Bartniak-Król Kinga
In 2019, she graduated from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław with a degree in Graphic Arts.
I am a visual researcher, graphic designer, and STEAM educator. In my practice, I combine graphic design – a discipline created with the audience in mind – with artistic research. Each new topic I explore in its natural context, immersing myself in the environment that shapes it. When I was researching the happiness industry and corporate culture, I visited offices; when working with the theme of the horse, I spent time at racetracks, talking to trainers.
I work mainly with moving images (video, lenticular print), installation, and textiles (computer embroidery, sewing). I treat digital files as graphic matrices – tools for creating prints and repetitions. Narrativity is central to my work – the visual story that allows identification with a situation.
I have participated in numerous artist residencies and exhibitions in Poland and abroad. My interests revolve around relationships between the human and non-human worlds, especially wild plants as metaphors of resilience and coexistence.
Awards and scholarships
Artist residencies selected through open calls — included stipend, studio space, exhibition venue, and production budget.
2024 – Practices of Care; Organizer: Wrocław Institute of Culture, AIR Wro, K.A.I.R. Košice Artist in Residence; Project: The weary tree blossoms twice; Solo
2021 – Sztuka dla Ziemi i człowieka; Organizer: Wrocław Contemporary Museum; Project: About Water; Collaboration with dr Iwona Ogrodzka
2020 – Digital Residency; Organizer: OP ENHEIM; Project: Left Behind Garden; Solo
2020 – Art House Rezydencje Online: Oswajając nową normalność; Organizer: Adam Mickiewicz Institute; Project: Left Behind Garden; Solo
2016 – WB-Roots Movement; Organizer: Wbmotion; Lutherstadt Wittenberg; Project: Tetrue Meibe meine edytafe; Group
Ehibitions
2025 – Koniec Świtu, solo exhibition, Club of the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
2022 – About Water (collaboration with Dr. Iwona Ogrodzka), Biennale Zielona Góra Renewal, Zielona Góra, Poland
2022 – Jesteśmy Zmęczeni, group exhibition, Festiwal Myśli Abstrakcyjnej, Jazdów, Warsaw, Poland
2022 – A pebble fits the hand nicely, solo exhibition, Zona Sztuki Aktualnej, Szczecin, Poland
2021 – Cloud 9 Pavilion, group exhibition, Bangkok Biennial, online, Thailand
2020 – Nature Art Video Exhibition, group show, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2020, Gongju, Korea
Conferences
2024 – SAR International Forum on Artistic Research, poster presentation Left Behind Garden, Tilburg, Netherlands
2021 – Czy badania artystyczne? – video poster on individual research practice, online, Poland
Publications
2022 – About Water, Biennale Zielona Góra Renewal album, Institute of Visual Arts UZ, BWA Zielona Góra
2020 – Juniper, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2020 album, Yatoo
