Natalia Fundowicz

Natalia Fundowicz-Dziobek, born in Krakow in 1991, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow - painting, painting studio run by prof. Adam Brincken and the drawing studio led by Dr. Rafał Borcz. In 2014, 2015, and 2016, she received the Rector's scholarship for the best students.

I present traces of my journey toward the affirmation of life. Affirmation of nature, femininity, body, and motherhood. What I see, I settle on the surface with the delicacy and lightness of intensive, though watercolor colors, trying not to take away the movement. On canvasses and on walls, I create maps that appear as if in a state of weightless color signs and metaphorical forms. They populate the space, running away from images, escaping, falling, and mourning in the air and on the ground. They do not like enclosed frames and closed minds. The form, which fills up my thoughts and which I seek, must be a simulation of inner experience, its synesthetic shape, which defines my idea, shaping it into a work of art.

The process of creation itself and its non-obviousness is an inseparable part of my work. Decision-making may take days, hours, or sometimes just a few seconds, depending on the end result of the gesture, momentary outburst. However, once the decision is made, it is forever, it cannot be repainted, washed, or corrected. This is what characterizes my water technique.

Achievements and Exhibitions:

-Participation in the exhibition at the StART Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery in London, October 2022.

-Participation in the individual exhibition "Space for silence and sounds" at the Next Art Gallery in Bydgoszcz, July-August 2021.

-Participation in the individual exhibition "Call me yours" at the New Era Art Gallery in Krakow, June 2020.

-Participation in the individual exhibition "Abstract Beauty" at Spa Clinique in London, September-October 2019.

-Participation in the exhibition of the RE-AKCJE 4 project at the Mała Armory, Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, April 2016.

-Participation in the exhibition of the It's Me project. It's US. at the Małopolska Garden of Arts in Krakow, February 2016.

-Participation in the individual exhibition "Traces" in Vienna, Austria, July-August 2015.

-Participation in the Re-Akcje 3 exhibition at the Mała Armory, Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, March-April 2015.

-Participation in the collective exhibition "Zespół Wespół", Center for Contemporary Art Solvay in Krakow, 2015.

-Organization and participation in the kwARTet exhibition in Centrum Kultury im. Kamil Cyprian Norwid in Krakow, September-October 2014.

-Participation in the individual exhibition "The Variety of N." at the Polish Social and Cultural Association at the POSK Gallery in London, August 2014.

Since 2013, I have been actively participating in many auctions and collective and individual exhibitions all over Poland (Opole, Wrocław, Katowice, Bydgoszcz, Kraków, Warsaw) and cooperating with art galleries in Poland, Ad Lib Gallery, and StART Art in London.