Celina Kanunnikava is a Polish-Belarusian artist. Her works are in the collection of Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, and in private collections in Poland and abroad.
Work
Kanunnikava's artworks span painting, computer graphics, and mixed media/installations. They are inspired by architecture and physical materials characteristic for totalitarian regimes, such as widespread use of concrete, gold, and marble. The paintings depict gigantic buildings of the regime power and control infrastructure, including prisons, secret police archives, official buildings, headquarters, and bureaus of official propaganda media. The objects and buildings depicted symbolize not just Belarusian regime but other similar power relations and systems.
The artist is engaged in charity auctions and initiatives in both Belarus and Poland.
Awards "Nowy obraz/Nowe spojrzenie" (UAP Poznań) - main prize (2014) Winner of President of Wrocław Award in the 12th edition of Geppert Competition, Wrocław, 2016 Medal of Young Art, Poznań, 2017 11. Triennale of Small Art Forms in Toruń, 2019 – III prize Compass of Young Art, Warsaw, 2020
Selected exhibitions Solo exhibitions Internal Diseases, Assembly Gallery, Poznań, Poland Internal Diseases, MBWA, Leszno, Poland, 2017 The Untitled, Assembly Gallery, Poznań, Poland, 2016 Masse und Macht / Mass and power, WOZOWNIA Gallery, Toruń, Poland, 2016 47 milliseconds, Szyperska Gallery, Poznań, Poland, 2013 What a beautiful, sunny day, Stara Rzeźnia Gallery, Poznań, Poland, 2012
Group Great Patriotic, with Endre Tot, Hanna Shumska, Vitalii Shupliak, BWA Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2022 21 Presentations - Leszno 2020. In the beginning, the weather changed MBWA Leszno, Poland, 2020 A thing about collecting. What is all this for? MBWA Leszno, Poland, 2020 Paint, also known as Blood. Women, Affect, and Desire in Contemporary Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2019 The sadness of modernism: oppression and depression, City Gallery, Wrocław, Poland, 2019 Girl and gun, House of Colonels, La Oliva, Fuerteventura, Spain, 2018 Island and Atolls: the Mapping of Imagination, WOZOWNIA Gallery, Toruń, Poland, 2017 The Next Day, Assembly Gallery, Poznań, Poland, 2016 Love. Aids. Riot. Sex. III, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2014
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