Danka Jarzyńska – sculptor, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland. Works mainly in classical sculptural materials (bronze, marble, granite), also creates ceramics and installations. She is among the handful of people in the world who create sculptures from black oak. She has exhibited in the Polish Sculpture Centre in Orońsko, in Paris, Bydgoszcz, Toruń, Druskininkai and many galleries in the Tricity.
She is the winner of the NanoArt109 International Competition organised by the Roi Doré Gallery in Paris. She was a distinguished participant of the YICCA competition in Milan in 2017/18. Her works are in private collections all over the world, including Italy, Germany, Norway, France, Mexico and the USA. The park sculpture ‘Structure of Blackness’ is in the collection of the Centre for Polish Sculpture in Oronsko and the stone sculpture ‘Trace’ is exhibited in the public space of Sobieszewo Island.
She lives and works on Sobieszewo Island and is an active member of the local community, working for the quality of its culture, environment and public space. She is the author of the project of the series of open-air sculpture meetings in Gdañsk – Sobieszewo Island and the organiser of its first edition under the motto “Island in Granite”, as well as the editor of the catalogue documenting and commenting on the event.As a curator, she also organised the exhibition “Transition” in the Sopot Art Passage Sopot Centrum (2018). Member of the Union of Polish Artists.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 In the Passage, Intel Gdańsk, 173c Słowackiego Street (solo)
2024 Synthesis of Arts, Małopolskie Centrum Kultury ‘Sokół’, Nowy Sącz (collective exhibition)
2021 Impulse, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, ‘Chapel’ Gallery (solo)
2020 Kore, Bydgoskie Centrum Sztuki, Bydgoszcz, ul. Jagiellońska 24 (solo)
2018 Transition, Sopot Passage of Art Sopot Centrum (collective exhibition)
2018 Balances, ZPAP Gdańsk District Gallery, Gdańsk ul. Mariacka 46/47 (solo)
2017 Improvisations, Gdańsk Archipelago of Culture Music Stage, Gdańsk 25 Powstańców Warszawskich Street (solo)
2017 Impromptu, PGNiG Gallery of One Work, Gdansk ul. Wałowa 41/43 (solo)
2017 Island in Stone, Biological Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk (collective exhibition)
2017 NanoArt 10-9. exhibition of the finalists of the 3rd Edition of the Prof. Tadeusz Malinski International NanoArt 10-9 Competition, Galerie Roi Doré, Paris (collective exhibition)
2016 Relationships, Polish Baltic Frédéric Chopin Philharmonic Orchestra (solo)
2016 Hommage à C.B., Gydykloje (Druskininkai, Lithuania) (solo)
2016 In Between, Warzywniak Art Gallery in Gdańsk Oliwa (solo)
2005 Bonds, Cultural Centre ‘Wyspa Skarbów’, Gdańsk-Sobieszewo (solo)
OTHER ARTISTIC PROJECTS
2020-2024 The sculpture series ‘Flow’ for the Sol Marina estate
2022 Design of the tombstone of the painter Bogdan Wręczycki
2022 Participation in Erazm Wojciech Felcyn’s project ‘People of Art’
2016 Design and execution of the Amber Lens award, granted by the Programme Council of TVP Gdańsk for the best journalist of the year.
MOVIES