BEAta Pflanz
graduated with honours with an MA in Painting (2007) from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań.
She has been a member of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP) in Poznań since 2008 (serving as Secretary in 2008–2009) and, since 2024, has been a member of ZPAP Szczecin. Since 2019, BEAta has collaborated with the French group Resonances.
In 2006–2009, she participated in and co-organised the International Artistic Meetings – Experiment Festival in Zbąszyń.
She has curated a range of art-related initiatives, including “We-Arte” – Iberian & Friends, an international art exhibition with the Czapski Art Foundation in Poznań, and “The Magnificent Seven”, an international exhibition at Gallery 33. She also co-organised International Woman Art in Barcelona (in collaboration with Katia Muñoz from Peru). She has participated in the International Art Symposia in Antonin organised by Gallery 33 in Ostrów Wielkopolski, as well as the annual International Alternative Art Review (since 2015).
In September 2023, her paintings were presented by Gaudi Art Gallery (Madrid) at the Algarve Art Fair in Portugal. Her work has also been shown in Poland, including in Wrocław (2021) and at ArtShow in Warsaw (2024), among others. Since 2021, she has collaborated with Vinci Art Gallery in Poznań.
Recipient of numerous awards, including:
Venice 2023: International Prize – Pegasus and Top Artists: The Protagonists of Contemporary Art
International Prize – Ambassador of Art (2021)
Art Olympic Prize (2021)
AFT – Art Freaks Global (2020)
Art Universal Prize – for Artistic Value (2020)
Selected solo exhibitions:
Koński Kierat Gallery, Szczecin (painting, installation), 2024
Vinci Art Gallery, Poznań (painting), 2022
Brama Wrocławska, 2022 (painting)
Koński Kierat Gallery, Szczecin (painting), 2019
Gallery 33, Ostrów Wielkopolski (painting), 2017
V.A. Gallery, Poznań–Wysogotowo (painting, installation), 2017 and 2018
Czapski Art Foundation, Poznań (painting, installation), [year not specified]
Municipal Gallery Arsenał, Poznań (painting, installation, poetry), 2012
BWA Castle Książ (painting – 167 paintings; 350 m² exhibition space), Wałbrzych, 2011/2012
Szyperska Gallery, Poznań (painting, happening, installation), 2008
Rotunda Gallery (now UAP), Poznań (painting, poetry, installation), 2006
Selected projects and group exhibitions:
Madrid, Spain, 2024 and 2015 (Prado Foundation), and 2011
Lille, France, 2019
New York, Manhattan – New Century Artists Gallery, USA, 2014
Also in the USA: Taos, NM (2015); Cold Spring – Marina Gallery (2014/2015); Miami (2017)
Art Basel, Switzerland, 2015 and 2017
Barcelona, Spain (multiple exhibitions), 2012–2019
Lisbon, Portugal, 2015
London, United Kingdom, 2012
Rome, 2010, and others
