There is a wonderful sort of poetry in Tatiana Wolska’s search for everyday materials, in the deconstruction and reconstruction of all the things that carry, package, or wrap, and that are often overlooked. The poetry written by the small and the unsightly.
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This ungraspable, fleeting core makes the drawings, paintings, sculptures, and architectural installations of the Polish-born artist, who has been living in Brussels for almost two years now, scintillating. It is art that gets under the skin of life, and smashes borders by drawing from its whimsicality.

~ KURT SNOEKX • (BRUZZ, 2018)

 

Born in Zawiercie, Poland, 1977.
Lives and works in Brussels.

 

In 2007 she graduated from École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts in Villa Arson, Nice. Describing herself a ‘junk collector’, Wolska uses discarded plastic bottles, salvaged timber, rusty nails and foam from old mattresses and ‘gives them a new life’. She transforms these humble, discarded materials into seductive poetic, biomorphic sculptures.

 

Wolska was awarded a prestigious Salon de Montrouge prize in 2014, which led to the presentation of her works at Palais de Tokyo in 2014 and 2015. Since then Wolska has been exhibited in numerous French and Belgian institutions such as Duchamp Art Center, Yvetot, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur- la-Sorgue, Frac Centre-Val de Loire, Orléans, Les Tanneries, Amilly, Van Buuren Museum, Brussels, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Galerie de la Marine, Nice, FRAC Corse, FRAC PACA, Marseille.

 

In the last few years, with installations at Frac Corse in Corte (FR), Villa Empain in Brussels (BE) or Frac Centre-Val de Loire in Orléans (FR), Tatiana Wolska has expanded her creative process towards makeshift shelters and nomadic dwellings.

 

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Belladonna, curator: Marianne Derrien, Drawing Lab, Paris (FR) 2025

Leisure as Resistance, Midlands Art Center, Birmingham (UK) 2024

Ecological Art from Beneath, Gangwon International Triennale, South Korea 2024

ARBOS, Lustwarande, Tilburg (NL) 2024

L’art de rien, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels 2023

Les Heures Sauvages – Nef des Margens dans l’ombre des certitudes, Centre Wallonie, Bruxelles, Paris 2023

Sculpture en île, Île Nancy, Andrésy (FR) 2023

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe, FRAC Corsica, Corti (FR) 2022

Sculpture in the City – 10th edition, London, UK, launch 15 June 2021

Les Variations du Possible, Domaine departemental de Chamarande, France, 19 May – 20 June 2021

Autobiographies of Santiana Welcoq, Gallerie Duchamp, Yvetot, 2021

Recycler/Surcycler, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France, 2020

Toutes les lignes droites sont courbes, Villa Carpentier, Ronse, Belgium, 2020

Femme, Bibliothèque communale de Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels,2019

Principe d’Incertitude, Les Tanneries, Amily, 2019

Matrix, Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Poznan, Poland, 2019

1st Rabat Biennale of Contemporary Art, Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Oudayas Museum, Fort Hervé and Borj Adoumoue bastion, Rabat, Morocco, 2019

L’Art Chemin Faisant… Paysages de Formes, Centre d’art L’Atelier d’Estienne, Pont-Scorff, France, 2019

2nd Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans, Frac Centre-Val de Loire, Orléans, France, 2019

Melancholia, group show, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium, 2018

La Collection BIC, Paris, CentQuarte, Paris, France, 2018

PRESENT, Musée et Jardins Van Buuren, Uccle, Belgium, 2018

Nous n’aurons de cesse d’explorer, Double-V Gallery, Marseille, France, 2017

Le clou, FRAC PACA, Marseille, France, 2016

Principe d’incertitude, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2015

Les Modules, Fondation Pierre Bergé & Yves Saint-Laurent, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2014

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