Wolińska Maja
In 1997 she graduated from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, majoring in Printmaking.
My area of artistic and didactic practice includes methods and narrative experiments used in contemporary Time-Based Media: video, sequential photography, sound, audiovisual and non-linear live action. I work with both "laboratory" forms, requiring precise studio work, and "external" forms; from site-specific installations to observational and para-documentary projects. Since 2010, together with Joan Leandre, I have been involved in "Commonheavens", an artistic duo focusing on off-road photography and film.
My works, presented during Polish and international artistic events, are also in the collections of Polish and foreign cultural institutions. My recent activities include collective multimedia live concerts and large-format projections created on the basis of image and sound generated in real time. At the same time I work on projects dedicated to memory, the process of obliterating and overwriting reality. In my studio work I observe and record microphenomena in microecosytems. I focus on the affirmation of imperceptible manifestations of biological life.
Awards and scholarships
2014 – Szczecin European Film Festival, first award in the Polish competition, Szczecin, Poland
Exhibitions
2021 – Invisible, group exhibition, College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwhārangi at Massey University, New Zealand
2020 – OVNI Finals D'Hivern, festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2020 – Random Check, Sacrum-Profanum Festival of Contemporary Music, online
2020 – Interleaved Space / Tramsmediale Vorspiel, multimedia performance, Vierte Welt, Berlin, Germany
2019 – The tenth anniversary of Art Brut Gallery / Community, ArtBrut Gallery, Wrocław
2019 – Invisible, group exhibition, Detroit Broadway Gallery, Detroit, USA
2019 – International Animation Day / Kinematropia, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław
2017 – EARTH RAYS OF THE SUN, Maja Wolińska & Joan Leandre, KINO Media Art Gallery, Lower Silesian Film Centre, Wrocław
Conferences
2018 – Claude Lévi-Strauss: structure and the untamed, Polish Academic Conference, Institute of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
2018 – Dynamic Systems, 3. Polish Academic Conference accompanying the Best Diploma Competition in Media Art, chair of the panel of speakers, E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wrocław
2016 – Concepts and practices of research, creation and didactics at media faculties of art academies, Polish Conference, E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wrocław
Publications
2020 – Medium in time. Narrative methods in examples of media art students' activities, article, monograph of the Media Art Department, Extended Image, published by Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Wrocław
2016 – WAYS, TRAILS, TRACKS methods of constructing non-linear, interactive audiovisual narratives as exemplified by the activities of students of the Media Art Department [in:] Academic and Artistic Magazine of the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław Discourse no. 22/2016
2007 – Internet: The Universe as we know it, [in:] Academic and Artistic Magazine of the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław Discourse no. 6/2007
Video works
2020 – Autumn Nova, video installation
2020 – Random Check, documentation of a performance, Maja Wolińska, Marcin Rupociński
2019 – The sky was a cloud, video / cgi engine
2017 – Strata / Substrata, video installation
2017 – Subtle Passage, video, created within the Commonheavens project, Maja Wolinska and Joan Leandre
2016 – Float Diamond, video
2015 – Walking the Dog, video installation
2014 – 2014 Echoes Course, video
2012-2013 – Low Poly Eden, video / cgi engine
2011 – The last golden afternoon, video