MARZENA TUREK GAS

Malarstwo dotyka przede wszystkim sfer niewerbalnych i w tym tkwi jego siła. Może być ono mocne, zdecydowane
i czułe zarazem.
Ważnym elementem mojej pracy jest interdyscyplinarność, która pozwala mi budować i rozszerzać przestrzeń
malarską za pomocą wielu mediów od 2D do 3D. Do każdego problemu staram się podchodzić inaczej.
Jest to najprostsza droga do odkrywania w sobie ukrytych możliwości i zapasów nowych pomysłów.
Obok tradycyjnych technik używam takich materiałów jak : taśmy pasmanteryjne, wiatr, ocieplina, śnieg ,
farba proszkowa, styropian, szpilki, słońce, lód.
Marzena Turek Gas

Painting primarily affects non-verbal areas and therein lies its strength. It may be powerful, strong and
sensitive at the same time.
An important element of my work is interdisciplinarity, which enables me to build and expand the space of
painting with various media from 2D to 3D.
I try to approach each problem differently. This is the easiest way to discover the hidden opportunities and
new ideas. In addition to traditional techniques I use materials such as fabric ribbons, wind, wadding, snow,
powder paint, styrofoam, pins, sun, ice.
Marzena Turek Gas

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Whether they are footprints on the snowy road, rusty metal pipes or strange useless objects, her art is
all about enjoying life and having fun by creating artworks. Wherever she goes, she finds inspiration and
discovers graphical meanings of objects.
Zofia Noga Gallery

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Born

Bialystok, Poland, 27 DEC.1972

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Education

1996 – 2001 MFA, Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Printmaking Department – Katowice, Poland.
1987 – 1992 Secondary School of Fine Arts in Nałęczów, Poland. Furniture Design Diploma
Lives and works in Warsaw. She creates paintings, photographs, graphics, drawings, graphic design, environment,
assemblage, ready-mades, installations and actions.
She is experimenting, using various techniques combined with music and movement to communicate with
audience. For example: Air Beds, Chili Blood, StepSteps, Live Painting Roller-Skating, Shapes of Colour,
Ribbons, Making White/ Making Colour, Felling Colour, Touch&Play …

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Solo exhibitions

2011
- Shapes of colour/City Tour, Night of the Museums, SPTL30/32, Studio 12, Warsaw (PL)
2010
- Shapes of Colour & Sound (sound by P.Prochnowski), Shoot Me Film Festival, The Hague (Netherlands)
- Shapes of Colour & Sound (sound by P.Prochnowski) Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski / Teatr w Oknie (PL)
- Making Colours / Ribbons, X Art Meeting, Street Art, action in The Castle Park, Pszczyna (PL)
- Shapes of Colour / All Size, 1st Edition / Milano Gallery, Night of the Museums, Warsaw (PL)
- Shapes of Colour / All Size, SPTL 30/32, Studio/Gallery 12, Night of the Museums, Warsaw (PL)
- LINEMOTIV, SPTL 30/32, Studio/Gallery 12, Warsaw (PL)
2009
- Making Colours & Music (music by P.Prochnowski) SPTL 30/32, Studio/Gallery 12, Warsaw (PL)
- Making Colour / Ribbons, Teatr w Oknie - Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski, Gdańsk (PL)
- Live Painting Roller - Skating, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk (PL)
- All Size – Double Action / Double Night, SPTL 30/32, Gallery 12, Night of the Museums, Warsaw (PL)
- Feeling Colour, Villa Marilor, Zakopane (PL)
- Women’s Day, Galeria Promocji Młodych, Łódź (PL)
- UNITED STARS / Making Colour, Hawerkamp Festival, Muenster (Germany)
- HOLI WOOD, Domoteka Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
- HAIQ, Sushi Tekeda, Warsaw (PL)
2008
- Feeling Colour (Piękne I Bestie), Galeria Ateneum Młodych, Warsaw (PL)
- Visual+Music, live painting - video, live music, SPTL 30/32, Studio 12, Warsaw (PL)
- Air Beds / Feeling Colour, live painting - video, Piksel Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
- All Size / Live Painting Roller-Skating, Info Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
- Chilli Blood, Fresh, SPTL 30/32, Atelier 12, Night of the Museums, Warsaw (PL)
- FRESH painting 2008, Galeria Delfiny, Warsaw (PL)
2007
- Live Painting Roller-Skating / By Night, The Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw (PL)
- Marzena Turek Gas - December 2007 The virtual space of Noga Gallery, London (UK)
- Open Studio No. 12, Home Making project, SPTL 30/32, Warsaw (PL)
- Document/Action, 12 Gallery, Warsaw’s Night of Museums (PL)
- Making White / Making Color / Air Beds, MMS/7 project, Fabs Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
- Swing Design, MMS/4 project, Do Trzech Razy Sztuka Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
2006
- Painting, MMS/6 project, 13 Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
- StepSteps/ Action, MMS/5 project, 12 Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
- MMS/2 project, Lysy Pingwin, Warsaw (PL)
- Live Painting Roller-Skating / Drivin Me’ Jazzy, action, MMS/1 project, M25, Warsaw (PL)
- Fully Objecive Compositions, MMS/3 project, Jadlodajnia Filozoficzna Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
- Neighbours for Neighbours V Edition, 11 Gallery, SPTL 30/32, Warsaw (PL)
- The Warsaw Festival of Fine Arts, Studio/12 Gallery, SPTL 30/32, Warsaw (PL)
2003
- Funky, posters, Rynek Gallery, Bytom (PL)
2002
- Graphic Design & Installations, Bonar Gallery, Lomza (PL)
2001
Swing / Diploma; GCK Sektor 1 Gallery, Katowice (PL)
1999
- Painting, GCK, ASP Gallery, Katowice (PL)
1998
- Painting , U Eliasza ...Gallery, Pszczyna (PL)
1997
- Summer Promotion, Bonar Gallery, Łomża (PL)

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Group Exhibitions

2010
- Domoteka Design Days, Domoteka Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
- Aspects 2010, Rondo Gallery, Lodz (PL)
- International Print Triennial, works: Pins & Screws, Horst-Jansen Museum, Oldenburg (Germany)
- International Poster Exhibition, Pécsi Galéria (Hungary)
2009
- Color in Graphic Art; 6th International Print Triennial, Wozownia Art Gallery, Torun (PL)
- Sweet in Art; work: Making Color / Go Orange! Go Red!; Art. Gallery, Legnica (PL)
- 5. International Festival of Visual Art inSPIRACJE / Space, Szczecin (PL)
- Galeria CUUUD, Gdansk (PL)
- Galeria Gaz, Lodz (PL)
2008
- Culture and ..., International Poster Exhibition, Pécsi Galéria (Hungary)
- Mask / Action, 12 artists, Warsaw (PL)
- IconData Directory of Print 2008, International Print Triennial, Cracow (PL)
2007
- 07.07.07 from 7am to 7pm, 7 artists; work: Chilli Blood / installation, Piksel Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
- Between spot and dash, Print; works: Street Swing , DAP Gallery, Warsaw (Poland)
- IconData Directory of Print, International Print Triennial, Cracow (Poland)
2006
- Painting, The Studio at Pankiewicz str., Warsaw (PL)
- 4th BLOK VI International Triennale of Eco Poster, Kharkow (Ukraine)
- Painting Exhibition, Museum of Local History, Ivano-Frankovsk (Ukraine)
- International Print Triennial, Seoul (Korea)
- Golden Bee 7 International Biennial of Graphic Design, icograda, The Central House of Artist, Moscow
(Russia)
- IconData Directory of Print, International Print Triennial, Cracow, (PL)
- Metropolis, the outdoor exhibition, which takes place in front of the Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Cracow (PL)
2005
- Group Portrait of Polish People, 2b Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
- Cow Parade , work: Muuuuza, location - Rondo ONZ, Warsaw (PL)
- IconData 2005/ International Print Triennial Cracow (PL)
- The Open Art Fair wARTo; work: White sculpture with blue, Old Norblin Factory, Warsaw (PL)
- The Open Art Fair wARTo; work: Black & White InstallAction; Old Norblin Factory and 2b Gallery, Prezen
tacje theatre, Warsaw (PL)
- The Open Art Fair wARTo; work: Printing Snow; Old Norblin Factory and 2b Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
2004
- The Art Fair wARTo; work: Tickets / Valid from...through..; Norblin Factory and 2b Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
- AMS Poster Gallery, Królikarnia, Warsaw (PL)
- Mostra Collettiva Di Arte Contenporanea, Catania, Catania, Italy (2003 – 2004)
2003
- International Triennale of Eco Poster and Graphics 4 Block, Kharkow (Ukraine)
- The Thirteenth Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Coordinator: Linda Frickman,
Exhibition Directors: Bob Coonts, John Gravdahl, Phil Risbeck, Colorado State University Hatton and
Curfman Galleries, 12/9/03 – 24/10/03 (USA)
- Graphic Responses: an on-Line Exhibition, Colorado, 01/09/03 – 30/09/03 (USA)
2002
- 20th International Biennale of Graphic Design,” Moravian Gallery, Curator of the Biennale:
PhDr. Marta Sylvestrova, Dyrector: PhDr. Kaliopi Chamonikola, PhD., Brno (Czech Republic)
(18/6/02 – 20/10/02
2001
- Printmaking in The Year 2001, ASP Gallery, Cracow; GCK Gallery, Katowice (PL)
- Öko Art, Projects of Installations for Sculpture Park by young group artists professor’s Bernhard
Matthes, The Polish Institute, Leipzig (Germany)
- Kalarus and Friends, MM Gallery, Chorzow, 13/6/01– 2/7/01 (PL)
- Graduate Exhibition, GCK Sektor 1 Gallery, Katowice (PL)
- Landscape in Contemporary Painting, Pryzmat Gallery, Cracow (PL)
- The Twelfth Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Hatton and Curfman Galleries,
Exhibition Directors: Bob Coonts, John Gravdahl, Phil Risbeck, Colorado, 14/9/01 – 19/10/01 (USA)
- 3rd Festival of Posters, Krzysztofory Palace Museum, Cracow (PL)
2000
- 3rd International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Ogaki Poster Museum 2000/2001 (Japan)
- Junge Künstler Europäischer Akademien, Polen - Deutschland / Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank,
München /Abteilung Kultur und Gesellschaft, Munich (Germany)
- Our World in The Year 2000, The United Nations Millenium Art Exhibition, selected from The Winsor &
Newton Worldwide Millennium Painting Competition in aid of The Prince’s Foundation and UNICEF, NY,
(USA )
(12/7/00 – 28/8/00) The Millennium Art Exhibition Curated by John Sheeran, Curatorial Assistants
Sara Hill, Alison Newell, Patronage: The Prince of Wales, Kofi Annan
- Our World in The Year 2000; World Trade Centre, Stockholm 19/3/00 – 2/4/00 (Sweden)
- Our World in The Year 2000; Mall Galleries, Patronage:The Prince of Wales, London 23 – 26 February
(UK)
- Our World in The Year 2000, Patronage: Kofi Annan, ONZ, Nowy Jork, 12/7/00 – 28/8/00 (USA)
- Arches, Marcholt Gallery, Katowice (PL)
- Plakátok/Posters 2000, Pécsi Galéria & Grafika Műhely (Hungary)
1999
- Wypukłodruk, GCK, Katowice
- Landscape in Contemporary Painting, Pryzmat Gallery, Cracow (PL)
- Cracow and Music, KOKNAP’98, The Bunker of Art Gallery, Cracow (PL)
patronage: Elżbieta i Krzysztof Pendereccy

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Works In Collections:

The Central House of Artist in Moscow (Russia), Poster Collection in Kharkow (Ukraine), Colorado State
University, Hatton and Curfman Galleries (USA), Ogaki Poster Museum (Japan), Bayerische Hypo-und
Vereinsbank in Munich (Germany), Moravian Gallery Brno (Czech Republic), Pécsi Galéria (Hungary),
Galeria AMS, Nogagaleria in London (UK), SMTG International Print Triennial (Cracow PL), ASP in Katowice
and in many private collections in Poland and abroad m.in.: Gdansk, Warsaw, Katowice, Cracow,
Poznan, London, New York, France.

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Scholarships, Distinctions & Awards

2011
- Grant for Art in the Public Space Marzena Turek Gas SHAPES OF COLOUR/CITY TOUR Warsaw
(PL)
2006
- Arts Scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for realization mms-project/
Moje Miejsca Sieciowe, Warsaw (PL)
2001
- Arts Scholarship from the Hugo Kollataj Foundation, Katowice (PL)
2000
- Honourable Mention, Winsor & Newton „Our World in the Year 2000” world - wide Millennium Painting
Competition ( prize for the painting „ Above and Beneath” in Polish Edition), Patronage – The Prince of
Wales; Secretary – General, United Nations Kofi Annan
1999
- „Cracow and Music” an distinction for the design of Poster ‘98 The Bunker of Art. Gallery in Cracow,
Patronage – Elzbieta, Krzysztof Penderecki (PL)
- „Young Artist of European Academies,” Poland – Germany ( an award for the painting) Cracow, Munich

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Publications, Articles, Catalogues, Interview (selected)

- France Culture, interview, radio (FR)2011
- Karolina Jablonska; Profiles / Marzena Turek-Gas, Poza Ramami Malarstwa; Sztuka i Dokumentacja No.2
Apears twice a year Spring 2010 (PL)
- Color in Graphic Art; 6th International Print Triennial, Identity and Tradition, exh. catalogue September
– October 2009 Wozownia Art Gallery in Torun (Poland)
- Magdalena Wicherkiewicz: The Expanding Field of Painting; EXIT; new art in Poland; Quarterly No. 3(79)
2009
- Lukasz Guzek: Jedna przestrzeń – wiele obrazów – jeden obraz – wiele przestrzeni Enter/Escape
(s. 19-20) Arteon; art. magazine No. 5(109) May 2009 (PL)
- Gazeta inSPIRACJI, Numer 1, Numer 2 jednodniówki festiwalowe, 19 marca, 20 marca, 2009
- Gazeta Wyborcza, Szczecin NR 66.5979, Ewa Podgajna Można malować jagodami…, albo jeżdżąc na
wrotkach tryskających farbą (PL)
- Rzeczpospolita 6 marca 2009, Dodatek specjalny, Julia Rzemek Obrazy wychodzą z ram
- 5.International Festival of Visual Art, Karolina Jablonska: Enter/Escape – how does painting shape New
spaces? exh. catalogue 2009 (PL)
- Sweet in Art; M. Szpatowicz, exh. Catalogue; Art Gallery in Legnica 2009 (PL)
- Foto 3/2009 index 250597 M. Turek - Gas: Feeling Colour 2008 ISSN 0324-8453 (2009)
- Magdalena Furmanik: Artystki o Kobietach (s. 96,97); Zadra nr 1-2 (38-39) 2009
- Nowa Gazeta Praska nr 5(353) 7marca 2007, Joanna Kiwilszo Making White/Making Colour Marzena
Turek Gaś, Warszawa (PL)
- Polish Eagles 2006; Young Polish Print in Seoul; Korea Fundation Cultural Center JoongAng IIbo Buil
ding 18.05-18.06.2006 exh. Catalogue
- TV Reportage 2006 (FR)
- Warsaw Fine Arts Festival (WFSP 2006) Communication. Identyfication. Access; Honorary patronage;
Minister of Culture and National Heritage Kazimierz Michal Ujazdowski ISBN 83-89099-48-9
- Cow Parade; Warsaw 2005, exh. Catalogue
- Marzena Turek-Gas; Swing; works: Printing Snow / Tytul Roboczy / otwarty magazyn sztuki; monthly
2005.01/02 (005/006)
- Marzena Turek-Gas; Valid from...through..., works: Tickets / Tytul Roboczy / otwarty magazyn sztuki;
monthly 2004.12 (004)
- Galeria Plakatu AMS 1, exh. catalogue ISBN 83-89945-01-0; 2004
- Thirteenth Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Hatton and Curfman Galleries, Depart
ment of Art, Colorado State University Fort Colins, USA exh. Catalogue 2003
- 20th International Biennale of Graphic Design Brno 2002, Moravian Gallery in Brno, 18.06.- 20.10.2002
exh. Catalogue (Czech Republic)
- Marzena Turek-Gas, Bonar Gallery, Lomza, exh. Catalogue 2002 (PL)
- The Twelft Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Hatton and Curfman Galleries, Depart
ment of Art, Colorado State University Fort Colins, exh. Catalogue 2001 (USA)
- Our World in The Year 2000, Winsor & Newton, The United Nations Millennium Art Exhibition selected
from The Winsor & Newton Worldwide Millennium Painting Competition in aid The Prince’s Foundation
and UNICEF at Mall Galleries, London, World Trade Centre, Stockholm, United Nations, New York exh.
catalogue 2000 (USA)
- 3rd International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Ogaki Poster Museum, exh. catalogue 2000 (Japan)
- Junge Kunstler Europaischer Akademien, Polen – Deutschland, exh. catalogue 2000 (Germany)
- KOKNAP ’98 6.01.-20.01.1999 exh. catalogue Cracow and Music“, The Bunker of Art Gallery, Cracow
(PL)

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