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

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  • 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

Exhibitions:

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.

29 September 2024

Magdalena Pela (born 1989)

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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