watercolor, paper, 50 x 50 cm signed and dated on the reverse: Irmina Staś/2017
provenance: private collection, Warsaw
Irmina Staś, born 1986 in Żelechów. From 2006 to 2008 she studied at the Faculty of Graphics and Painting at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. In 2012, she received her master's degree from the Faculty of Painting in the studio of Prof. Leon Tarasewicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she currently works as an assistant in Prof. Pawel Susid's Image Concept Studio at the Faculty of Media Art. Irmina Staś is a three-time scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2015, 2019 and 2024), she received the Jury's regulatory distinction and the distinction of the editors of Arts & Business in the 42nd Biennale of Painting Bielska Jesień 2015, she was a finalist of Strabag Artaward International 2013, she won the first place in the Compass of Young Art for 2019. Among others, her works are in the collection of the National Museum in Gdansk, Bielska Galeria BWA in Bielsko-Biala, the Art Collection of PKO Bank Polski, Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok and Strabag Kunstforum in Vienna.
Individual exhibitions:
Chlorophyll and Blood, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw, 2023.
Repetitions, Bielska Galeria BWA, Bielsko Biala, 2021
Tooth to tooth, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, 2020
In four eyes (with Paweł Matyszewski), BWA Zielona Góra, 2019
Ornaments, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw, 2019
Cross-sections, Krynki Gallery, Krynki, 2018
Shapes and objects, Municipal Art Center, Gorzow Wielkopolski, 2018
Burying (with Paweł Matyszewski), Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw, 2017
Touch, Visiting Gallery, Warsaw, 2016
Transformation of Matter, Zachęta Project Place, Warsaw, 2016
Organismen, Strabag Kunstforum - Artlounge im Strabag Haus, Vienna, Austria, 2014.
Organisms, Visiting Gallery, Warsaw, 2013
Selected group exhibitions:
Herbarium novum. Efflorescentiae, BWA City Gallery in Bydgoszcz, 2020.
The year of perpetual summer, Ethnographic Museum, Warsaw, 2020
Young Polish Painting, National Museum in Gdansk, 2019
Lejanías Works from the Krzysztof Musiał Collection, Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporania, Valencia, Spain, 2018.
Experience of the body works from the Art Collection of the Bielska BWA Gallery, Municipal Art Center, Gorzow Wielkopolski, 2017
What about this abstraction, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, 2017
On the other side (of the mirror), Iglawa Regional Art Gallery, Czech Republic, 2017
HERE WE ARE. Selected works of Polish art after 1945 from the collection of Krzysztof Musiał, CCA Torun, 2017
Between Systems. Polish contemporary painting from the collection of Krzysztof Musiał, Francisco Hernandez Contemporary Art Centre, Velez-Malaga, Spain, 2016
42nd Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2015 under the honorary patronage of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Bielska Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała, 2015
Distaste Remains. Post-exhibition, Studio R5, Bialystok, 2015
The Power of Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art in Minsk, Belarus, 2015
Records of transformation, our selection from the collection of Krzysztof Musiał, Plock Art Gallery, Plock, 2015
Mauerfall 25 Jahre. Fördergesellschaft zeitgenössischer Kunst mbH, Essen, Germany, 2014.
Doubt, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw, 2014
Plein Air with Miłosz, PKO Bank Polski Centrala, Warsaw, 2014.
41st Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2013 under the honorary patronage of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, BIelska BWA Gallery, Bielsko-Biała, 2013
National Painting Review of the Young Promotions 2012, Legnica.
Coming Out. Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw 2012, Warsaw
Where is painting? Painting Space Workshop of Tarasewicz and Susid, Atak Gallery, Warsaw, 2012.
Presence of Painting, Leon Tarasewicz's students, Spokojna Gallery, Warsaw, 2012
Artists to Socrates, on the occasion of Sokrat Janowicz's benefit, Krynki, 2011
