Paulina Olowska

Paulina Olowska (born 1976, Gdańsk) is a Polish painter and photographer, who also works in the field of performance and video-art, social action and applied art.

In her works she willingly uses various media, such as painting, collage, installation, performance, fashion and music, which allows her to obtain an exceptionally rich range of artistic impressions.

In Slavic Goddesses, the artist explores Stryjeńska's notion of ballet as a "wreath of ceremony" by designing costumes based on her 1918 painting series under the same title.

The actors, dressed in surreal costumes with huge headdresses adorned with peacock feathers and wheat stalks, portray imaginative characters from Slavic mythology and folklore: goddesses of mischief, fortune, fate, spring, winter, and heaven.

[9] Her approach to conservation has developed performatically and over time, as a result of researching and responding to numerous local modernisms - from regional constructivism to magazine designs.

[10] The painting entitled Ewa Wawrzoń (2013) in costume from the play Rhinoceros (1961) represents the characteristic motif of forgotten heroines or artists in Paulina Olowska's work.

Olowska holds provincial stage artists in particular in high esteem (e.g., the series devoted to actresses at the Rabcio Puppet Theatre in Rabka) - women who are risky, committed and ambiguous.

2014 Aachen Art Prize[12] 2017 Bessie Awards Nomination for Outstanding Visual Design[13] Her paintings and installations can be found in the collections of the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the MoMA in New York and the Tate Modern in London.

Paulina Ołowska, Constructivist Rockabilly Boots (Buty Konstruktywistyczne typu Rockabilly) , 2000