Born in 1976. Artist. Feminist.
My fields are painting and dollmaking. I create in a trend of the new female spirituality. In “Madonnas” – the series of paitings, I show Mother Mary as Christian reincarnation of Great Mother and pagan Goddess of Moon. Number of my works are devoted to the myth about Demeter and Persephone.
I continue prehistoric tradition of making symbolic dolls, which represent transcendental reality. (Prehistoric dolls are considered to have been used in magic and spiritual rithuals.) A doll was a subject of my MA thesis. Since 2017 I participate in annual Doll Prague Exhibition – one of the biggest art doll faires in Europe. “Devil” – my doll inspirated by tarot de Marseille, won the 3rd prize in the art doll competition during Doll Praque in 2017.
I entered the path of art in the age of 14, when I started my education in the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Lublin and next I graduated in art education from UMCS University in Lublin. As a great craft enthusiast I devoted a lot of my time to learn craft techniques. I participated in blackmithing workshops. In Folk High School on Bornholm (Denmark) I was studying ceramics and dollmaking. I also learned many handcraft techniques by my on.
I am the author of number of articles about art. I work as a manager of education in the Center for Culture in Lublin.
My works are in private and public collections (The Lublin Museum, Lublin Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts).
2005-6 Bornholm Folk High School, Aakirkeby, Denmark
2000 Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, MA in sculpture and art education
1995 Fine Arts Secondary School, Lublin
2020 ProRegres 2020 online exhibition. Show of works from artist’s childhood and youth. View the show.
Katarzyna’s works:
2019 Doll Prague Exhibition, Prague, Lucerna Palace, Czech Republic
2019 Ask Mokosh (Zapytaj Mokoszy). Sztuka Wyboru Gallery, Gdańsk
2018/2019 Motherhood from the beginning and endless. Antropological story. (Macierzyństwo od początku i bez końca. Opowieść antropologiczna). Ethnographic Museum, Toruń
2018 Art Doll Prague, Slovansky Dum, Prague, Czech Republic
2017 Art Doll Prague Biennale – contest exhibition (3rd prize for art doll, category “soft dolls”), Prague, Czech Republic
2015 [A]symmetries. Contemporary art in the context of the museum ([A]symetrie. Sztuka współczesna w kontekście muzeum), Lublin Museum
2015 POLA Polish Art Doll:
2012 Motherhood (Macierzyństwo), Workshops of Culture, Lublin
2012 Ars loci – image of the collection (Ars loci – obraz kolekcji), Lublin Society fot the Encouragement of Fine Arts – Zachęta Gallery, Lublin
2012 Ars loci – current image (Ars loci – obraz współczesny), Workshops of Culture, Lublin
2004 Young Art Biennale Rybie Oko 3, Baltic Contemporary Art Gallery, Słupsk/ Ustka
2004 Women Feast (Święto Kobiet), “Mute” club, Cracow
2017 Kore/Persephone (Kora/ Persefona), Gardzienice Gallery, Lublin
2014 Dolls (Lalki), Gardzienice Gallery, Lublin
2013 Dolls (Lalki), Wozownia Gallery, Toruń
2011 Madonnas (Madonny), Otwarta Pracownia Gallery, Cracow
2011 Madonnas (Madonny), BWA Labirynt Gallery, Lublin
2009 Madonnas (Madonny), Galeria Interdyscyplinarna, Słupsk
2017 Art Doll Prague Biennale – 3rd prize in category “dolls from soft materials”, Czech Republic
2016 Ćmielów Design Studio, Polska Fabryka Porcelany [Polish Porcelain Faktory], Ćmielów
teksty autorstwa Katarzyny Hołdy
K. Hołda’s publications
Teksty na stronie Centrum Kultury w Lublinie w ramach programu Latających Warsztatów Rękodzieła (patrz zakładka “teaching”):
Teksty publikowane w Obiegu dostępne TUTAJ.
from 2012 – Latające Warsztaty Rekodzieła (Flying Craft Workshops) – educational studio, set up and run by Katarzyna. We are the department of the Center for Culture in Lublin (Poland). We make workshops of dollmaking, design, magic, sewing etc. etc.
2015 guest instructor, Gerðuberg Cultural Center, Reykjavik, Island
2011-12 trainings for art educators, Wojewódzki Ośrodek Kultury (Voivodeship Culture Center), Lublin
2009-2010 Lublin University of Technology
2008- 2010 University of the Third Age, Lublin
before 2012 freelanced teacher in cultural and educational institutions
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