Study at Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Painting & Set Design. Painter, set designer.

Exhibited in dozens of solo and group exhibitions /Poland, USA, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Spain, France, UK, Italy, Austria, Greece, Chech Republic, Taiwan/ and at Art Fairs including ART Karlsruhe, CONTEXT ART MIAMI, Affordable Art Fair UK, A.R.T. ART Revolution Taipaei 台北"新"藝術博覽會 Taiwan, STROKE ART FAIR, Munich, AAF Bruxelles, AAF London, MASTER EXPO RAI Amsterdam.

  

2022 “Anna Bocek- solo show” Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2022 “KARLSRUHE 2022”, Art Affair Gallery, Germany 

2022 “INAUGURATION” Galerie Cygne Noir, France 

2021 MASTERS EXPO 2021 RAI AMSTERDAM, ArtGalerie 11M, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2021 AAF London Battersea, Galerie Barrou Planquart, London, England

2021 ANNA BOCEK-SOLO SHOW, Galerie Barrou Planquart, Paris, France

2021 “REDis” curated by Sergio Gomez (33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago)

2020 “Im Goldenen Käfig”, Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2020 “KARLSRUHE 2020”, Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2019 “CONTEXT ART MIAMI 2019” Galerie Barrou Planquart, Miami

2019 "Anna Bocek- solo show" Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2019 “Sommerausstellung", Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2019 “Galeriekünstler II”  Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2019 “Galeriekünstler I”  Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2018 Inauguration, Galeries Bartoux Matignon, Paris, France

2018 Künstlerinnen und Künstler der Galerie II, Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2018 Künstlerinnen und Künstler der Galerie I, Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2017/2018 Jahresausstellung 2017, Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2017 “Galeriekünstler”  Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2017 “Winterausstellung” Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2016 “JOURNEYS” Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2016 A.R.T. Art Revolution 台北"新"藝術博覽會 Taipei, Taiwan

2015 “Jahresausstellung 2015” Kleine Galerie, Wien, Austria

2015 WL4 Art Space INAUGURATION, Gdansk, Poland

2015 “Jahresschau 2015” Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2015 “Figurative Modern" Kleine Galerie, Wien, Austria

2015 “Collective Show” Mike Wright Gallery, Denver, USA

2015 “Anna Bocek- recent works” Canfin Gallery, Tarrytown, NY, USA

2014 International Bosporus Art Biennale /Sonderschau: Atelier an der Donau/Istanbul/Wien

2014 “Summer Show”, Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2014 STROKE ART FAIR, Munich, Germany 

2014 “Woman by Women”, Paris, France

2012/2013 LAGERKOLLER, Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2013 A.R.T. Art Revolution Taipei, Taiwan

2013 “Farbe Bekennen”, Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2012/2013 GALERIEKÜNSTLER ArtAffair, Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2012 The Museum of Emigration /2nd Honorable Mention at the international competition for visual concept/, Gdynia, Poland

2012 “Artist Talk with Anna Bocek", Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2011/2012 “Anna Bocek -Recent Works"Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2011 “Polish Contemporary Painting", Galeria DAP, Warsaw, Poland

2011 ROMAN FACTORY /archaeological center/ project & production, Gdansk, Poland

2011 “Anna Bocek- recent works" Canfin Gallery, Tarrytown, NY, USA

2010 “Pure painting II” Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2010 “Collectiva d'arte MIRA” Palazzo Palmieri, Martignano, Puglia, Italy

2010 “Collective Show- Atelier an der Donau”, ART Innsbruck internationale Kunstmesse, Austria

2009 “Atelier an der Donau", Museum of Oscar Kokoschka, Pochlarn, Austria

/I prize Internationales Kunstlersymposium/

2009 “Centrum Hevelianum”, project & production, Gdańsk, Poland

2009 “New Works", Canfin Gallery, Tarrytown, NY, USA

2009  “Painting Exhibition” Konsulat Generalny RP w Malmö, Sweden

2009 “Anna Bocek -Recent Works” Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2009 “Painting exhibition" Polish Consulate General in Malmö, Sweden

2008/2009 “Recent Works- winter collection" Art Affair Gallery, Regensburg, Germany

2007 Special award of "The Polish Heritage Association of the name of Wiktor Zin" for "Amber Museum Enterprise", Gdansk, Poland

2007 “Mich zu bewahren"Art Affair Gallery Regensburg, Germany

2007 Nouvelle Biennale, Galerie de la Marine, Nice, France

2007 The Fusion Gallery, Altea, Spain, 

2006 "Amber Museum" project and production, Gdansk, Poland

2006 “Visions of a Woman" Art Affair Galerie, Cannes, France

2006 “Amber Museum" design of the visual setting, Gdansk,Poland

2006 “Stage Design and Spatial Forms" National Museum in Gdansk, Poland

2006 “Zeitgenössische gegenständliche Kunst" Art Affair Gallery, Regensburg, Germany

2005 "The Prize Winner of "Amber Museum's Project", Gdansk Poland

2005 "The Prize Winner of The Best of Soho Art Show", New York, USA

2005 “Summertime" Levent Gallery London, England

2005 “Painting Exhibition - Elements II” Fabryka Trzciny, Warsaw, Poland

2005 “Painting Exhibition I", Galeria Aneri, Gdansk, Poland

2004 “Vier Leidenschaften", Kunstsalon Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

2004 “Recent Works : Anna Bocek; Enver Gursev", The Gallery Beckenham, London, England

2004 “Recent Works : Anna Bocek, Enver Gursev, John Brown F.R.B.S.”, The Gallery Beckenham, London, England

2003 “Shakespeare Set Design Exhibition" Theatrum Gedanese Foundation, Gdansk, Poland

2003 “Painting Exhibition", Dimidium Toto Gallery, Sopot, Poland

2003 “III Art Festival of Gdansk ", Era Art, Gdansk, Poland

2003 “Women in Painting" - Tygiel Gallery, Gdynia, Poland

2002 “Painting Exhibition" - Cascada Warszawa, Poland

2001 “II Art Festival of Gdansk ", Era Art Gdansk, Poland

2001 ‘Painting Exhibition" - Gallery ' 78 Gdynia, Poland

2001 “Just a man" Young Designers Exhibition Centre of St, John, Gdansk, Poland

2001 “I Art Festival of Gdansk ", Gdansk, Poland

2000 “Searching for style", National Museum in Gdansk, Poland

1999 ‘Pattern & Space", National Museum in Gdansk, Poland

1998 “Andrzej Markowicz & his students", Sopot Designer's Gallery, Sopot, Poland

1997 First Prize for the best Shakespearean Set Designer Project, from Theatrum Gedanense Foundation of Prince Charles

1997 “Young Designers Exhibition" Baltic Dramatic Theather, Koszalin, Poland

1996 “Design projects exhibition", Gdansk; - "Portfolio" - State Gallery of Art, Sopot 

 

INSTITUTIONS AND AWARDS:

 

2019/2021 The Amber Museum /Permanent Exposition/, project designer/ supervisor, design project coordination, Gdansk Poland

2018/2019 MMW /Polish Navy Museum /Permanent Exposition/, project designer/ supervisor, design project coordination, Gdynia Poland

2014/2015 The Roman Cellar, The Archaeological Museum /Permanent Exposition/, project designer/ supervisor, design project coordination, GDani’s, Poland 

2012 2nd Honorable Mention at the international competition for visual concept of Emigration Museum in Gdynia, Poland
2011 The European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards
2011 Archaeological Museum “Błękitny Baranek”, project designer/ supervisor, design project coordination, Gdańsk, Poland
2009 I Prize of Internationales Kunstlersymposium, “Atelier an der Donau”, Austria 
2009 I Prize of “7 wonders of EU Funding” for "Hevelianum Center", Poland
2009 Special award in TOPTEN Women in the Art "ARTROM Gallery" Rome, Italy
2009 “De mariage a`la mer” permanent exhibition, Museum OP,  project designer/ supervisor, design project coordination, Kolobrzeg, Poland 

2008 “Amber Treasures of XVI - XVIII centuries” temporary exhibition, Amber Museum,  project designer/ supervisor, design project coordination, Gdansk, Poland 

2008 “Amber Diven” temporary exhibition” Amber Museum,  project designer/ supervisor, design project coordination, Gdansk, Poland 

2008 “Science Center” project designer/ supervisor, design project coordination, Gdansk, Poland

2008 “Archaeology Museum” /Permanent Exposition/ project designer/ supervisor, design project coordination,Gdansk, Poland

2008 III Prize of TOPTEN Exquisite Expressions "ARTROM Gallery" Rome, Italy;
2008 “Hevelianum Center” project designer/ supervisor, design project coordination,Gdansk, Poland

2007 Special award of “The Polish Heritage Association of the name of Wiktor Zin” for Amber Museum Enterprise, Gdansk, Poland
2006 “Amber Museum” project designer/ supervisor, design project coordination, Gdansk, Poland 

2005 Prizewinner of “Amber Museum's Project”, Gdansk Poland;
2005 “Prizewinner of The Best of Soho Art Show’, New York, USA;
1997 First Prize for the best Shakespearean Set Designer Project, from Theatrum Gedanense Foundation of Prince Charles 

Paweł Huelle is a novelist and poet. He was born in Gdańsk and graduated in Polish Philology at the University of Gdańsk. He has worked in that city as an employee of the "Solidarity" press office, university lecturer, journalist, director of the Gdansk Polish Television Center and, most recently, as a columnist for "Gazeta Wyborcza". Honoured with many prestigious literary awards, Huelle is one of the most successful contemporary Polish writers. His first novel Who Was David Weiser (1987) was hailed by the critics as “the book of the decade,” “a masterpiece” and “a literary triumph” and has been published, among others, in Germany, Spain, France and Finlan

On a scorching afternoon this June, I met Anna Bocek in the Old City of Gdańsk under rather unusual circumstances, at the opening of the Amber Museum. The presence of the artist was not accidental as her design was used to arrange the interior and the amber treasure exhibition in the medieval walls. The modern and daring production clearly showed the experience gained by Anna in her set design work for many, often famous, plays. However, the main area of artistic expression for Anna Bocek has always been painting. This conscious choice sets her roots and sources of fascination in European expressionism; however, she does not simply continue this trend or its postmodernist parodic development. One could say that the figures and faces painted by Anna are expressionistic in spirit as a result of her deep psychological fascination in man. The brilliantly captured gestures, grimaces and emotional states, as if with feminine intuition, are a real gallery of the most diverse dreams, depressions, ridiculousness, pride, sometimes reflection and melancholy. Moreover, these images of men and women are a clear sign of the artist’s distress: our modern life in mega cities means passing by hundreds and thousands of human faces, every one of them with its history, drama and individuality. A mass character of modern culture and our limited perceptions exclude any personification of this unique stream of information. Suffice it to make a simple exercise: how many faces seen during the last underground or bus journey are still in our memory? Have they given us some important information? Emotion? Fascination? Anna Bocek tries to extract from this magma what is the most interesting to an artist: differentiating, individual and outstanding elements that form an icon in modern times. Unlike Andy Warhol, who only reproduced what was repeated and popular. Perhaps this is the reason why the painter is searching in expressionism for some communication techniques. With these strong means of expression, she wants to leave a permanent trace in her and the viewer’s memory. At the same time, she is perverse, ironic and witty, which adds true value to her studies of faces and figures. Her pictures also remain in one’s memory because they are very subtly based on deep archetypes of our consciousness. They use colour and light contrasts boldly, often drawing psychological or social situations of people depicted. However, her images are not journalistic: the painter deprives neither media men nor sociologists of their jobs. Rather from her work they can learn many interesting things about us: entangled in modern times like in an enormous, gigantic network of visual information. Painting means reflection, not production. This simple, though often forgotten truth, is brilliantly reminded by Anna Bocek. 

PAWEŁ HUELLE