Alicja Stańska

Artist

Alicja Stańska is a performer, human rights activist, master of embroidery, graduate of Ecole Lesage Paris and criminology at UTH in Warsaw. She mastered both traditional and luneville embroidery methods, as well as techniques from various regions of the world. She debuted in 2011 at Sopot Fashion Days. In 2014, her performance "Is Craft Is Art?" was staged at La Basilica Gallery in Barcelona, Spain, as well as in public places in six major Polish cities (Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Lodz, Poznan, and Zakopane). She was a speaker during the Design Days 2014 with the lecture "Slavery in the 21st Century". In 2015, the "Thread of Life" series of works was exhibited at the State Art Gallery in Sopot. In 2016, her next series of paintings "The World's Most Expensive Product" was dedicated to human trafficking. The event was premiered at Galeria Mostra in Warsaw. In the same year, the artist's works were present at the Solidarity Museum in Gdańsk and at the Art Fair in Warsaw. In 2017, she received an award in Paris at the Polish Embassy on the occasion of the plebiscite "Young Pole in France". Half a year later, she opened an art gallery in the heart of Warsaw, which deals with the promotion of young artists and the presentation of already known artists. In 2018, as a finalist of the Hand & Lock competition, she took part in a collective exhibition in London. In the same year, on the occasion of a gala in Warsaw promoting Transplant, the artist made a series of paintings "Body". Some embroidery is an inspiration for old surgical drawings from France. Alicja is also the President of the Foundation for the Promotion of Artists and Crafts

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