In her work the young Polish painter Olga Lewicka refuses to dissociate painterly and formal considerations from the conceptual or political. The "imaginary" (Lacan) of the globalized world, its spectacular surfaces, its hidden power structures, its euphoric as well as dark visions – in Lewicka's paintings and installations one sees how all this can be deliberated upon by means of abstract art and formal esthetic problems. She has deliberatly chosen painting, with all its options and reservations caused by its long history, to interrogate and play off the forces of new differences and shifts, to eventually initiate an exemplary emancipatory process.
Olga Lewicka, born in 1975, lives and works in Berlin. She has moved there after studying painting at the Art Academy in Wroclaw, followed by studies in Philosophy and Literature in Wroclaw, New York and Frankfurt/Oder. The latter closing with a doctoral thesis on aporia in art discourses.
In 2005 she won the Eugeniusz-Geppert-Competition and was awarded the price for young Polish painting; in 2007 she was nominated for "Views - Deutsche Bank Foundation Award" for young Polish artists. Among her latest exhibitions are: Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Montgomery, Berlin; Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Sparwasser HQ, Berlin; Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin. In 2007 and 2008 she co-coordinated the shows and events of the transnational AURORA.
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