Elżbieta Jabłońska Explained

Elżbieta Jabłońska
Other Names:Elizabeth Jablonska,
Elzbieta Jablonska
Birth Name:Elżbieta Anna Jabłońska
Birth Place:Olsztyn, Poland
Alma Mater:Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Occupation:Visual artist
Known For:Photography, installation art, performance art
Movement:Post-feminism
Website:Official website

Elżbieta Jabłońska (born 1970) is a Polish contemporary visual artist, and professor.[1] [2] She has served as the Chair of Drawing and has taught art at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń since 1996.[3] Jablonska is known for photography, film, installation art, and performance art. Her artwork engages with Polish stereotypes and myths of women, mothers, and the Catholicism.[4] [5] She lives in Bydgoszcz in northern Poland, in a farming cooperative.[6]

Early life, education, and family

Elżbieta Jabłońska was born in 1970 in Olsztyn, Poland.[7] She studied at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where she graduated with a MA degree in 1995.

She is the widow of Polish musician (1966–2006), who co-founded the Mózg Club in Bydgoszcz. Together they have a son that is a noted musician and the subject of many of her photographs, Antoni (Antek) Majewski.[8]

Career

Her artwork deals with clichés of femininity found in Catholicism, as artists, and in motherhood in Poland, as well as various types of social exclusion.[9] [10] Jablonska's most famous work is a self-portrait of the artist dressed as Superman with her son Antek on her lap, in the pose of Virgin Mary with the baby; from the "Supermatka" (English: Supermother) (2002) photo series.[11] [12] Her photo series "Przypadkowa Przyjemność" (English: Accidental Pleasure) (2006) documented the food remains of the artist's culinary activities.

Her public artwork "Nowe Zycie" (English: New Life) (2014) is an oversized neon sign mounted on an Agricultural Production Cooperative found in the village Trzeciewiec in Poland.[13] [14] From May to June 2002, her work "Gry Domowe" (English: Household Games) was presented as part of the AMS Outdoor Gallery, a project shown on 400 billboards in the largest Polish cities and led by Marek Krajewski, Dorota Grobelna, and Lechosław Olszewski.[15]

Jablonska's work was recognized through its inclusion in a major international surveys, including the 7th Construction in Process (2000) held at the Regional Museum, Bydgoszcz in Bydgoszcz;[16] and Global Feminisms (2007) held at the Brooklyn Museum, and curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin.[17] Her work was also part of the group exhibitions "Architectures Of Gender: Contemporary Women’s Art In Poland" at SculptureCenter in Long Island;[18] "Hero Mother: Contemporary Art by Post-Communist Women Rethinking Heroism" (2016) at MOMENTUM Berlin in Berlin, curated by Bojana Pejic and Rachel Rits-Volloch;[19] [20] and "Part 2: Maternality" (2020) at Richard Saltoun Gallery in London.

Jablonska's artwork is part of public museum collections including the Zachęta National Gallery of Art,[21] and ING Polish Art Foundation.[22]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Buck . Louisa . 2020-02-04 . Valie Export and crowning babies bring mixed messages of motherhood to Mayfair . 2023-01-02 . The Art Newspaper - International art news and events.
  2. Web site: 2021-09-08 . Elżbieta Jabłońska zaprasza na swoją wystawę do bwa. Chętnych oprowadza . 2023-01-02 . Polskie Radio (PiK) . pl.
  3. Web site: Elżbieta Jabłońska . 2023-01-01 . Culture.pl . Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland Ministry of Culture and National Heritage . pl.
  4. Book: Sliwinska, Basia . The Female Body in the Looking-Glass: Contemporary Art, Aesthetics and Genderland . 2016-06-29 . Bloomsbury Publishing . 978-1-78673-008-4 . 89 . en.
  5. Book: Bottinelli . Silvia . The Taste of Art: Cooking, Food, and Counterculture in Contemporary Practices . Valva . Margherita d’Ayala . 2017-06-01 . University of Arkansas Press . 978-1-61075-607-5 . 177 . en.
  6. Book: Kurz . Julia . Common Affairs: Edition anglais-allemand-polonais . Welbel . Stanisław . Steiner . Barbara . Majewska . Ewa . 2016 . Hatje Cantz . 978-3-7757-4147-7 . 117 . pl.
  7. Web site: Jabłońska, Elżbieta . 2023-01-02 . Kunstforum.de . de-DE.
  8. Web site: 2016-03-29 . Antoni Majewski walczy o tytuł Młodego Muzyka Roku 2016 . 2023-01-02 . Polskie Radio (PiK) . pl.
  9. News: Davies . Lucy . 2019-11-13 . Artists reveal the unvarnished truth of motherhood, from pregnancy tests to the mess of childbirth . en-GB . The Telegraph . 2023-01-02 . 0307-1235.
  10. Web site: Popovics . Viktoria . 2021-03-29 . Your Body is (still) a Battleground: –Representation of Motherhood in Contemporary Art in Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary.– . 2023-01-02 . Secondary Archive . pl.
  11. Book: Kutis, Barbara . Artist-Parents in Contemporary Art: Gender, Identity, and Domesticity . 2020-05-14 . Routledge . 978-0-429-88626-3 . en . Superwoman, Supermother, or Polish Mother? Elżbieta Jabłońska’s Artistic Negotiation of Motherhood.
  12. Koczanowicz . Dorota . 2018 . Levitation, Superman's Flight, and the Prose of Life . The Monist . 101 . 3 . 340–352 . 10.1093/monist/ony010 . 26478112 . 0026-9662 . JSTOR.
  13. Book: Cartiere . Cameron . The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm . Tan . Leon . 2020-10-19 . Routledge . 978-0-429-83380-9 . 287 . en.
  14. Web site: New Life (Nowe Życie) . 2023-01-02 . InstituteForPublicArt.org (IPA).
  15. Web site: AMS Outdoor Gallery Projects - Image Gallery . 2023-01-02 . Culture.pl . Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland . en.
  16. Book: Szyłak . Aneta . Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women's Art in Poland : SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York, April 11-June 8, 2003 : Exhibition . Matynia . Elżbieta . 2003 . . 978-83-7100-276-2 . 75 . en.
  17. Book: Reilly . Maura . Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art . Nochlin . Linda . 2007 . Merrell . 978-0-87273-157-8 . 275 . en.
  18. Web site: Heuer . Megan . 2003-06-01 . Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women's Art in Poland . 2023-01-02 . The Brooklyn Rail . en-US.
  19. Web site: Hero Mother: Contemporary Art by Post-Communist Women Rethinking Heroism - Exhibition at MOMENTUM . 2023-01-02 . ArtRabbit . en.
  20. Book: Pejić . Bojana . Hero Mother: Contemporary Art by Post-communist Women Rethinking Heroism . Rits-Volloch . Rachel . 2016 . MOMENTUM Berlin . 978-3-9817801-1-6 . en.
  21. Web site: "New Life". Screening of Elżbieta Jabłońska's film and meeting with the artist . 2023-01-02 . Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (MWW).
  22. Web site: Elżbieta Jabłońska - Collection . 2023-01-02 . The ING Polish Art Foundation . en.

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