Miniprint Annual 2012

Maria Kaleta

is a painter and graphic designer, with a clear flair for the abstract and the colour that can be found in the works of traditional Polish artists, such as Jacek Malczewski or Tadeusz Brzozowski, as well as the more modern world-famous artists Francis Bacon and Mark Rothko.

As a student of Poznan Art Academy she worked with an alternative theatre group ‘Teatr Osmego Dnia’ (‘Theatre of the Eight Day’) and she took part in one of their spectacles, 'Raport z Oblezonego Miasta' ('A report from the besieged city') in Warsaw in 1983.
Between 1983 and 1988 she also had links with the informal cultural activists' groups (later established as Borderland Foundation, Theatre Wegajty and Frontier Music Foundation) taking part in expeditions to southern and eastern borderlands of Poland.

Maria is a Committee member of the Association of the Polish Artists in Great Britain.

She has exhibited in Poland, England, Italy, France, Syria and Russia.
Art Works in Italy, Switzerland, USA, Poland and England


Her portfolio includes painting, drawing, pastels, traditional printmaking and computer graphics; she is also involved in a desktop publishing.


Artistic education
2006 – 2007 WMC College, London – Graphic Design
1989 – Scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture
1983 – 1988 Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland studying for her Masters Degree - painting under the direction of Norbert Skupniewicz.
1978 –1983 The National College of Arts in Poznan - Exposition and Display

Important group and solo exhibitions
2011 – Spring Exhibition – The Orangery Gallery' Holland Park; London, England
2011 – V International Pastel Biennale – Nowy Sącz, Poland
2010 – Homeless Gallery (at Dilston Grow) – London, UK
2010 – Chopin – Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain, POSK Gallery, London, England
2010 – Golf in ART – Saint Petersburg, Russia (Adiart)
2010 – The Gallery at Willesden Green – Autumn Exhibition, Londyn, England,
2010 – Exhibition in Rickshaw House Gallery "Four Seasons Of The Year – White –
London, UK
2010 – ARTeria – Polish Art Festival – The Crypt St.George the Martyr, London, UK (9-11 September)
2010 – Szopen – Warsaw, ZPAP, Poland
2010 – The Gallery at Willesden Green – Londyn, Anglia /Spring Exhibition
2010 – Modern Art of Poland – Damascus, Syria (adiart)
2010 – „Seventeenth” – London, Anglia (Katyn)
2010 – Spring Exhiition – Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain, POSK Gallery, London, England
2010 – Spring Exhibition – The Orangery Gallery' Holland Park; London, England
2010 – „Four Seazons of the Year" Rickshaw House Galery – Winter, Londyn
2010 – “Selfportert” – Warsaw, Poland
2010 – “Horse” – Studio Sienko Gallery; London, England
2010 – Painting, Exhibition – The Association of Polish Artists and Designers; Warsaw, Poland
2010 – IV International Pastel Biennale; Nowy Sącz, Poland
2009 – Beyond Here - POSK Galllery, London, England – Solo Exhibition
2009 – Experience the Changes'- Polish Art Salon 09; Poznan, Poland
2009 – Brent Affordable Art Fair; The Gallery at Willesden Green, London, England
2009 – "The tree" - Autumn Exhibition, Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain, POSK Gallery. London, England
2009 –"Legacy" - Polish art links between the beginnings of 20th and 21st centuries; POSK Gallery, London, England
2009 –The Gallery at Willesden Green, London, England
2009 – Promotional Auction of Polish Contemporary Art. – Warsaw, Poland
2009 –‘PLURIMOS ANNOS’; Warsaw, Poland
2009 – "Food for Thought" - The Gallery at Willesden Green, London, England
2009 – Spring Exhibition – Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain, POSK Gallery, London, England
2009 –‘The Orangery Gallery' Holland Park; London, England
2009 – IV International Pastel Biennale; Nowy Sącz, Poland
2008 –‘Experience the Changes'- Polish Art Salon 08; Poznan, Poland
2008 –The Gallery at Willesden Green; London, England
2008 – ‘The still life’, Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain, POSK Gallery, London, England
2008 – IV International Pastel Biennale; Nowy Sącz, Poland
2008 – ‘The good and the beauty’; Youth Meeting in Rome, European University of Rome, Italy
2008 – ‘The good and the beauty’; Polish Embassy in Vatican City
2008 –‘Menton’ Workshop; Menton, France
2008 –‘Painting and sculpture’; POSK Gallery, London, England
2008 – Spring Exhibition, Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain; POSK Gallery, London, England
2007 –‘Portrait’; POSK Gallery, London, England
2007 –‘Confrontations’ – ZPAP; Warsaw, Poland
1996 – Painting review’; Warsaw, Poland
1995 –The Warsaw Painting month; Warsaw, Poland
1994 –‘Minima De’ - Nationwide Festival of Small Forms; Art Centre in Bytom, Poland
1993 – Warsaw Music Association; Warsaw, Poland
1992 – Warsaw Decade of Art; Warsaw, Poland
1991 – French Embassy in Poland, Information Centre; Warsaw, Poland

The Myth of Golgotha, 2010, Digital Print, 20 x 20 cm – 240

96 – Katyn, 2010, Digital Print, 20 x 20 cm – 240

Requiem – 10.04.2010, 2010, Digital Print, 20 x 20 cm – 240