19th and 20th edition of Hestia Artistic Journey Competition | tour by Katie Zazenski

Описание: This year, the final exhibition of our jubilee competition is unique in many ways. Its inspiring duet leads the viewer down a path of visual phenomena that are worth lingering over, even if only for a moment. It is a review that gives credence to the honest struggle and the real aspirations of the young art scene. It is a collection of experiences, ideas and concepts that also provide a mirror for our everyday life.

Katie Zazenski is an American-born, Warsaw-based artist, curator, writer, and lecturer whose practice is centered around interconnectedness and community. Often working collaboratively, her work has been included in exhibitions at public and private institutions including the San Diego Art Institute (CA, USA), the Mercedes Benz Americas Headquarters (MI, USA), the Zachęta National Gallery of Art (PL), and the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius (LT). Zazenski has co-directed the independent, Warsaw-based art space Stroboskop since January 2018 and more recently, has joined the editorial team at BLOK Magazine (PL), where she focuses on the community of non-institutional spaces in Eastern+Central Europe. She also lectures regularly in sculpture and drawing at institutions in the US and Poland. Her current studio work is focused on liminality, rejecting binary reductivism, and building dimensionality back into the concepts we embody and the spaces which we occupy. Shelley Odradek, a collaboration with O. Andrzejewska, was developed during a residency at the Center for Contemporary Art, Ujzadowski Castle (PL) in October 2020. Shelley has since worked with Warszawa Biennale, Digital Artist Residency, and will launch a collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the autumn. Zazenski received her MFA in Sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art (MI, USA) and is a two-time Fulbright Fellow to Poland where she is currently based.

Finalists of 19th edition of Hestia Artistic Journey Competition:

Natalia Galasińska, Veronika Hapchenko, Maja Janczar, Agata Jarosławiec, Adam Kozicki, Anna Kwiatkowska, Małgorzata Mycek, Michał Myszkowski, Grażyna Monika Olszewska, Karolina Pawelczyk, Anna Rutkowska, Ewelina Węgiel, Jan Eustachy Wolski, Bożena Wydrowska, Katarzyna Wyszkowska.

Finalists of 20th edition of Hestia Artistic Journey Competition:

Kinga Burek, Anna Grzymała, Jan Kowal, Antoni Lisowski, Sylwia Marszałek-Jeneralczyk, Piotr Mlącki, Iwo Panasiewicz, Przemysław „Piniak” Piński, Maria Plucińska, Jan Porczyński, Justyna Streichsbier, Julia Woronowicz, Katarzyna Wójcicka, Ewelina Zając, Weronika Zalewska