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Born in 1986 in Kraków, Monika Chlebek graduated from the Fine Art Academy of Kraków in 2011 with a degree in painting.
She has exhibited extensively throughout Poland, as well as a solo show in Japan and group shows in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Italy.

Primarily a painter, Chlebek's practice centers around figurative motifs such as animals, people, and objects, elements of reality in her everyday life which attract her attention. She follows her intuition, working from what is immediate and intimate to her but endeavoring to synthesize from it a universally accessible visual language with which to speak to universal experiences.

Chlebek's process involves the distillation of reality, stripping down the excess off fragments of life to yield pure motifs, naked of context, allowing for direct engagement free of presumption or preconception. Chlebek takes advantage of this resultantly spare iconography, juxtaposing disparate images to construct new narratives.

@monikachlebek

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022. About what it is Nanazenit Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2019. Unalike Images Arsenal City Gallery, Poznań, Poland
2015. Blurring the Traces BWA Gozów Wielkopolski, Poland
2014. You Will Know a Man by His Shoes Spectra Art Space, Starak Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2014. Solo Show Gallery Yuki-Sis, Tokyo, Japan
2014. Ball Lightning and Other Stories Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2013. Not-remembering Project Room CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2011. Board Lighter Than Air Foundation for Promoting Contemporary Art Warsaw, Poland
2011. Ant Hides Under Clothes Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2011. White Walls Alliance Liaison Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2010. Bad Dreams Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021. Animal show Acappella Gallery, Naples, Italy
2021. Shadows Conceal the Earth BWA Warszawa Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2021. Under the cloak of emotions Gallery Szara Kamiencia, Kraków, Poland
2021. #collections#2000#2020 BWA Tarnów, Tarnów, Poland
2020. Love Shafter Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2018. Grayscale Galeria Biała, Lublin, Poland
2018. Maybe Tomorrow This Lady Will Give Cake to Hedgehogs Fundacja Salon, Zielona Góra, Poland
2017. New Generation Polish-Hungarian Painting MODEM Center, Debrecen, Hungary
2017. "No Problem Gallery Potencja, Kraków, Poland
2016. Grayscale Alte Feuerwache Loschwitz, Dresden, Germany
2016. Ufo Gallery Yuki-Sis, Tokyo, Japan
2015. Painters Galeria Biała, Lublin, Poland
2015. Only for your eyes Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2015. The Day When the Circus Arrived Gallery Yuki-Sis, Tokyo, Japan
2015. Artists from Kraków. Generation 1980-1990 Mocak, Kraków, Poland
2015. From Dusk till Dawn Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2014. Better to have a narrow horizon...Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2013. Memory. Registers and Territories International Centre of Culture Paramount Painting Wizytujaca Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2012. No logo Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2012. Amazing Stories Forest at Polanki 125, Gdansk, Poland
2012. Wait! New acquisitions to Zderzak's collection Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2012. Artist in Residence Bm:uk, Vienna, Austria
2011. Blue Velvet Palace in Ryczów, Poland
2011. About Strange Feelings Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2011. Moon Hostel and The Moovies Center for Artistic Activities, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland
2010. Mambo Spinoza Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland
2009. Moon Hostel Zderzak Gallery, Kraków, Poland

This exhibition will donate a 10% of its sales to All Dogs Matter.

“ All Dogs Matter is a dog rescue and rehoming charity working in and around London to transform the lives of unwanted and abandoned dogs. We also rehome dogs in need from overseas.
In 2021 All Dogs Matter rescued and rehomed 330 dogs with new owners. We also found forever homes for 48 unwanted and abandoned dogs from China, Egypt and Italy.”