Diana Lelonek (PL), Graduated from the department of Photography in the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at the University of Art in Poznan (PL). Phd at Interdisciplinary PhD Studies, University of Art in Poznań. Currently she works at the Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw. Diana Lelonek explores relationships between humans and other species. Her projects are critical responses to the processes of over-production, unlimited growth, and our approach to the environment. She uses photography, living matter, and found objects, creating work that is interdisciplinary and often appears at the interface of art and science. She participated in several international biennale, festivals and group shows at: Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg; Kunstraum Niederosterriech, Vienna; Temporary Gallery, Cologne; Tallin Art Hall; Culturescapes Festival, Basel; Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Tinguely Museum, Basel.

| +48 698 485 107 | dianalelonek@gmail.com | www.dianalelonek.com

Education & work experience:

from 2021 Lecturer at Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw, Artistic Research & Curatorial Sudies Department

2019 PHD at Intermedia department, Faculty of Multimedia Communication, University of Art in Poznań

2017-2018 Lecturer at Intermedia department, Faculty of Multimedia Communication, University of Art in Poznań

2014-2017 Lecturer at 7th Studio of Photography, Faculty of Multimedia Communication, University of Art in Poznań

2011-2014 University of Art in Poznań, Faculty of Multimedia Communication, Photography Department (MA)

2012 Nottingham Trent University, Specialization: Photography (Student exchange)

2011 Shanghai Normal University, Specialization: Photography (Student exchange)

2008-2011 University of Art in Poznań, Faculty of Multimedia Communication, Photography Department (BA)

Solo Exhibitions:

Coal and Fruits, Off/Format Gallery, Brno, 2022

Palace, Museum of Warsaw, 2021/2022

Compost, Arsenal Gallery Białystok, 2021

On Coal and Ice,  Gallery 12, Cieszyn 2021

The evening of interspecies love, Razem Pamoja Foundation, Cracow, 2020 Buona Fortuna, Fundazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma, 2020

Raport, Contemporary Art Center Bydgoszcz, PL, 2019

Center For Living Things, Buero Gallery, Culturescapes Festival, Basel, 2019

Center For Living Things, Botanical Garden in Poznań in collaboration with Arsenal Gallery, Poznań, 2019

Endling, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, PL, 2019

Center For Living Things, Ballarat Photography Biennale, AUS, 2019

Growing on me, lokal_30 gallery / Bęc Zmiana Foundation, Festival PhotoEspana, Warsaw 2017

New Archeology: Liban i Płaszów, Museum of Modern Art Cracow (MOCAK), Cracow Photomonth, 2017

Zoe-Therapy, Rodriguez Gallery, Poznań, PL, 2017

Yesterday I met a really wild man, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Lookout Gallery, Warsaw, 2015

Zoe-Therapy, Center of the Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2015

There is nothing there, anyway, (with Marek Kucharski), Greenroom Gallery, Cracow Photomonth, Cracow, 2014

Long Before, Lookout Gallery, Warsaw, 2014

Selected Group Exhibitions:

Decolonial Ecologies, Riga Art Space, LCCA, Riga, Latvia, 2022

State of Emergency, Center for Contemporary Art at Zitadelle Spandau ZAK, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Territories of Waste, Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland, 2022 Dorothea von Stetten Award, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, 2022
XIX Biennale Donna, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara, Italy, 2022
Overview Effect, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrad, Serbia, 2021

Lago Mio 2020,  Lugano, Switzerland, 2021

Sapporo International Art Festival, Sapporo, Japonia, 2021

Free Jazz III, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapur, 2021

Melting Gallery, Digital Culture Festival (audio program), online, 2020

Slow Life, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, 2020
Twilight of the Anthropocene, Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdańsk, 2020
Love letter to the Earth, Tibilisi Online Biennale, 2020 (online)
Digital Culture, 2020 (online)
The Camel Never Forgets, Lokal_30 gallery, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, 2020
Korembi, BWA Katowice, 2020
„Forms of Survival” (video) for the Political Critique, 2020 (online)
Spring in the Józef Bem housing estate, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, 2020
Slow Life, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2020
Solidarity and Agency, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, 2020 (online)
Mather of the Anthropocene, Centrala, Birmingham, 2020
Herbarium Novum, BWA Bydgoszcz, 2020
Simple Gestures, BWA Katowice, 2020
Sopot’s Photography Festival, Sopot, 2019
Her Own Way – Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland: From 1970s to the Present, Tokio Photographic Art Museum, Tokio, 2019
The Sculpture Park, Chapter XI: Ecomuseum. Institution with Society, Bródno Sculpture Park, 2019

Nature\Nature, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, 2019

Squares. Instructions for use, Zodiak, Warsaw, 2019

Heart of an old crocodile exploding over a small town, Temporary Gallery,  Cologne, 2019

The Beginning ang the end, Gdańsk City Gallery, 2019 Matter of the Anthropocene, Mathare Art Gallery, Nairobi, 2019

The Art of Being Good, Tallin Art Hall, 2019

Pangea United, Museum of Art, Łódź, 2019

Human-Free Earth, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 2019

The Most Beautiful Catastrophe, Centre for Contemporary Art „Kronika”, Bytom, PL 2018

Fundation Vordemberge-Gildewart Prize, Mocak, Kraków, 2018

Grand Prix of Photofestival in Łódź, 2018

Riga International Biennale of Contemporary Art RIBOCA, Riga, 2018

Landscapes of Anthropocene, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, PL, 2018

For Beyond That Horizon Lies Another Horizon, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, 2017

Je to tak, jak se vám to zdá, Dům umění města Brna, Brno, 2017

Central by East Central, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, PL, 2017

Zeitgeist, Lokal 30, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Warsaw, 2017

Reusorces (AIR program), Bwa Studio Gallery, Tiff Festival, Wrocław, 2017

Art Work, Arsenal Gallery, Kiev, 2017

It is as you think it is, Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, 2017

Such a landscape, WRO Biennale Draft Systems, Wrocław, 2017

Pernicious Predilection, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, 2017

The process continues, Różnia Gallery, Warsaw, 2016

Single Shot, The Fort Institute of Photography, Warsaw, 2016

Bones of all man, Center of the Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland, 2016

Photo Poland, Festival Les Recontres d’ Arles, France, 2016

Returning to Białowieża, Galeria Arsenał, Bialystok, 2016

ReGeneration 3, Format Festival, Quad Gallery, Derby, UK, 2016

ReGeneration 3, Museo Amparo,Puebla, Mexico, 2015

Unbearable impossibility of concentration, City Surfers, Prague, 2015

ReGeneration 3, Le Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2015

After the rain, Szara Gallery, Cieszyn, Poland, 2014

Unobvious, International Biennale of Photography, 2013

Young Art Show, Piestany, Slovakia, 2012

Of/course, Off Foto Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2011

Awards:

Dorothea Von Stetten Award, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2022 Polish Graphic Design Award (nomination) for the book „Liban and Płaszów: New Archeology”, 2020

Winner of Polityka’s Passport, Prize by magazine „Polityka” for visual arts, 2019

Award of the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation 2018

“Młoda Polska”, Scolarship from MInistry of Culture, 2018

Grand Prix Fotofestival Łódź, Nomination, 2018

Honorable Mention, ING Fundation of Polish Art, during Warsaw Gallery Weekend, 2017

“Talenty Trójki”, nomination, prize of Polish Radio, 2017

Honorable mention from art critics and press, WRO Biennale, 2017

PhotoPoland, project presenting the six most-talented photographers of

the young generation from Poland as part of the international festival Les Recontres d’Arles, 2017

ReGeneration 3, an international project devoted to the emerging photographic

scene, brings together 50 artists with 25 different nationalities, Le Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2015

Residencies:  Atelier Mondial, Culturescapes Festival, Basel, 2019 Fundazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, 2020 Flow, cruise by Narew River, 2020 Lago Mio, Lugano, 2020 (online) NTU CCA Singapore, 2020 (online)

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