Edyta Hul – visual artist based in Warsaw, Poland. Born in 1986, Dobre Miasto, Warmia, Poland. Graduated in 2012 at the Painting Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk.

About paintings/Statement:

In this world, everything is entangled: aquatic form, vegetation, structure, ‘something’ never before categorised. The painterly entanglements touch on fundamental matters of survival – nourishment, disappearance, extinction, dimming. The entanglements and cover-ups create a multifaceted structure that is created slowly and relies on keeping the thin layers of paint applied one after the other in harmony. I try to achieve the impression of a lack of heaviness while maintaining the transparency of these layers. The only ‘essential remains to be discovered beyond the boundaries of the self’” . Even the bottom of the painting is supposed to be in a state of suspension, without hierarchy. These damp membranes persist but are not fully materialised; they remain in constant superposition, in a state of overflow between truth and fantasy. These states persist in constant and damp communication. The transparencies of the layers set off an interferential dance of random transmission in a self-forming drawing of ‘something’ never before formed.  

Education:
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Painting Department – MFA (2012)

Individual Exhibitions:
2024
„Something’s in the water” – BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała, Poland
2023
„Send us rain, If you can” – National Gallery Zachęta’s Project Room , Warsaw , Poland

2021
„Nectar” – Pilipczuk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
„Currara” – ABC Gallery , Poznań, Poland
„Medium” – Art Hub Gallery, Łódź, Poland
„Barren Land” – City Art Gallery MS44, Świnujście, Poland
„Rose Water” – Zak Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland

2020
„Here is the mirror, that guessed it all” – open studio & solo show, Warsaw, Poland
„Acidic Soil” – Tajna Galeria, Gdańsk, Poland
„Paintings”– Exibition Center Stara Kotłownia, Warmia and Masurian University, Olsztyn, Poland
„Elixir” – Pilipczuk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
„Loneliness of the Forest” – New Era Art Gallery/ Foundation, Cracow, Poland
2012
„Zoomorphic Images” – Pionova Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland

Collective Exhibitions:
2023
„46th Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień” – BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała, Poland

2022
„Bio-Creations” – Academic Design Center, Łódź , Poland
„Kunstnernes Efterarsudstilling 2022” – Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
„Defiant Hearts” – Center for Contemporary Art Galeria EL , Elbląg, Poland
„I have to tell the world” – Project with Anna Baumgart, BWA Olsztyn, Poland
„Living Through The End Of Nature” duo exhibition – UMA Galler, Novara, Italy
„Defiant Hearts part II” by Katarzyna Swinarska – Appearing in a video project about female artists

„From «Abstraction» To Abstraction”, international collective exhibition – Stefan Gierowski’s
Foundation, Warsaw, Poland

2021
„Umana Matrice d’Arte” – UMA Gallery, Novara/Milan, Italy
„Power of Plants” collective polish- hungarian exhibition – Mank Non Profit / Mank Gallery,
Szentendre/Budapest, Hungary
„Enlivening” – polish female art – Pilipczuk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

„Herbarium novum. Efflorescentiae” – City Gallery BWA, Bydgoszcz, Poland

2019
„XI Triennial of Small Painting Forms”, Art Gallery Wozownia, Toruń, Poland
„Ameba”, Dom Ewolucji, Night of Museums Warszawa, Poland
X International Miniature Biennial, Szara Gallery CENTRUM (Kraków) , Gallery TEST
(Warszawa), Poland
„Early Spring” – duo show, Main City Gallery in Zakopane, Poland

2018
X International Biennial of Miniature Art, Gaude Mater Culture Promotion Center,
Częstochowa, Poland
Zakłócenia / Umwelt – featured in competition, Post-competition exhibition at Contemporary Art
Center Solvay, Cracow, Poland
2016
„Jesienne Konfrontacje”, competition and collective exhibition – BWA Gallery, Rzeszów,
Poland
2014
Nominated to main prize at „New Image – Perspective” Contest. Post-competition
exhibitions in Poznan and Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
2013

„VIII Art Biennial in Olsztyn” – City Art Gallery in Olsztyn, Poland
„I Pomeranian Art Triennial” – PGS Gallery in Sopot, Poland
„Hortus Conclusus” duo exhibition – Pionova Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland
2012
„Amazing Stories II” – Collective ephemeral show – forest in Oliwa , Gdańsk, Poland
„Synonymously ” – collective exhibition – Academy of Art Museum, Wrocław, Poland
2011
„Polish Nationwide Drawing Exhibition” – Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,
Poland
Art Residencies:
• Artificialmente Naturale, UMA Gallery Art Micro- Residency, Milan, Italy (2021)
• Q21 – MuseumsQuartier Artists-in-Residence, Vienna, Austria (2019)
• Pieńków International Artist Residency, Marek Maria Pieńkowski Foundation, Pieńków,
Poland (2018)
Confernces:
• „Bio-Creations”, Design Center, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland (2022)
Prizes/ Achievements:
• Grand Prix „Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień” BWA Bielska Gallery, Bielsko-Biała, Poland
(2023)
• #18 position in the 2021 Polish Young Art Compass (Ranking of artists under 35. in Poland)
• #48 position in 2020 Polish Young Art Compass (Ranking of artists under 35. in Poland)
• Special Prize at “XI Triennial of Small Painting Forms”, Art Gallery Wozownia, Toruń, Poland
(2018)
• Honorable mention at „Eugeniusz Eibisch” contest , Eibisch Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
(2018)
• Honorable mention at Zakłócenia / Umwelt – Contest , Contemporary Art Center Solvay,
Cracow, Poland (2018)
• Special prize at „Students Graphics of the Year”, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland
(2012)
Other Activities:

• Co-founder of the OTWARTA Foundation, Zakopane, Warsaw, Poland (2017-2022);
Scholarships:
• 2020 (Polish) Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, scholarship (annual)
• 2019 The Federal (Austrian) Ministry for European and International Affairs scholarship for
the Residency at Museums Quartier Artist in Residence Program, January-February 2019, Vienna,
Austria
• 2011-2012 Scholarship for the best students (4 semesters), Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk,
Poland
Works in Public Institutions:
• Stefan Gierowski’s Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
• Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała, Poland