Artist Name: Bianka Rolando
Residency Dates: September – October 2024
Born: Warsaw, Poland
Lives & Works: Poznań, Poland
URL: biankarolando.com | Instagram: @rolandobianka
Gallery: Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
Education:
2024 | Art Professorship, Adam Mickiewicz University, PL
2022 | Professor/ Lecturer at the School of Form, Adam Mickiewicz University, PL
2011 | Ph.D. in Visual Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, PL
Bio/Statement:
Bianka Rolando is an artist, poet and professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Her works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Polish Institute in Rome, at the Kunsthalle Bratislava. She is an author of nine books of poetry. Her artwork combines different types of media in the unique language of artistic expression. In parallel to her artistic work, she writes – not commentaries on art, but rather foundations for her artistic projects. The works present dreamy afterglows, scenes from dreams, or frame reality in such a way that it turns out to be vague in its unveilings. The visual language that defines errors in defining what is depicted precisely so that a liberating poem emerges. They are not proof of achieving some goals but rather testify to the mere passion for traveling and transformation.
Bianka Rolando’s selected solo exhibitions include: Milk Can Escape at the Foksal Gallery, Warsaw (2024); Rol- A- Top- Twin- Jack Pot at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ustka (2023); Keel and Dolphin (2019) at the Foksal Gallery, Warsaw (2019); and Reversed Triumphzug at the Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznań (2016).
Support: Bianka Rolando’s residency is made possible with support from the Polish Cultural Institute New York.
