EducationalPlatform ofthe AspektyGallery
Barbara Falender
In her lecture, curator Paulina Olszewska will introduce the figure of Barbara Falender, one of the most important contemporary Polish sculptors. The curator will focus on discussing a selection of the artist's most important sculptural works created back in the 1970s. In addition, she will introduce the lesser-known aspect of Falender's work related to the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. The lecture will introduce such realizations of the sculptor as: “Erotic Pillows” (1974), ‘Dream’ (1976), ‘Homage to Alina Szapocznikow’ (1978 and 2023). The lecture will present the process of creation of individual works and place them in the broader context of Polish contemporary art. In her lecture, the curator will draw attention to the sources of inspiration that led Barbara Falender to take up themes oscillating around love, pleasure, suffering or death. At the same time she will also bring closer the lesser-known aspects of the creation of individual works, whose stories are closely connected with the artist's private life.
Barbara Falender (born 1947 in Wroclaw) is a Polish sculptor working in materials such as stone, bronze, epoxy, glass and porcelain. She also works in sculpture, drawing and photography. She studied sculpture at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, from which she graduated in 1973. She is the author of many outstanding sculptural works, shown both at home and abroad. Her works are in the Collection of the Studio Gallery in Warsaw, the collection of the National Museum in Cracow and the Grand Theater of the National Opera in Warsaw, among others.
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Paulina Olszewska
curator, producer of art projects, writer. Since 2019 she has been associated with Warsaw's Studio Gallery, where she is responsible for the substantive program of the gallery. Curator of exhibitions at home and abroad. She has collaborated with such institutions as the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, Galerie im Körnerpark in Berlin, the Yidrich Chalupetsky Society in Prague, and the Boris Lurie Art Foundation in New York.
In 2024 she co-curated the exhibition “We Want All Life. Feminisms in Polish Art” at the State Art Gallery in Sopot. Associated with Warsaw and Berlin.