About me

Agnieszka Borkowska

ARTIST / DESIGNER / OWNER OF THE STUDIO

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      I deal with artistic ceramics. In 1995, I graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź at the Faculty of Visual Education – a diploma in painting in the studio of Romy Hałat.
In 1997-98, I completed one-year postgraduate studies at Kunsthøgskole and Bergen in Norway at the ceramics department.
In 1998, I started working as an individual designer under the Cerama Studio brand.
I currently live and work in Zgierz.
  Since the beginning of my work with ceramics, I have gone through all the techniques. I started with low-fired clay, through stoneware, to porcelain, which I value the most. This creative path allowed me to improve my artistic and craft skills in the full range of experiments and experiences with the material.
      I started working with ceramics with a series of bas-reliefs using the silica sand casting technique I developed and a series of large sculptural objects in which I tried to combine two materials – stoneware with chamotte and porcelain.
    I gradually came to the aesthetics I use now. After years of experience, I have mastered the technique of working with the most difficult material – porcelain. It offers extraordinary technological and aesthetic possibilities, and is at the same time difficult and demanding. It is a material “from the earth”, when colored it becomes opaque, material, in its pure form, thin-walled, it is phenomenally non-obvious and ephemeral. As a material, it is somewhere between ceramics and glass.For me, the most important thing in working with porcelain is the ability to talk about extremely different elements – earth, water, air in one work.
      Sculptural objects are a separate part of my work. The inspiration for their creation is, as always, nature. Here I combine different, distant materials: wood worn by sea water, metal, porcelain, stoneware and low-fired clay. Even though I have been doing it for several years, this work is just beginning for me. It gives many opportunities to explore materials and talk about delights and fears in contact with nature.                                                                                                                           Working with functional forms with concentration and deep reflection, I try to find a balance between the aesthetics of the object and its function. I adhere to the principle that beauty ennobles, that by communing with it we become better, we derive pleasure from life, we learn to celebrate it. Using various techniques, I record in ceramics my vision of the surrounding world, my thinking about the object, my desire to strive for perfection.I am inspired by everything: music, nature, friends. I combine art and utility, content and function in small sculptural forms that I create in jewelry. It is also my fascination with infinity and the richness of nature’s forms.
 

I take part in annual festivals and ceramic shows:

2023                       Keramion Frechen, Leipzig, Bremen, Höhr Grenzhausen, Siegburg,Germany 
                               Clay Days Graz, Gmunden, Austria                     
                               Keramisto, Holland
2022                       Keramion Frechen, Leipzig, Dresden, Siegburg, Rheinsberg, Germany
                               Clay Days Graz, Gmunden, Austria ,  Keramisto, Holland
2021                       Graz, Gmunden Austria
                               Leipzig, Rheinsberg Germany
2020                       Graz, Gmunden Austria,   Dresden Germany
2019                       Graz, Gmunden Austria,  Hoer-Grenzhausen, Frechen, Rheinsberg Germany,  Milsbeek Holland
2018                       Graz, Austria
                               Urbach, Frechen, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Bonn, Iznang, Oldenburg, Achen,   
                               Germany 
2017                       Keramion Frechen, Bonn, Köln, Oldenburg,Achen, Germany
2016                       Frechen, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Hanau, Germany
                               Delft, Holland
                               Argilla, Faenza, Italy
2015                       Euregio, Raeren, Belgium
                               Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany
2008 – 2016           Ceramic Festiwal, Bolesławiec, Poland
2005-2008, 2014  Ceramic Meetings, Warsaw, Poland
1999                      “Ceramic Millennium”, 8th International Ceramic Symposium Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Awards, Grants, Stipends

2004                       Studio Grant  Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder,Trondheim, Norway
1997 – 1998           Norwegian Government Scholarship, Bergen, Norway. Program indywidualnych studio podyplomowych.
1995                       Władysława Strzemiński Competition, Superintendant’s Award.
1994 – 1995            Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and Art for outstanding scientific achievements.
1992 – 1994          Scientific scholarship from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland

Solo exhibitions

2022                       Galerie 10er Haus, Gmungen, Austria
1998                       ‘’Ecco’’ Gallery, Bergen, Norway (SHKD Support).
1996                       Galeria Jazz Club ‘’Partes’’, Łódź, Polska.
1996                       Galeria Miejskiego Ośrodka Kultury, Zgierz, Polska.

Group Exhibitions

2024                     Artshow, Warszawa
2023                      In  connection with art – Bochema, Łódź
                              Accompanying exhibition 35 Österreichischer Töpfermarkt Gmunden, Austria
                              20th Warsaw Art Fair
                              Artshow, Warszawa
2007                    25th anniversary of the Faculty of Visual Education, Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of the City of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
2002                      Exhibition of students of Professor Romy Hałat, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Łódź, Poland
2001                    „9” 3rd edition of the Poland-Scandinavia artist exchange program, City Gallery, Łódź, Poland (co-curator).
2001                     “9” 2nd edition of the Poland – Scandinavia artist exchange program, Foreningen Kunstnernes Hus, Arhus, Denmark                      
1999/2000            1st International Drawing Competition, Wrocław, Polanda.
1999                      ”5”, 1st edition of the Poland – Scandinavia artist exchange program, Gallery Manhattan, Łódź, Poland (curator of the exhibition).
1998                      ‘’Fast Forward’’, Hordaland Kunstner Sentrum, Bergen, Norway.   
1997                      ”Me” 11 young artists, Galeria museum of the City of Łódź, Poland.
1993                      Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Łódź, Poland.
1989                      ”Once”, MOK Gallery, Zgierz, Poland.