Born in 1990 in Nowogard, Poland
Katarzyna Wiesiolek, who lives and works in
Paris, first studied in Wrocław then graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in
2018. Focusing mostly on drawing and photography, her work was presented in
several collective exhibitions in France and abroad and in a solo show at
Galerie Éric Dupont. In 2017, she was awarded the Pierre David-Weill Prize in
drawing from the Académie des Beaux-Arts and, in 2018, le second contemporary
drawing prize from the Cabinet des dessins Jean Bonnat. Her works, neither
report, fiction, nor account, is essentially about emotions. Using the intimacy
of her chosen medium, drawing, she evokes melancholy, impermanence, and
transience.
