Katarzyna Depta-Garapich is a visual artist based in London and through her work she explores the relationship between art and utility. Those investigations examine ‘use value’ of art, the intersection of art and society, re-emergence of collective approaches to art making, artistic work and rediscovery of the rural seen from perspective of complex contemporary gender dynamics. In her sculptural studio work she often plays on contradiction between ‘useful’ and ‘useless’ and involves found materials or objects that lost their functionality through dismemberment. Her practice takes a variety of forms including sculptural objects, site-specific installations or performative gestures, collaborations and curatorial projects. Currently she is a practice-led PhD candidate at the Slade School of Fine Arts. She studied sculpture at Wimbledon College of Art (BA 2010) and at the Slade (MA 2012). Residencies include: Grizedale Arts Artist Re-orientation, Lawson Park, Cumbria (2013); Henrietta Barnett School, London (2014), Tatra Museum, Zakopane, Poland (2019), Grymsdyke Farm, Buckinghamshire (2019). In 2015 she curated Karen Guthrie and Grizedale Arts project House of Ferment for ArtBoom Festival, Kraków, Poland. Selected exhibitions include: Matter of the Anthropocene, Centrala Gallery, Birmingham (2020); Simple Gestures, BWA Katowice, Poland (2020); Re-Domesticated, Grymsdyke Farm, Buckinghamshire (2019); Handiwork, Władysław Hasior Gallery, Zakopane, Poland (2019); Near Thing, APT Gallery, London (2018). |
Education
| From 2017 | Practice-led PhD The Slade School of Fine Art UCL London |
| 2019 | MPhil The Slade School of Fine Art UCL London |
| 2012 | MA Fine Art Sculpture The Slade School of Fine Art UCL London |
| 2010 | BA Fine Art (First Class Hons) Wimbledon College of Art UAL London |
| 1999 | MA History of Art Jagiellonian University Kraków Poland
|
Selected Exhibitions and Events
| 2020 | Melancholia, Freud Museum, London UK Matter of the Anthropocene, Centrala Gallery, Birmingham, UK Simple Gestures, BWA Katowice, Poland, curated by Marta Lisok |
| 2019 | Matter of the Anthropocene, Mathare Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya Comfort Zone, project shown at Second Colleex Workshop, Cieszyn, Poland, supported by Malcolm Hughes Research Bursary and and the Jean Spencer Memorial Bursary Re-Domesticated, Grymsdyke Farm, Buckinghamshire, UK, supported by Polish Culture Institute London Visions of Protest. Blake the March, The Slade School of Fine Art UCL London Sharing Borders, The Slade Research Centre UCL London, supported by London Arts and Humanities Partnership Handiwork, Władysław Hasior Gallery, Zakopane, Poland One Hundred Sheep, Tatra Museum, Zakopane, Poland |
| 2018 | Arte Util Working Group, Calthrope Projects, London, UK, supported by London Arts and Humanities Partnership Near Thing, APT Gallery, London, UK Little Clown, My Heart, Arthouse1, London, UK |
| 2015 | Village Table, Coniston Institute, Lake District, Cumbria, UK House of Ferment, ArtBoom Festival, Kraków, Poland, supported by Polish Culture Institute London, KBF and Arts Council England House of Ferment, Science Gallery London, supported by Arts Council, England Unexpected Encounters: Katarzyna Depta-Garapich and Stanisław Wejman, Belmacz Gallery, London, UK |
| 2013 | Colouring the Invisible, curating Julia Vogl project, ArtBoom Festival, Kraków, Poland |
| 2012 | In Paradisum, Richmix Cinema, London, UK Threadneedle Prize 2012, Mall Galleries, London, UK Subject to Change. Perspectives from UK Based Polish Artists, Kursaal Space, Southend on Sea, UK Videoooooh, The Slade Research Centre UCL UK Polish Contemporary Artists Film Screenings, Richmix Cinema, London, UK Modern Madonna’s, St George’s Arts Centre, Esher, Surrey, UK |
| 2011 | Deep Cuts/Last Measures, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, London, UK Print and Design Now!, SW1 Gallery, London, UK curated by Julia Alvarez Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery, London, UK and touring nationwide, selected by Iwona Blatzwick, Rachel Whiteread and Tim Marlow Bloomsbury Festival, London, UK |
| 2010 | Volume and Void, Wimbledon College of Art Sculpture Studio, London UK Taking a Line for a Walk, Sculpture Project Space, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK, selected and curated by Soraya Rodriguez YPA, Metal Gallery, Southend on Sea, UK |
| 2009 | Dimensions of the Present Moment, The Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge, UK |
Residencies
| 2019 | Grymsdyke Farm, Buckinghamshire, UK Tatra Museum, Zakopane, Poland |
| 2013 | Artist Re-Orientation Residency, Grizedale Arts, Lake District, Cumbria, UK |
| 2013 - 2014 | Artist in Residence, Henrietta Barnet School, London, UK |
| 2011 | Merz Barn, Lake District, Cumbria, UK |
Conferences
| 2020 | Art and the Rural Imagination, speaker; Arts University Bournemouth in partnership with The Tree Houses, New Forest, UK |
| 2019 | The use-ful-less-ness of the experiment. Anthropology and the Assembly of the Unexpected, speaker; Second Colleex Workshop, Cieszyn, Poland Sharing Borders, co-organiser; The Slade School of Art, UCL, London, UK |
| 2018 | Inter-Nation, speaker; European Artistic Network, Grad Cam, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland Impacts of Gender Discourses, Polish Politics, Society&Culture, speaker; SSEES, UCL, London, UK |
| 2014 | In Search of Public Space, seminar and book launch of Where the Beast is Buried by Joanna Rajkowska, speaker; SSEES, UCL, London, UK hosted by eMigrating Landscapes |