origin: private collection, Cracow
Karolina Jabłońska b. 1991, Niedomice
From 2010 to 2015 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Faculty of Painting in the studio of Prof. Leszek Misiak. Co-founder of Potencja gallery in Krakow and the art magazine "Łałok".
Winner of the second prize of the Bielska Jesień biennale of painting (2017), prize of the Lower Silesian Capital Club in the 12th Geppert Competition (2016).
She lives and works in Cracow.
Karolina Jablonska's work is one of the most prominent examples of contemporary art, which reflects the states and anxieties of the younger generation. The heroes of the artist's paintings are ordinary teenagers and young people, whose everyday life consists of parties, fights, complicated relationships with peers and struggles for their own. We observe the scenes in close frame, bodies, as if made of rubber, in tense. Expressive gestures and gazes, framed in intense, neon colors, make Jablonska's works stay with the viewer for a long time.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
-Processes. Works from 2023-24, State Art Gallery, Sopot.
2021
- No Rest for the Weary, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2020
- Room Tour (together with Sophie Thun), Raster, Warsaw, PL
- Hyperbole, Zeller van Almsick, Vienna, A
2019
- No Man Is Big Enough for My Arms, Works on Paper Gallery, Vienna, A
2018
- Slippery, Raster, Warsaw, PL
2017
- Girl or Tiger, Municipal Art Center, Gorzow Wielkopolski, PL
2016
- A human thing, Grey House Foundation, Kraków, PL
- New pair of eyes, Potency Gallery, Krakow, PL
2015
- Maronka, BWA Tarnów, PL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
- Collection of Wojciech Fibak NOWE POKOLENIE, Mazovia Centre for Contemporary Art "Elektrownia", Radom.
- Non-permanent exhibition 4 x Collection, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
2024
-Who's Afraid of Cartoony Figuration?, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA.
-New Generation and Classics from the Collection of Wojciech Fibak, CCA ZNAKI CZASU, Toruń, Poland.
2021
- The Catalyst. Joseph Beuys and Democracy Today, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE
- From the Lining, Raster, Warsaw, PL
- Mainly for Woman, SCAD Savannah, USA.
2020
- Nightwatching (Cracow Art Week KRAKERS), Potencja, PL
- Bodylotion, Zeller Van Almsick, Vienna, AT
- Komisch' Wetter, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, IT
- All Poland. Expedition to the Sources of Art. Vol.2, Gdansk City Gallery, PL
- On the Politics of Delicacy, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, DE
2019
- The Spirit of Nature and Other Fairy Tales, Silesian Museum in Katowice, PL
- Sensations. Closer to the people, Kunstverein Schattendorf, A
- Self Portraiture: The Artist as Muse, SCAD Savannah, USA.
- Soundcheck (Potency), Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL
- Paint Means Blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
- Funny Games, Gussglashalle, Berlin, DE
2018
- New Perspectives: Leipzig meets Cracow, Spinnerei archiv massiv, Leipzig, DE
- Communication with all that is, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, PL
- Interes, Potencja Gallery / Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Warsaw, PL
- Ozimina, Widna Gallery, Krakow, PL
- Lifehack, Jedna Dva Tři Gallery, Prague, CZ
2017
- 43rd Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale, Bielska Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała, PL
- Szwung, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin, DE
- No Problem, Potencja Gallery, Krakow, PL
- "XY" New Generation Polish-Hungarian Painting, MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, HU.
- Seans, Galeria Szara, Katowice, PL
- Potency, Raster, Warsaw, PL
2016
- Interstelaż, Potencja Gallery, Kraków, PL
- 12th Geppert Competition, BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wrocław, PL
2015
- Wy-dalone, Potencja Gallery, Krakow, PL
