About
Małgorzata Mikołajczyk
personal photography
I explore abstract photography, which has become my favorite field of photography. Despite this, I am still experimenting with other forms and instead of a perfect representation of reality, I try to find connotations between different things and impressions.
Initially, I was passionate about landscapes. Gradually, I tried my hand at other areas of photography, including business photography. Today I am also trying my hand at documentary filmmaking.
I am a professional freelance photographer. In the years 2001-2018 I was a lecturer at the Warsaw School of Photography and Graphics. I obtained a diploma in physics at the University of Lodz and postgraduate studies in Photography and Visual Information at the University of Warsaw.
In the 1990s, I was an editor in the trade magazines Foto and Foto-Kurier and for two years I reached the position of editor-in-chief in the “Foto” publishing house. Currently, I co-run a blog: www.pisanieofotografii.pl
Exhibitions:
- 2021 – Slide Show – Rybnicki Festiwal Fotografii, Rybnik, Poland
- 2021 – DiasShow – FotoArtFestival, Bielsko-Biała, Poland
- 2021 – Przytrzymać czas, Muzeum Książki Artystycznej, Łódź, Poland
- 2021 – WhoMan x OEES, ICE Kraków Congress Centre, Poland
- 2021 – Biachma – Bienal De Arte Contemporaneo – a collective exhibition, El Tigre, Venezuela
- 2021 – „Stories – Narrative Photography” – collective international exhibitions in ph21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
- 2020 – „The Art of Photography” – Valid World Hall, Barcelona
- 2020 – „False Landscapes II’ – a solo exhibition in Observation Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
- 2019 – “ExibitAround” produced by Exhibit Around|DotArt – a collective exhibition on Trieste Photo Days in Italy
- 2019 – 13th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition in Barcelona ( Spain) – a collective exhibition
- 2019 – “-scapes” – collective International Exhibition in ph21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
- 2019 – „Glitch” – collective International Exhibition in ph21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
- 2019 – “Short Street Stories” produced by Exhibit Around|DotArt – a collective exhibition on Trieste Photo Days in Italy
- 2019 – Head on- Portrait Prize semi-finalists’ slideshow. Sydney ( Australia)
- 2018 – URBAN 2018/ DotArt. Italy- a qualification for a collective exhibition
- 2018 – Exhibit at the Center for Contemporary Art- a collective exhibition at the Center of Contemporary Art in Torun (Poland)
- 2016 – “Somewhere”- Zdunska Wola, the Old Town Hall (Poland)
- 2015 – “Somewhere”- PI Gallery in Zalesie Gorne (Poland)
- 2012 – “Cyanotypes” – Warsaw School of Photography – as a part of the Museum Festival Night in Warsaw and Kafka in Warsaw (Poland)
- 2010 – “Photos from the Trip” – Zdunska Wola City History Museum (Poland)
- 2006 – “Cyanotypes”- Traffic Club in Warsaw (Poland)
- 2005 – “Photographs” – Hades Hotel in Zdunska Wola (Poland)
- 1994 – “Lifeline”- Small Gallery of ZPAF-CSW in Warsaw (Poland)
- 1992 – “False Landscape”s – Antygen Gallery( Lodz) and Photo Gallery ZPAF (District of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Awards
- 2021 – London International Creative Competition – short list in create (art) category
- 2021 – FotoOpen – FotoArtFestival, Bielsko-Biała, Poland – honorable mention
- 2020 – International Photography Awards – honorable mention
- 2020 – 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition in Barcelona ( Spain) – honorable mention
- 2018 – main prize for “ Black Protest” at the project “Flowing City” which was presented in October at Month of Photography in Trieste (Italy)
- 2018 – „I am an European”- the film debut and award in the Disabled Contest organised by Audiovisual Institute of the National Film Archive, Warsaw (Poland)
- 1993 – 1st prize at Biennale of Polish Landscape in Kielce (Poland)
- 1993 – 1st prize at Biennale of Mountain Photography in Jelenia Gora (Poland)
- 1993 – 1st prize at “Monuments”, Biennale in Lublin (Poland)
Publications
- 2021 – Mythography – vol.01; Tales of the Unwritten; Dante 2021; Urban – unveils the city and its secrets – vol.07 – ExibitAround|DotArt, Italy
- 2021 – Volumes of Darkness, Limitless Nature – Bruxellles Art Vue
- 2020 – Urban – unveils the city and its secrets; Chromantic; Staying Home Together – ExibitAround|DotArt, Italy
- 2019 – Short street Stories – ExibitAround|DotArt, Italy
- 2019 – “Cullare” – Don’t Smile Publications, USA
- 2018 – “Flowing City” – ExibitAround|DotArt, Italy