Dimensions: 80 x 60 cm (according to the frame)
Signed p.d.: 'Agnieszka Nienartowicz'
Biography
Graduate of Painting at the Academies of Fine Arts in Gdansk and Wroclaw, repeatedly awarded for her artistic achievements. She has twice received a scholarship from the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk and a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2015-2016). She was also a finalist in the London Contemporary Art Prize (2018) and the Franciszka Eibisch Foundation Gran Prix competition (2015).
The artist's work includes painting, drawing and fine art printmaking. At the center of her interests is the human being. Nienartowicz penetrates the world around us, trying to show intimacy, sensitivity and mysteries in simple situations, glances and gestures. She is fascinated by the moment of blurring the boundary between the real world and the image, and finds her way to perfectionism and contemplation in realistic painting, building detail by detail the complex fabric of painting.
Characteristic of her works are references to the works of the great masters of European sacred painting such as Hieronymus Bosch. Fragments of these paintings appear on the backs and arms of the heroines of her works like tattoos. Although the women depicted look contemporary and are painted in a realistic convention, they seem to have been taken out of time and space, standing in an abyss of darkness.
Nienartowicz has presented her work in numerous solo exhibitions, including "Echoes" at Nicodim Gallery in New York (2025), "Longing for Another World" at Pilipczuk Gallery in Copenhagen and "The Hardest is to Feel Free" at BWA Gallery in Jelenia Gora. She has also participated in prestigious group exhibitions, such as "Landscape of Polish Painting" at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2023), and international art fairs, including The Armory Show in New York and the Dallas Art Fair in Texas.
The artist's works are in private collections in Poland and around the world - in the United States, Canada, Germany, Austria and Ireland - and in institutional collections, including the National Museum in Gdansk, The Bennett Collection in Texas and the Hilton Group art collection.
