Silesian Voivodeship or Silesia Province is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia, with Katowice serving as its capital.
Bielsko-Biała is a city in southern Poland, with a population of approximately 168,319 as of December 2021, making it the 22nd largest city in Poland, and an area of 124.51 km2 (48.07 sq mi). It is a centre of the Bielsko Urban Agglomeration with 325,000 inhabitants and is an administrative, automotive, education, transport, and tourism hub of Podbeskiedzie Region as well as the Bielsko Industrial Region. It serves as the seat of the Bielsko County, Euroregion Beskydy, Roman Catholic Diocese of Bielsko–Żywiec and the Evangelical Church Diocese of Cieszyn.
Stefan Gierowski was a Polish painter and an avant garde artist of post-war Poland.
Gdańsk Wrzeszcz railway station is a railway station serving the city of Gdańsk, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1870 and is located on the Gdańsk–Stargard railway, the parallel Gdańsk Śródmieście–Rumia railway and Gdańsk Wrzeszcz–Gdańsk Osowa railway. The station is located in the Wrzeszcz quarter of the city. The train services are operated by PKP, Przewozy Regionalne and SKM Tricity. Koleje Mazowieckie trains operate here during the summer.
Sopot railway station is the main railway station serving the city of Sopot, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1870 and is located on the Gdańsk–Stargard railway and the parallel Gdańsk Śródmieście–Rumia railway. The train services are operated by PKP, Polregio and SKM Tricity. Koleje Mazowieckie trains operate here during the summer.
The Bielsko-Biała Museum, also known as the Castle of the Sułkowski Princes is a museum for the city of Bielsko-Biała, Poland located in the historical Bielsko Castle. Three local branches of the museum have been established since the 1970s: the Julian Fałat Museum, the Museum of Technology and Textile Industry, and the Weaver's House Museum.
Galeria Bielska BWA is a municipal art gallery of Bielsko-Biała, Poland, dedicated to the contemporary art. It carries out exhibition, publishing, documentary and educational activities. It is the organiser of the Painting Biennale Bielsko Autumn and the Bielsko-Biała Visual Arts Festival.
Eugeniusz Molski is a Polish contemporary artist, painter and sculptor. Attended a State Fine Arts College in Nałęczów and a State Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław where he obtained his diploma in 1969. He specializes in architectural painting and ceramics. Since 1969 he has been employed at the Fine Arts College in Nowy Wiśnicz. He does mural and easel painting as well as ceramics and sculpture.
Roman Zakrzewski was a Polish painter. After beginning his artistic education in high school in Bielsko-Biała, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and in 1985 from Jerzy Nowosielski studio. He lived and worked in Kraków.
Jacek Sempoliński was a Polish painter, draftsman, art professor, critic, and essayist.
Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan Poznań is one of the major fine-art academies in Poland. It was founded in 1919 as the State School of Decorative Arts.
Tomasz Jerzy Vetulani is a Polish painter, drawer and sculptor. Born and educated in Kraków, he moved to Utrecht in 1991, and he has been active there since, holding also a citizenship of the Netherlands. In his works, using among others silicone and sponge, he includes both personal references and comments on current political and social issues.
Piotr Janas is a Polish artist. He has had solo gallery exhibitions in Berlin, Warsaw and San Francisco. In 2006, he was included in the group show Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, curated by Franceco Bonami at the Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea as well as Polish Painting of the 21st Century at the National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and the 50th International Venice Bienniale in 2003. He currently lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
Kamila Wozniakowska is a Polish-Canadian Postwar & Contemporary painter whose work "blends the narrative aspects of 18th century engravings, appropriation art techniques, and repetition."
Joanna Zastróżna is a Polish photographer and filmmaker. She graduated in 1997 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Zastróżna resides in Sopot and in Sidi Ifni.
Marek Kijewski and Małgorzata Malinowska, Polish artists, were cooperating since 1996 as Kijewski/Kocur duo in Warsaw, Poland. They often worked in the studios of the Centre of Polish Sculpture until the artist's death in 2007. Their works, in Polish art, was inspired by pop art and it showed the most distinct example of using pop art in the era of post-modernist experiments and reactions to the new reality and new economic-cultural situation that was forming in Poland in the early '90s.
Jakub Ciężki was born in 1979 in Lublin, Poland. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, in 2003; He was granted an honors degree in the painting atelier of Prof. Jacek Wojciechowski. Ciężki is a painter fascinated with street furniture along with realistic abstractions. He is attracted by the industrial landscape.
Lech Polcyn is a Polish graphic artist, photographer and painter, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
Zbigniew Bielewicz was a Polish artist, painter, graphic designer, and teacher. He was also a soldier during World War II. He was awarded a medal for participation in the defensive war of 1939[pl] and the "Veteran of the Fight for Freedom and Independence of the Fatherland" badge[pl].
Ewa Juszkiewicz is a Polish surrealist painter. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts. She is considered one of the best-known contemporary Polish artists.
