e-mail: kk-k@o2.plBorn in 1963 in Wroclaw. Studied at the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass in the Glass Department of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wrocław. MFA Diploma in Artistic Ceramics Design in the studio of prof. Krystyna Cybińska and Functional Ceramics Design in the studio of prof. Halina Olech in 1987. From that year she was employed as an assistant lecturer in prof. Krystyna Cybińska’s Studio of Ceramics I in the Wrocław institution.
In years 1989 – 1993 she attended for a couple of times the artistic and scientific workshops in the pottery studio „ Margarethenhohe ‘’ in Essen (West Germany), run by an Korean artist Young – Jae Lee. The result of the participation was learning the wheel-throwing technique, a skill that had not been included in the artistic education in Poland for many years.
In 1993 she opened the Potter’s Wheel Studio in the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wrocław. She introduced an original programme of potter’s techniques instruction.
Since 1995 has been employed as a lecturer.
In years 1996 – 2001 was the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Ceramic and Glass (two terms).
Since 2005 has been the Head of the Ceramic Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław (former State Higher School of Fine Arts)
In 2006 her habilitation thesis in the discipline of applied arts got a positive evaluation.
She has received the Rector's Award siks times.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
1989 - OLD TOWN HALL, BUREN (Germany)
1993 - "OPUS" GALLERY, Wrocław
1995 - "OPUS" GALLERY Wrocław
1998 - GALERIE UNTER DEM WASSERTURM” NEUENHAGEN – BERLIN (Germany)
2001 - KUNSTFEREIN RUECKER GmbH, GIFHORN, (Germany)
2001 - CITY MUSEUM „HERZOGSBURG“ , BRANAU , AUSTRIA
2001 - „ MARGARETHENHOHE“ EXHIBITION HALLS OF CERAMIC STUDIO, ESSEN, (Germany)
2003 - TAUNUSSTEIN / WIESBADEN, (Germany)
2004 - TAUNUSSTEIN / WIESBADEN, (Germany)
2006 - GALLERY OF ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN WROCŁAW , PL. POLSKI , Wrocław
2007 - GALLERY 72 – CITY MUSEUM CHEŁM, Chelm
2007 - „CITY GALLERY” - Wrocław
Participated in many exhibitions and presentations of the artistic environments of Wrocław and the Academy in Wrocław in Poland and abroad, among others in Warszawa, Poznań, Kraków, Kłodzko, Brussels, Reims, Wiesbaden, Braunschweig, Halle, Koln, Munchen, Dresden. Took part in international ceramic plein air workshops in Poland and Germany (1990, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2007).
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION):
1987 – „The best diplomas ‘ 87 ”- Zachęta, Warszawa;
1987 – „Ceramics from Wrocław” – Interart ‘ 87, Poznań;
1987 – „ Margaretenhohe” – Essen, RFN;
1990 – „40 years of State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wrocław” – Zachęta, Warszawa;
1991 – „5th International Triennial of Ceramics „ Sopot ‘ 91” ;
1991 – „ Panorama of Polish Culture ” – Remis, France ;
1994 – „ Mensch zu Mensch” – international competition–related exhibition, WSSP, Berlin, Germany;
1995 – „ Blick – Kontakte” – international interdisciplinary exhibition, Bueren – Old Town Hall, Germany;
1995 – „ Ceramics and Glass‘” – exhibition of Wrocław artistic environment, Dippoldswalde Museum, Germany - BWA, Wrocław;
1996 – „ Ceramics and Glass‘” – exhibition of Wrocław artistic environment „ GRA Gallery’, Warszawa;
1996 – „ Potter’s Wheel Studio ” – Contemporary Art Gallery, BWA, Wrocław;
1996 – „ Exhibition of ceramics and glass for the 50th anniversary of State Higher School of Fine Arts ‘’ – Ossolineum, Wrocław;
1997 – „ Polish Decorative Art – ULAN ‘’ – a series of exhibitions promoting a publication on Polish art,
- Warszawa – Zamek Ujazdowski – Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej;
- Łódż – Weaving Industry Centre;
- Wrocław – BWA, Design Gallery;
1998 - Poznań – Applied Arts Museum;
- Kraków – Bunkier Sztuki;
- Szczecin – The Castle of Pomeranian Princes;
- Prague / Czech Republic – Contemporary Art Museum;
1998 – „ Ceramics from Wrocław” –Techne Gallery, Poznań;
1998 – „ Unknown ceramics” – exhibition of Ceramic Department of Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Design Gallery BWA Wrocław History of Industry Museum in Opatówek;
2000 – „ Polish Decorative Art – ULAN” – 2nd edition, post-competition exhibition, X. Dunikowski’s Museum, Warszawa;
2002 – „ The Garden of Ceramics from Wrocław” – monographic exhibition of artistic ceramics, BWA Awangarda, Wrocław, The Castle of Pomerania Princes – Szczecin ;
2003 – „ The Beginning - Potter’s Wheel Studio
1993-2003” – monographic exhibition of 10th anniversary of the studio, BWA Gallery of Ceramics and Glass - Wrocław, Castle Hill – Lubin;
2005 – „ Sculpture Lower Silesian Art Exhibitions” – competition-related exhibition of ZPAP, BWA Awangarda, Wrocław
2006 - „Skyscrapers from Wrocław” – monographic exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław for the 60th anniversary of the academy,
National Museum in Wrocław.
- „Figure and Structure”, Art Centre, EL Gallery in Elbląg.
- „Figure and Structure”, Sculpture Galery in Gdańsk.
2007 – “Polish Ceramics” – Maroco, Rabat, Polish Week of Culture.
For me, my works are a story about time and passing, about the strength and fragility of matter.
Potter's wheel enables me to emphasize the 'happening' expressing it through rotary motion, rhythm, through disappearance and building up of structures.
K.Koczyńska-Kielan
