Karolina Wojtas (ur. 1996-20.. – jest fotografką, studiuje w Państwowej Wyższej Szkole Filmowej, Telewizyjnej i Teatralnej im. L.Schillera w Łodzi oraz w czeskim Instytucie Twórczej Fotografii w Opavie. Żyje w kolorowym świecie eksperymentu i niekończącej się zabawy. Czerpie z dziecięcych fantazji i wspomnień. Inspiracją mogą stać się dla niej bałagan w ogrodzie dziadka albo wielka ślizgawka. Przez jej wystawy nie da się przemknąć, bywają zasypane brokatem albo balonami, ale można poczuć się w niej dzieckiem – pobawić się, porzucać i pobazgrać. Dwukrotna laureatka stypendium Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego. Pokazywała swoje prace między innymi na wystawach w Wiedniu, Bratysławie, Pekinie, Kopenhadze, czy Amsterdamie gdzie wygrała konkurs ING Unseen Talent Award 2019. W te wakacje otworzyła swoje własne muzeum w rodzinnej wsi na Podkarpaciu.
Karolina Wojtas (born in 1996) – is a photographer, she studies in Film School Lodz and Institute of Creative Photography in the Czech Republic. She lives in a colorful world of experiment and endless fun. She draws from children’s fantasies and memories. Inspiration may become for her a mess in the garden of her grandfather or a huge slide. Through her exhibition, it is impossible to slip, sometimes covered with brocade or balloons. But you can feel like a child – play, abandon and scrounge.
PRIZE AND CONTESTS:
2017- ShowOFF - Kraków Photo Month, winner
2018- TIFF OPEN 2018 - Tiff Festival Wrocław, winner
2018- Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Poland
2018- Talent of the year, PixHouse, Poznań, nomination
2018- Portfolio review winner, Bratislava Month of Photohgraphy 2018
2019- Publication of the year 2019, shortlist "kwas kwas kwas" Łódź, Poland
2019- Bird in Flight Prize'19 - shortlisted
2019- Talent of the year, PixHouse, Poznań, nomination
2019- ING Unseen Talent Award 2019, winner, Amsterdam, Holland
2019- Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Poland
2020- Plat(f)orm 2020 - sepcial mention, Fotomusuem Winterthur, Switzerland
2020- reGeneration 4 The Challenges of Photography and its Museum for Tomorrow, Musée deol’Elysée, Nomination
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 -Fundacja Pełkińska XX Czartoryskich - Zamek w Pełkiniach, "Konik"
2020- Gallery Naga -" Gatunek: brat. Jak unicestwić?" Warszawa
2019, “Abzgram” in Galeria F7, during Bratislava Month of Photography, Slovakia
2019 -Exhibition ‘Extremely rich fauna of the local area’ during FotoArtFestival in Bielsko-Biała
2019-, Individual exhibition at the Museum in Pełkinie “Abzgram”
2019 Individual exhibition at the Museum in Pełkinie “The Extremely Rich Fauna of the Local Area”
2018, Individual exhibition “Karolina Wojtas: Train to knowledge. TIFF Festival 2018 / Cooperation”, Galeria u Agatki Wrocław, TIFF Festival, International festival
COLLECTIONS
ING Collection Netherlands, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2020: Generation Z, Noorderlicht, Netherlands
reGeneration4 The Challenges of Photography and its Museum for Musée de l’Elysée, Switzerland
2019
Exhibition during the INTERPHOTO 2019 festival Department of Photography PWSFTViT in Łódź: Pod hair. Białostocki Ośrodek Kultury,
IFF Editions Exhibition Anna Zagrodzka, Karolina Wojtas “New Collection” of Limanka Fashion House. Institute of Photography Fort, Accompanying event of the Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2019
ING Unseen Talent Award exhibition “We can’t live-without each other” Unseen Amsterdam,Netherlands
FUTURES AT UNSEEN AMSTERDAM, Abzgram ”Slideshow Futures Platform, Westergastheater, Netherlands
Book exhibition, presenting “KWAS ISSUE KWAS” during the Athens Photo Festival 2019,
PAPERLUST Photobook Fest - zine exhibition “The Extremely Rich Fauna of the Local Area” and “KWASISSUE KWAS”
Exhibition ‘Eating Pineapples on the Moon’, Latvijas Okupācijas muses The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, Riga Photomonth
Exhibition Unigeo Festival, Horni Becva - Czech Republic, Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, International festival
Untitled” - exhibition of students of the Polish National Film, Television, Art Center, Piotrków Trybunalski
Prototypes: Limanka Fashion House. New Collection - Museum of Art in Łódź
2018
Wymiana / W Y > OS 17 - Obrońców Stalingradu 17 - Szczecin,
Terra Incognita - PWSFTviT Department of Photography, 6x7 Leica Gallery, Warsaw
“Znejistění paměti”, Národní technická knihovna in Prague - Czech Republic,Institute of Creative Photography in Opava.
Exhibition Unigeo Festival, Horni Becva - Czech Republic, Institute of Creative Photography in Opava,
“Photography Salons - Salon”, City Art Gallery in Łódź - Art Propaganda Center, Accompanying exhibition Fotofestiwal 2018 - Łódź Film School in Łódź,
“Photography Salons: Volumes and other birds”, Museum of the Art Book in Łódź, Exhibition accompanying the Fotofestiwal 2018 Łódź Film School in Łódź,
“THE FAMILY OF NO MAN Re-visioning the world through nonmale eyes”, Cosmos Arles Books, curators Brad Feuerhelm and Natasha Christia
Exhibition during LANDSKRONA FOTOFESTIWAL 2018, international festival
Do it - instruction manual for art Exhibition, curator Hans Ulrich Obris, performance of the work of Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, WI-MA, Łódź
OPEN CALL Finalists - Photomonth in Bratislava, City Gallery under the Theater, Bratislava
“Bez Stanika”- Galeria Fiducia, Ostrava Czech Republic
Photography salons Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany
2017
„Ep1” , Gallery FF/ Imaginarium - Łódź Culture Center, Łódź Film School
Ep1 , Art Exhibition Office in Kielce, Film School in Łódź,
„Young Polish Photography. Przełamując tabu”/ „Breaking taboo” at Design Akademie in Berlin, Germany
"IN THAT ONE SECOND, WE BECOME ONE WITH INFINITY". PHOTO EXHIBITION OF LODZ FILM SCHOOL,Beijing 1+1 Art Center, Beijing, Polish Circles of Art in China Festival
Fresh from Poland - #SHOWMEYOURUFO, Noorderlicht House of Photography- Groningen, Noorderlicht International Photofestival
“On the edge”, Festival of New Art Słubice / Frankfurt. Film School in Łódź
AVAN_GRANDA, City Art Gallery in Lodz - Art Propaganda Center, Film School in Lodz,
„Oczom nie wierzę”, City Museum in Żory, Photography Festiwal Plener
Young Polish Photography. Przełamując tabu”/„Breaking taboo”, DGI, Denmark, Copenhagen
UFO Visual Lab - #SHOWMEYOURUFO, Gallery Szara Kamienica Kraków, Fresh From Poland,
ShowOFF Exhibition - „Przebogata Fauna tutejszej okolicy”, Krakow Film Center, Krakow Photomonth Festival
#Awangarda2.0? - p_art. Gallery of the Polish Institute in Vienna, Austria. Polish Institute in Vienna, National Film, Television and Theater School Leon Schiller in Łódź Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.