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Almine Rech

Ewa Juszkiewicz

Through her painting, Ewa Juszkiewicz (b. 1984, Gdansk, Poland) challenges visual conventions and confronts stereotypical perceptions of women’s beauty in classical European painting. By deconstructing and reinterpreting the female subject in historical artworks, Juszkiewicz undermines their constant, indisputable character. One of the most celebrated contemporary Polish painters of today, Juszkiewicz challenges the viewers’ perception by experimenting with the form of the female figure and face, balancing human and inhuman elements within her work to reveal a style that is at once classical in technique, yet subversive and rebellious in content.

Selected as one of 100 Painters of Tomorrow in the eponymous 2014 Thames & Hudson book and included in the new edition of Vitamin P - Vitamin P3. New Perspectives in Painting published by Phaidon, and a Grand Prix laureate of the 41st Painting Biennale (Bielska Jesień) in 2013, Juszkiewicz has also been featured in exhibitions at museums and public institutions including: the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw; MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Cracow; Kunsthalle Bratislava; National Museum of China, Beijing; among others. Her work resides in the esteemed museum collections of the National Museum in Gdańsk, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, BWA Galeria Bielska in Poland, and Zachęta of Contemporary Art in Szczecin, Poland. Juszkiewicz currently lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. 

Selected artworks

  • Ewa Juszkiewicz,                                      Untitled (after Joseph Wright),                 2020

    Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled (after Joseph Wright), 2020

    Oil on canvas
    160 x 125 cm
    63 x 49 1/4 inches

  • Ewa Juszkiewicz,                                      Untitled (after Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun),                 2020

    Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled (after Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun), 2020

    Oil on canvas
    160 x 120 cm
    63 x 47 1/4 inches

  • Ewa Juszkiewicz,                                      Untitled (after Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun),                 2020

    Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled (after Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun), 2020

    Oil on canvas
    130 x 100 cm
    51 1/8 x 39 3/8 inches

  • Ewa Juszkiewicz,                                      Untitled (after Adélaïde Labille-Guiard),                 2020

    Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled (after Adélaïde Labille-Guiard), 2020

    Oil on canvas
    100 x 80 cm
    39 3/8 x 31 1/2 inches

  • Ewa Juszkiewicz,                                      Untitled,                 2020

    Ewa Juszkiewicz Untitled, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    90 x 70 cm
    35 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches

Museum exhibitions

Selected press