Urszula Wilk

Untitled, Series Comets - Contemporary Expressive Painting, Conceptual Art

2016/17

Urszula Wilk A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. In 1986 she received her diploma with honours at Professor Zbigniew Karpiński’s atelier. In 1987 and 1988 Urszula Wilk was a grantee of the Minister of Culture and Art. In 1989 she was awarded with the 1st Prize at the Eugeniusz Geppert Post-contest Painting Ehxibition. And in 1995 she received a grant from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, USA. Her achievement include more than 100 solo exhibitions and involvement in several dozens of group exhibitions in Poland and worldwide. Selected: 2013 – exhibition at the City Museum of Wroclaw, organised in frames of a grant from the budget of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In 2014 the 1st Prize – the best exhibition in 2013 in Wroclaw- ZPAP In 2015 – Grand Prix -International Watercolor Biennale, Shenzhen, China Works in collection – City Museum of Wroclaw, Poland; Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China, Shenzhen Luohu Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; Collection of the Zachęta Lower Silesian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland Urszula Wilk's other art events include painting installation Painted Tower,1990, Parachutes, 1991, Lines presented in Shangyuan Art Museum, China, 2012 and at the Airport Wroclaw, 2013. 2018-Painting-Museum of Architecture_Wroclaw Urszula Wilk – Artist statment: I have always been interested in the idea of infiniteness of a painting and its opposite – that is the physical finiteness of the painting. This physical finiteness of a painting appears when the painting acquires its physical, material dimension. For me, the crucial thing is whether a painting, which was created in a certain period and constitutes a closed whole – can change. Through its modular construction the picture’s painting structure generates infiniteness within itself. Can a finished, in a sense “closed” whole become something new again and again? Can it expand and divide or overlap and thicken, transform all the time? ‘ If reality never rests, to paraphrase Futurist painter Boccioni, painting – once it has been drawn out of the frame of a painting – becomes an immaterial space that can be visited and crossed; it becomes an environment of light, a visual, spatial, total and involving experience.”