THE ISLAND
19.02.2016 – 28.03.2016
Exhibitions
- Upcoming
- Current
- Past
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- Chram || Andrzej Żygadło
- Noumen | Mikołaj Rejs
- Storm, Empty collection – SHOWOFF 2014 Month of Photography
- I’ll be right back | Sasha Kurmaz
- Misteria || Katarzyna Kukuła
- Hive | Aga Miłogrodzka
- D.O.M || Andrzej Żygadło
- A house from paintings | Marek Firek
- TRIP FOLK; or enteogens in the service of urban folklore | Sławek Shuty
- 2013
- 2012
- Inside of lights and shadows | Tomasz Prymon
- GOLEM: The Self-sufficit Workshop | Adam Gruba
- The Veblen Effect | Dorota Hadrian
- All this street art | Anna Brandys, Brems, Coxie, Czarnobyl, Massmix, Nawer, Nespoon, Pikaso, Roem, Artur Wabik, Zbiok
- Berlin-Birkenau / Krakers || Łukasz Surowiec
- video R || Piotr Swiatoniowski
- 2011
- Brave virgin | Iwona Demko
- 150 apes | The Krasnals
- Swallow Anxiety | Bartek Buczek
- The wolf is very bad | Natalia Bażowska, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Agata Kus
- Not full / semi-complete | Małgorzata Markiewicz
- Deep field | Kornel Janczy
- Years of education | Michał Zawada
- Dimensions of the echo | Kamil Szpunar
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
- Searching for aura | Ewa Wróbel
- Shame before the repetition | Bartosz Kokosiński
- The Celebration of Erwin Koloczek | Jacek Malinowski
- I almost do not go out | Katarzyna Skrobiszewska
- I’m only here for a while | Maciej Szczurek
- The song Buttes Monteaux with the clip and three oil paintings | Norman Leto
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- Portraits of banknotes | Pola Dwurnik
- Holidays on the Red Sea | Marta Paulat
- Everywhere wants to be seen | Katarzyna Skrobiszewska
- Assembly and painting | Marcin Mroczkowski
- Lisboa | Agnieszka Kicińska
- Makro | Karolina Kowalska
- Can you do that? | Malwina Rzonca
- Relatively spacious | Joanna Pawlik
- Tablo | Agata Pankiewicz
- 2003
Opening Hours
Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
Gallery
Art Agenda Nova
Batorego 2, Krakow

















Artist
Michalina Bigaj
ABOUT EXHIBITION
Opening: 19th February 2016, 6pm
Opening hours: Mon - Fri, 10 am – 6 pm
The definition of island in geographical terms of land surrounded by water is only a starting point for Michalina Bigaj's artistic exploration. A study tour to Iceland inspired her to take up the subject of island in her work, both in its universal and local sense. Seclusion and isolation are the features most commonly associated with this topos, and in the case of the farthest northern part of Europe, it additionally evokes a vision of a country full of contradictions; the land of ice and hot springs. The meetings with inhabitants of Iceland, the stories heard from them as well as the artist’s own experience gathered in the course of her journeys, confirmed her opinion that nature still has tremendous influence on the residents’ lives. The artists builds a visual narrative about the relationship between people and the unbridled forces of nature which force them to continue to adapt to the nature’s rules.
Michalina Bigaj, visual artist, born 1991, in 2010-2015 studied at Sculpture Departament at the Academy of Visual Arts in Cracow and Universität der Künste in Berlin (2014/2015). Artist creates sculptures, videos, installations and photographs, in which she tries to find balance between different categories of culture and nature. She was a fellow and the winner of contest organized by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for outstanding achievements in artistic creation. She was a participant of 7th 'Kunszt Young Triennale' at the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (2014) and over a dozen of group exhibitions.