Wioletta Kulewska
Born in Poland, 1980
Lives & works in Valletta, Malta
Wioletta Kulewska is a Polish artist; painter and designer who has lived and worked in Valletta, Malta since 2009. A graduate of Fine Arts from the Opole High School of Arts, the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław Poland and the London Metropolitan University. In 2018, Kulewska was selected for the Slade’s educational residency in Contemporary Painting. In Spring 2019, she took part in the Turps | PADA Art residency in Lisbon, Portugal. She's part of the Turps CC painting programme for the year 2018/20. From 2019, Kulewska teaches painting and drawing at the Malta School of Art.
Kulewska’s painting practise is pan-european in its influences, from the Polish fauvism she was trained in, to levantine religious painting and Russian suprematism. Since early 2018 Kulewska has taken trips to the Caucasus and Eastern Mediterranean where themes have emerged in her work relating to the ancient and spiritual. Kulewska finds inspiration through an intense engagement with her subject matter, often through the study of natural phenomena under close studio observation. Her figurative painting shifts between intimate representation and abstraction while her design roots bring emphasis to the pleasure of form, shape and colour in oils.
CV
EDUCATION
2001 - 2007
Master of Arts
The Eugeniusz Geppert
Academy of Fine Art & Design in Wroclaw Poland
2005 - 2006
London Metropolitan University
1995 - 2000
High School of Fine Arts in Opole Poland
1987 - 1995
Primary School Nr 4 in Kluczbork Poland
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2019
Turps Banana | PADA studios
Art residency in Lisbon Portugal
Project supported by ACM
2018
Slade School of Fine Arts, London
Educational residency in Contemporary Painting
EXHIBITIONS
2019
ABACÁ - Second Solo Painting exhibition
Malta School of Art Upper Gallery Valletta
2018
Embedded - First Solo Painting exhibition
The Palazzo de la Salle Valletta Malta
2016
G Plan: Made in Malta, Blitz Valletta
Exhibition Display design & Curatorial
2014
Spring Walls - design / art installation
Malta Design Week 2014
“Micronation”, Fort St. Elmo, Valletta
2011
MoShow (Movable Object Show)
Malta Design Week 2011 Valletta
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2018/20
Turps Banana CC Painting programme
London UK
2018
Slade School of Fine Arts, UK
Colour in Practice
Project supported by ACM
2017
Slade School of Fine Arts, London UK
Painting in Contemporary practice
COMMISSIONS
2016
Film set painter for ‘Entebbe’ movie
Portrait of General Idi Amin
Storyworks productions
2014
Landscape painter for a film set
‘By the sea’ written and directed by Angelina Jolie
2011
‘A Valletta view’ illustration for Uncommon Guide Books, Malta
International guidebook project