In her work to date, Agata Gertchen has consistently focused on the work that fi lls our everyday life and the objects that are inseparable from it. Often it is a trivial thing that we treat indifferently, uncharged with emotion.
Agata Gertchen states “The analysis of trivial and everyday objects has become the unifying point of my entire artistic output to date. The graphics are a pretext for conducting an analysis of everyday life, which by its routine seems to be disregarded. My inspiration came from ordinary activities and everyday things. They are the basis of everyday life which is also the basis of our existence.
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Agata Gertchen was born in 1985 in Rawicz, Poland. In 2010, she graduated from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław with a degree in Graphic Arts. In 2016, she earned a PhD in Fine Arts. Since 2010, she has been teaching artistic printmaking in the Intaglio Studio alongside Professor Przemysław Tyszkiewicz and is currently employed as an assistant professor at her alma mater.
She interrupted her career after the birth of her first son. She has now returned from her second maternity leave, during which she dedicated herself to creating her latest set of works. She prefers to work in linocut, mezzotint, and drawing techniques.
Her graphic and drawing works have received more than twenty awards and honors. In 2009, she won the Grand Prix at the 12th Artistic Print Biennale in Bruges, Belgium. A year later, she won first prize in the “graphics” category at the 38th World Art on Paper Exhibition in Skopje, Macedonia. She also received the Grand Prix in 2012 at the 7th International Print Triennial in Bitola, Macedonia. In 2012-2013, she was a recipient of the Jerzy Grotowski Scholarship for achievements in art and in 2012, she received the Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Foundation Scholarship in Warsaw. In 2015, she was awarded the Best Graphic Prize during the SGCI International Print Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, and the Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Foundation Prize at the International Print Triennial MTG – Krakow 2015. In 2017, she won the second prize, Prix Desjardins, at the 10th International Biennial of Contemporary Printmaking in Trois-Rivières, Canada.
She has exhibited her works in over eighty exhibitions in Poland and eighty abroad (USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, France, Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia, China, Macedonia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Latvia, India, Spain, Serbia, Iran, Romania, Scotland, Italy, Taiwan, Sweden). She has authored eighteen solo exhibitions.
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