Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Swing Design, MMS/4 project, Do Trzech Razy Sztuka Gallery, Warsaw (PL)

2006
Painting, MMS/6 project, 13 Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
StepSteps, action, MMS/5 project, 12 Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
MMS/2 project, Lysy Pingwin, Warsaw (PL)
Live Painting Roller-Skating / Drivin Me' Jazzy, action, MMS/1 project, M25, Warsaw (PL)
Fully Objecive Compositions, MMS/3 project, Jadlodajnia Filozoficzna Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Neighbours for Neighbours V Edition, 11 Gallery, SPTL 30/32, Warsaw (PL)

2003
Funky, posters, Rynek Gallery, Bytom (Poland)

2002
- Graphic Design & Installations, Bonar Gallery, Lomza (Poland)

2001
Swing / Diploma; GCK Sektor 1 Gallery, Katowice (Poland)

1999
Painting, GCK, ASP Gallery, Katowice (Poland)

1998
Painting, U Eliasza... Gallery, Pszczyna (Poland)

1997
Summer Promotion, Bonar Gallery, Łomża (Poland)


Group Exhibitions

2010
Domoteka Design Days, Domoteka Gallery, Warsaw (Poland)
Aspects 2010, Rondo Gallery, Lodz (Poland)
International Print Triennial, works: Pins & Screws, Horst-Jansen Museum, Oldenburg (Germany)
International Poster Exhibition, Pécsi Galéria (Hungary)

2009
Color in Graphic Art; 6th International Print Triennial, Wozownia Art Gallery, Torun (Poland)
Sweet in Art; work: Making Color / Go Orange! Go Red!; Art. Gallery, Legnica (Poland)
5. International Festival of Visual Art inSPIRACJE / Space, Szczecin (Poland)
Galeria CUUUD, Gdansk (Poland)
Galeria Gaz, Lodz (Poland)

2008
Culture and ..., International Poster Exhibition, Pécsi Galéria (Hungary)
Mask / Action, 12 artists, Warsaw (Poland)
IconData Directory of Print 2008, International Print Triennial, Cracow (Poland)

2007
07.07.07 from 7am to 7pm, 7 artists; work: Chilli Blood / installation, Piksel Gallery, Warsaw (Poland)
Between spot and dash, Print; works: Street Swing , DAP Gallery, Warsaw (Poland)
IconData Directory of Print, International Print Triennial, Cracow (Poland)

2006
- Painting, The Studio at Pankiewicz str., Warsaw (Poland)
- 4th BLOK VI International Triennale of Eco Poster, Kharkow (Ukraine)
- Painting Exhibition, Museum of Local History, Ivano-Frankovsk (Ukraine)
- International Print Triennial, Seoul (Korea)
- Golden Bee 7 International Biennial of Graphic Design, icograda, The Central House of Artist, Moscow (Russia)
- IconData Directory of Print, International Print Triennial, Cracow, Poland
- Metropolis, the outdoor exhibition, which takes place in front of the Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Cracow (Poland)

2005
- Group Portrait of Polish People, 2b Gallery, Warsaw (Poland)
- Cow Parade, work: Muuuuza, location - Rondo ONZ, Warsaw (Poland)
- IconData 2005/ International Print Triennial Cracow (Poland)
- The Open Art Fair wARTo; work: White sculpture with blue, Old Norblin Factory, Warsaw (Poland)
- The Open Art Fair wARTo; work: Black & White InstallAction; Old Norblin Factory and 2b Gallery, Prezentacje theatre, Warsaw (Poland)
- The Open Art Fair wARTo; work: Printing Snow; Old Norblin Factory and 2b Gallery, Warsaw (Poland)

2004
- The Open Art Fair wARTo; work: Tickets / Valid from...through..; Norblin Factory and 2b Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
- AMS Poster Gallery, Królikarnia, Warsaw (Poland)
- Mostra Collettiva Di Arte Contenporanea, Catania, Catania, Italy (2003 - 2004)

2003
- International Triennale of Eco Poster and Graphics 4 Block, Kharkow (Ukraine)
- The Thirteenth Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Coordinator: Linda Frickman, Exhibition
Directors: Bob Coonts, John Gravdahl, Phil Risbeck, Colorado State University Hatton and Curfman Galleries, USA (12/9/03 - 24/10/03)
- Graphic Responses: an on-Line Exhibition, Colorado, USA (01/09/03 - 30/09/03)

2002
- 20th International Biennale of Graphic Design, Moravian Gallery, Curator of the Biennale: PhDr. Marta Sylvestrova, Dyrector: PhDr. Kaliopi Chamonikola, PhD., Brno (Czech Republic) (18/6/02 - 20/10/02)

2001
- Printmaking in The Year 2001, ASP Gallery, Cracow; GCK Gallery, Katowice (Poland)
- Oko Art, Projects of Installations for Sculpture Park by young group artists professor's Bernhard Matthes, The Polish Institute, Leipzig (Germany)
- Kalarus and Friends, MM Gallery, Chorzow, Poland (13/6/01 - 2/7/01)
- Graduate Exhibition, GCK Sektor 1 Gallery, Katowice (Poland)
- Landscape in Contemporary Painting, Pryzmat Gallery, Cracow (Poland)
- The Twelfth Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Hatton and Curfman Galleries, Exhibition Directors: Bob Coonts, John Gravdahl, Phil Risbeck, Colorado, USA (14/9/01 - 19/10/01)
- 3rd Festival of Posters, Krzysztofory Palace Museum, Cracow (Poland)

2000
- 3rd International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Ogaki Poster Museum (Japan) (2000/2001)
- Junge Kunstler Europaischer Akademien, Polen - Deutschland / Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank, Munchen /Abteilung Kultur und Gesellschaft, Munich (Germany)
- Our World in The Year 2000, The United Nations Millenium Art Exhibition, selected from The Winsor & Newton Worldwide Millennium Painting Competition in aid of The Prince's Foundation and UNICEF, NY, USA (12/7/00 - 28/8/00) The Millennium Art Exhibition Curated by John Sheeran, Curatorial Assistants Sara Hill, Alison Newell, Patronage: The Prince of Wales, Kofi Annan
- Our World in The Year 2000; World Trade Centre, Stockholm (Sweden) (19/3/00 - 2/4/00)
- Our World in The Year 2000; Mall Galleries, Patronage:The Prince of Wales, London (UK) (23 - 26 February 00)
- Our World in The Year 2000, Patronage: Kofi Annan, ONZ, Nowy Jork, USA (12/7/00 - 28/8/00)
- Arches, Marcholt Gallery, Katowice (Poland)
- Plakatok/Posters 2000, Pécsi Galéria & Grafika Muhely (Hungary)

1999
- Wypukłodruk, GCK, Katowice
- Landscape in Contemporary Painting, Pryzmat Gallery, Cracow (Poland)
- Cracow and Music, KOKNAP'98, The Bunker of Art Gallery, Cracow (Poland) patronage: Elżbieta i Krzysztof Pendereccy


Scholarships, Distinctions & Awards

2011
Grant for Art in the Public Space Marzena Turek Gas SHAPES OF COLOUR/CITY TOUR Warsaw (PL)

2006
Arts Scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for realization mms-project/ Moje Miejsca Sieciowe, Warsaw, Poland

2001
Arts Scholarship from the Hugo Kollataj Foundation, Katowice, Poland

2000
Honourable Mention, Winsor & Newton "Our World in the Year 2000" world - wide Millennium Painting Competition (prize for the painting "Above and Beneath" in Polish Edition), Patronage - The Prince of Wales; Secretary - General, United Nations Kofi Annan

1999
"Cracow and Music" an distinction for the design of Poster '98

The Bunker of Art. Gallery in Cracow, Patronage - Elzbieta, Krzysztof Penderecki

1999
"Young Artist of European Academies", Poland - Germany ( an award for the painting) Cracow, Munich

Works In Collections:
The Central House of Artist in Moscow (Russia), Poster Collection in Kharkow (Ukraine), Colorado State University, Hatton and Curfman Galleries (USA), Ogaki Poster Museum (Japan), Bayerische Hypo-und Vereinsbank in Munich (Germany), Moravian Gallery Brno (Czech Republic), Pécsi Galéria (Hungary), Galeria AMS, Nogagaleria in London (UK), SMTG International Print Triennial (Cracow PL), ASP in Katowice and in many private collections in Poland and abroad m.in.: Gdansk, Warsaw, Katowice, Krakow, Poznan, London, New York, France.


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