Monika Wanyura-Kurosad

Printmaker, film set decorator. Graduated at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Branch in Katowice. Diploma with the distinction at Studio of Intaglio headed by prof. Stanisław Kluska and Studio of Painting headed by prof. Jacek Rykała in 1996. She works at the Department of Scenography at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.

She works with graphic art, drawing, scenography, art installation. Her art works are inspired by poetry, spaces of memory and time, the experience of a metaphorical journey through life. She creates multi-element drawings with open compositions, art installations, objects. She combines drawing and graphics with metal construction into artistic installations. Painting in her concept is thinking about space touched by color. In digital graphics, light and interpenetrating spatial structures are an important issue. She is interested in the subject of the passing of time, shaping space through light and colors. Abstraction is her favorite language of artistic expression.

She has presented works at several individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad, and at over 130 exhibitions in Belgium, Canada, Italy, Japan, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Spain, USA. Her works are in the collections of the National Museum in Kraków, the Silesian Museum in Katowice, the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Kraków, the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, the Osten Museum of Drawing in Skopje, the Art Museum Cluj–Napoca in Cluj, Brita Prinz ARTE in Madrid, and in private collections.

Set designer and film set decorator. She has realized TV theatre spectacles, feature series, documentary-feature films and theatre spectacles. Among productions, it is worth mentioning the historical series Stulecie Winnych, season II and III, directed by M. Rogalski, P. Śliskowski and K. Kochańska, the series Lokatorka II directed by M. Otłowski, the TV theatre Chłopcy directed by R. Gliński, the TV theatre Kriton directed by D. Karłowicz, the documentary-feature film Sister. Anna Rydlówna jakiej nie znamy, directed by M. Guzy.

Curator of exhibitions of Polish and world graphic art. Prepared over 40 exhibitions of graphic art at the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Krakow, the Manngha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow, the Jagiellonian Library, the Dalarnas Museum in Falun and other institutions. Secretary and Vice-President of the Board of the International Print Triennial Association in Krakow in the years 2008–2016. Curator and scenographer of exhibitions, including the exhibition of Józef Słania for the 100th anniversary of his birth at the National Bank of Poland in Krakow, Józef Szajna for the 100th anniversary of his birth at the Ludowy Theatre in Krakow and the Theatre Institute in Warsaw, Young Polish Scenography as part of the Quadrennial of Scenography in Prague.

Graphic editor of the Cultural Quarterly “Opcje” in the years 2001–2011.

Winner of awards and distinctions: "Lorenzo il Magnifico" Award – Installation Art at the Florence Biennale, 2023; Golden Osten Award at the Osten Biennial of Drawing Skopje 2022; Special Award at the Osten Biennial of Drawing Skopje 2020; Honorary Mention at the International Digital Graphics Biennale – Gdynia 2012; Honorary Award at the MATRICES 2010 International Exhibition of Small Form Electrographic Art, Hungary 2010 and others.

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solo exhibitions [selected]

• Milestones. Memorystones, Strefa Gallery, Faculty of Interior Design, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland 2023
• Memorystones, OSTEN Gallery, Skopje, North Macedonia 2022
• Milestones. Memorystones, Pixel Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland 2021
• Blade of Time, Museum of Ancient Masovian Metallurgy, Pruszkow, Poland 2019
• Milestones. Memorystones, Gallery EL, Elbląg, Poland 2019
• Paul Celan. Pieces of the Dream, BWA Gallery of Art, Olsztyn, Poland 2018
• Verges. Graphic Art, Installation, „4 Ściany” Gallery, Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland 2017
• Transparency. Drawings inspired by Miłosz, Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Kraków, Poland 2017
• Paul Celan. Pieces of the Dream, City Art Gallery in Czestochowa, Czestochowa, Poland 2017
• Paul Celan. Pieces of the Dream, Nuremberg House, Kraków, Poland 2017
• Seamus Heaney. Gravel Paths, Jagiellonian Library, Kraków 2015
• Sztuka książki, Silesian Library, Katowice, Poland 2014

group exhibitions [selected]

• Open Call, Common Space – LAB, 8. International Interior Design Biennial, Małopolski Ogród Sztuki, Kraków, Poland 2024
• Pathfinders, Bolivar Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA 2024
• XIV Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Italy 2023
• Graphics and Time VIII, Archive – Signs of the Times, Pryzmat Gallery, Kraków, Poland 2023
• OSTEN BIENNIAL of DRAWING Skopje 2022, National Gallery of North Macedonia, Skopje, North Macedonia 2023
• Exhibition of Laureates and Finalists of OSTEN BIENNIAL of DRAWING Skopje 2020, Multimedial Center “Mala Stanica” Skopje, North Macedonia 2021
• OSTEN BIENNIAL of DRAWING Skopje 2020, National Gallery of North Macedonia, Skopje, North Macedonia 2020
• International Print Award Carmen Arozena 2018, Madrid, Spain 2018
• Multiplicity in unity. Offset, digital techniques and intermedia activities in Polish Graphic Art, District Museum in Bydgoszcz, Poland 2018
• 3rd International Printmaking Triennial, Belgrade, Serbia 2017
• Kafka — Breaking of Borders, Gallery of Contemporary Art Elektrownia, Czeladź, Poland 2017
• 5th International Biennial of Digital Graphics – Gdynia 2016, Pomeranian Science and Technology Park, Gdynia, Poland 2016
• 4th International Biennial of Digital Graphics – Gdynia 2014, New Gallery of  Center of Design, Gdynia, Poland 2014
• BIMPE VIII, The Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada 2014
• 5th International Artists’ Book Exhibition, King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary 2013
• International Print Award „Carmen Arozena” 2012, Palacio Casa Salazar, Spain 2012
• 5th International Experimental Engraving Biennial (5IEEB), Centrul Cultural “Palatele Brancovenesti”, Mogosoaia, Romania 2012
• MATRICES 2012 International Electrographic Art Works Exhibitions of Small Forms, Próféta Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 2012
• 32nd Mini Print International of Cadaqués, Barcelona, Spain 2012
• International Print Award „Carmen Arozena” 2012, Madrid, Spain 2012
• International Print Triennial – Kraków 2012, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Kraków, Poland 2012
• 13th European Biennal Competition for Graphic Art, Arentshuis Museum, Bruges, Belgium 2012
• Correspondence, 9th International Book Art Festival, Municipal Gallery in Tarnów, Tarnów, Poland 2012
• 4th International Experimental Engraving Biennial (IEEB4), WoMen’s World – Polish Experimental Engraving, Galeria Anaid, Bucharest, Romania 2010
• MATRICES 2010 International Exhibition of Small Form Electrographic Art, Duna Gallery, Budapest, Hunagry 2010
• International Exhibition of Graphic Art Poland – Japan, Shimane Prefectural Museum, Matsue, Japan 2010
• Anatomy of Moments. Graphic Art in an Expanded Field, Grafikens Hus, Mariefred, Sweden 2003
• Contemporary Polish Book Art 2000, Illustration, 6th Edition 2000, DAP Gallery, Association of Polish Artists Warsaw District, Warsaw, Poland 2000
• Professor Jacek Rykała's Studio, BWA Katowice Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland 1999
• 17th Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting, Pomeranian Dukes' Castle, National Museum – Contemporary Art Gallery, Szczecin, Poland 1998

film, theatre and TV productions [selected]

• Lokatorka II, TV series, dir. Michał Otłowski, cine. Tomasz Madejski, TVP, 2023 [set decoration]
• Misteria Paschalia, Krakow Philharmonic, KBF, 2023 [set design]
• Siostra. Anna Rydlówna jakiej nie znamy, dir. Maria Guzy, TVP, 2023 [set design and costume design]
• This is Svejk speking, TV Theatre, dir. Maria Guzy, TVP Vilnius, Lithuania 2022 [set design, graphic design]
• Sketches for Changing the World, performance meeting with Krystian Lupa, ICE Kraków, Poland 2021 [set design]
• Stulecie Winnych, III season, dir. Klara Kochańska, Piotr Śliskowski, cine. Piotr Śliskowski, TVP, 2021  [set decoration]
• Stulecie Winnych, II season, dir. Michał Rogalski, cine. Maciej Lisiecki, TVP 2020  [set decoration]
• Crito by Plato, TV Theatre, dir. Dariusz Karłowicz, TVP Kultura, TVP Kraków, 2020 [set design]
• Boys by S. Grochowiak, TV Theatre, dir. Robert Gliński, cine. Adam Sikora, TVP, TVP Kraków. 2018 [set design]
• Lesson of Polish Language by A. Bojarska, TV Theatre, dir. Mariusz Malec, TVP, TVP Kraków 2017 [costume design]
• They by Witkacy, dir. Jacek Szarański, Stanisław Wyspiański Silesian Theatre in Katowice, 2015 [set design and costume design]
• Silesia according to Bieniasz, dir. Wojciech Sarnowicz and Krzysztof Karwat, Antena Górnośląska, 2011 [set design and costume design]
• King Lear by William Shakespeare, dir. by Tomasz Man, Leon Kruczkowski Lubuski Theatre in Zielona Góra, 2007
• The Thief, or Not All Thieves Come to Steal by Dario Fo, dir. Tomasz Man, Jan Kochanowski Theatre in Opole, 2006
• Day of the Wacko by Marek Koterski, dir. Tomasz Man, Witold Gombrowicz Municipal Theatre in Gdynia, 2006
• Harpagon based on Molière's The Miser, dir. Tomasz Man, Leon Kruczkowski Lubuski Theatre in Zielona Góra, 2005

awards [selected]

• “LORENZO IL MAGNIFICO” – IV AWARD FOR INSTALLATION ART at XIV Florence Biennale 2023
• GOLDEN OSTEN AWARD at OSTEN Biennial of Drawing Skopje 2022
• GRAND PRIX of Graphic of the Year 2021, ZPAP O/Kraków 2021
• HONOURABLE MENTION at Graphic of the Month – November 2021, ZPAP O/Kraków 2021
• SPECIAL AWARD at OSTEN Biennial of Drawing Skopje 2020
• HONOURABLE MENTION at 3rd International Digital Print Biennial – Gdynia 2012
• HONORARY DIPLOMA at MATRICES 2010 International Exhibition of Small Form Electrographic Art, Hungary 2010