Bio
Daria Pietryka graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Interior Design Department (MA in Fine Arts) in Wroclaw, and University College Dublin, School of Architecture(BSc – Architectural Science). She is dealing with architecture and interiors on a daily basis. Painting is treated as a springboard, non-verbal way of communicating with the world. She is fascinated by the expression that might be set by the color – and communicates it in her works. Her paintings often depict man as a social being, sometimes a little lonesome.
‘I am fascinated with ambiguity. I aim for my painting to be multi-layered, both metaphorically and formally. I think this is the key to the balance I seek – between form and content. I take the inspiration from the people I meet and nature. When I paint I trasfer those situation into metaphores as I believe the meaning shouldn’t be literal. Art should be meaningful and thought-provoking, so I am happy when the viewer play along with their own interpretation. Then what is personal to me becomes, in a way, generally accessible through painting, and my work acquires layers (of meaning).’
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2025
- Things That Were, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, PL
2023
- Conversations at the Cauldron, Legnica Art Gallery, PL
2020
- Between Us, M Gallery, Wrocław, PL
2017
- Na styku, Agora Culture Centre, Wrocław, Poland
2012
- Expedition, Platon Gallery of Art, Wroclaw, Poland
2010
- I’ll Tell You a Fairy Tale, New Theatre, Krakow
- The Curious Case of Mrs Cloud, The Mill Theatre, Dundrum, Dublin
2007
- Shot, Kamfora Club-Cafe, Wroclaw, Poland
2000
- Ravens, crows, rooks, Mikolaj Kopernik Municipal Cultural Centre, Wrocław
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
- 21st Warsaw Art Fair, PL
2023
- 27th Eastern Salon of Art, Meeting of Cultures Centre, Lublin, PL
2022
- 6th Triennial of Polish Contemporary Painting ‘Autumn Confrontations’, BWA, Rzeszów, PL
2022
- Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg, DE
2018
- GALERIA TEST – Konfrontacje sztuki 2018 – post-competition exhibition, Warsaw, PL
2013
- Ring 2, Art Fair (as part of the Platon Gallery exhibition), Museum of Contemporary Art, Wrocław, PL
- Wrocław Philharmonic, Blue September (as part of Platon Gallery exhibition), Wrocław, PL
- MiTo, Warsaw, PL
2012
- BAZA RPA 12 Regional Review of Architecture, Museum of Architecture, Wrocław, PL
- The Doorway Gallery, Dublin, IE 2011 Platon Art Gallery, Wrocław, PL
2011
- The Waterfront Hall, Belfast, UK
2009
- STARGAZE one-day art festival, D-light Studios, Dublin 2009, Summer Show
- The Bad Art Gallery, Dublin
2008
- Exhibition of works by graduates of ASP Wrocław, Brunschwik, Germany
- Exhibition of works by graduates of ASP in Wrocław, City Gallery, Łódź
2007
- Postgraduate Exhibition of Graduates’ Works from Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, BWA, Wrocław
- Podwale 62a Gallery, Wroclaw
