Magdalena Tryba
Biographical note

Graduate of BA (2023) and MA (2026) studies at the Intermedia Department of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. In 2023–24 she also studied at the Laboratories of Contemporary Culture—a second-cycle programme at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University.

Author of the solo exhibitions: Observatory (2016), Look what I Have Found (2023), Pockets full of Stones (2024-2025); {Magpie Feather, Sea Glass, Key, …, ∞} (2025–26); as well as numerous group exhibitions and collective projects, among which the most important include: Everything that is no longer here or will soon be gone (2022), Rozruchy (2021), Riots (2021), The Belly of the Universe (2025), and Hoarding (2025).

As a performance artist she has realised: Self-portrait (2021), Klombik (2020), Untitled performance (2024); two twelve-hour performances 12 Hours of What? (2024), 12 Hours of What? (2025); as well as two collecting performances forming part of her MA diploma project {Magpie Feather, Sea Glass, Key, …, ∞} (2025–26).

Since 2022 I have been working at the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow as an assistant, and since 2023 as a curator of the ASAP Student Gallery. Co-founder of the independent SN2022A Gallery in Krakow, as well as the Brut Collective.

Privately and professionally, a collector.



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Education
  • 2023-2026 Faculty of Intermedia at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow - MA studies
  • 2023-2024 Contemporary Culture Laboratories, Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University in Krakow - MA studies
  • 2020-2023 - Faculty of Intermedia at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow - BA studies
  • 2016-2020 - Artur Grottger Secondary School of Fine Arts (ZSP) in Tarnów - specialisation in textile arts, diploma thesis awarded with an excellent grade

Employment
  • 2023 - ASAP Gallery in Krakow, curator
  • 2022 - Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, assistant
  • 2022 - Salwasport mental camps, mentoring and animation of arts activities
  • 2022 - Porównonocy art festival in Krakow, conducting collage workshops
  • 2021-22 - Publishing House of the Academy of Fine Arts, expeditor.
  • 2019 - Mościce Art Centre in Tarnów, running board games classes

Exhibitions and competitions — 2025

  • {Magpie Feather, Sea Glass, Key, ..., ∞}: What We Collect and How, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Kraków (2025), MA diploma exhibition
  • 12 Hours of What? (second edition), Jerzy Grotowski Institute, Bulvary, Wrocław, performance
  • Hoarding, Galeria Pracownia Wschodnia, Warsaw, group exhibition
  • The Belly of the Universe, Wind0wlicker, Warsaw, group exhibition
  • Did You Miss Me?, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, ASAP Student Gallery, coordination of the Erasmus students' exhibition
  • aKTOmaR, Intercollegiate Performance Review, KTO Theatre in Kraków, co-organization
  • Things Found - Testimonies of Presence, ASP Krakow, ASAP Student Gallery, exhibition coordination
Exhibitions, competitions and events — 2024

  • Pockets Full of Stones, Shefter Gallery, Kraków (2024-2025), solo exhibition
  • A Thousand Things with a Hole, Turnus Show, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, performance during the museum's opening
  • Grey House Foundation, Kraków (2024-2025), competition winner, group exhibition, distinction
  • Sculpture in Search of a Place, Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, participant of the Sculpture Circle
  • Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
  • Young Art Compass 2024, distinction, ranked 150th
  • R Gallery, Faculty of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, group exhibition
  • Open Eyes Art Festival, curator
  • In the Garden, Anna Maria Frascoli’s Garden, Kraków, group exhibition and performance
  • Maybe in a Fit of Passion, We Will Find a Better Place, KMWTW, Kraków, performance
  • Winner of the Young Wolves Festival, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Temat Rzeka group exhibitione
  • GRAFTED TO THE BONE, Wiewiórka Contemporary Art Center, Kraków Photomonth, group exhibition
  • Wild Flowers Laboratory, Apteka Gallery, Kraków, post-workshop group exhibition
  • 12 Hours of What?, Grotowski Institute, Bulvary, Wrocław, performance
  • Studio with a Balcony, Elektor Gallery, Mazovian Institute of Culture, Warsaw, group exhibition
  • Being Like Adam Karaś – A Perspective from Matejko Square, ASAP Gallery, Kraków, group exhibition
  • Milk Like Smoke, Cracow Art Week Krakers, Skład Solny, group exhibition
  • Shared Space ASAP, Cracow Art Week Krakers, ASAP Gallery, group exhibition
Exhibitions and competitions — 2023

  • See what I've found, SN2022A Gallery, Krakow, undergraduate diploma exhibition
  • Solstice Art Festival, CCA Squirrel in Krakow, group show
  • Kram, Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University, group exhibition
  • TO DO, ASAP Gallery at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, curator of the exhibition as part of Cracow Art Week Krakers
  • IX Salon Artystyczny, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych in Tarnów, group exhibition
  • Drawings by children from Kharkiv, the 'Doctor's House' Contemporary Art Gallery in Zakopane, co-organised exhibition
  • I'm lying and waiting for you to remember, ASAP Gallery, Krakow, group exhibition
  • Baden-Baden, Tadeusz Kantor Gallery in Krakow, performance
  • How the soap bubble burst - our fizzled Arcadia, Supernova Stage in Krakow, group exhibition
  • Drawings by children from Kharkiv, SN2022A Gallery. Krakow, co-organised exhibition
  • Santander Scholarship

Exhibitions and competitions — 2022

  • Abstract, Gallery SN2022A, Krakow, co-curator of the exhibition
  • Everything That Is No Longer Here or Will Soon Be Gone, Open Eyes Art Festival in Krakow, collective exhibition
  • Nówka Sztuka, art fair in Krakow, participation
  • 13th Student Nobel Prize finalist
  • U_lotne 3, Elektrownia Gallery of Contemporary Art in Czeladź, group exhibition
  • Skala dziwności, Władysław Hasior Gallery in Zakopane, group exhibition
  • Cracow Art Week, Our Derek Jarman Garden, group exhibition
  • What is Intermedia?, Academy of Fine Arts Krakow, symposium, organisation events
  • Santander Scholarship
  • Rector's scholarship, Academy of Fine Arts Krakow

Exhibitions and competitions — 2021

  • Artysta.Szaman, Artystka.Szamanka, Museum of the Old Theatre Micet in Krakow, group exhibition
  • Photographic Memory, Malopolska Garden of Art in Krakow, group exhibition
  • Rozruchy, Krakow Photomonth Festival, Fringe section, collective exhibition
  • VIII Salon Wiosenny, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych in Tarnów, group exhibition
  • Efekty Uboczne, Open Stage in Poznań, group exhibition
  • VideoNews 7.2, Labyrinth Gallery in Lublin, review of works
  • Rector's scholarship, Academy of Fine Arts Krakow

Exhibitions and competitions — 2020

  • Voyage with friends, Cracow Art Week Krakers, group exhibition
  • VII Salon, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych in Tarnów, 3rd honorable mention for the work 'Urban tissue'

Exhibitions and competitions — 2019

  • VI Salon Wiosenny, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych in Tarnów, group exhibition
  • Poland-wide painting plein-air in Jeżów, special prize of the artistic shop 'Warsztat Artysty' and the brand 'Lefranc Bourgeois' and special prize of the director of Secondary School of Fine Arts in Tarnów
  • Obrazy przygodne o pamięci śmierci niechybnej, 'Blue Gallery' in the Tarnów City Library, group exhibition
  • Medzu, Secondary School of Fine Arts in Tarnów, group exhibition
  • Natura Kultura, Secondary School of Fine Arts in Tarnów, group exhibition

Exhibitions and competitions — 2018

  • Artyści z Tarnówa, Generacja 2.1, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych in Tarnów, group exhibition
  • International Print Triennale, Cieszyn, winner of the competition
  • Satirical Drawing, Comics and Film Animation, Warsaw, special award
  • Winter Jeżów, Secondary School of Fine Arts in Tarnów, group exhibition
  • Tarnówianie zasłużeni dla niepodległości w słowie i obrazie, XVI Armii Krajowej Secondary School in Tarnów, Second prize in the competition

Exhibitions and competitions — 2017

  • Sileziany, XI International Biennale of Artistic Textile of Children and Youth, MDK No. 1 in Bytom, honourable mention and conducting of textile workshops
  • EOAOI, Secondary School of Fine Arts in Tarnów, group exhibition
  • Legendy Tarnówa i okolic, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych in Tarnów, 3rd place in the competition

Exhibitions and competitions — 2016

  • Observatory, Art Squat in Tarnow, solo exhibition

Projects and collectives
  • 2023 — ASAP student gallery, Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, co-founding, curating
  • 2023 — MOSAIC Association, Krakow, membership
  • 2022 — Brut Collective, co-founding
  • 2022 — Gallery SN2022A in Krakow, co-founding
  • 2021 — Klombik, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych in Tarnów, cultural animation
  • 2020 — Project Avant-garde, Secondary School of Fine Arts in Tarnów, participation in the project
  • 2019 — 'Zrób to co możesz z tym co masz', participation in performative workshops, co-creation of a zine
  • 2018 — Wytwórnia, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych in Tarnów, coordination of art workshops
  • 2018 — Składka, Secondary School of Fine Arts in Tarnów, co-founding and editing of the art zine
  • 2017 — 15. Ekspedycja artystyczna w poszukiwaniu piękna, Izby k. Krynicy-Zdrój, participant and laureate

Selected voluntary activities
  • 2022 — Audioart Festival Krakow
  • 2022 — Krakow Photomonth Festival, leader of the Fringe section
  • 2021 — Krakow Photomonth Festival
  • 2017 — Fantastics Convention in Tarnow
  • 2017 — Jak dobrze mieć sąsiada, Park Strzelecki in Tarnów
  • 2017 — Wałowa Str.Art, Tarnów
  • 2016 — Demograms Festival for young musicians, Tarnów
  • 2014-2017 — Artistic Promotion Foundation "Aspirants", Tarnów
  • 2014-2020 — Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Tarnów