Artists

Olga
Micińska

Sculptor and woodworker

Olga Micińska is currently living between Amsterdam and Warsaw. 2016-18 enrolled in MA Art Praxis study program at the Dutch Art Institute. In 2012 graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with MFA in Sculpture. Spent one study year in Granada at Facultad de Bellas Artes/Unversidad de Granada and received training at Glasgow Sculpture Studios in Scotland. As member of Timber Framers Guild participated in community building projects. She works in wood, ceramics, fabrics, collaborates with craft studios of various disciplines. Also trained as a woodworker, collaborates with craft studios of various techniques. Recently she has initiated The Building Institute, an experimental and non-formal organization engaging with diverse questions surrounding the subjects of labour and technology, attempting to emancipate the undermined knowledges dwelling in the craft domains.

Selected solo and group exhibitions:

2023


Pickle Bar Presents, West, The Hague (NL)
L'Horlogerie à Répétition, The Left Place The Right Space, Reims (FR)
The Gleaners Society, 40th EVA International, Limerick (IE)
Postartistic Assembly, 14th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea)
The Headquarters, Polana Institute 

2022

Beeld-en-Storm, Oosterkerk, Amsterdam 
You've got to be here!, lokal_30, Warsaw 
The Guild, curated by Karolina Ziębińska Lewandowska, Museum of Warsaw (PL)
The Headquarters, Punt WG, Amsterdam (NL)

2021

Konteksty. Postartistic Congress curated by Sebastian Cichocki and Marianna Dobkowska, Foundation In Situ, Sokołowsko (PL)
Bibliophagy, in collaboration with Slavs and Tatars, for "Primary Forms" curated by Sebastian Cichocki and Helena Czernecka, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (PL)

2020

Wonders in the Heavens and on the Earth, curated by Sebastian Cichocki and Jagna Lewandowska, Photomonth Festival in Kraków (PL)
Roaming Drifta, NADA Projects/ NADA Miami, Warsaw (PL)
Stichting Egress Foundation Salon, Tilde, Amsterdam (NL)
The Kitchen, Polana Institute, Warsaw (PL)
Infiltrating Public Space, Het Resort, Groningen (NL)

2019

Polana Interiors, Polana Institute, Warsaw (PL) 
Monumentomania, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (PL)
The Last Place on Earth, Polana Institute at Museum of the Earth in Warsaw
The Shaving Horse, Marwan, Amsterdam (NL)
The Shaving Horse & Co., Polana Institute (PL)
Non-binary, KS Room, Feldbach (AU)

2018

Wonder Woman, Polana Institute, Warsaw (PL)
Second Coat Redux (with Olle Stjerne + text by Samantha McCulloch), Kunstplatform De Apotheek Amsterdam (NL)

2017

The Sensibility of Structure (together with Sofia Goscinski), Österreichisches Kulturforum, Warsaw (PL)
Love Memory Curiosity, Polana Institute at Geological Museum, Warsaw (PL)
No future in dreaming, Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia (CYP)
Support Structures [In Support], De Kijkdoos, Amsterdam (NL)
The Space Program, Stroboskop, Warsaw (PL)
Degrees of Freedom: Human, Robot and the Medium of Automation, Designhuis, Eindhoven (NL)

2016

to pragma, Starter Gallery, Warsaw (PL)

2015

Cosas Vulnerables/Vulnerable Things, Sala Alfajar, Málaga (ESP)
Ensayo para una exposición/Rehearsal for an exhibition, CoMbO, Córdoba (ESP)

2014

Art Esopus [Esopus Creek Land Conservancy], SebSi Studio, Saugerties, NY (USA)
Tierras oníricas (with Alfarería Tito and Ubedies Artesanía), Hospital de Santiago, Úbeda (ESP)

Exhibitions view

Works

Rest
Olga Micińska Rest archival print 2020
Franziska takes measure
Olga Micińska Franziska takes measure archival print 2020
Drifta on Sarai's lap
Olga Micińska Drifta on Sarai's lap archival print 2020
Drifta 1
Olga Micińska Drifta 1 pencil and gouache on paper 2020
Drifta 2
Olga Micińska Drifta 2 pencil and gouache on paper 2020
Drifta 3
Olga Micińska Drifta 3 pencil and gouache on paper 2020
Unitled
Olga Micińska Unitled gouache on paper 2017
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Olga Micińska Untitled gouache on paper 2017
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Olga Micińska Untitled gouache on paper 2017
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Olga Micińska Untitled gouache on paper 2017
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Olga Micińska Untitled gouache on paper 2017
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Olga Micińska Untitled gouache on paper 2017
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Olga Micińska Untitled gouache on paper 2017
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Olga Micińska Untitled gouache on paper 2017
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Olga Micińska Untitled gouache on paper 2017
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Olga Micińska Untitled gouache on paper 2017
Stack of Whetstones
Olga Micińska Stack of Whetstones different stones 2019
Sink
Olga Micińska Sink different stones 2019
Pallet #1
Olga Micińska Pallet #1 stone 2019
Rest
Olga Micińska Rest archival print 2020
Joint
Olga Micińska Joint wood, brass 2017
Falcon
Olga Micińska Falcon wood, brass, steel 2017
Hand
Olga Micińska Hand wood, brass 2017
Crystal
Olga Micińska Crystal wood, brass, malachite 2016
Dracht
Olga Micińska Dracht wood, brass 2018
Olga Micińska ceramic 2018
Olga Micińska wood 2018
Olga Micińska wood, brass 2018
Olga Micińska wood, brass 2018
Olga Micińska wood 2018
Olga Micińska wood, brass 2018
Olga Micińska wood, brass 2018
Mallet
Olga Micińska Mallet wood, brass 2018
Olga Micińska ceramic 2018
Pins II
Olga Micińska Pins II wood 2018
Shaving Horse
Olga Micińska Shaving Horse wood 2019
Bevel
Olga Micińska Bevel pencil on paper 2019
Bed
Olga Micińska Bed pencil on paper 2019