The little bear says ... oh!
26.09.2008 - 31.10.2008
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
Aleksandra Uraban
ABOUT EXHIBITION
The exhibition at Galeria Nova is the first show of the young artist's work in Krakow. The works shown here, the artist's latest activities, continue the previously undertaken topics and operate in a similar style. Works are not a closed cycle, connections are only slightly sketched.
Urban works present a kind of visions of the world. He values ambiguity, skillfully uses the style of kitsch - sometimes with elements of eroticism - it creates abundant, seemingly nonsensical compositions with the motifs, elements and symbols that make up it. An important element from which she draws motives to work is her past. As she says: "The echoes of dreams, memories and fantasies from my memory are a melange of what is pink, sweet and plush with irrational, but not only, fear and malice. When I was a child, my consciousness resembled a cabinet of peculiarities, but nothing has changed with the years, and the imagined fears took on real shapes. "The themes of the paintings presented in the exhibition are a combination of ideas, dream nightmares with dozens of quotes and borrowings hidden in the subconscious.
Recent works develop, probably to the greatest extent in the artist's current activity, the duality of the children's world and the world of adults who, through their sensitivity or hypersensitivity, never grow up. The atmosphere of the fairytale, joyful and full of colors of the world is reflected by the title of the exhibition and the titles of individual paintings (Behind the mountains behind forests, Icing). At the same time, a constant tension in the form of spewing nightmares, crawling cartoon characters and disturbing doodles is creeping into this calm, safe place of carefree. On the canvases, we find the surreal world of unreal characters and places that sometimes scares us, and all this accumulates together generates an atmosphere of panic. The artist determines the genesis of such a mood by associating it with the feelings that accompany the approaching adulthood. In this context, these works seem to reflect the state of mind of a generation of 30-year-olds, people who try to function in the adult world, while at the same time wanting to retain the privileges of a carefree childhood. "I am an adult man, I still feel tension and the same feeling of a child in me. Painting is a way to deal with this tension as a way to combat arachnophobia by taming a patient with a view of a spider, "Urban explains.
The exhibition at Galeria Nova is another artist's presentation this year, after exhibitions in Warsaw and Wrocław.
Alexandra Urban
(Ur.17.03.1978)
A graduate of the faculty of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in 1998 and 2003.
exhibitions:
2008- Poisoned fruits - SPOT- Poznań.
2008 - Wonderland - Geppert flat, Wrocław.
2008 - Double check - LETO gallery, Warsaw.
2007 - International Image Biennale - Quadro Art, Łódź.
2007 - Edinburgh Art Festival - Art Space Gallery Edinburgh, England.
2007 - Project 2 + 2 + 1- Browar Mieszczański, Wrocław.
2006 - Promotions - BWA, Legnica.
2006 - XIII Salon Sztuki -Egeria, Ostrów Wielkopolski.
2006 - Pro Figura - Rostock, Germany.
2006 - GARDENING Biennale of Painting - BWA, Wałbrzych.
2004 - Diploma exhibition - BWA, Wrocław.
2004 - Biennial of Young Art - Rybie Oko 3, Słupsk