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Grażyna Brylewska

Born in Poznań in 1950. Graduated from the Department of Painting, Graphic Arts and Sculpture at Poznań Academy of Fine Arts with distinction in 1973.
1979/80 - studied at the Higher Institute of Applied Art in Vienna (grant from the F.V.S. Herder Foundation on a recommendation by Prof. Magdalena Abakanowicz).
Three times winner of the Ministry of Culture and the Arts grant.
Since 2001 works at the Cracow Pedagogical Academy Art Institute, as a pofessor.
Her works employ a variety of techniques and materials. In recent years she has mainly concentrated on cycles and three-dimensional objects.

Individual exhibitions:
1981 Galeria O.N., Poznań

1989 Mała Galeria BWA, Gorzów Wielkopolski

“Moje Sprawy” (My business), Stu Theatre Gallery, Kraków

1991 Galeria na Jatkach, Wrocław

1994 “Dialog I - niezapisany” (Dialogue I - unrecorded), Galeria BWA, Zamość (with Annemarie Frascoli)

1996 “Listy do bliskich” (Letters to loved ones), Galeria Pryzmat, Kraków (with Annemarie Frascoli)

1997 “Cztery ściany mego pokoju” (The four walls of my room), SBWA - Galeria Test, Warsaw

1999 Galeria ZPAP, the Cloth Hall (Sukiennice), Kraków

2000 Galerie in Zabo, Nuremberg

2002 BWA, Zakopane (with Urszula Kołaczkowska)

2003 “Kolumnada”, Galeria Patio WSHE, Łódź (with Marek Wagner)

2003 “(Three) Paper Worlds”, The Papermaking Museum, Dzuszniki Zdrój

2003 “Planets”, Gallery of Art Critics, Pokaz, Warsaw

2006 “Tables & Borders”, Museum of Applied Art, Belgrad

Since 1973 the artist has taken part in over 250 exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
Important collective exhibitions:
Works held in collections:

Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa (the Central Museum of the Textile Industry), Łódź; Gorzów Wielkopolski District Museum; Savaria Museum Szombathely; SBWA, Warsaw;

WSHE, Łódź; the Cook Collection, Chicago; Musée de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, Angers; the collections of the town of Rauma (Finland)

International Textile Triennial, Łódź (1981, 1985, 1995)

Contemporary Polish Fabrics, National Museum, Havana (1989)

International Biennial of Woven Miniatures, Szombathely (1989, 1992, 1994)

Flexible I - Pan-European Art, Bayreuth, Tilburg, Wrocław (1993/94)

Contemporary Polish Artistic Fabrics, Madrid, Lisbon (1984)

Polish Artistic Fabrics, Museo Tamayo, Mexico (1988)

Consument Art, Nuremberg (1988, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2002)

The paper sphere, Beer-Sheva, Israel (1995)

Flexible II - Pan-European Art, Tilburg, Wrocław, Manchester (1996/97)

Exhibition of Contemporary Polish Art, Levallois, France (1997)

Polish Book Art, Warsaw, the Hague, Groningen, Berlin (1998/99)

Contemporary Polish Fabrics, Central Museum of the Textile Industry, Łódź (1999)

The collections of the Jean Lurcat Museum and Contemporary Fabrics from Angers, CMW, Łódź (1999)

International Session on Paper Art: “The Paper Sphere - Kraków 2000”

The “Manggha” Centre for Japanese Art and Technology, Galeria Przedmiotu BB (2000)

Kraków Encounters “TO - FROM”, Bunkier Sztuki Kraków (2000)

“Games”, “Heads”, Galeria Przedmiotu BB, Kraków (2000)

International Installation “Face”, Ramma, Helsinki (2001)

“The Fifth Element”, BWA Piotrków Trybunalski (2001)

Wicker Objects, BWA Sandomierz, BWA Kielce, Łódź (2001)

“Das Kleine Format”, Galerie Sud, Magdeburg (1993, 2002)

Paper and Other Media, International Poznań Trade Show (2002)

4th, 5th, 7th International Triennial of Woven Miniatures, Angers, St. Gallen (1993, 1996, 2002)

“Sinn und Form”, ConsumentArt, Nuremberg (2002)

Presentation of Polish Paper Art, BWA, Bielsko-Biała (2002)

“The Journey” International Exhibition of Book Art, Warsaw (2003) - 3rd Prize

“Region & Identitet”, Kopenhag, Berlin (2004)

„Woman & Migration“, Graz (2005)

„Co-Garden“, Manggha, Cracow (2005)

„Art & The Crossing“, Cracow, Farum - Denmark (2005)

“Contemporary Polish Book Design”, Danish Museum of Art & Design (2005)

“Northern Fibre VI (Wo)man & technolgy”, Kerava Art Museum, Finland (2005)

“White Greetings To Belarus”, Belarus (2005)

“Paper See”, Zakopane (2006)

2nd International Flag Triennal, Szombathelyi, Hungary (2006)

International Book Art Festival “Time”, Łódż (2006) - 2nd Prize

Angels, Domoteka, Warsaw (2007)