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:
2024
The Lips of History, Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam
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)