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Maria Pinińska-Bereś (born 17 August 1931 in Poznań, died 20 April 1999 in Kraków) – was a Polish sculptor and performance artist, creator of installation and environment art. She was part of the artistic community in Kraków, where she lived and worked. Maria Pinińska-Bereś is recognized among pioneers of feminist art.
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Maria Pinińska-Bereś (born 17 August 1931 in Poznań, died 20 April 1999 in Kraków) – was a Polish sculptor and performance artist, creator of installation and environment art. She was part of the artistic community in Kraków, where she lived and worked. Maria Pinińska-Bereś is recognized among pioneers of feminist art.
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Biography After graduating from the Art High School in Katowice, she began her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1950. She studied sculpture, initially under Jerzy Bandura, and then in the studio of Xawery Dunikowski. In 1956, she obtained her diploma and remained in Kraków, where she spent the rest of her life. In the same year, she married Jerzy Bereś, a sculptor and performance artist. The couple had one child, a daughter named Bettina Bereś, who also became an artist. The apartment she shared with her family was her studio as well a meeting place for artists, critics, and intellectuals. Maria Pinińska-Bereś led an active professional life, participating in numerous artistic events and engaging in creative circles. In 1962, together with Jerzy Beres, she initiated the annual Sculpture of the Year exhibition and competition, which took place regularly for almost 20 years. From 1979, she was a member of the Kraków Group. Despite the difficulties of being an artist in communist Poland, including censorship and lack of freedom of expression, she consistently pursued her life and career path. She died on December 17, 1999, and was buried at the Batowice Cemetery in Kraków (plot XI-3-19).…
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Style and work Maria Pinińska-Bereś's work evolved over the years, moving from classical figurative sculptures to original installation, performance, and conceptual forms. Her early works from the 1950s revealed elements of an individual style that she developed over the decades, consistently building her own artistic language. In her early career, she worked with stone and bronze to create traditional style sculptures, but she began to move away from heavy, classical materials in favor of lightweight and impermanent ones. Starting from 1960s she began using papier-mâché, and later textiles stuffed with soft material, which gave her sculptures an organic, flesh-like feeling. Simultaneously she started working with color. Pastels, especially pinks and violets, played a major role in her creative works, symbolizing femininity. Pink, which soon dominated her creations, was used ironically, as well as affirmatively. It served as a tool criticizing social roles and gender stereotypes. In 1960s Pinińska-Bereś became involved with a circle of artists associated with Tadeusz Kantor. She participated, among others, in the Panoramic Sea Happening in Osieki in 1967, which sparked her interest in performance art. In the following decade, she started realizing her own artistic performances, often in intimate settings, such as outdoors or private properties.…
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Solo exhibitions 1958: Sculpture Exhibition (together with Jerzy Bereś and Tadeusz Szpunar), Dom Plastyków, Kraków. 1970: Piwnica pod Baranami, Kraków. 1973: Galeria Współczesna, Warsaw. 1976: Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin. 1980: Galeria Rytm, Kraków; Galeria Krzysztofory, Kraków. 1982: BWA, Lublin. 1988: Galeria Krzysztofory, Kraków; Gallery 72, District Museum, Chełm. 1990: Galeria Krzysztofory, Kraków. 1991: BWA, Koszalin, STU Theatre, Kraków. 1992: Galeria Starmach, Kraków; BWA, Sandomierz; BWA – Pomeranian Dukes' Castle, Szczecin. 1993: Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko. 1995: Exhibition as part of the 6th International Drawing Triennial, Galeria BWA Awangarda, Wrocław. 1996: Galeria Manhattan, Łódź. 1997: Egzystencjarium, Galeria Studio, Warsaw. 1999/2000: Maria Pinińska-Bereś, retrospective exhibition, "Bunkier Sztuki" Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków; Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała; Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań. 2001: Maria Pinińska-Bereś, retrospective exhibition, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Słupsk. 2007: Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Mobile-Immobile, Records of Maria Pinińska-Bereś's Performances, "Bunkier Sztuki" Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków. 2011: Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Piekary Gallery, Poznań. 2012: Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Imaginarium of Corporeality, State Gallery of Art in Sopot, Sopot. 2014: Maria Pinińska-Bereś and Jerzy Bereś, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw. 2017: Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Trace of a Woman, BWA Gallery of Art in Olsztyn, Olsztyn. 2017: Maria Pinińska-Bereś, The Performer, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw. 2020: Maria Pinińska-Bereś,…
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Group exhibitions (selected) 1955: National Exhibition of Young Visual Art "Against War – Against Fascism", Arsenał, Warsaw; Xawery Dunikowski and his students, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. 1957: Exhibition of Young Visual Art, Oslo, Bergen, Narvik. 1964: 20 Years of the People's Republic of Poland in Visual Art, Palace of Art, Kraków. 1971: 3rd National Sculpture Exhibition, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. 1973: The Connoisseur in Poland. Cracow Art Festival, BWA, Kraków. 1974: Kraków Painting and Sculpture on the 30th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland, BWA, Palace of Art; Open-Air Sculpture in the Planty Park, Kraków; The Artist in the Face of Civilization, CONTART 74, Studio Gallery, Warsaw. 1975: Ten Artists Present New and Latest Works (AICA), National Museum, Poznań; Xawery Dunikowski and His Students. Exhibition on the Centenary of Xawery Dunikowski's Birth, Xawery Dunikowski Museum, Warsaw. 1976: Sculpture of the Year 1975 of Southern Poland, BWA, Kraków; FORMAT: HUMAN, STU Gallery, Kraków. 1977: 14th Open-Air Sculpture Biennial, Middelheim (Belgium). 1979: Exhibition of Krakow Visual Art, Darmstadt; Erotica: Painting, Graphics, Drawing, Sculpture, Dom Artysty Plastyka, Warsaw; 8 X Kraków, Studio Gallery, Warsaw; Feministische Kunst International, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague (Netherlands). 1980: Women's Art,…