Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center
1901 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Dec 6 – 8, 2024
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Fair schedule:
Private Days (by invitation only)
Wednesday, Dec 4: 11 am – 7 pm (First Choice VIP guests)
Wednesday, Dec 4: 4 pm – 7 pm (Preview VIP guests)
Thursday, Dec 5: 11 am – 7 pm (First Choice and Preview VIP guests)
Thursday, Dec 5: 4 pm – 7 pm (Vernissage VIP guests)
Public Days
Friday, Dec 6: 11 am – 6 pm
Saturday, Dec 7: 11 am – 6 pm
Sunday, Dec 8: 11 am – 6 pm
We are thrilled to be participating in Art Basel Miami Beach with a solo presentation of Teresa Gierzyńska's works in the Survey sector.
If you are interested in a preview of the presented works, please do contact us via info@gunianowikgallery.com.
Art Basel Miami Beach is now open and Teresa Gierzyńska's solo presentation for the Survey sector is on view in booth S9.
The Survey sector at Art Basel Miami Beach is a platform that showcases historical projects or thematic exhibitions from established and emerging artists. It offers galleries the opportunity to present curated installations and rare bodies of work that focus on under-recognized yet significant artistic contributions.
Active since the 1960s and recently rediscovered, Teresa Gierzyńska (b. Rypin, Poland 1947)
continues to be one of the most significant feminist artists working in Poland today. Gunia Nowik Gallery’s presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach, carefully selected with the artist, includes pieces from her key series: The Essence of Things (1973 – 1975), About Her (1976 – 1995), and Black, White, and Green (1983 – 1993), which offer an overview of the artist’s practice and investigate themes revolving around female identity, one’s own corporeality, the erotic and psychological tension in relationships, and the roles marked by society for women.
Gierzyńska’s work, often experimental, centers on photography and its duplication techniques, using methods such as thermocopy, aniline dye, and her signature ‘press-out’ process. About Herforms the core of the presentation, in which the artist implements her own image through a feminist lens to both record her emotional experiences and shifts, as well as create universal situations with which women of different ages and backgrounds can identify. Works from Black, White, and Greenuse color to represent mood and emotions, while The Essence of Things critiques objectified depictions of women, addressing the banality of female desires in pop culture.
The artist has developed her own language to speak about the female experience and emotions, as she herself says, recognizing and naming them was for her an important element in the process of reclaiming herself, her autonomy. Gierzyńska's practice is part of the long-lasting process of the emancipation of women in and through art, in which photography played an important role.
