Joanna Grzybek

Short Profile

Joanna Grzybek, born in Poland in 1976, studied painting, design, and fine arts in Silesia at the University of Zielona Góra. She holds a Master’s Degree in Art Education and is the winner of the WBB AWARD 2017. In addition to her paintings, Joanna is best known for her subtle, poetic installations of bodies and objects made of gauze, with a special focus on interpersonal contacts and relations. The artist lives, works, and teaches in Leipzig, Germany. About her motivation, she says: «My art should make people pause and think.»

Statement

»In her sculptural woven works, Joanna Grzybek deals with the ambivalence of individual [...] traces and their reproducibility up to mass repetition. Individuality as an ideal of Western culture multiplies into a uniform stream of human bodies. The trace in the fabric resembles the trace in the World Wide Web, both media mark the border between inside and outside, public and intimacy, and at the same time dissolve it.«
Valeriya Masyuta

WBB AWARD

Exhibition video of the WBB AWARD winners of 2017, including Joanna Grzybek, Peter Raba, and Michael von Eyenbach.

Biographical Sketch

1976: Born in Poland
1996: Art School in Jelenina Góra, Poland
2001: Five-year study of Visual Arts at University of Zielona Góra, Faculty for Visual Arts
2001: Master in Pedagogy, University of Zielona Góra
2006: First exhibition in Germany
2017: Winner of the WBB AWARD 2017 in the category HUMAN

Exhibitions

2018: WBB AWRD, WBB GALLERY, Zurich, Switzerland
2017: “Der Bogen”, Intershop Interdisciplinaire, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2016: “Gott spielen”, Intershop Interdisciplinaire, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2015: “gehÖren”, 21. Kunstfestival ORNÖ, Dresden, Germany
2014: Solo exhibition, Dentalzentrum Pankow, Berlin, Germany
2013: “Der Weg ist das Ziel”, performance, Leipziger Passagenfest, Germany
2012: Solo exhibition, “Dimensionen”, Kaffee Schwarz, Leipzig, Germany
2012: Presentation, “Euro Messe Team Schwalme”, Berlin, Germany
2011 “UNSERART”, Rauminstallation, 1. Connewitzer Kunstfestival, Leipzig, Germany
2011: “Kontakte und Relationen”, Einzelausstellung, ACQUA Klinik, Leipzig, Germany
2010: “Komm erwärme Dich”, Einzelausstellung, Wärmehalle Süd, Leipzig, Germany
2010: Dresdner Biennale, 19. Kunstfestival ORNÖ, “Höchzeit”, Dresden, Germany
2010: “Echte Kopie”, 24 Stunden-Ausstellung, Leipzig, Germany
2010: Kunstfestival ORNOE, Dresden, Germany
2009: Galerie Born+Busse, Leipzig, Germany
2009: Festival L*abore, Germany
2008: Gruppenausstellung, Fellbach, Germany
2006: Gruppenausstellung, Schloss Dätzingen, Grafenau, Germany