Education:

Academy of Arts In Gdansk, Painting Department, a diploma from phd Maciej Swieszewski atelier, 2011

I like to make my own "philosophying” which means that I like to ask myself with universal questions about life and everything that touches in life. What makes me – this unique person – myself? What is true happiness? What is real freedom? So I think about my art, and paintings very personal, and my own experiences, thoughts and feelings are always starting point to my works. Then I develop it into something more general, for you. I want you to see in my works something personal for you, not only my story but a reflection of your story too. I believe in people, that everyone has thoughts about important things in life. About beauty, being honest, about inner power, and justice. And I am sure that it is exactly what makes us who we really are. This is why they are so important, and why I paint them. I am most interested in the inner strength that we sometimes feel in ourselves. When confronted with opponents, we know that physical force is important, but also cunning and thinking. In my opinion, there is something else – inner strength – a determination that will dominate everything and could win with both, physical force and mind. This fascinates me in people.

Born in 1985 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Bachelor of Design for Graphic Communication at the University of Guadalajara. Qualification for academic excellence in 2008. In 2009 concludes oil painting course at Cabañas Cultural Institute “Hospicio Cabañas” and printmaking studies in the Museum of Journalism and Graphic Arts. Salon de Octubre’s winner in 2011. His works are in private collections in Mexico, United States, Italy, Spain and Denmark.

He was seduced by the oil painting during college, in which he works almost completely actually. Baroque and chiaroscuro of Rembrandt admirer, as inventiveness of painters like Velazquez, Salvador Dalí, Vermeer, Picasso, Goya or Remedios Varo, he creates little by little his own symbolism. At the beginning, in an empirical way, he reaches the visual media to communicate different concepts like death, fear or hypocrisy, without limitations of animal characters, humans or objects to do it. The main goal of his work is the creation of a collage that when it integrates represents a believable portrait of the world, not about the looks of the things, just of their scent.

Agnieszka Nienartowicz was born in 1991 in Jelenia Góra, a small town in Lower Silesia, Poland. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, wherein 2016 she received a Bachelor of Arts, at the painting studio led by Prof. Maciej Świeszewski with a supplement in drawing under Prof. Maria Targońska. In the years 2011-2014 she studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. She was awarded several scholarships, a number of awards and distinctions. Now, she lives and works in Zakopane, a beautiful town located in the soaring and picturesque Tatra Mountains in the very south of Poland.

OFFICIAL SITE / agnieszkanienartowicz.com

TORSTEN GEBHARDT, 1966 born on November 1 in Oranienburg (Germany, former GDR). 1986 completion of vocational training. 1988 imprisonment due to conflicts with the System and failed attempt to escape to West Germany. 1989 relocation to West Germany. 1990 intensified self-taught painting. Since 1996, work as a painter. Since 2003, exhibitions in Germany and abroad. Torsten Gebhardt lives and works in Berlin. Works by Torsten Gebhardt are in private collections in Germany and abroad.

OFFICIAL SITE / torstengebhardt.com