Olga Szczechowska

Olga Szczechowska (born 1987, Radom, Poland) — painter, graphic designer, illustrator. In her practice she focuses on the relationship between nature and humans, closely observing the ways in which we shape the nature in our own backyards. By looking at trimmed hedges, decorative plants and meticulously designed home gardens, Olga Szczechowska captures the sometimes eerie nature of our immediate surroundings. She lives and works in Warsaw.

The recent years Olga has devoted to the art of collage. The compositions are inspired by landscapes, still lives, or they come as a result of experiments with shapes, textures, and colours.

She is the author of the cover for the Polish cultural magazine Notes na 6 tygodni (#106 July-August-September 2016), she has published her illustrations in other magazines, like G’rls room, Kukbuk, Contemporary Lynx, Visegrad Insight.

Scholarships:

2014 Scholarship Mayor of Torun in the field of culture
2013 Scholarship Mayor of Torun in the field of culture

Individual exhibitions:

2018 Surroundings, Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw(PL)
2016 One swallow makes a spring, Gallery 58, Radom (PL)
2016 Cuttings, Studio Large Room, Warsaw (PL)
2015 It happens in paradise, Magic garden, Finnish cottage, Warsaw (PL)
2014 Forest body, Brda Gallery, Bydgoszcz (PL)
2014 They say, those who paint like to exaggerat, Wozownia Art Gallery, Torun (PL)
2013 Habitat, intervention in space, CoCA, Torun (PL)
2013 One swallow makes a spring, intervention in the urban space, Torun (PL)

Group exhibitions:

2017 Grand Prix of Foundation Eibisch, Napiórkowska Gallery, Warsaw, (PL)
2013 Diploma 2013, Studentenwerk, Gottingen (DE)
2013 2th National Painting Competition, Universal language of painting, center them. Ludwik Zamenhof, Bialystok (PL)
2013 Autumn of life, Vistula Gallery, Torun (PL)
2013 Flood, garbage, looters, Vistula Gallery, Torun (PL)
2013 Drawing Limits, Turbo Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
2012 22th National Review of Young Painting PROMOTIONS, Art Gallery, Legnica
2012 The second output, CoCA, Torun (PL)
2012 scholarship program BMW / ART / TRANSFORMY, National Opera, Warsaw (PL)
2012 2th Young Art Fresh blood, Socato Gallery, Wroclaw (PL)
2012 Second hand, CoCA, Torun (PL)
2012 Pretty Art, CoCA, Torun (PL)
2012 NOTO scrapbook artist, post-competition exhibition, Krakow (PL)
2012 A coincidence or a method?, CoCA, Torun (PL)
2012 Campers, CoCa, Torun (PL)