Hanna Bakula, Expect Intellect

Expect intellect, authenticity and pure aesthetics… the artist, the writer, the human being, the feminist

Has gratuated with honors from the Warsaw Academy of Arts where she has studied under such Polish masters as J. Tarasin, E. Eibisch, A. Kobzdej. There have been fifty exhibitions of her paintings, drawings and ceramic sculpture. Her works were shown at Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw, at art fairs in Basel, Wiesbaden, Stockholm, New York City, Moscow. In 1981 she left for New York City where she settled on Manhattan where she drew, painted, designed scenography and costumes for the avant-garde theatre „The Kitchen”. These designs were praised by „The New York Times” as the best of the Off Broadway projects and won Bakuta first prize. In 1982, by recommendation from the Guggenheim Museum she was awarded one year grant. She also is a columnist and illustrator for the „Playboy” and „Dziennik Łódzki” magazines. She has written and illustrated 8 books: How to Lose Friends (1991), How to Gain Friends (1992), Owner’s Manual (1993), Bandana (1994), a collection of essays written for the „Playboy” magazine entitled Sex on Credit, as well as Evidence of Love (1991- 92), The Last Ball. Letters to Agnieszka Osiecka (2001), She-Idiot (2003).

 

 

In 1995 she designed costumes and poster for Carmen at the Warsaw National Opera. In 1997 she has established the Hanna Bakuta Foundation with the aim at propagating Polish culture abroad and foreign culture in Poland. Special attention and care the Foundation devotes to a number of orphanages in Poland.

 

Since 1996 Hanna Bakuta organizes a unique private festival of Franz Schubert music in which the most outstanding Polish and foreign soloists participate. In 1999 under the auspices of the Hanna Bakuta Foundation Women’s Club opened at the Mercure Hotel in Warsaw. It groups over the hundred celebrities from the political, cultural and academic life in Poland. The chief aim of the Club is to foster cooperation between women, to propagate democracy and culture created by women.

 

 

“A modern renaissance of authenticity through arts and thoughts, captured by Hanna’s sharp intellect is a refreshing must-discover and must-experience signpost on the map of cultural heritage of Europe “

 

 

Hanna’s personal blog { more here … } provides a set of insightful journeys into the artist’s perception of life, relationships, events, cuisine and simple phenomena of living

 

Hanna is one of those artists who constantly inspires, from books, paintings, drawings, photography, designs, her collection of luxurious silk scarves with the signature motive of cats has just been launched

Images Courtesy of Hanna Bakula, Esklep