Karolina Orzelek – Biography

Born in 1992 in Poland, Karolina Orzelek graduated from Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2016. She lives and works in Paris. She has won several awards including the Prix Sisley/Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020.

Karolina Orzelek explores the perception of reality and the contradictions that play out there. From her personal archives, she reconstructs silent universes, between dream and fantasy, between memory and expectation, reality appears as if augmented in a sort of solarization of colors.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2020 Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris Prize for Young Creation, Sisley - Paris
2019 “Some place to hide”, Marianne Cat - Marseille
2018 “Fatamorgana”, Dukan gallery - Saint-Ouen
2017 “Solaris”, Galerie Dukan - Leipzig

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS - selection

2020 “& Friends 2020”, Le Feuvre & Roze gallery - Paris
2018 “Art for autism”, Artcurial - Paris
2017 “L’Anti-Destin”, a proposal by Pauline Pavec and Quentin Derouet, Paris
2017 “Eclosion”, exhibition of HATSH artists, Espace Commines, Paris
2017 “Through the dreams”, Le Ballon Rouge gallery, Paris
2016 Launch exhibition of HATSH Couveuse de Jeunes Talents, Galerie Joseph, Paris
2016 “Extranaturel”, at the invitation of Mark Dion, Palais des Beaux-Arts, ENSBA, Paris
2015 “La Papet is exhibited”, Nanterre
2014 “L’Adhesium” (with the Philippe Cognée workshop), ENSBA, Paris
2012 Philippe Cognée workshop exhibition, following a workshop trip to Israel, ENSBA, Paris

2020, Edition with Yoyo Maeght of a print.

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