Noemi Staniszewska is a graduate from The Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and is working on her PhD studies within visual arts.

 

In her works, she mostly focuses on the concept of passing time in the relation between the modern world and the history of art.

 

In the series of artworks titled “Paintings About Speed Are Painted Slowly” Staniszewska deliberately slowed down the process of painting in the conviction that haste is stopping the experimental state that leads to progress.

 

The series act as a manifesto against the increasing rush of the modern life regarding Marc Auge’s concept of non-places. I this context, highways are particularly interesting as they are spaces that one can only pass by, without any possibility to stop and experience the place.

 

Artworks from this series were created using only the primary colors red, blue, yellow and white to obtain all the colors she needed. Developing the right colors from the very beginning, was an attempt to maximize the mount of decisions taken during a process of painting and avoid automation. That attitude resulted in decreasing speed of painting process and was the source of the title of series.

 

 

 

Education

 

2017 - PhD studies in visual arts filed at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk

 

2014 - Master degree in painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk

 

2013 - Exchange student at fine arts department at Royal Academy of Arts in Hague

 

 

 

Awards

 

2017 - Short-listed artist at contest Celeste Prize, London

 

2015 - Overall winner in painting section at 9th Arte Laguna Prize, Venice

 

2015 - 2nd prize at contest Ale Sztuka!, Kraków

 

2016 - One of the paintings included in the collection of National Museum in Gdańsk

 

 

 

Grants

 

2013-2014 - Scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education

 

2011-2014 - Scholarship of the President of the City Gdańsk

 

2010-2014 - Scholarship of the Rector of Acedemy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk

 

 

 

Selected solo exhibitions

 

2016 - Distance/Time, Galeria pod Baranami, Kraków

 

 

 

Selected group exhibitions

 

2017 - Premio Lynx, Scali della Fortezza Nuova, Livorno

 

2017 - Nowy Obraz/Nowe Spojrzenie, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań

 

2017 - Nowy Obraz/Nowe Spojrzenie, Miejski Ośrodek Sztuki, Gorzów Wielkopolski

 

 

2016 - Premio Lynx, Lux Art Gallery, Triest

 

2016 - Premio Lynx, Lokarjeva Galerija , Ajdovščina

 

2016 - Potok Sztuki – Pomeranian Biennale of Young Art, Sopot Centrum, Sopot

 

 

2015 - Premio Combat Prize, Museo Civico G. Fattori, Livorno

 

2015 - 9th Arte Laguna Prize, Nappe Arsenale, Venice

 

2015 - Młode Malastwo w Gdańsku. Dyplomy 2014, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk

 

2015 - Promocje, Galeria Sztuki, Legnica

 

2015 - Ale Sztuka, Galeria Solvay, Kraków

 

 

 

2014 - Gdańsk Biennale, GGM, Gdańsk

 

2014 - ArtNoble, Bielnik, Żyrardów

 

2014 - Artystyczna podróż Hestii, Dom Towarowy Bracia Jabłkowscy, Warsaw

 

2014 - BlackOut, IS Wyspa, Gdańsk

 

2014 - Night, during The European museum night, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk

 

 

2012 - Bliskoznacznie, Museum of Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław

 

2012 - Last Minute, Galeria Spotkań WOAK, Toruń

 

2012 - International Festival of Student's Culture Artenalia, Poznań