Behind the Curtain at BOK Gallery in Bialystok, Poland

Exhibition Curator: Grazyna Dworakowska

Mała Galeria BOK - foyer kina Forum 

Opening: 28 February 2012 @ 5:30pm


http://www.bok.bialystok.pl/temat.php?wpisyID=584

One of my pictures has been published at The New Collectors Book

                                          Untitled © Ula Wiznerowicz
The New Collectors Book is a unique New York publication that presents galleries, curators, painters, sculptors, photographers, and mixed media artists whose work is gaining an increasing level of recognition within the international art community. It also offers artists a platform to show their work to the collectors, dealers and buyers of the commercial art world. From painting, works on paper, sculpture, video and new media, photography, and multi-media installations The New Collectors Book will highlight not only the work of wonderful artists from all over the world, but also the latest trends in art.

Ula Wiznerowicz - Winner of Ideas Tap & Metroprint Portfolio Award

http://www.metro-print.co.uk/IdeasTapMetroprintannounceportfolioawardwinner?forumboardid=5631&forumtopicid=5631
We are delighted to announce the winner of our recent competition with IdeasTap to win a free portfolio of 25 12 x 16 prints, and one to one session mentoring from Young Photographers Alliance on how to edit and produce your own portfolios. 
We have had an over whelming response of very high quality work, and picking a winner was difficult, but we are pleased to announce that the winner is Ula Wiznerowicz, for her ‘Behind the Curtain’ and ‘Between Homes’ set.

Erin from YPA said: “YPA would like to congratulate Ula for winning the Ideastap/ Metro Print portfolio award.   She has a really strong set of images and it looks like she is well on her way to developing a successful career in photography.”

Ula Wiznerowicz's Behind the Curtain for the first time in Poland

Behind the Curtain selected for exhibition at Nizio Gallery, Warsaw

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Gallery Curator: Mirosław Nizio

A short presentation about this exhibition was aired on TVP Kultura:

http://www.tvp.pl/warszawa/kultura/qadrans-qltury/wideo/25-stycznia-2012/6299762

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Ula Wiznerowicz's Behind the Curtain at POSK Gallery in Hammersmith

Behind the Curtain selected for exhibition, curated for POSK Gallery by Joanna Ciechanowska

Ula Wiznerowicz, the 25-year old Polish photographer who was recently a finalist in the Channel 4 and Saatchi Gallery’s New Sensations 2010 prize, is to launch her first UK solo exhibition in London later this year.

Behind the Curtain will feature at the Polish Social and Cultural Association’s gallery during November, following on from its premiere at the Kunstraum Café Mitterhofer in Innichen, Italy, where it received international acclaim.

The body of work explores the problem of alcoholism in rural communities in Greater Poland, through high quality photography taken with an analogue medium-format camera. While the subject matter may be serious, the result is a compelling series of highly individual minimalistic images conveying strong but simple messages in very distinctive ways. The set of 30 50x40cm prints represents a personal journey through the individual stories of the men and women dealing with alcoholism; forgotten and useless things covered in dust, emaciated cats running around in search for food leftovers, rooms taken over by spider webs and strong odour of alcohol. This was just some of chaos that Ula encountered while photographing in her native village Palmowo and the surrounding areas. In her visual narratives Ula reflects this, as well as dwells on the personal story of her own past, growing up in Poland.

“The aim of the exhibition is to turn the viewer’s attention to inseparable feeling of loneliness and alienation experienced by alcoholics and their families,” says Ula. “But the pastel colour palette found in many of the photographs is intended to convey the sense of hope or peace, as there are a large number of institutions that support the addicts, helping them to overcome the struggle with their illness and giving optimism for a better future.”

Over the course of a year, Ula gathered relevant information, researched medical data and interviewed alcoholics, their families and doctors who specialise in the addiction. “I believe this was essential, as without doing so, I would have been unable to fully understand the problem that plays a major role in my home country, and suitably express this issue in my work,” she says.

Ula’s photography has already benefitted those battling alcoholism. In March this year, she donated a two-metre long artwork from the series to a charity auction organised in support of the London-based Seventy4 Foundation that deals with alcohol addiction.

Following her graduation from a BA course in Photography at Middlesex University in 2010, Ula was awarded a prestigious prize at the D&AD New Blood 2010 exhibition showcasing selected work from UK graduates. Shortly after, she was chosen as one of the four finalists for the Channel 4 and Saatchi Gallery New Sensations 2010 Prize. A short documentary film about each of the selected artists was made and aired by Channel 4. This can be viewed online at http://jamesmh.net/697792/Ula-Wiznerowicz

Through photography, Ula seeks to document her own personal experiences, trying to capture her vision of reality at the moment the shutter gets released. Her images portray authentic locations, telling the stories of the people who live there. The pictures come alive in light, the story reaching the spectator beyond material reality. Ula seeks to explore the poetry of commonplace, capturing the ordinary things from her unique point of view. She chooses visual art as a powerful tool to express her emotions, thus telling a much more complex story than just words can do.

Graduate Interview: Ula Wiznerowicz

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/facilities/careers/graduates/index.aspx

Our graduates' careers

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An interview with BA photography graduate Ula, who is currently organising her first solo exhibition

Interview with Ula at The Common Room

http://www.calameo.com/read/000558916d0cb3ae02763

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The Common Room is  London based monthly newspaper, is the aspiring individual’s inside look at entrepreneurship, creativity, entertainment, business and life in the lane that is funky and fresh!

Ula Wiznerowicz's Behind the Curtain at The Homeless Gallery

I have been chosen to take part in the third edition of The Homeless Gallery’s exhibition as a part of the Polish Arts Festival in Southend-on-Sea

Interview with Photographer Ula Wiznerowicz ( in Polish for now ) :)

http://www.dziennikpolski.co.u​k/index.php?option=com_content​&view=article&id=1152%3Anacisk​ajc-spust-kieruj-si-intuicj&ca​tid=3%3Awywiady&Itemid=10

Naciskając spust kieruję się intuicją

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Dziennik Polski w Londynie jest najstarszą polonijną gazetą w Europie wydawaną nieprzerwanie od 1940 roku.

Interview with Ula Wiznerowicz

Interview With Photographer Urszula Wiznerowicz | Feature Me | Feature Me

Urszula Wiznrowicz won the Main prize at this years D&AD New Blood Exhibition and has been chosen as one of the 4 finalists for the Channel 4 and Saatchi Gallery: New Sensations 2010 Prize.

Ula Wiznerowicz represented by Deconstruction Project

I was chosen to be represented by Deconstruction Project- London based non-profit contemporary arts organization promoting Polish culture through art, music, design and education.

Check: Artists to Watch on their website

www.deconstructionproject.co.uk

Art auction for 'Seventy4 Foundation'

In March 2011 I have donated one of my 2-meter long artworks, from the series “Behind The Curtain”, to the charity auction organised to the benefit of one of London-based foundations (The Seventy4 Foundation), dealing with alcoholism.

 

 

Project for NW3 News

I took a series of photos in Hampstead, London - for NW3 News, local community internet website

Introducing the NW3 News photo stream | NW3 News

 

 

 

 

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