Joanna Kraszewska 1979
Lives in Brussel. Works in Brussel.
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Gallery Sofie Van den Bussche
JO-KA (1979)
Joanna Kraszewska
Joanna Kraszewska (born in Poland, 1979) is an artist living in Brussel. She graduated from the University of Wroclaw (History of art) and completed her studies of contemporary art in Belgium: at ESAPV art school in Mons and La Cambre in Brussels. Afterwards she also studied at the ABAKA Academy of Anderlecht (painting and serigraphy).
After founding a family and spending a few years on a full-time office job Jo-ka started her work as a painter under the inspiration of several Belgian architects. Through images of buildings, interiors, architectural plans or mock-ups she found the key - as she says - to the composition of new, painterly spaces. She uses to refer hereby to the renaissance tradition of painting as window.
Another turning point for her work was serigraphy, bringing more spontaneity, seriality and direct use of photographs to her painting. Suddenly any subject becomes interesting. But whether it is a landscape or a geometric composition, there is something all her works have in common. It is always about the painterly perception of the surrounding space and more precisely its structures. JO-KA calls her paintings “mirages of structures”, questioning established patterns.
Joanna Kraszewska
Joanna Kraszewska (born in Poland, 1979) is an artist living in Brussel. She graduated from the University of Wroclaw (History of art) and completed her studies of contemporary art in Belgium: at ESAPV art school in Mons and La Cambre in Brussels. Afterwards she also studied at the ABAKA Academy of Anderlecht (painting and serigraphy).
After founding a family and spending a few years on a full-time office job Jo-ka started her work as a painter under the inspiration of several Belgian architects. Through images of buildings, interiors, architectural plans or mock-ups she found the key - as she says - to the composition of new, painterly spaces. She uses to refer hereby to the renaissance tradition of painting as window.
Another turning point for her work was serigraphy, bringing more spontaneity, seriality and direct use of photographs to her painting. Suddenly any subject becomes interesting. But whether it is a landscape or a geometric composition, there is something all her works have in common. It is always about the painterly perception of the surrounding space and more precisely its structures. JO-KA calls her paintings “mirages of structures”, questioning established patterns.
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1999 > 2005 University of Wroclaw / Poland, Art history (Master)
2002 > 2005 Ecole Supérieure des Arts Plastiques et Visuelles / Mons
2005 > 2007 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts / La Cambre / Brussels
2007 Prix de la COCOF, La Médiatine, Brussel
2008 > 2014 fulltime job, marriage, 2 children
since 2012 Academie Beeldende Kunsten / Anderlecht
since 2014 painting and office-working
since 2017 also screen printing, exposing
Exhibitions
Atelierdagen , Brussel/ 8-9-10 MEI 2021
Geometrische Abstractie // Galerie Lieve Lambrecht, Merendree / October 2020
Parcours // October 2020 / DE RINCK, Brussel
About Architecture // Galerie Lieve Lambrecht , Merendree / MAY 2020
EXPO Bruxelles // in-a-living-room / décembre 2019
Galerie Corbyn, Knokke / nov.2017 & dec.2018
EXPO Kuregem, Brussels / november 2018
Let me SEA / Galerie Corbyn, Knokke, November 2017
Soloshow, GC De Nieuwe Vrede , Antwerpen, April 2017
2002 > 2005 Ecole Supérieure des Arts Plastiques et Visuelles / Mons
2005 > 2007 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts / La Cambre / Brussels
2007 Prix de la COCOF, La Médiatine, Brussel
2008 > 2014 fulltime job, marriage, 2 children
since 2012 Academie Beeldende Kunsten / Anderlecht
since 2014 painting and office-working
since 2017 also screen printing, exposing
Exhibitions
Atelierdagen , Brussel/ 8-9-10 MEI 2021
Geometrische Abstractie // Galerie Lieve Lambrecht, Merendree / October 2020
Parcours // October 2020 / DE RINCK, Brussel
About Architecture // Galerie Lieve Lambrecht , Merendree / MAY 2020
EXPO Bruxelles // in-a-living-room / décembre 2019
Galerie Corbyn, Knokke / nov.2017 & dec.2018
EXPO Kuregem, Brussels / november 2018
Let me SEA / Galerie Corbyn, Knokke, November 2017
Soloshow, GC De Nieuwe Vrede , Antwerpen, April 2017
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