Dimensions: 90 x 50 cm
Signed, dated, and labeled on the reverse: 'Title: "511_Error-Network Authentication Required", 2025 | oil on canvas | 90 x 50 cm | GAJEK (A. Kraus) | [artist’s signature]'
Biography
A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where she studied painting under Prof. Maciej Świeszewski and printmaking. She also completed studies as part of the Erasmus program at Marmara University in Istanbul. Winner of the Grand Prix of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage at the 18th National Review of Young Painters “PROMOCJE” in Legnica (2008) and a scholarship recipient from the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the Mayor of Gdańsk. She was a finalist in the Belgian Canvascollectie competition presented at BOZAR in Brussels and a participant in the BJCEM Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean. She has exhibited her work at events including NordArt in Germany, the Bielsko-Biała Autumn Painting Biennial, the Tina B. International Festival of Contemporary Art in Prague, and at BOZAR – Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. She has had solo exhibitions in Poland, Belgium, and Germany, including at BWA in Legnica, Brussels Art Factory, and KIT Studioartspace in Berlin. From 2010 to 2015, she lived and worked in Brussels; she currently lives and works in Berlin. Since 2017, she has been creating under the pseudonym GAJEK. Her work focuses on the relationship between nature and the urban environment, and a characteristic motif in her paintings is wild animals—primarily deer—set within geometric, artificially constructed spaces. The artist’s multi-layered paintings, which often employ the anaglyph effect and the aesthetics of digital glitches, explore themes of alienation, memory, and the search for a sense of belonging in the contemporary world.
