Dominika Sadowska
Dominika Sadowska
Perception processes triggered at the recipient by inability to recognize images. The non- obvious. Unrecognised almost elusive reality. Activation of undiscovered access pathways to the representations stored in memory - these are the problems I am focused on.
I process reality using various means (photography, sculpture, objects, light, graphics) and match them with mental images to merge into a new entirety. Combining various media, their interaction as well as tension and strains resulting therefrom constitute an important part of my work. I am a watchful observer of what happens when the boundaries between different media are shifted, of what happens when moving at the point of their contact and I use the conflict and interference which arise from the above. sadow
Dominika Sadowska (b.1977, PL)
Dominika Sadowska is a visual artist. She studied at the Painting and Graphic Faculty of the Strzemiński Academy of Art in Łódź, she received her PhD in photography from The Lodz Film School (in 2012). Artistic education and manual skills play an important role in her artistic practice. She uses different media (photography, motion picture, and sound, graphics, objects, installation), employing them as required, and treats the boundaries between them as dynamic and non-linear. She focused on photography when starting her work at the Strzemiński Academy of Art in Łódź (2007) and later when writing her doctoral dissertation, which was devoted to the phenomena of image distortion, imperfections of vision (directly related to visual perception), the search for the limits of visibility, as well as the ontological status of darkness and the blackness that represents it, which has long accompanied her projects.
Currently lives and works in Łódź, Poland
Education 2011 - 2012 PhD, Lodz Film School, Łódź, PL 1996 - 2001 MFA, Strzemiński Academy of Art, Łódź, PL 1999 - 2000 International School of Make-up Artist, Warsaw, PL 1991 - 1996 High School of Fine Arts, Opole, PL Prizes / Nominations / Scholarships 2021 Distinction, Fotopublikacja 2021, PL 2012 Juror Award of Merit, International Fine Art Photography Competition, Paris, FR 2010
Finalist of Grand Prix Foto festival 2010, Łódź, PL 2008 2nd prize, 9th The Baltic States Biennial of Graphic Arts Kaliningrad - Koenigsberg 2008, RU2007 Artistic Scholarship founded by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland 1st prize, 6th International Graphics Biennial, Liège, BE Honourable mention, 9th International Graphics Biennial Caixanova, Ourense, ES 2006 Funded award, 6th Polish Print Triennial Katowice 2006, PL 2004 1st prize, 4th Tczew Triennial, Tczew, PL 1st prize of the Polish edition of the International Graphics Competition Network Baltic, organized by Grafikens Hus, SE 2003 1st prize, Photography Competition, 2nd International Festival of Photography, Łódź, PL Funded award, 3rd Student's Print Biennial, Poznań, PL 2001 Funded award, 2th Student's Print Biennial, Poznań, PL 2nd prize, The Strzemiński Competition for students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, PL 1996 Artistic Scholarship founded by Opole City Mayor, Pl.
EXCLUSIVE ARTWORK BY DOMINIKA SADOWSKA:
Solo exhibitions
2021
1:9 / Fullscreen. Pressure of Image / Fotofestiwal, OFF Piotrkowska Center, Łódź, PL
2020
Tunnel (A) (B), Fotofestiwal, Łódź, PL
2018
Exhibition view, Punkt Odbioru Sztuki Gallery, Łódź, PL
Breeding, Art of Choice Gallery, Gdańsk, PL
2016
Holes, GEDOK Gallery, Stuttgart, DE
2015
The Lady, Mała Czarna Gallery, Łódź, PL
2014
Birthmark, Imaginarium Gallery, Łódź, PL
2013
Dominika Sadowska, 144 Grafiki Gallery, Strzemiński Academy of Art, Łódź, PL
2012
Dominika Sadowska, Studio 6, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PL
Insatiable perception, Lodz Film School, Łódź, PL
0-8, Centre of Culture & Arts, Kalisz, PL
2011
Terytorium, Aneks Gallery, The Opole Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, PL
Untitled, Red Tree Gallery, Warszawa, PL
2010
Kollektion, Swop:art, Stockholm, SE
Femmes, Impart Art Center, Wrocław, PL
2009
Friends, Opus Gallery, Łódź, Poland
Traces, FF Gallery, Łódź, PL
2008
Dominika Sadowska, Cabinet des Estampes et des Dessins, MAMAC, Liège, BE
2007
Graphics, Faculty of Visual Education's Gallery, Strzemiński Academy of Art, Łódź, PL
2005
Dominika Sadowska, Dom Muz Gallery, Toruń, PL
Duo exhibitions and projects
2018
Pure Pleasure (with Magda Hlawacz), WY Gallery/OFF Gallery, Łódź, PL
2017
Autonom (with Karol Stolarek), 6th District, Łódź, PL
The Waste (with Jacek Gmach), The Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic, Łódź, PL
2014
1/1 (with Sergiusz Kuchczyński), Center for the Promotion of the Youth, Częstochowa, PL
2013
Transmutations (with Magda Wolnicka), Kravare chateau, CZ
Selected group exhibitions
2020
Time Dilations, Mediations Biennale Polska, ASP Gallery, Łódź, PL
Polish Paradise Cabin: an exhibition, Kaunas Art Book Fair, Kaunas, LT
Polish Paradise Cabin: an exhibition, Festival ManifestO, Photo Confluence of Toulouse, FR
Threads and weaves, Fotosommer Stuttgart, Rathaus Stuttgart, DE
2018
Open Call Photo Book Showcase 2018, Singapore International Photography Festival, SGP
Virtual Garden, Mediations Biennale, Archdiocesan Museum, Poznań, PL
So far, Landskrona Foto, Landskrona, SE
To the point, Kobro Gallery, Łódź, PL
2017
The Implant, Olimpus Gallery, Łódź, PL
Between the nature and fiction, Kobro Gallery, Łódź, PL
Synergy, BWA Gallery, Gorzów Wielkopolski,PL
2016
Elucidating, Imaginarium Gallery, Łódź, PL
Minority, Museum of the Factory, Łódź, PL
Utopia - dystopia - atopia, Academy of Fine Arts, Łódź, PL
2015
Exquisite corpse of polish photography, Awangarda BWA Gallery, Wroclaw, PL
FOTO ASP LODZ, ASP Gallery, Łódź, PL
2014
Getto XXI, Monopolis, Łódź, PL
Imprint, Kulisiewicz International Graphic Arts Triennial in Warsaw, PL
2013
Where is printmaking? In search of new meanings, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, PL
I Am like This, 6th District, Łódź, PL
Corset, Yes Gallery, Poznań, PL
2012
International Print Triennial Krakow 2012, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow, PL
Grand Prix of Young Polish Print, Containers, Krakow, PL
Łódź in Wien, dasviadukt studio, Vienna, AT
Wunderkammer, artLOKAL, Opole, PL
Open Exhibition, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, PL
Phantasmatic Journeys, Zero Gallery, Berlin, DE
2011
The Identity of Photography, Kobro Gallery, Strzemiński Academy of Art, Łódź, PL
Praising the Difference, AHEart Gallery, Łódź, PL
Sulla fotografia, Spazio LABA Gallery, Brescia, IT
2010
Open Exhibition, Opus Gallery, Łódź, PL
Grand Prix Fotofestiwal, Łódź Art Center, PL
2009
6th Novosibirsk Graphic Art Biennial, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, RU
A2 Łódź - Warszawa, -1 Gallery, Olympic Centre, Warszawa, PL
Grafikens Hus Varutställning, Grafikens Hus, Mariefred, SE
Is it still Graphic Art or Already Photography?, International Print Triennial - Kraków 2009, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, PL
Myspace.ldz, project site-specific, Łódź, PL
Comptoir d'Estampes, Galerie du Churchill, Liège, BE
Now Art Now Future, 2nd International Print Biennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT
2007
Graphics from Poland, Art and the Printing Press Cremona 2007, Civic Museum, Cremona, IT
International Print Triennial Vienna 2007, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, AT
6th International Graphics Biennial, MAMAC, Liège, BE
9th International Graphics Biennial Caixanova, Centro Social, Ourense, ES
2006
Grafikens Hus Kollektion 2006, Grafikens Hus, Mariefred, SE
2005
Network Baltic`s laureates exhibitions:
- Kaiku Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, FI
- KiT Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Trondheim, NO
- Näitus Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Tallinn, EE
Polen pa Nordens Ljus, Nordens Ljus Gallery, Stockholm, SE
13th International Print Biennial, Varna 2005, BG
2004
International Print Triennial, Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenburg, DE
Network Baltic's laureates exhibitions:
- Grafikens Hus, Mariefred, SE
- Arboretrum Gallery, National Museum, Warszawa, PL
- Gallery Kaire-Design, Graphic Art Centre, Vilnius, LT
- Kaiku Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, FI
2003
5th International Print Triennial, Kraków, PL
Eurografik - European Culture Integration Bridge, Lawra Gallery, Kyiv, UA
Color in Graphic Art, 4th International Print Triennial, Wozownia Gallery, Toruń, PL
Etching versus digit, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, PL
2002
8th International Exhibition of Prints and Drawings Grafinnova 2002, Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa, FI
2000
Recommendations - Young Polish Print, Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, PL
Collections
The National Museum in Krakow, PL
Museo Civico, Cremona, IT
Kaliningrad State Art Galery, Kaliningrad, RU
Grafikens Hus, SE
Ville de Liège, BE
Private collections
Selected publications:
2020 Komcha / Dominika Sadowska / self-publishing
2020 Tunnel / Dominika Sadowska / Strzemiński Academy of Art Lodz
2018 Black / Dominika Sadowska / self-publishing
2017 Black is not / Dominika Sadowska / Strzemiński Academy of Art Lodz
2012 0-8 / Dominika Sadowska / Centre of Culture & Arts in Kalisz
2009 Traces / Dominika Sadowska / FF Gallery in Łódź
2008 Dominika Sadowska / Dominika Sadowska / Cabinet des Estampes et des Dessins de la Ville de Liege with the collaboration with Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels
