Title: hydrangeas
Technique: print on Awagami Kozo Japanese paper, canvas, commemorative jewelry, skin glue.
Dimensions: 50x40 cm
Works from the series Crumbs / 2025
The works are from a recent series. They are a story about loss, mourning, but also about the impossibility of
to say goodbye to a loved one. Because they are a new series they were shown only in two
venues: at the BWA in Bielsko-Biala during this year's FotoArt Festival, and at the Schoen Palace Museum in Sosnowiec, Poland, during this year's FotoArt Festival.
Schoen in Sosnowiec as part of the Sosnowiec Art Meetings.
Iwona Germanek
Visual artist involved in creative photography, portraiture and widely understood
photographic experimentation. Her extensive project "Threads of
of Unremembering" was shown at the Center for Contemporary Art in Torun in 2021. Since then
she has continued to explore areas of memory, reaching for archival visual material: not only of her own
family, but also of completely anonymous individuals. She willingly includes in her series photographs and even
entire albums, which - no longer needed by anyone - are sold at flea markets. Through
symbolic adoption, she tries to restore their memory and dignity. In his works he uses not
not only photography, but also collage or photomontage. He also willingly reaches for historical photographic techniques
photographic techniques. She uses wax, Japanese paper or other materials to create objects - assemblages.
Still present in her work is the theme of family, clearly resounding in the series "Pink does not
Exists." A graduate of the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, she is currently a lecturer at this university.
A member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers in the Silesian District. She is the author of two books
artistic books: Herbarium of 2025 and Pink Doesn't Exist of 2023.Her works are in the collections of the
Silesian Museum in Katowice and in private collections.
List of public realizations of artistic works
Individual exhibitions:
2019 Kielce, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Reminiscences.
2020 Bydgoszcz, Vintage Photo Festival, Reminiscences. Blue Chlorophyll.
2020 Rybnik, Festival of Photography, Herbarium.
2021 Torun, Center for Contemporary Art "Signs of the Times", Threads of Unremembrance.
2022 Katowice Gallery (ZPAF), Pink does not exist.
2022 Katowice, Engram Gallery, My life - your blood.
2023 Warsaw, Old Gallery ZPAF, There is no place like home.
2023 Jaworzno, PUSTA Gallery cd, , Herbarium.
2023 Art Exhibition Office in Kielce, Pink does not exist.
2023 Polish Institute in Bratislava, Růžová neexistuje.
2024 Sosnowiec Art Center - Sielecki Castle, Not/Remembering. [Together with Krzysztof
Goluch]
2024 Common Gallery in Bydgoszcz, Scent. Exhibition as part of the Vintage Photo Festival.
2024 Interferencje Gallery in Olkusz, Pink does not exist.
2024 Gallery Live Polish Radio Katowice, Herbaria.
2025 Galerii Zázvorka, Nové Město nad Metují, Růžová neexistuje.
2025 Municipal Museum in Blatná, Odor.
Major group exhibitions:
2020 Torun, Center for Contemporary Art "Signs of the Times", group exhibition within the competition.
Exhibit at the CCA 2020
2021 New York, Klompching Gallery, Fresh 2021 Finalist, My life - Your blood
2021 Opava, Dům umění v Opavě, Kostel sv. Václava, KUPE Gallery, 30+. 30 let Institutu tvůrčí
fotografie FPF Slezské univerzity v Opavě / 30 years of the Institute of Creative Photography FPF
Silesian University in Opava
2021 Bratislava, Opava Girls / Opava Women. Studentky a absolventky Institutu tvůrčí fotografie
FPF Slezské univerzity v Opavě, exhibition presented as part of the 31st international festival
photographic festival "Měsíc fotografie"
2021 Bratislava, Stredoeurópsky dom fotografie, OčamiDvanástichPoľskýchŽien, exhibition
presented as part of the 31st international photography festival "Měsíc fotografie"
2023 Berlin, BBA GALLERY, My life - Your Blood, exhibition presented as part of the exhibition of the
of One Shot Award finalists.
2024 Katowice , ZPAF Gallery, Imponderabilia.Group exhibition of members of the Union of Polish
Artists Photographers.
2024 Krakow, Zpafgallery,After Midnight.
2024 Schoen Palace - Museum in Sosnowiec, XXVI Sosnowiec Art Meetings, Mimesis.
2024 Bastille Design Center in Paris, Corporeality.
2025 London, The Holy Art Gallery, Art Exhibition.
2025 Schoen Palace - Museum in Sosnowiec, XXVII Sosnowiec Art Meetings, Bad Art.
2025 Arles, VISAGES/FACES .
2025 Barcelona, FotoNostrum Gallery, 23&24 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards.
2026 BWA Bielsko Biala, as part of the exhibition Three and a Half Decades of the Institute of Creative Photography in.
Opava.
Major awards :
Principal Director's Award in the competition "Exhibit at the CCA in Toruń", 2020.
First place in the Unstuck Photography Competition, 2020.
Honorable Mention Vintage Grand Prix in the 6th Vintage Photo Festival in Bydgoszcz, 2020.
Chromatic Photography Awards, 3rd Place in Conceptual category, My life - your blood, 2021.
London Photography Awards, Gold Medal in the Fine Art Photography - Open Theme category, My life
- your blood, 2022.
Muse Photography Awards, Gold Medal, Fine Art Photography - Photomanipulation, Pink doesn't
exist, 2023.
European Photography Awards , Category Fine Arte Photography, My life - Your blood, Gold Winner.
2024.
23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, Category Digital
Manipulation & Collage, Pink doesn't exist, Category Winner 2023.
Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards, Category Fine Art/Collage, Pink doesn't exist,
Category Winner 2025.
