About | Paula Carralero Bierzynska

Bio

Paula Carralero Bierzynska was born 1991 in Madrid, Spain and rised up in Pamplona close to the Pyrenees. After living and working in Montreal, Canada und Mexico City, came 2013 to Berlin, where she studied at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin 2013-2019 with Nader Ahriman. During her studies she had several exhibitions in Germany, among others in Haus des Berliner Rundfunks, at Projektraum Bethanien, Neukölln Arkaden, der Bar Babette, dem Brandenburgischen Kunstverein, Kunstverein Uelzen. She also showed her work internationally in Muzeum Woli in Warschaw, in La Ciudadela und Centro Huarte in Pamplona, Spain and Sala Perez de la Riva in Madrid. She received the Mart Stam scholarship, der Mittenmang Projektförderung and the Premio Encuentros Arte Joven Award. Her artist books were presented at Berlin Art Book Fair at the Hamburger Bahnhof and Missread Art Book Fair at Akademie der Künste and her work was published at Textem Verlag in 2016. After her studies, she received the scholarship Neustart Kultur Stiftungskunstfonds and Kickstart from Stiftung Kunstfonds. She had her first solo exhibition at Galerie Weisser elefant and exhibited at Lage egal, Marburger Kunstverein, Galerie Parterre, Galerie Ebensperger, Galerie das Gute Leben. She was resident at Künstlerhaus Edenkoben and Powiedokie in Kaliska, Poland. She realised a public art work 2023 in St. Hedwig hospital in Berlin.

Artist Statement

My work is concerned with the question of how human perception differs from machine perception. Instead of looking at the world from fixed points, the point of view with two human eyes is fluid and consists of different, sometimes contradictory, perspectives.

For this endeavour, I paint what I see through transparent material (glass, mobile phone displays, computer screens, plexiglass, and most recently organza silk). During the process, my eyes move around the space, and as a result, the viewpoint becomes open, and the edges of the image curvy, reminiscent of the anatomy of our eyes.

I paint mostly on location and over months in long series. Each series deals with the relationship between people and sometimes abandoned, temporary or converted buildings.

In installing the works, I ask myself how painting can strongly transform the original architectural space through reduced resources and thereby influence human well-being.

	1991, Madrid Lives and works in Berlin
	Education
2020	Master of Fine Arts, Kunsthochschule Berlin with Nader Ahriman
2019	Fine Arts, painting, at Kunsthochschule Berlin with Heiner Franzen, Friederike Feldmann, Werner Liebmann, Nader Ahriman
2013	Translation and Interpreting, Graduate work about intercultural mediation and literary translation about migrant literature, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. International MAEC Scholarship at Université de Montréal, Canada. Erasmus Scholarship at Universität Leipzig, Germany
	Solo and duo exhibitions
2022 2021	«Auf… auf… und hinein» Kunst in der Landschaft, das Gute Leben, Kandel (duo exhibition with Marie Gouil) Rescate, Erlösung, Galerie Weisser elefant, Berlin Tagebuch, Mehr Mitte, Berlin
2020	Paradise Lost , Heizkraftwerk Steglitz, Berlin
2022	Group exhibitions (selection) Under Construction, Brunnentreff, Berlin Stadt Land Fluss, AR29, Berlin
2021	Sonderlage III, Lage egal Liebe arbeit Kino, Rausproject Ipso facto, Kühlhaus, Berlin Sonderlage total, Lage egal Begehungen Chemnitz Offene Ateliers, Atelieretage Reinickendorf Begegnungsstätte Mehr Mitte, Berlin Mart Stam Preis, Galerie Parterre Under Kunstruction, Biels, St Gillis Waas Nachbarschaftszentrum «Bürger für Bürger» Berlin Kunstpreis Deutschland, Galerie Depelmann, Hannover Your touch makes the waves, Radio Cashmere, Berlin Mart Stam Preis, Marburger Kunstverein
2020	Förderpreis Junge Kunst, Rathaus Reinickendorf, Berlin A factory of one’s own, Heizkraftwerk Steglitz, Berlin In to through out, Spoiler, Berlin Your foodprint, Heizkraftwerk Steglitz, Berlin Abschlussausstellung, Kühlhaus, Berlin (delayed) Mart Stam Preis, Künstlerraum Bethanien, Berlin (delayed) PHuN Symposium 2020, ASU, Arizona, USA
2019	Certamen Nacional de Grabado José Caballero, Las Rozas, Madrid Halbschatten II, Neukölln Arcaden, Berlin Perfekte Zustände, XLane, Berlin -188 + x(Balzac), Kunstverein Uelzen, Uelzen Fundraising Ausstellung mit 50 Künstler/innen der KHB Berlin, Galerie Irrgang, Berlin
2018	Certamen Nacional de Grabado Jose Caballero, Las Rozas, Madrid 948 Merkatua, mercado de las artes de Navarra, Pamplona Encuentros Jóvenes Artistas, Centro Huarte, Huarte Growing through the grids, Bar Babette, Berlin Drucksache, Galerie Pankow, Berlin Gestell, Erratum Galerie, Berlin
2017	Böse Blüten, Projektraum Bethanien, Berlin.
2016	Certamen Nacional de Grabado José Caballero, Las Rozas, Madrid Encuentros Jóvenes Artistas, La Ciudadela, Pamplona Quelltext, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam Per Anhalter, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin Missread Art Book fair, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2015	Die Vermessung der Zeit, Hermanshof Vöcksen, Hannover Ravensbrück, 10. Europäische Sommer-Universität Ravensbrück Art Book Fair, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin Capilatus, Haus des Berliner Rundfunks, Berlin
2014	Unerhörte Räume, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin Yo no soy de Tepito, Tepito es mío, Morgenrot Café, Berlin
	Prizes, scholarships and residencies
2020	Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds Förderpreis Junge Kunst (selected)
2019	Mart Stam Preis
2018	Artistic residency in Centro Huarte, Navarra, for a project of mapping of artistic agents
2016	Second prize in Encuentros jóvenes artistas, Gobierno de Navarra Mittenmang Projektförderung
2015	Deutschlandstipendium, Mart Stam Stiftung Sans Papiers, artistic residency, Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium
2005	First prize is in Ateneo de Badajoz «El Quijote y sus personajes» Junta de Extremadura, Spain
2004	First prize in II Concurso de Dibujo y Pintura de Navarra Megaprix Diario de Navarra, Spain First prize in Concurso de Dibujo sobre la Verdura Megaprix Diario de Navarra y la Orden del Volatín de Tudela, Spain First prize in «La ciudad.sin mi coche!» Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Spain
2003	First prize in Itinerarios Culturales de Navarra Educación de Gobierno de Navarra, Spain First prize in Concurso de Dibujo sobre Minusvalías Físicos de Navarra, Spain First prize in «Edutranqui-Tranqui, vive deportivamente» Gobiernode Navarra, Spain First prizein Concurso de Dibujo Carrefour, Madrid,Spain.
2002	Second prize in «Día del árbol 2002» Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Spain First prize in Concurso «Dibuja Pamplona», Ayuntamiento de Pamplona,Spain First prizein Tarjetas navideñas «Navidad 2002», Ayuntamiento de Pamplona,Spain
2001	First prize in «Día del árbol 2001», Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Spain Second prize I Concurso «Dibuja Pamplona», Ayuntamiento de Pamplona,Spain Third prize in Tarjetas navideñas «Navidad 2001», Ayuntamiento de Pamplona,Spain
	Work in collections
	Collection Hüppi (DE), Lühling (DE), Wyszynski (DE), Kowacka (PL), Mora (ES), Alfaro (ES), Johnson (USA)
	Publications
2020	«In to through out», self-published by all exhibiting artists on the occasion of the exhibition In to through out at Spoiler, Berlin
2019	«Mart Stam Katalog», Mart Stam Stiftung
2020	Drucksache, Tendenzen zeitgenössischer Druckgrafik, Gallerie Pankow
2016	«Quelltext», Textem Verlag, Gerrit Gohlke (BKV Potsdam), Prof. Friederike Feldmann and Alexander Wagner Die Ver messung der Zeit», Universität Hannover
	Press
2019	Art in Berlin: https://www.art-in-berlin.de Berliner Woche: https://www.berliner-woche.de
2018	Designbote: https://designbote.com Artconnect: https://www.artconnect.com Centro Huarte: https://www.centrohuarte.es
2017	Merkatua 948: https://www.948merkatua.com Ferm in music: https://www.ferminmusic.com
2016	BKV Potsdam: http://www.bkv-potsdam.de Textem DE: http://www.textem.de 20 Minutos: https://www.20minutos.es La información: https://www.lainformacion.com Diario de Navarra: https://www.diariodenavarra.es