Tania Kandracienka was born in 1980 and she lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. Tania is inspired by everyday experiences, maternal care, and art historical references. But probably the most important is labor itself. As Tania herself says: "I show up in the studio, responding to painting in my studio, working until I “recognize” the painting as what I am intending it to be. I start several works at once and then work moving from one to another and returning again. There are days when I only work with sketches on paper. The only constant ritual is washing the brushes at the end of the work.”
Kandracienka is a figurative painter who primarily depicts intimate and everyday subjects of private life. Her vivid, collage-like paintings based on photographs of her family members and friends are metaphorically connected with social concerns of our time.
Work of Tania is on display in Artistic Museum of Deruta (Italy) and private collections in Holland, Belarus, Poland, Germany and Italy. She has participated in several group expositions and solo expositions in Berlin, Minsk and Saatchi Gallery in London.
EDUCATION
2004 - graduated from Belarusian State Akademy of Arts, Minsk
2004-2007 - Postgraduate Studies at Art Theory and Art History,
Belarussian State Academy of Art Phd in History of Art
2005-2020 - Assistant professor at Drawing Department, Belarussian State Academy of Art
SOLO EXIBITIONS
2021
Spinario. Boy with Thorn, Lilia Zakirova Gallery , Heusden, Netherlands
2018
Human Resourse, A&V Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2015
Swimming lesson for girls, Mastactva Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2009
Identification, Museum of Modern Fine Arts, Minsk, Belarus
The Time Games, Werstattgalerie Gallery, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
MIX 2024, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
2023
Christmas Show, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
At the Edge of Realism, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
Belarussian group exibition, Galerie De Twe Pauwen, Heusden, Netherlands
2022
Border Line, Gallerie 101 Project, Warsaw
2021
Please do not confuse, Navicula artis, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Osemetna Zalezitost, Galeria mesta Levoca, Slovakia
2020
Non-place, Galereya Art Belarus, Minsk
VLADEY Жыве Буларусь! Moskow, Russia
Faceless, KX Space, Brest, Belarus
2017
Man&Man, National Center of Modern Art, Minsk, Belarus
Start Art Fair 2017, Saatchi Gallery, London, Great Britain
2012
The Palace Complex, Gomel Palace, Belarus
EXIT-I, dedicated to German expressionistic movie, with the assistance of Goethe Institute in Minsk Municipal Museum, Zaslavl, Belarus
2011
Cento-De/fragmentation, the National Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2007
Pienkow Art Workshop, 8th International Plain-Air Painting Contest, Museum of the Academy of Arts, Poznan, Poland
2006
Post-tradition, The National Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2003
FormAzione Concretta, International Exhibition of Experimental Ceramics, Deruta City Museum, Italy
2002
Zdarzenia, The International Festival of Theatre and Visual Arts, Tczew, Poland
2000
New Names, The National Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus