katarzyna baldyga, Poland 1988

Lives and works in Amsterdam, NL

contact: baldygakat@gmail.com

OFFO member, 2021

Rijksakademie resident, 2027

Artist Statement

For me, paint, painting, and paintings are forces able to charge, open up, strangle, tell a story, bounce joyously, conceal and reveal, twist and surprise, change points of view, drip, fall apart, to be real and illusionary, complicated and simple, smooth and rough, go over, under and through. They can embody all of these qualities simultaneously, surpassing presupposed contradictions and impossibilities. 

Sculptures are made in wax, aluminum, insulation foam, and found materials. These works carry a raw, unstable material presence, where bodily associations and forms remain unresolved.

Exhibitions

2025

  • Movement with OFFO collective, Chassé Dance Studios, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10 Oct–Feb

  • Bedrock, Young Collectors Circle, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 May–5 Sep

  • Amsterdam Art Week, Open Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 May

  • Art Rotterdam, with Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 27–29 Mar

  • Between Moon and Earth, De Bouwput, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 26 Mar

2024

  • State of Art, Stichting Tiny V, Arnhem, The Netherlands, 23 Nov–1 Dec

  • BoG, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 26 Jul–15 Sep

  • Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3–7 Jul

2023

  • Si. Si. Spex. #13, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 6 Dec

  • Group Exhibition, Garage Ost, Leipzig, Germany, 7 Jul

2022

  • We Are Already Gone, Sisi Expo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Jun

  • Si. Si. Spex. #12, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 6 Dec

2021

  • Group Exhibition, ISO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Dec

  • Group Exhibition, Orangerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 4–6 Jun

  • OFFO Collective, Online, Jun

Education and Professional Background

  • 2024-2025
     project artist at Galerie Ron Mandos

  • 2024-2025
     Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (Prof. Helen Verhoeven)

  • 2019–2024
    Gerrit Rietveld Academie, DOGtime, Expanded Painting

  • 2023–2024 (Sep–Feb)
     Studio Assistant, Merijn Bolink

  • 2023 (Apr–Jul)
     Erasmus Semester, HGB Leipzig (Prof. Anne Speier)

Residencies and Workshops

  • 2025 (19–20 Jun)
    On Violence, Narrative and Staging – Lecture and Workshop with Ronald Ophuis

  • 2025 (Mar)
     AGA Lab Residency, Amsterdam

Awards and Recognition

  • recipient of Mondiraan Fund Artist Start grant, 2026

  • recipient of Stichting Tiny V grant, 2025

  • The Young Blood Award, 2024

  • Amstelveense Kunstprijs nomination, 2024

  • Buning Brongers nomination, 2024

  • Bachelor thesis distinction, Gerrit Rietveld Academy Assembly Hall, 2024

Collections

  • Museum Voorlinden

  • Rijksoverheid

  • Stichting Tiny V

Press and Mentions



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