Teresa Murak

Born in 1949, sculptor, author of installations. She studied Art History at the Catholic University of Lublin and at the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She is one of the most important Polish conceptual artists and forerunners of performance, nature art and feminist art. Ecological themes play a significant role in her works – nature, connection between man and nature, plants and relation of man with them. She works with landscape using natural materials: sprouting grains that create their own organic architecture, growing leaven dough, clay, river sludge. Her most important works: “Procession” (Warsaw, 2974), “For Earth” (Ubbeboda, Sweden 1974), “Sowing – lady’s smock coat”, “River sludge – material of being”. Her individual exhibitions were presented, among others, at the Polish Institute in Düsseldorf, the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Bureau of Encouragement of Arts in Bielsko-Biała, Zachęta. In 2005 she was awarded Katarzyna Kobro award.