Aleksandra Urban

b. 1978, lives and works in Wroclaw

She graduated with the diploma in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Her painting is often a very personal journey into the world of memories, fantasies and dreams, which gives it the intriguing form. Full of strange characters and horror phantoms, her works cannot be interpreted unambiguously. Alex often uses the convention of kitsch and frequently refers to the sacred sphere. As a very prolific artist she has exhibited over the past year, among others, at the Edinburgh Art Festival, and in galleries such as the Art Agenda Nova Bestregards Gallery in Frankfurt and twice in the Geppert's Apartment Gallery.

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Selected exhibitions:

 
2011
- Galeria G23 | Sitka, Wrocław PL (solo)
- And now the bad news, Gallery U, Wroclaw PL (solo)

 
2010
- Mind Games, Gallery Bestregarts, Frankfurt DE
- Don’t even think about it, LETO Gallery, Warszawa PL
- Dark Hole, BWA Karkonosze, Jelenia Gora PL (solo)
- The head in bath, Ikona Gallery, Lodz PL
- Dzika Banda, Magazyn Praga, Warszawa PL
- Young Polisch Paintings, Hugenottenhalle -Neu-Isenburg DE

 
2009
- Fractured Fairy Tales, LETO Gallery, Warszawa PL (solo)
- Young Polish Paintings, Bestregarts, Frankfurt am Mein DE - Flowers on the attic, Geppert's Apartment Gallery, Wroclaw PL (solo)

 
2008
- Oj!-say little bear, Art Agenda Nova, Krakow PL (solo)
- Poison fruits, Moa, Poznan PL (solo)
- Wonderland, Geppert Appartment, Wroclaw PL (solo)
- Double Check, LETO Gallery, Warszawa PL

 
2007
- Quadro Art International Picture Biennale, Lodz PL
- Edinburgh Art Festival, Art Space Gallery UK

 
2006
- Pro Figura, Rostock DE
- Gardens, Painting Biennale, BWA Walbrzych PL
- Promotions, BWA Legnica PL

 
2004
- Biennale Fisheye 3, Slupsk PL

Scholarships & Residencies:

 
2003
- Scholarship of Polish Ministry of Culture and the National Heritage
1998
- Scholarship of Polish Ministry of Culture and the National Heritage