Joanna Paljocha "Stones"

GÜ Gallery 30.03-17.04.2026

The opening: 30.03. at 17.00

Born in 1977 in Lodz (Poland). Between 1997-2002 she studied at the Department of Graphics and Painting of the Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (Poland). Since 2012 she works in the Basics of Composition Studio I, at her alma mater. Since May 2018 she holds a doctoral degree from the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz.

She specialises in printmaking, painting and book illustration. She has participated in over 100 group exhibitions in Poland and abroad and organized over a dozen individual exhibitions.

The linocuts on the exhibition in GÜ-Gallery are part of a larger series titled Stones, which has been in progress since the summer of 2022 and includes both miniature graphics and large-format works.

In my graphics, I have been focusing on the sound of colour for years, its strenght derived from saturation, or conversely, from subtle nuances of combinations.

In Stones I essentially abandon anecdotes. Colour, encapsulated in simplified shapes, resonates even more powerfully. Colour is emotion. Sometimes it bursts with restlessness, and at other times, it contains itself in concentration.

„...You may get to know me, but you’ll never know me through.

My whole surface is turned toward you,

all my insides turned away (...)”

Wisława Szymborska Conversation with a Stone

Visual identity: Jakub Balicki