„In the cycle of solo exhibitions, Patrycja Mastej has collided the soft smoothness of forms with the firm fleshiness of their fabric. Eager eyes follow the organic quasi-shapes she has created, which are always escaping the hunting eye. The metamorphic images she has created in vegetal, animal, and human shapes are like blooming fossils — they are coral reefs immersed in the depths of a swinging body.”
Zofia Reznik
PATRYCJA MASTEJ / short biography
Visual artist, designer, academic teacher in The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw. Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and co-winner of the WARTO Cultural Award 2009 by Gazeta Wyborcza for the project „Interactive playground” produced by WRO Art Center. She collaborates with the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum – since 2012 she has been designing interactive educational exhibitions from the „Self-Service Museum” series. In 2018 she obtained the PhD of Arts title at this topic.
Parallel in her individual art exhibitions she focuses on the topics that explore processes related to body memory and awareness, often using the creative method of Butoh dancers. Her painting and drawing are records of sensual meditation in motion. While creating, the artist opens up to the subtleties of full feeling, contemplates and visualizes experiences flowing from the body and emotions that escape definition.
Personal solo art exhibitions:
2025 W Słońcu / In the Sun, Kit art space studio, Berlin, Germany 2023 Miękkie Oczy / Soft Eyes, Willa Polonia – Buska Galeria Sztuki, Poland 2023 Fale Ciepła / Waves of heat, Art HUB, Łódź, Poland. 2022 Czułe Pnącza / Tender Creepers, Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland. 2021 Dzikie Ciało / Wild Body, Lower Silesian Film Centre, Wrocław, Poland. 2019 Czerwone łzy / Reperwersje / Reperversions, Umakart Gallery, Brno, Czech republic. 2018 Performance within the project GATE art zone 7, Donnerstag 23, Dusseldorf, Germany 2017 Chwasty i płody / Weeds and Fetuses, Arttrakt Gallery, Wrocław, Poland. 2017 Kalanchoe tańcząca / Dancing Kalanchoe, Brzuch Gallery, Wrocław, Poland. 2016 Uległość Węgla / The Flexibility of the Coal, retrospective exhibition, Chapelle de Quartier Haut, Sete city gallery, France. 2015 Ogrodowych Ryb Pyłkowanie / Pollen of Garden Fish, Latelier Gallery, Sète, France. 2014 Uziemianie / Grounding, Brzuch Gallery, Wrocław, Poland. 2013 Bezwstyd Mięsistych Kropli / Hardihood of Fleshy Drops, Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland. 2012 Mokre Bulwy / Wet Bulbs, Rita Baum Gallery, Wrocław, Poland. 2011 Butoh Dance performance / Club Puzlle, Wroclaw, Poland
