Artist Name: Monika Jenowein
Residency Dates: October – November 2025
Born: 1974
Hometown: Gdynia, Poland
Lives & Works: Gdańsk and Sopot, Poland
URL: jenowein.com
Education:
2023 – PhD in Fine Arts, the Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk and the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy (PhD thesis: Artistic Identification of Bridges in Gdańsk, The Metaphysics of Colour and the Fourfold Concept within the Colour Selection Method)
2007-2008 – Postgraduate Diploma, Business School Marketing and Branding, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
1996-2002 – Master of Fine Arts with distinction, Art Graphics & Design and Art Photography, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk, PL
1999-2000 – Typography, Multimedia, Schule für Gestaltung St.Gallen, CH
1991–1996 – Graphic Design and Photography, Visual Communication, College of Fine Arts, Gdańsk, PL
Bio/Statement:
Monika Jenowein is a Tricity Soul – born in Gdynia, she grew up in the old Oliwa district of Gdańsk and now lives in Sopot. Monika was admitted to the Association of Polish Conceptualists in Warsaw in 1998 and to the Association of Polish Art Photographers in Warsaw in 2002. She is a laureate of the Award of the City of Gdansk for Young Creators in the Field of Culture in 2003. She worked as an independent lecturer in Colour Knowledge and Colour in Space Creation at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk, Poland, from 2016 to 2022. Monika Jenowein’s ongoing project “Artistic Identification of Bridges” uses a special art language and professional scientific methods. Through artefacts she calls “Mostelleses” one can reintroduce ethics and morality, as well start intellectual interaction and discourse between the observers. This project and art studio has its origins in the historical Gdańsk, its Docklands, where the first artefact “Mostelleses” were made, and the vibe of the Solidarity movement influencing her work.
Monika works in various fields of visual arts and has participated in numerous group exhibitions and individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Her exhibitions include, sculptural installation “Tide goes in, Tide goes out” in the public space at the City of London Town Hall, Thames River, London (2016); graphic series “Building Bridges, the Female Perspective”– Tower Bridge, London #16 – international exhibition of 20 selected female artists London (2016); (20) portrait sculpture series “Portrait Busts”, Gallery 33, St John’s Square, London (2015); portrait sculpture series “Portrait Sculptures” Insspire Studio, Battersea, London (2011); photographs for the “Praha” calendar, Dutch House, Gdańsk (2003) and Prague City Hall, Prague, Czech Republic (2003); posters for the first Gdańsk Poster Salon “Exhibition of the City of Gdańsk Scholars” Gdańsk (2002); “IPaq” a series of advertising posters, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2000); poster for the “European Union Poster” competition, Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany (1999); sculpture “Monument to a Hero”, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk, Exhibition of Winners of the Polish Conceptualists Competition, Warsaw (1998).
Support: Monika Jenowein’s residency is made possible with support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute Scholarship “Polish culture worldwide” and the Scholarship of the Mayor of Gdańsk.
