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Iwa Kruczkowska

Foto: Sewer Kruczkowski

Iwa Kruczkowska-Król born in Zabrze, the southern part of Poland.

She got her university diploma with first-class honours from the painting studio of Professor Jacek Waltoś, with the annexe from artistic tapestry under the supervision of Professor Lilla Kulka. She earned her speciality stage design diploma in 2004 under the supervision of Professor Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda. 2011- 2012 postgraduate studies at the Faculty of interior design and design of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. PhD - 2017 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Since the same year, he has been an employee of the Faculty of Architecture at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.

From 2004 to 2020, she participated as a production designer and costume designer in the production of theatre, feature films, shorts films, music videos, commercials, educational films and video art.

She participated in many personal (over 30) and collective (over 270) exhibitions (many times as a curator of the exhibitions also) in Poland, USA, Ireland, England Germany, France, Spain, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Italy, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Belgium, India, Switzerland, Albania, South Korea, Kosovo, Kenya, Togo, Georgia, Jordan, Turkey, Marocco, Iran, Colombia. Including Mail-Art projects in, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Austria, Argentina, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Finland, Chile, Argentina, Basil and online projects in Australia, Nepal, China, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Bolivia, Egypt, Nigeria, Mongolia.

Awarded many times in painting competitions and honored with creative scholarships from the City of Cracow and the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship.

She deals in painting, scenography, unique fabric and artistic education.

Works in many state and private collections in the country and abroad.

characteristics of my creativity

I am interested in the relation between a man and nature and in the possible attitude of a human being towards nature. Nature is understood here as the world of flora, fauna and inanimate nature. The idea of my project is inspired by the philosophy of Zen and the treatment of nature as a source of inspiration which allows to keep a distance to the things and in which the most important is to notice and appreciate the apparently insignificant matters – “insignificant” from the point of view of modern men oriented to materialistic and pragmatic values.
In addition to the pure fascination of nature and the perception of seemingly inessential elements of life, a man himself plays a very important role in my work.

A man is seen from the perspective of a journey in his everyday internal life which is extraordinarily different from the perspective of someone who observe “the same” from the outside. The direct, instant stimulus’ follow from the internal experience of other cultures, the contact with met people and from the contact with nature that gives me a feeling of “gazing novelty”, which is comparable to the experience of the world in someone childhood when everything is perceived as new and fascinating. One can find as a unifying element constituting the above mentioned fascination concerning nature and travels the touch of some timeless moments of the aware and fresh admiration of life which is distant from everyday superficial routine.

works in collections

Collection of the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow, Poland;
Collection of the Bielsko Art Gallery BWA, Poland;
Collection of the Historical Museum, Bielsko-Biała, Poland;
Collection of the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland;
Collection of the Craft Museum in Krosno, Poland;
Collection of The Hindiyeh Museum, Aman, Jordan
The Soleil de l'Est collection in Orléans, France
Collection MiM Museum in Motion - Castello di San Pietro - Locanda del Re Guerriero, Italy.

Collection The Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Geoje, South Korea
Mikołów Art Collection, Mikołów, Poland.