Wanda Michalak Photography
 

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Wanda Michalak
Born in Warsaw, Poland. Works and lives in Amsterdam.

Education:
Carrington Polytechnic Design School, Auckland, New Zealand.

portrait of Wanda by Patricia Ribas


Selected exhibitions:

2014 "Marking Time" (double exhibition with Kathryn MacGovern) Graydon Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2013 "Living with Birds" Graydon Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

"Living with Birds" Gallery WM, Amsterdam
2011 "World Watching" Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP), Brisbane, Australia

"Arbophilia" (double exhibition with Cecylia Malik) Gallery WM, Amsterdam
2010 "Ten years" Gallery WM, Amsterdam

"Ten" RudolfV Gallery, Amsterdam

"Ten" Gallery Foksal Ateliers, Warsaw, Poland
2008 "Somewhere, Nowhere"  Gallery WM, Amsterdam.

"Horizons" & "Boncoir Madame La Lune" 2B+R, Warsaw, Poland
2007
"Time Remembered - Mala Gallery 1977 - 2006" Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.

"Bonsoir Madame La Lune" Museum Cinematography, Lodz, Poland

"Polska" group exhibition, Gallery WM, Amsterdam
2006/2007 "World Watching" RudolfV Gallery, Amsterdam
2006 "World Watching" Gallery WM, Amsterdam
  "World Watching" Galeria Luksfera, Warsaw
  "Bonsoir Madame La Lune" Six Images Gallery, Amsterdam
  "Dialogues Dialogues" Gallery WM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005 Jaarboek -Gkf - (group)exhibition, Kolderveen, The Netherlands
  "(5 years later the) Men (are still) About", Gallery WM 5 Years Jubilee, Amsterdam
  "Dialogues, dialogues" - Gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania
2004 "World Watching" Polish Culturel Institut, Sofia, Bulgaria
  "Ego Ik Zelf" Melkweg Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  "If you go into the woods today…", Pauza, Krakow, Poland
  "Van bossen en bomen", Melkweg Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003 "If you go to the woods today…" (group exhibition) Gallery WM, Amsterdam
  "Dialogues, dialogues" (solo exhibition) Mala Galeria, ZPAF, Warsaw
2002

"American Bookshop Calender" (group exhibition), ABC Tree
House Gallery, Amsterdam

  "World Watching" (duo exhibition), Gallery Objectief, Enschede,
The Netherlands
  Open Ateliers de Jordaan, Amsterdam
  "Polish Biennale (group exhibition), Brielle, The Netherlands
  "Images of Desire" (group exibition) Winston Hotel, Amsterdam
  "Tweede Fotograven avond" (group exhibition) ABC Treehouse Gallery, Amsterdam
  "25 Years Jubileum" (group exhibition) Mala Galeria ZPAF, Warsaw, Poland
  "World Watching", Galerie Donker, Gorinchem, The Netherlands
  "Duister" (group exhibition GKF members), Galerie Melkweg, Amsterdam
2001 "Australia on the Line", Franjostudio - Raam Galerie, Amsterdam
  "Self and Friends" (group exhibition), ACF, Amsterdam
  "20x20 Inches of Holland" (group exhibition) Gallery WM, Amsterdam
  "World Watching", Gallery WM, Amsterdam
  "De Fotograven Avond" (group exhibition), ABC Tree House
Gallery, Amsterdam
  "Selfish" (group exhibition), Gallery WM, Amsterdam
2000 "Men About", Gallery WM, Amsterdam

"Bilgoraj. Polen in de Bijlmer" (group exhibition), Bijlmer Galerie, Amsterdam

1956-1996 Photoproject - Europa Dag Express (9.05.2000)

"I Love to be Landscape", Scheltema Trappengalerie, Amsterdam
1999 "World Watching II", Instituto Portugues de Fotografia, Lisbon, Portugal

"About Men", Mala Gallery ZPAF/Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland

"Venus Nova" (group exhibition), Gallery ArkA, Breda, The Netherlands
  "World Watching II", Salvador de Bahia, Brasil

"Ontmoetingen" (group exhibition), Grote Kerk, Breda, The Netherlands
1997 "Venus Nova", Studio "M" Bozeny Marki, Warsaw, Poland
  "World Watching", Galeria FF, Lodz, Poland
  "Venus Nova & Slavic Connections", Schwarzenbergplatz 4, Vienna, Austria
1996 "Project 17x17x17", (group exhibition), ACF, Amsterdam
1995 "Slavic Connections " (ACF) Amsterdam Centrum voor Fotografie
  "Portraits of Slavic Women"(duo exhibition), Hoorn, Netherlands
1994 "New New Horizons", Lubljana, Slovenia

"Natural Connections", Gallery De Moor, Amsterdam
1993 "Double Exhibition", Galeria Panorama - Patio, Warsaw, Poland

"Travel Photography - Ghana", De Moor, Amsterdam
1992 "The Moor Inside Out" (photo project), De Moor, Amsterdam

"Selected Works", Gallery Spectrum, Amsterdam
1991 "The Four Elements" (group exhibition), Gallery De Moor, Amsterdam
1990 "Portraits", Auckland


Publications
"World Watching" Published by LTM, Warsaw (Poland) - 1997
Respublica Nowa: illustrations for nr 72 (sept 94), nr 92 (may 96), nr 100/101 (jan/feb 97), nr 105 (june 97), nr 120 (sept. 98), nr 153 (june 01), nr 161 (feb 02), nr 168 (sept 02)
Motor Puls Magazine: 1996 - Ghana (illustrations)

Works
Mobil Oil, Vienna, Austria
Private collections in in New Zealand, Poland, The Netherlands, Norway, USA


See also on the net:
Wanda Michalak - World Watching (Galeria FF)
Mala Gallery - FOTOTAPETA
Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw