Malgosia Jankowska paints with fine brush strokes in a style that can be defined as Contemporary Figurative Painting. She sets people and nature in opposition to each other. She masterfully creates pictures of stunning depth and spaciousness by alternating translucent and pastose colors. Mysteriously, white light bursts through the tree trunks of some paintings like a white haze. The filigree lines, together with the softened tones – sometimes restricted to a single color on a white background – hearken back to the engravings of old fairytale books.
The scenes into which Jankowska’s paintings invite us are like a fairytale. In the literal sense, the word “fantastic” is also highly symbolic of the repertoire that Jankowska runs through her painted world and has become a succinct characteristic of her art. Children in the forest, wolves, or colossal toadstools are not just visual images from a borrowed reality à la Brothers Grimm. Jankowska has acquired an ensemble of figures entirely her own, which she always places in relation to one another. The child as emblem of innocence, roaming free in the dangerous forest, mirrors a secret world of the subconscious. Nature becomes the space for buried fears and wishes.
“Urwald” (150x115cm) ink on paper – private collection
Biography
Born in Sochaczew, Poland (1978).
She now lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Education
1998 – 2003 studied painting at the Warsaw Academy
2001 guest study at the H.d.K. (College of Arts) Berlin
2003 Diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with a focus on painting and wall painting.
Exhibitions
2024
“Landschaft”, Stadliche Galerie Offenburg, DE
“Dissonance”, Stadtgalerie Kiel, DE
“Dissonancen”, Nationalgalerie Bukarest, RU
2023
Luxemburg Art Week, Luxemburg, LU
2018
Gallery Victor Lope, Solo Show,”Winter Tales“, Barcelona, ES
Kunsthalle Hense, Gescher, Group Show, DE
Gallery Victor Lope, Group Show, Barcelona, ES
Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
2017
Neue Waldgeschichten, Galerie Filser & Gräf, Munich, DE
Scope, New York, Gallery Victor Lope, US
Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Michael Schultz, DE
2016
Waldzeichnungen, Galerie Michael Schultz Berlin, DE
Spekulativer Realismus, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck, DE
Aufs Land! Schloßmuseum Murnau, Murnau, DE
2015
Path, Galeria Apteka Sztuki Warsaw, Warschau, PL
Naturwelten (with Herbert Mehler), Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld, DE
2014
Mysterious Tales, Galeria Victor Lope, Barcelona, ES
Zauberwald, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, DE
2013
Unterwegs in den Bergen, Galerie Filser & Gräf, München, DE
2012
galerie Christian roellin, St. Gallen, CH
2011
Arkadia, Kunstverein APEX, Göttingen, DE
Wolfskinder, Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2010
Wolfram Völcker Fine Art, Berlin, DE
