© Courtesy of Bremond Capela and Karolina Szwed
Karolina Szwed
Biography
Born in 1997 in Bielsko-Biala, PL
Lives and works in Warsaw, PL
Karolina Szwed is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (2022). Her work has recently been shown at the Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing and in the 47th Painting Biennale Bielska Jesien 2025, where she received the Szum Magazine Award, as well as at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Alice Amati Gallery (London), Galeria Yusto/Giner (Marbella, Spain), Elsa Meunier Gallery (Paris, France), and Adams and Ollman (Pittsburgh, USA).
Szwed’s paintings emerge through experimentation, intuition, and repetition. Drawing on gestures of handwriting, scribbling, and note-taking, she translates fleeting marks and remembered movements into painterly forms. She approaches painting as a process of trial and error, in which instinct, speed, chance, and critical reflection operate together. Her process balances luck and skill, first attempts and revisions.
Curriculum vitae
Solo and two-person exhibitions
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2025The Apple of my Eye, JVDW Gallery, Dusseldorf, DE
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Floor Level, duo show with Lulu Nuti, Bliss Gallery, Warsaw, PL
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Viewing Room, Alice Amati Gallery, London, GB
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2024Soft Trigger, Whoispola, Warsaw, PL
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Moja droga witrynko…, the ING Polish Art Foundation in collaboration with Turnus Gallery, Podgląd, Warsaw, PL
Group exhibitions
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2026Basel Social Club, Basel, CH
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Romance x Adams and Ollman, Portland, US
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Unveil the Truth, Dans les yeux d’Elsa, Paris, FR
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Luck, Gruppe-Motto, Hamburg, DE
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It’s the little things…, Turnus x Courtney Jagger x 18, Murata, Warsaw, PL
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Setting the tone of the exhibition (Outside-in), Inside-Out Art Museum Beijing, Beijing, CN
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2025The 47th Painting Biennale Bielska Jesień 2025, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała, PL
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Think of Others, Think of Yourself Artists for Refugees, The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (MSN Warsaw), Warsaw, PL
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Hang Over Shanghai, Shanghai Art Week, Shanghai, CN
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Memories in Motion, group show curated by Geraud Jean Claude, Galeria Yusto/Giner, Marbella, ES
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Urszula Broll retrospective: Pejzaże jeszcze dalekiego świtu, group show curated by Marta Lisok, Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, PL
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House of Day, House of Night: Works from the Collection of Radosław Kotarski, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, PL
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Rozłącze, Galeria Złącze, Poznan, PL
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Neue Stimmung, GGM1, Gdansk, PL
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Thaw, Łęctwo gallery/Gig Munich/Tiger Room gallery - a part of Various Others Munich, AT
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Hi, Stranger, Who is Pola, plac Hallera 6, Warsaw, PL
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2024Neurotypie, Rotacyjny Dom Kultury Jazdów, Warsaw, PL
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CRASH CLUB, Warsaw, PL
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GLOW DOWN, Windowlicker, Warsaw, PL
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NADA Villa Warsaw fair, Alyssa Davis Gallery NY, Warsaw, PL
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MNFST, Metropolitan, Warsaw, PL
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Lepkie Uściski Dłoni, Art Walk, Warsaw, PL
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2023Otwarcie Nowej Karowej, Sklep Galeria Karowa na Okręgu, Warsaw, PL
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Post Truth (…), Kunstleben Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
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GRAND OPENING, Szałfynster, Katowice, PL
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MASA KRYTYCZNA, Oblatów 4, Katowice, PL
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Uwierz w ducha, Windowlicker, Warsaw, PL
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Tip of my Tongue, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw, PL
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LARGO, Wolne Pokoje, Dąbrowa as a part of Spokój Festival, PL
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2022Migracje, BWA Katowice, Katowice, PL
Residencies
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2024ROZBIEG 2.0 Networking programme for young promising artists, Katowice, Tarnów, and Kraków, PL
Education
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2022Master of Arts in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, PL