Karolina Orzelek - Biography



Born in 1992 in Poland, Karolina Orzelek graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2016. She lives and works in Paris. She has won several awards including the Prix Sisley/Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020.

Karolina Orzelek explores the perception of reality and the contradictions that play out in it. From her personal archives, she reconstructs silent universes, between dream and fantasy, between memory and expectation, reality appears as if augmented in a kind of solarization of colors.


PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2020 Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris Prize for Young Creation, Sisley - Paris
2019 " Some place to hide ", Marianne Cat - Marseille
2018 " Fatamorgana ", Dukan Gallery - Saint-Ouen
2017 " Solaris ", Dukan Gallery - Leipzig
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS - selection

2020 " & Friends 2020 ", Le Feuvre & Roze Gallery - Paris
2018 " Art for autism ", Artcurial - Paris
2017 " L'Anti-Destin ", a proposal by Pauline Pavec and Quentin Derouet, Paris
2017 " Eclosion ", exhibition of artists from HATSH, espace Commines, Paris
2017 " Au fil des songes ", Le Ballon Rouge gallery, Paris
2016 Launching exhibition of HATSH Couveuse de Jeunes Talents, Joseph Gallery, Paris
2016 " Extranatural ", at the invitation of Mark Dion, Palais des Beaux-Arts, ENSBA, Paris
2015 " La Papet s'expose ", Nanterre Nanterre
2014 " L'Adhesium " (with the workshop Philippe Cognée), ENSBA, Paris
2012 Philippe Cognée workshop exhibition, following a workshop trip to Israel, ENSBA, Paris
2020, Edition with Yoyo Maeght of a print.