Tomek Baran, Sabina Kałuża - CRASH

Tomek Baran, Sabina Kałuża - CRASH

Exhibition opening: 21.01.2023, 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Exhibition on view: 21.01-18.03.2023

Sabina Kaluza was born in 1996 in Kraków. She graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 2022. She draws inspiration from post-accident and abandoned car body parts, from which she mainly creates objects. In her works, she uses, among other things, car paints and other materials such as wood, plastic or fibreglass mats. The works she creates are an exploration of the boundaries of painting. For the artist, the form itself becomes the content.

Tomek Baran was born in 1985 in Stalowa Wola, lives and works in Kraków. He obtained his diploma in 2010 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow at the Faculty of Painting.

In his artistic practice, Tomek Baran willingly experiments with the medium of painting and explores its limits. He uses a variety of materials, both in terms of the substrates he uses, the carved or constructed looms and the materials he uses. These include industrial paints, various types of enamels and varnishes. An important issue in Tomek Baran's work is space, understood both in terms of the materiality of the image and the relationship to the environment and the viewer.

He made his debut at the F.a.i.t. Gallery in 2008 during the Action of Revaluing Abstraction. Individual exhibitions of his works have taken place at Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow (2012), BWA Gallery in Olsztyn (2016), the Centre for Creative Activity in Ustka (2015), Platan Gallery in Budapest (2015) or the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw (2014), among others. He has also participated in many group exhibitions in Poland and abroad such as: 16th International Painting Triennale 'Nomadic Images', Vilnius 2016; A pudding that endlessly screw agglomerates, Polish Institute, Berlin 2016; Artists from Krakow. Generation 1980-1990, MOCAK, Krakow, 2015; Česko - polské hvězdy, Miroslav Kubik Gallery, Litomyšl, 2015; Pure Formality, Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin 2015; For Me, Abstraction is Real, Boccanera Gallery, Trento 2015; Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw 2014.

He is the recipient of scholarships and residencies: 2010 he did a residency in Montrouge, in 2012 he received the distinction of the international Strabag Artaward and did a residency in Vienna. In 2016, he was awarded a scholarship from the 'Young Poland' programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.