Olga Szczechowska, Grandmother's Garden, 2022

Acrylic, canvas, 50 x 60 cm

Olga Szczechowska was born in 1987 in Radom - a graduate of painting and cultural studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. A participant in a collective and experimental activity called PRZEprojekt. She cooperated with the Center for Contemporary Art in Torun. She works in painting, illustration, and is an author of installations and objects also in urban space. In her work she is interested in balancing between the rational and the irrational, looking for connections between the organic and the inorganic. AWARDS: 2014 Scholarship of the President of the City of Toruń in the field of culture 2013 Scholarship of the President of the City of Toruń in the field of culture INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS: 2015 It happens in paradise, Enchanted garden, Finnish house, Jazdów, Warsaw, 2015 2014 Forest body, Brda Gallery, Bydgoszcz 2014 It is said that those who paint pictures like to exaggerate, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń 2013 Siedlisko, as part of PRZEprojekt: OPEN CALL, CCA, Toruń 2013 One swallow makes a spring, intervention in the urban space of Toruń COLLECTIVE EXHIBITS: 2013 Diploma 2013, Studentewerk, Göttingen 2013 2nd National Painting Contest under the theme Painting with a Universal Language, Ludwik Zamenhof Center. Ludwik Zamenhof, Bialystok 2013 Autumn of Life, within the framework of the Urban Observatory, Gallery on the Vistula River, Torun 2013 Flood, garbage, looters, Gallery on the Vistula River, Torun 2013 Boundaries of drawing, Turbo Gallery, Warsaw 2013 There and here, a new look at old illustration, Spatium Novum Gallery, Elbląg Library, Elbląg 2012 XXII Nationwide Review of Painting of the Young PROMOCJE, Art Gallery, Legnica 2012 Drugie wyjście, as part of the PRZEproject, CCA, Toruń 2012 BMW/ART/TRANSFORMY scholarship program, National Opera, Warsaw 2012 II Review of Young Art Fresh Blood, Socato Gallery, Wrocław 2012 Second Hand, as part of the PRZEproject, CCA, Toruń 2012 Pretty Art, as part of the PRZEproject, CCA, Toruń 2012 ILLUSTRATION.PL, post-competition exhibition, Warsaw 2012 NOTO artist's notebook, post-competition exhibition, Cracow 2012 Coincidence or method? as part of PRZEproject, CCA, Toruń 2012 Campers, CCA, Toruń 2012 post-exhibition, Chopin Center, Szafarnia