Katarzyna Kopańska-Błaszczyk (born 1.10.1967 Ostróda, Poland).
Polish painter, draftsman and graphic artist. She graduated the State High School of Fine Arts in Bydgoszcz and the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (graduated with honors in 1992). Kopańska studied painting, drawing and photography under professors Stanisław Rodziński, Zbylut Grzywacz, Jerzy Nowosielski, Teresa Kotkowska-Rzepecka, Juliusz Joniak, Józef L. Ząbkowski and Zbigniew Łagocki.
Kopanska's painting is characterized by"surreal air and atheistic mysticism, their exuberant cult of nature and coded symbols, while conducive to mental stability, perversely also give rise to a creative ecstasy that transforms everything that is ordinary and natural into a mythical story that delights in its exquisiteness".
Stanisław Tabisz, an excerpt from the catalogue for the exhibition Cat Drovers
EXHIBITIONS
2019 – Moje Millefleur, 12 obrazów na płótnie i 20 obrazów/prac na papierze, Muzeum w Ostródzie, Zamek, Ostróda.
2018 – Professor Juliusz Joniak and his students, Palace of Fine Arts, Cracow.
2011 – Sensuellabilder, prace na papierze, Maria Brusewitz, ceramika, Galeria Abbekås Joanny Nicklasson-Młynarskiej, Abbekås, Szwecja. Wystawa dwuosobowa.
2009 – Young Girls in Flower, prace na papierze, Galeria Abbekås Joanny Nicklasson-Młynarskiej, Abbekås, Szwecja. Wystawa indywidualna.
2008 – Bright Pastures, painting, Raven Gallery, Cracow, Poland. Solo exhibition.
2005 – According to Johannes Angelus, prace na papierze, Galeria Abbekås Joanny Nicklasson-Młynarskiej, Abbekås, Szwecja.
2001 – Internation Art Fair, Sollentune, Sweden.
2001 – Cat Drovers, painting, Polska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden. Solo exhibition.
1999 – L'Art et les Animaux / Art and Animals, Bajek, Kopańska, Martini, Couleurs en Val Mosan, Huy, Pailhe, Belgium.
1999 – Yellow River, paintings and works on paper, Warsaw Financial Center, Warsaw, Poland. Solo exhibition.
1997 – Artistic Recommandations, Galeria Autorska Mariana Gołogórskiego, Dom Polonii, Cracow
1997 – Paintings and works on paper, Marian Gologórski Author's Gallery, House of Polonia, Cracow, Poland. Solo exhibition.
1996 – International Painting Triennial Sofia’96, Sofia.
1994 – Colour is my Hero, paintings and works on paper, Bernauer 111, Berlin. Solo exhibition.
1994 – New Memebers of ZPAP, Galeria Pryzmat, Cracow.
1993 – Meeting of Young Artists from Cracow Myślenice ’93, Myślenice.
Reviews, essays, catalogs (selection)
- Katarzyna Kopańska Moje Millefleur, Ostróda, 2019.
- Javier Fuentes Rinocerontes (LXI) – Katarzyna Kopanska, artblog - El Hurgador [Arte en la Red] 2015,
- Piotr Błaszczyk Leyers, Konspekt 3/2010 (36).
- Stanisław Tabisz Hot colours of the World, solo exhibition catalogue “Cat Drovers” Katarzyna Kopańska, Warszawa 2001, PL
- Stanisław Tabisz „Hot colours of the World”, solo exhibition catalogue “Cat Drovers” Katarzyna Kopańska, Warszawa 2001. ENG
- Documentary, directed by A. Pazurkiewicz, TVN 24, 14.12.2002.
- Marzenna Jakubczak, Earth – Towards the Source of Imagination[in:] The Great Book of Aesthetics. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Aesthetics, Japan 2001,Tokyo 2003.
- Katarzyna Kopańska Images, Cracow 1999, solo exhibition catalogue.
- Stanisław Tabisz Order of the world. Images Katarzyna Kopanska[in:] Architecture & Business 11, 1999.
- Aneta Pawlak-Kielbik Przyśnił mi się nosorożec, Katarzyna Kopańska Sen Franciszka Szczęsnegosolo exhibition catalogue Painting Katarzyna Kopańska, Cracow, 1997