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Elżbieta Jabłońska
Born
Elżbieta Anna Jabłońska

1970 (age 53–54)
Olsztyn, Poland
Other namesElizabeth Jablonska,
Elzbieta Jablonska
Alma materNicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
OccupationVisual artist
Known forPhotography, installation art, performance art
MovementPost-feminism
SpouseJacek Majewski [pl]
WebsiteOfficial website

Elżbieta Jabłońska (born 1970)[1] is a Polish contemporary visual artist, and professor.[2][3] She has served as the Chair of Drawing and has taught art at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń since 1996.[4] Jablonska is known for photography, film, installation art, and performance art.[3] Her artwork engages with Polish stereotypes and myths of women, mothers, and the Catholicism.[5][6][7] She lives in Bydgoszcz in northern Poland, in a farming cooperative.[4][8]

Early life, education, and family

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Elżbieta Jabłońska was born in 1970 in Olsztyn, Poland.[1] She studied at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where she graduated with a MA degree in 1995.[4]

She is the widow of Polish musician Jacek Majewski [pl] (1966–2006), who co-founded the Mózg Club in Bydgoszcz.[9] Together they have a son that is a noted musician and the subject of many of her photographs, Antoni (Antek) Majewski.[9][6]

Career

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Her artwork deals with clichés of femininity found in Catholicism, as artists, and in motherhood in Poland, as well as various types of social exclusion.[7][10][11] Jablonska's most famous work is a self-portrait of the artist dressed as Superman with her son Antek on her lap, in the pose of Virgin Mary with the baby; from the "Supermatka" (English: Supermother) (2002) photo series.[6][12] Her photo series "Przypadkowa Przyjemność" (English: Accidental Pleasure) (2006) documented the food remains of the artist's culinary activities.[4]

Her public artwork "Nowe Zycie" (English: New Life) (2014) is an oversized neon sign mounted on an Agricultural Production Cooperative found in the village Trzeciewiec in Poland.[13][14] From May to June 2002, her work "Gry Domowe" (English: Household Games) was presented as part of the AMS Outdoor Gallery, a project shown on 400 billboards in the largest Polish cities and led by Marek Krajewski, Dorota Grobelna, and Lechosław Olszewski.[15]

Jablonska's work was recognized through its inclusion in a major international surveys, including the 7th Construction in Process (2000) held at the Regional Museum, Bydgoszcz in Bydgoszcz;[16] and Global Feminisms (2007) held at the Brooklyn Museum, and curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin.[17] Her work was also part of the group exhibitions "Architectures Of Gender: Contemporary Women’s Art In Poland" at SculptureCenter in Long Island;[18] "Hero Mother: Contemporary Art by Post-Communist Women Rethinking Heroism" (2016) at MOMENTUM Berlin in Berlin, curated by Bojana Pejic and Rachel Rits-Volloch;[19][20] and "Part 2: Maternality" (2020) at Richard Saltoun Gallery in London.[2]

Jablonska's artwork is part of public museum collections including the Zachęta National Gallery of Art,[21] and ING Polish Art Foundation.[22]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Jabłońska, Elżbieta". Kunstforum.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  2. ^ a b Buck, Louisa (2020-02-04). "Valie Export and crowning babies bring mixed messages of motherhood to Mayfair". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  3. ^ a b "Elżbieta Jabłońska zaprasza na swoją wystawę do bwa. Chętnych oprowadza". Polskie Radio (PiK) (in Polish). 2021-09-08. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  4. ^ a b c d "Elżbieta Jabłońska". Culture.pl (in Polish). Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
  5. ^ Sliwinska, Basia (2016-06-29). The Female Body in the Looking-Glass: Contemporary Art, Aesthetics and Genderland. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-78673-008-4.
  6. ^ a b c Kutis, Barbara (2020-05-14). "Superwoman, Supermother, or Polish Mother? Elżbieta Jabłońska's Artistic Negotiation of Motherhood". Artist-Parents in Contemporary Art: Gender, Identity, and Domesticity. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-88626-3.
  7. ^ a b Bottinelli, Silvia; Valva, Margherita d’Ayala (2017-06-01). The Taste of Art: Cooking, Food, and Counterculture in Contemporary Practices. University of Arkansas Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-1-61075-607-5.
  8. ^ Kurz, Julia; Welbel, Stanisław; Steiner, Barbara; Majewska, Ewa (2016). Common Affairs: Edition anglais-allemand-polonais (in Polish). Hatje Cantz. p. 117. ISBN 978-3-7757-4147-7.
  9. ^ a b "Antoni Majewski walczy o tytuł Młodego Muzyka Roku 2016". Polskie Radio (PiK) (in Polish). 2016-03-29. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  10. ^ Davies, Lucy (2019-11-13). "Artists reveal the unvarnished truth of motherhood, from pregnancy tests to the mess of childbirth". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  11. ^ Popovics, Viktoria (2021-03-29). "Your Body is (still) a Battleground: –Representation of Motherhood in Contemporary Art in Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary.–". Secondary Archive (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  12. ^ Koczanowicz, Dorota (2018). "Levitation, Superman's Flight, and the Prose of Life". The Monist. 101 (3): 340–352. doi:10.1093/monist/ony010. ISSN 0026-9662. JSTOR 26478112 – via JSTOR.
  13. ^ Cartiere, Cameron; Tan, Leon (2020-10-19). The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm. Routledge. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-429-83380-9.
  14. ^ "New Life (Nowe Życie)". InstituteForPublicArt.org (IPA). Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  15. ^ "AMS Outdoor Gallery Projects - Image Gallery". Culture.pl. Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  16. ^ Szyłak, Aneta; Matynia, Elżbieta (2003). Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women's Art in Poland : SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York, April 11-June 8, 2003 : Exhibition. National Museum of Warsaw. p. 75. ISBN 978-83-7100-276-2.
  17. ^ Reilly, Maura; Nochlin, Linda (2007). Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art. Merrell. p. 275. ISBN 978-0-87273-157-8.
  18. ^ Heuer, Megan (2003-06-01). "Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women's Art in Poland". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  19. ^ "Hero Mother: Contemporary Art by Post-Communist Women Rethinking Heroism - Exhibition at MOMENTUM". ArtRabbit. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  20. ^ Pejić, Bojana; Rits-Volloch, Rachel (2016). Hero Mother: Contemporary Art by Post-communist Women Rethinking Heroism. MOMENTUM Berlin. ISBN 978-3-9817801-1-6.
  21. ^ ""New Life". Screening of Elżbieta Jabłońska's film and meeting with the artist". Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (MWW). Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  22. ^ "Elżbieta Jabłońska - Collection". The ING Polish Art Foundation. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
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