Intro
Malina Wieczorek studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, receiving a diploma with distinction in 1996. Diploma in the Interior Architecture Design Studio with prof. Barbara Borkowska-Larysz, an annex of Graphic Design with prof. Jacek Siwczyński. Painting in the studio of prof. Janusz Tarabuła. She has exhibited since 1994. Her works have permanent exhibitions in prestigious places, min. in over a dozen Private Banking Pekao SA branches and in collections laundered around the world.
She has also been involved in social marketing for a dozen or so years. She has several hundred significant social campaigns to her credit, a number of awards, including Benefactor of the Year, EFFIE, Social Campaigns of the Year, Golden Magellan, Stevie Awards, Golden Clips, Laureate of the list of 100 influential people in advertising, Golden 10 Successful Women of Mazovia. Owner of the social marketing agency TELESCOPE, founder and president of the SM-WALCZ O SIEBIE Foundation, founder of the School of Motivation. President of the House of Creative Thought “From Love to Life”.
Portfolio
SHE CALLS HER PAINTINGS SKETCHES OF FRAGMENTS OF LIFE. SHE IS INTRIGUED BY WOMEN LOST IN THOUGHT, IMPRISONED IN THEIR BODIES, SEEN THROUGH THEIR GESTURES. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WHEN THEY BELONG TO THEMSELVES.
About Malina
Malina Wieczorek
Malina Wieczorek is a Polish painter who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where she graduated with distinction in 1996. She has been exhibiting for almost thirty years, and her works have permanent exhibitions in prestigious collections around the world. She lives and creates in the middle of the forest, in a house near Warsaw. The paintings created by Malina raise important questions for contemporary women – including how many directions do they have to go in to achieve their ideal selves? And do they really have to at all? The female body thus becomes a contribution to a broader idea, which is conceptual art. So, one in which a given concept reigns supreme and which assumes that the work is not just a decoration, but also a transmitter of emotions, revealing fears and uncertainties hidden deep within the artist.
Malina Wieczorek deprives women of their faces and limbs in her nudes. However, are they without significance and are we supposed to look only at the body, the shapes of the breasts that arouse desire? For the artist, this is a deliberate action. With her art, she wants to make us reflect on many primal questions that concern people – including when we are ourselves most deeply. Abstract nudes show our often hidden, true selves, a range of emotions. Lonely, naked women, although they have no faces and we cannot read anything in their eyes, hide a whole range of emotions. They may seem embarrassed, as if someone was spying on them in an intimate scene. Deliberately subjected to deformations to make us realize that true beauty and strength come from within. Because Malina Wieczorek’s conceptual painting finds answers to who we are in emotions.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I have been creating female nudes for decades. For me, as a painter, women’s bodies provide a wider palette for reflections on the truth of life. They touch on existential problems that affect us all. I am fascinated by the body reduced to a sign, an abstract form, which gives me a huge scope for imagination and searching for my own answers to questions about what the painting really represents. Women are mothers, lovers, but also ephemeral saints or people following their own paths. Maybe because I am a woman myself, I give myself the right to certain deformations, simplifications. Searching for what is not visible. Such an experience is a bit on myself. Women have been a contribution to discussions for centuries – what counts, soul or beauty? What is beauty really? Because everyone sees and understands it differently.