has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
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About me
pawel mendrek (mendrek)
Pawel Mendrek is a painter, but works often with the technique of collage, which allows him to find a balance between drawing, graphic art and painting, attempt at assembling a personalized world using a distinct formal language. His paintings have consistently utilized graphic textures, forms cut from paper, stroke and smooth backgrounds. They have no illusionist spatial depth. Therefore, their focus is on the relationships between the figures and objects. Because of the simplicity of his technique, these works at first glance seem to be very domestic. They give form and meaning to that which we would normally consider unimportant. In this sense, Mendrek's works are a poetic interpretation of our everyday surroundings and relationships and the way life fills the contents.
- Biography
Pawel Mendrek freelance artist, based in Vienna. MFA, PhD.
Education and training | 2008 > Doctoral degree Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
2000-2004 > Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien/Vienna
1998 > Academy of Art Collage in San Francisco
1995-2000 > Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Katowice branch, Department of Graphics Art
- Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions | 2010 > Such things happen/Takie rzeczy sie zdarzaja, Flying Gallery, Warsaw and mediaVilm Gallery, Vienna
2009 > Accumulation/Nagromadzenie, Flying Gallery, Warsaw
2007 > Little Moments, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna / Days and Flowers, Artetage Gallery, Graz, Austria
2005 > Give Me a Break, StadtGalerie Vienna, Austria / Full Color, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna
2004 > Summer in the City, M-ART Gallery, Vienna
2003 > Kind of Woman, Ariadne Gallery Vienna and Sosnowiec Art Center, Sielecki Castle, Sosnowiec, Poland / Day after Day, SAP-Artelier Gallery, Vienna
2002 > We, Gallery of Afro-Asian Institute, Vienna / Life of the Horizon, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna
Collective exhibitions and art projects | 2011 > Common Spaces, Körös Museum, Oradea, Romania
2010 > Ornament, Flying Gallery, Warsaw / Dinamica Activa, Biblioteca Municipala B. P. Hasdeu, Chinsinau, Moldowa / AAF London, Art Fair / Etwas Polnisch, Vier Positionen polnischer Kunst, KunstraumB, Kiel, Germany / XXII Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting, Szczecin, Poland / Intymacy/Intymnosc, Flying Gallery, Warsaw
2009 > Red Dot Miami, Art Fair / XIV International Print Biennale Sarcelles 2009, France / PoLEMika, Solaris project, Coal Industry Museum, Zabrze, Poland / AAF New York, Art Fair / 20/21 International Art Fair, The Royal Collage of Art, London / HanseArt, International Art Fair, Luebeck, Germany / Spring's Art Fair, Flying Gallery, Warsaw
2008 > AAF London, Art Fair / We are European, ArtMark Gallery, Spital am Pyhrn, Austria / XXII Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting, Szczecin, Poland / Nord Art 2008, Rendsburg/Germany / AAF New York, Art Fair / 20/21 International Art Fair, The Royal Collage of Art, London
2007 > Kunstschnee - Available Art, Museum Quatiter 21, Vienna / Herbst-Winter Collection, Ariadne Gallery, Vienna / AAF London, Art Fair / Internationale Grafiktriennale Krakau-Oldenburg-Wien 2007, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna (info/um:druck magazine) / Rose- oh reiner Widerspruch, ArtMark Gallery, Vienna / AAF New York, Art Fair / 20/21 International Art Fair, The Royal Collage of Art, London
2006 > XXI Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting, Szczecin, Poland / "Dabrowki 9", Academy of Fine Art Show, Silesian Museum of Fine Art, Katowice / AAF Art Fair London / Chelsea Harbour Design Center - "Focus 2006" cooperation Vernissage & The World of Interior Magazine, London / International Print Triennial Cracow 2006, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Cracow, Poland / "Nord Art 2006", Rendsburg/Hamburg, Germany / "Conjucton 2006" - A Contemporary Art Exhibition, London-Birmingham-Stoke, United Kingdom / "Gegensaetze" - International Art Exhibition, Hollfeld, Germany / away-available art, Camelot Gallery, Cracow
2005 > Step Out from Chaos, Academy of Fine Art in Katowice & Archidiecezjalne Museum, Katowice / Wind Art Festival, Jeju 2005, South Korea / “Art Forward Enduring Power of Paint” – The Bloxham Galleries, London / Harlech Biennale 2005 - MESS_AGE Project - harlech edition, Wales, United Kingdom / “available art"– Camelot Gallery – Cracow / "Nord Art 2005”, Rendsburg/Hamburg
2004 > Wind Art Festival, Jeju 2004, South Korea / „Die Figur als Aufgabe” StadtGalerie Vienna / New Art for New Reality – "Into Europe” – The Bloxham Galleries, London / Affordeble Art Fair, London / “Europa Jetzt”, ST/A/R & MAK NITE , Museum Applied Arts, Vienna / Jubilee exhibition of ex-scholarship holders of the National Fund for Children in Warsaw, Old Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland / "Kunterbunte Arbeiten" Ariadne Gallery, Vienna / "Palingenese" Ariadne Gallery, Vienna
2003 > “Paesaggio di desiderio”, Austrian Culture Forum and Academy of Fine Arts Brera, Milan, Italy/ “Junger Österreicher 2003”, Museum Applied Arts, Vienna / 11 th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, Museum of Art, Taiwan / V Triennial of Polish Graphics, BWA Katowice / VII International Biennial of Drawing and Graphics “The Masters of Graphic Arts”, Municipal Museum of Art, Gyor, Hungary /„Premio Acqui”, VI International Biennal of Graphics, Ovada, Italy
2002 > „Vienna Art 2002” International Art Fair - Ariadne Gallery, Vienna / XIX Polish Festival of Contemporary Painting "Obrazowanie" ("Picturing") Szczecin / VII International Biennial of Graphics "Caixanova", Ourense, Spain / "Kunterbunte Arbeiten" Ariadne Gallery, Vienna / "The Essence 2002", Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
2001 > Polish Painting Review "Bielska Jesie? 2001" (Bielsko Autumn 2001'), Bielsko-Bia?a, Poland / "Ab Ovo", Sukiennice Gallery, Krakow, Poland / "Acceptance- Tolerance" Ariadne Gallery, Vienna / "Composition of Year 2000" ZPAP Katowice / 2nd Polish Triennial of Student Graphics, ASP Pozna? / XI Polish Painting Review Promotions 2000" Legnica, Poland
2000 > International Art and Peace Project Pax Danubiana, Ragensburg, Germany / "Post-industrial landscapes of Upper Silesia", Rattingen, Germany / Polish Student Graphics Competition, Canson Poland / exhibition of former scholarship holders of the National Fund for Children "Talent Gala" the National Theatre in Warsaw / "Results 2000", Wittgenstein Palace, Vienna, Austria / IV Triennial of Polish Graphics, BWA Katowice, Poland / l Polish Triennial of Student Graphics, Pozna?, Poland
1998 > "Who Murdered Reality?" The Mill&Short Gallery, San Francisco, USA
