Katarzyna Baldyga,

Amsterdam - Dresden

baldygakat@gmail.com


Katarzyna Baldyga (b. 1988) grew up in the rural-industrial region of Silesia, Poland. She graduated in law in Wrocław in 2012 and worked in the Prosecution Service. Moved to the Netherlands in 2018, where she graduated from the 5 year program of DOGtime at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She travelled to Leipzig to engage with the New Leipzig School.

In 2024 she began a full-time artistic practice with studios in Amsterdam and Dresden. Her work, Searching for What Can’t Be Put Into Words, was acquired by Museum Voorlinden, while Starfish entered the Collectie Rijksoverheid. In 2024 she received the Ron Mandos Young Blood Award and spent a year at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden with painter Helen Verhoeven.

She co-founded OFFO, a collective that organizes pop-up exhibitions in Amsterdam.

Recent presentations include Art Rotterdam (2025), Amsterdam Art Week (2025, open studio), Bedrock (Young Collectors Circle), and Between Moon and Earth (with Yun Yeji and Bek Seunghwan at Bouwput, Amsterdam).

Exhibitions

2025

  • Jahresausstellung, HfBK, Dresden, Germany, 19–27 Jul

  • 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
     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

  • 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