Celina Kanunnikava
born in 1988, Poland. Graduated from University of Arts in Poznan, Poland. Her M.A. in painting (supervised by Dominik Lejman) was nominated to The 34th edition of Maria Dokowicz Competition (Poznan) and The Best Diplomas in Art 2014 (Gdansk). In the same year she won Main Award in the competition New Image / New View. In 2016 she won the President of Wroclaw Award in the 12th edition of Geppert Competition. Awarded the Medal of Young Art in the category of visual arts in 2017. She lives and works in Poznan, Poland and Minsk, Belarus. Her works are in the collection of Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and in private collections in Poland and abroad.
Selected solo exhibitions:
2017 – Internal Diseases, Assembly Gallery, Poznan, Poland
Internal Diseases, MBWA, Leszno, Poland
2016 – The Untitled, Assembly Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2016 – Mass and power, WOZOWNIA Gallery, Torun, Poland
2013 – 47 milliseconds, Szyperska Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2012 – What a beautiful, sunny day, Stara Rzeźnia Gallery, Poznan, Poland
Selected group exhibitions:
2023 – "Power and Frailty" Nitja, Lillestrom, Norway
2022 – "Great Patriotic. Celina Kanunnikava, Hanna Shumska, Vitalii Shupliak, Endre Tót" MBWA Bydgoszcz, Poland
2022 – "22 Presentations - Leszno 2022. Different Narratives" MBWA Leszno, Poland
2020 – "21 Presentations - Leszno 2020. In the beginning, the weather changed" MBWA Leszno, Poland
2020 – A thing about collecting. What is all this for? MBWA Leszno, Poland
2019 – Paint, also known as Blood. Women, Affect, and Desire in Contemporary Painting. Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
2019 – The sadness of modernism: oppression and depression, City Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
2018 – Girl and gun, House of Colonels (with Raster Gallery), La Oliva, Fuerteventura, Spain
2017 – Island and Atolls: the Mapping of Imagination, WOZOWNIA Gallery, Torun, Poland
2016 – The Next Day, Assembly Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2014 – Love. Aids. Riot. Sex. III, NGBK / Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Selected awards, achievements:
2022 – Young Art Prize at the "22 Presentations - Leszno 2022. Different Narratives" MBWA Leszno, Poland
2019 – Awarded Third prize at 11th Triennial of Small Painting Forms, WOZOWNIA Gallery, Torun, Poland
2017 – Awarded the Medal of Young Art in the category of visual arts, Poznan city council and Glos Wielkopolski newspaper,
2016 – Winner of President of Wroclaw Award in the 12th edition of Geppert Competition, Wroclaw
2015 – Organization and participation in the international charity art auction Save Lohvinau Auction to preserve the independent Belarusian bookstore Lohvinau
2015 – Finalist in the International Competition of Painting Three Bridges Foundation
2014 – Distinction in Leszczynskie Presentations 2014
2014 – Finalist in the Maria Dokowicz Competition 2014
2014 – Finalist in the competition and exhibition Best Diplomas 2014 in Gdansk
2014 – Main Award in the competition New Image / New View in 2014
Projects and initiatives:
2020 – Charity auction: Help across borders for Belarus (Bezgraniczna Pomoc dla Białorusi).
2018 – Charity auction: Dom Autysty Poznań, CK Zamek (more info).
2015 – International charity auction: Save Lohvinau (independent book publisher in Belarus civic solidarity auction).