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'''Olga Lewicka''' (born 1975) is a visual artist. Polish born, she lives and works in Berlin. Her practice focuses on painting, but it also encompasses installation, collage, performance, text and artist book.
==Biography== Olga Lewicka studied at the Art Academy in Wrocław.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lewicka|first=Olga|title=biography at culture.pl|url=http://www.culture.pl/baza-sztuki-pelna-tresc/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/eAN5/content/olga-lewicka |language=Polish |accessdate=26 July 2016}}</ref> In 2005 she won the [http://www.asp.wroc.pl/english/k_geppert_e.htm Eugeniusz-Geppert-Competition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915102902/http://www.asp.wroc.pl/english/k_geppert_e.htm |date=2012-09-15 }} and was awarded the price for young Polish painting.<ref>{{cite web|title=Deutsche Foundation Award for most promising young artist in Polish arts scene|url=http://www.culture.pl/kalendarz-pelna-tresc/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/L6vx/content/7-konkurs-im-eugeniusza-gepperta-6-krajowa-wystawa-malarstwa-mlodych}}</ref> In 2007 she was nominated for Views – The Deutsche Bank Foundation Award for the most interesting young artists on the Polish art scene.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://db-artmag.com/archiv/2007/e/4/1/552-2.html?dbiquery=1%3AOlga+Lewicka|title=The Prize for Young Polish Art|accessdate=29 January 2013}}</ref> In 2010 she was awarded the “Młoda Polska” Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship for young artists.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://moravabooks.com/en/mrv06/|title=PANORAMA. Materials for Mapping a Prospective All-Embracing Structure|accessdate=29 January 2013}}</ref> Between 1997 and 2002 she also studied philosophy and literature at Wrocław University, New York University and Europa-Universität Viadrina. In 2003 she completed a doctoral thesis on aporia in art discourses,<ref>{{cite web|title=Doctoral Theses|url=http://www.kuwi.europa-uni.de/de/lehrstuhl/lw/westeuropa/Haverkamp/Assis-Habil-Promo/index.html}}</ref> which was published by Wilhelm Fink Verlag in 2004, under the title “Pollock. Verflechtung des Sichtbaren und des Lesbaren” (Engl. “Pollock. The Intertwining of the Visible and the Readable”).<ref>{{cite book|last=Lewicka|first=Olga|title=Pollock Intertwining of the visible and the readable|year=2005|publisher=Wilhelm Fink Verlag|location=Germany|isbn=978-3-7705-4045-7|pages=180|url=http://www.fink.de/katalog/titel/978-3-7705-4045-7.html}}</ref>
In her work Olga Lewicka deals with the status of the image and the art work in contemporary society. In research and project based works she mostly deals with painting, examining its possibilities and understanding it as a political argument rather than representation or illustration.<ref>{{cite web|title=Press Release for exhibition|url=http://www.rosa-luxemburg-platz.net/index.php/ausstellungen/-cloud-studies-mapping-a-prospective-all-embracing-structure-2}}{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
In examining painting, with all its options and reservations caused by its long history, she interrogates and plays off the forces of differences and shifts, to eventually initiate emancipatory visual processes.<ref>{{cite book|last=Stasiowski|first=Piotr|title=New Phenomena in Polish Art after 2000|year=2007|publisher=Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art|location=Ujazdowski Castle|pages=94–97}}</ref>
== Selected exhibitions ==
=== Solo === *2012 [http://muzeumwspolczesne.pl/mww/kalendarium/film/nowy-film-%E2%80%9Enowe-szczyty-olgi-lewickiej/?lang=en The New Summits]. Mapping a Prospective All-Embracing Structure #1 at Wroclaw Contemporary Museum *2012 [http://www.rosa-luxemburg-platz.net/index.php/ausstellungen/-cloud-studies-mapping-a-prospective-all-embracing-structure-2 Mapping a Prospective All-Embracing Structure #2]{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }} at Verein zur Förderung für Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin *2011 [http://www.entropia.art.pl/view_news.php?id=136 Panorama] at Galeria Entropia, Wroclaw *2009 There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes at lokal_30, Warsaw<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artnews.org/lokal30/?exi=22253|title=Olga Lewicka|publisher=Artnews.org|accessdate=29 January 2013}}</ref> *2005 [http://csw.art.pl/new/2006program/0102wystawy_en.html#Holzer Showdown] at Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
=== Group === *2012 [http://www.zwinger-galerie.de/content/exhibitions/2012_02/info.html The Happy Fainting of Painting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234121/http://www.zwinger-galerie.de/content/exhibitions/2012_02/info.html |date=2016-03-03 }} at Zwinger Galerie, Berlin, curated by Gunter Reski and Hans-Jürgen Hafner *2011 [http://www.arsenal.art.pl/wystawa/milosc-do-tego-co-naturalne/# Love for the Real Thing] at Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznan, curated by Anna Czaban *2010 [http://www.galeriadzialan.hg.pl/archiwum/Diagram_10.htm Diagram – to Jerzy Ludwiński] at Galeria Działań, Warsaw, curated by Grzegorz Borkowski and Fredo Ojda *2009 [http://de.2009.inspiracje.art.pl/2009/projekty/projekt_kuratorski How Does Painting Shape New Spaces]{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }} at Inspiracje Art Festival, Szczecin *2008 [http://www.sparwasserhq.de/indexENG.htm 104. Common Words] at Sparwasser HQ, Berlin *2007 Views 2007 – [http://db-artmag.de/archiv/2007/e/4/1/552-2.html The Deutsche Bank Foundation Award], Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw *2004 [http://www.artnet.de/magazine/gegenwartig-selbst-inszeniert-in-der-hamburger-kunsthalle/ gegenwärtig: Selbst], inszeniert, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, curated by Matthias Mühling
== Selected publications and lectures == *2011 PANORAMA. Materials for Mapping a Prospective All-Embracing Structure. [http://www.mottodistribution.com/site/?p=13612 Artist book]. Poznań: Morava Publishing House *2010 Wie Polens Königsweg nun zum Irrweg wird. [http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/digitaz/artikel/?ressort=ku&dig=2010/04/24/a0032&cHash=c17c26fc10|taz from 24 April 2010] and [http://derstandard.at/1271374899521/Kommentar-der-Anderen-Wie-Polens-Koenigsweg-nun-zum-Irrweg-wird%20Wie%20Polens%20Königsweg%20nun%20zum%20Irrweg%20wird Der Standard from 22 April] *2007 Samson, or Contemporary Art. Obieg, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, no 1&2/2007 *2007 AURORA. Zwischen Nacht und Tag. Ein Ausstellungs- und Buchprojekt zwischen Berlin und Wrocław in zwei Teilen. Artist book. Wrocław: BWA Awangarda *2007 Aurora. Utopie und Surréflexion. In: S. Diekmann/T. Khurana, Latenz. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos *2006 [http://www.fink.de/katalog/titel/978-3-7705-4040-2.html An den Grenzen der Repräsentation]. In: V. Beyer/A. Haverkamp/J. Voorhoeve, Das Bild ist der König. Repräsentation nach Louis Marin. München: Wilhelm Fink *2005 [http://www.deutsche-guggenheim.de/d/ausstellungen-pollock02.php Drip´n´Draw - Entwurf und Konzept bei Jackson Pollock] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626031832/http://www.deutsche-guggenheim.de/d/ausstellungen-pollock02.php |date=2015-06-26 }}. Lecture at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin *2005 [http://www.fink.de/katalog/titel/978-3-7705-4045-7.html Pollock]. Verflechtung des Sichtbaren und des Lesbaren. München: Wilhelm Fink
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== External links == *[http://www.culture.pl/web/english/events-calendar-full-page/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/L6vx/content/olga-lewicka-there-ain-t-no-second-chance Olga Lewicka "There ain't no second chance...]
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