Selected individual exhibitions:
Skene, Galeria EL, Elbląg, 2023
Notice, doctoral exhibition, Pionova Gallery, Gdańsk, 2022
Good word / bad word, European Solidarity Centre, Gdańsk, 2022
‘To hear something, one must first be silent’, Żak Gallery, Gdańsk, 2020
Selected Group Exhibitions:
6th All-Polish Leon Wyczółkowski Painting Competition, BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszcz, 2024
White Tango, KMWT, The Armoury of Art, Gdańsk, 2024
Placebo. New Gods, ICS, Gdańsk, 2023
Waves, Casa Museo Stephanus, Termoli, 2023
Trisity vol.4, Morze Foundation, Tubaza, Gdynia, 2021
Palace of Art. Young Polish Painting, Department of Modern Art of the National Museum in Gdańsk, 2019
Gdańsk Biennale of Art 2018, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk, 2018
Final of the 3rd All-Polish Leon Wyczółkowski Painting Competition, BWA City Gallery in Bydgoszcz, 2018
Art Now, National Museum in Kraków / Szołayscy Tenement House, Kraków, 2018
Loneliness is an illusion, Latarka Gallery, Budapest ART WEEK, Budapest, 2017
International Exhibition of Painting and Unique Textiles – Eco Materia, Department of Modern Art of the National Museum in Gdańsk, 2017
Gdańsk Biennale of Art 2016, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk, 2016
13th National Exhibition of Unique Textiles, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, 2016
7th National Exhibition of the Best Diplomas of Fine Arts Academies 2015, The Armoury of Art, Gdańsk, 2015
5th National Young Painting Review ‘Fresh Blood’, Socato Gallery, Wrocław, 2015
25th National Young Painting Review PROMOCJE 2015, Art Gallery in Legnica, 2015
Exhibition of Winners of the Grand Prix of the Franciszka Eibisch Foundation, Katarzyna Napiórkowska Gallery, Warsaw, 2015
Borders of Painting, 3rd Independent National Exhibition of the Borders of Arts series, STYK Gallery, Warsaw, 2014
Selected competitions, scholarships, awards:
Finalist, 6th National Leon Wyczółkowski National Painting Competition, 2024
Pre-selection, STRABAG Kunstforum International Painting Competition, 2023
Rector's Award, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, 3rd Degree for Organisational and Artistic Achievements, 2022
Laureate, 3rd Leon Wyczółkowski National Painting Competition, 2018
Nominee to the final of the 3rd International Painting Competition of the Three Bridges Foundation, 2018
First place in the competition for the Most Beautiful Façade in Gdańsk in 2017; design and execution of illusionist painting with team: Katarzyna Dyjewska, Michał Wirtel, Maciej Czyżewski, Wajdeloty Street 18, Gdańsk, 2018
Nominee, Main Prize, 13th National Exhibition of Unique Textiles, Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, 2016
Finalist, 5th National Young Painting Review Fresh Blood, 2015
Winner, 25th National Young Painting Review Promotions 2015
Finalist, Grand Prix of the Franciszka Eibisch Foundation, 2015
Winner, 7th National Exhibition of the Best Diplomas of Fine Arts Academies 2015 – Mayor of the City of Gdańsk Award, 2015
Special Rector's Award, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, 2015
Scholarship of the Minister of Education and Higher Education, 2014
Pity About the Flowers, Wspólna Gallery, Bydgoszcz, 2019
PUSTO / PEŁNO // PELA / DYJEWSKA, Galeria Bardzo Biała, Warsaw, 2019
commonplace book / Zuzanna Dolega / Magdalena Pela, Artists' Colony, Gdańsk, 2018
‘Finding a place becomes to be a cause of endless trouble’, BWA City Gallery, Bydgoszcz, 2017
‘The beaches are full of bathers’, Podlaska Gallery, Biała Podlaska, 2017
PUSTO / PEŁNO // PELA / DYJEWSKA, Artists' Colony, Gdańsk, 2016
Figure / Sign / Plane, Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw, 2016
All-over. Crowd Structure, Gdańsk City Gallery, Gdańsk, 2015
She is a multiple laureate and finalist of national and international painting competitions. Her solo exhibitions have been held at, among others, the Promocyjna Gallery in Warsaw, Gdańsk City Gallery, BWA City Gallery in Bydgoszcz, Galeria Bardzo Biała in Warsaw, and Galeria EL. Pela's paintings are in numerous private collections as well as the permanent collections of the National Museum in Gdańsk, the European Solidarity Centre, and the New Art Museum NOMUS.
Visual artist, painter. She graduated from the Faculty of Painting and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She also holds a degree in Cultural Studies from the Faculty of Philology, University of Gdańsk. In 2022, she earned a Doctor of Arts degree. At her alma mater, she works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Painting.
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