Beata Stankiewicz – paintings, artist, painter
Contemporary Art Gallery – Skowronscy Art – Works by the artist and painter Beata Stankiewicz
Beata Stankiewicz
Beata Stankiewicz is a Kraków-based visual artist, painter, photographer and video artist. Born in 1973, she is one of the contemporary Polish artists whose work develops consistently around painting, memory of place, interiors, light, and the tension between human presence and absence.
In 1998, she graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Painting at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, completing her diploma in painting and mural painting in the studio of Professor Józef Lucjan Ząbkowski.
Artistic practice
Beata Stankiewicz’s practice is focused primarily on painting. She works in cycles, often depicting fragments of reality: interiors, rooms, studios, churches, cloisters, monastic cells, trees and spaces marked by silence and traces of human presence.
Her paintings combine realistic precision with reflection on memory, spirituality, everyday life and the hidden meaning of places. At the centre of her art is a careful observation of space and a question about what remains invisible, absent or unspoken.
Important cycles and themes in her work include Room for Rent, Lucky Tree, Empty Rooms, House of Creative Work, Common Life, Trees and Ten Jews Who Made Poland Famous.
Gallery “mieszkanie23”
In 2005, inspired by Zbigniew Warpechowski, Beata Stankiewicz and Sebastian Stankiewicz founded Gallery “mieszkanie23” in their private apartment in Kraków. Until 2012, the gallery hosted around 40 exhibitions, performances, meetings and lectures.
Gallery “mieszkanie23” functioned as an independent space for contemporary art, a meeting point for artists, curators and audiences, and an important place on the map of Kraków’s artistic community.
Otwarta Pracownia and Kraków
Since 2017, Beata Stankiewicz has been a member of the Otwarta Pracownia Artistic Association. She lives and works in Kraków and remains closely connected with the city’s artistic environment and institutions of contemporary art.
Collections
Beata Stankiewicz’s paintings are held in deposit by Galeria Zderzak in Kraków and Art Station in Zurich, as well as in private collections in Poland and abroad. Her works are also included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków MOCAK and in the collection of Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art in Kraków.
Selected solo exhibitions
2025 — “In Praise of Shadows”, S7 Art Project, Warsaw.
2024 — “Between Paintings”, Museum of the Archdiocese of Warsaw, Warsaw; “Asylum”, Museum in Gliwice, Gliwice.
2022 — “Natural Born Artists”, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków; “The Order of Things” with Krzysztof Klimek, Otwarta Pracownia, Kraków.
2019 — “Ten Jews Who Made Poland Famous”, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków MOCAK, Kraków; “Lucky Tree”, Dym, Kraków.
2017 — “Painting”, Historical Museum of the City of Kraków, Hipolit House, Kraków; “Painting. Stankiewicz, Dłużewski, Klimek”, Otwarta Pracownia, Kraków.
2015 — “Common Life”, Otwarta Pracownia, Kraków.
2010 — “Room for Rent”, Gallery “mieszkanie23”, Kraków; “Private Matters (III)”, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław.
2009 — “Single”, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk; “Private Matters (II)”, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków; “Private Matters (I)”, Szara Gallery, Cieszyn.
2008 — “Argument”, BWA Wrocław; “Lucky Tree (II)”, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław; “Lucky Tree (I)”, Gallery “mieszkanie23”, Kraków.
2007 — “Passage”, Mostowa 2 Gallery, Kraków.
2006 — “The Principle of Similarity”, Gallery “mieszkanie23”, Kraków.
2005 — “A Film for Good Morning”, opening of Gallery “mieszkanie23”, Kraków; “Places and Things”, Grodzka Gallery BWA, Lublin.
2004 — “Siesta”, Otwarta Pracownia, Kraków; “Noon”, Otwarta Pracownia, Kraków.
1998 — diploma exhibition, construction site of the new Academy of Fine Arts building, Kraków.
Selected group exhibitions
2024 — “Strong Women”, Museum of Kraków, Kraków; “The Visitation”, second edition of the project “Painting Catholicism Anew”, St. Florian’s Cathedral, Warsaw; “The Annunciation”, Diocesan Museum in Opole, European Centre for the Arts in Białystok and the cloisters of St. Sigismund’s Church in Częstochowa; “Poles Keep Painting”, National Museum, Vilnius; “DOM/HOME”, IMO Gallery, Stary Sącz; “Location”, Palace of Art, Kraków.
2023 — “Landscape of Polish Painting”, Zachęta — National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; “Painting — The Golden Medium of Art: MOCAK Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków MOCAK; “Solingen ’93. Niemals vergessen”, Zentrum für verfolgte Künste, Solingen; “Images of the Merciful Jesus According to the Vision of Saint Faustina”, Warsaw and Rome; “Checking. What Is Truth?”, Dom Praczki, Kielce.
2022 — “Images of the Merciful Jesus According to the Vision of Sister Faustina”, Dominican Monastery Cloisters, Kraków; “Art and Metaphysics. Attitudes and Strategies 2000–2020”, Podbrzezie Gallery, Kraków; “On the Tenth Anniversary of Wisława Szymborska’s Death”, Museum of Contemporary Art MOCAK, Kraków.
2021 — “Score and Garden. Krzysztof Penderecki”, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków.
2020 — “Contemporary Models of Realism”, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków MOCAK, Kraków.
2019 — “The Bourgeois”, Historical Museum of the City of Kraków, Hipolit House, Kraków; “Open Field”, outdoor presentation, Kryspinów.
2018 — “Freedom in Art”, Lublin; Kraków Art Salon, Palace of Art, Kraków.
2017 — “Artists from Kraków. Generation 1970–1979”, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków MOCAK, Kraków.
2016 — “Otwarta Pracownia”, BWA, Kielce.
2011 — “Kunst tanken”, Art Station Galerie, Zurich.
2010 — “Dzień dobry — Grüzi”, Art Station Galerie, Zurich.
2009 — “Presentation of Polish Painting”, Chur.
2008 — “Four Spaces of Art”, Częstochowa; “Holidays with Ghosts. Act I. The Ghost of Edward Hopper”, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków.
2007 — “The Place”, Glasgow; Survival Art Festival, Wrocław; “Transition (Mostowa 2)”, Ryllega Gallery, Hanoi; “Inspiring Humanity”, Edinburgh Art Festival, ArtSpace Gallery, Edinburgh.
2006 — “Through Light”, Grodzka Gallery BWA, Lublin.
2005 — “Guten Tag”, Representation of the Free State of Thuringia to the Federal Government, Berlin; “Pavilion of Stable Form”, Lublin.
2004 — open-air exhibition, St. Wigbert Church and Thuringian State Chancellery, Erfurt.
2000 — “Review of Young Painting”, Award of the Minister of Culture and Art, BWA, Legnica.
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