Karina Marusinska was born in Piotrkow Trybunalski in 1983. Lives in Wroclaw, where she graduated from Academy of Fine Arts, Art and Design of Ceramics (2003-2008). Moreover, she completed studies as part of scholarship programmes at Pais Vasco University in Bilbao, Spain (2007) and the Institute of Ceramics in Guebwiller, France (2008). She has also acomplished International Post-Graduate Course ‘Kaolin’ Art and Design in Contemporary Ceramics at ENSA Limoges, France and Jingdezhen, China (2013-2014). Since 2010, she has been working at the Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, where she co-heads The Contextual Ceramics Studio.
Karina Marusinska is an interdisciplinary artist and an academic lecturer with a postdoctoral degree (since 2024). Her work focuses on community engagement and cultural education. She co-founded the performance group Luhuu! (2005–2015) and the project group Wzorowo (2008–2014). She is a member of the Food Think Tank collective (since 2014). She has received numerous grants (including from the Minister of Science and Higher Education, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, the Marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, the Marshal of the Lodz Voivodeship, and the Mayor of Wroclaw), and has won awards (including the ‘Trojka Talent’ Award of the Polish Radio Programme 3, ‘Warto’ Award by Gazeta Wyborcza (The Electoral Gazette), ‘make me!’ Lodz Design and the 14th Survival Art Review), a resident artist (France, China, Slovakia, Austria, the United Kingdom), and a participant in numerous national and international exhibitions, festivals and symposia. Her works are held in the collections of the Krehky Gallery in Prague, the National Museums in Warsaw, Krakow and Wroclaw, the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola, and in private collections.
Photo: Małgorzata Kujda
EDUCATION
2013-2014
International Postgraduate Course ‘Kaolin’, Art and Design in Contemporary Ceramics, ENSA Limoges (FR), Jingdezhen (CN)
2003-2008
Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw (PL), Art and Design of Ceramics
2007
Institut Europeen des Arts Ceramiques, Guebwiller (FR)
2006-2007
University of the Basque Country, Bilbao (ES)
1998-2003
State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Kielce (PL), Ceramics
MEMBERSHIPS
since 2014
Food Think Tank Foundation (PL)
2012-2017
Academy of Young Scholars and Artists (PL)
2008-2012
Useful Manufacturers of Beautifulness Association (PL)
2007-2013
‘Grawiton’ Association for the Support of Young Artists (PL)
SCHOLARSHIPS
2021
Artistic Scholarship of the Mayor of Wroclaw (PL)
2016
Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists (PL)
2012
‘Young Poland’ Scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (PL)
2010
Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (PL)
2010
Artistic Scholarship of the Marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship (PL)
2008
Artistic Scholarship of the Marshal of the City of Lodz Voivodeship (PL)
2007
Scholarship of the Mayor of Wroclaw in Culture and Art (PL)
2006
Wroclaw City Council Arts Scholarship (PL)
SELECTED AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2020
Winner of the competition for artistic projects for the Wroclaw 70/20 Symposium (PL)
2016
Audience Award, Survival Art Review 14, Wroclaw (PL)
2016
‘Warto’ Award by Gazeta Wyborcza (The Electoral Gazette) in Visual Arts, Wroclaw (PL)
2011
‘must have’ Award, Lodz Design Festival (PL)
2011
‘Trojka Talent’ Award in the Visual Arts category in the Polish Radio Programme 3 contest, Warsaw (PL)
2009
Special Prize, ‘make me!’ competition, Lodz Design Festival (PL)
2009
3rd Prize, New Folk Design Competition, Poznan (PL)
2008
Honourable mention, The Arting Project industrial design competition, Bielska BWA Gallery (PL)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2020
Stones That Cry – Archaeological Museum, Municipal Arsenal, Wroclaw (PL)
2017
Silence – Schaufenstergalerie SCHARF, Graz (AT)
2017
What the Eye Doesn’t Know – Centrala Gallery, Birmingham (UK); Gepperts’ Apartment Gallery, Wroclaw (PL)
2016-2017
A Part For The Whole – SIC! Gallery, BWA Wrocław (PL)
2015
Changes – Contemporary Art Gallery MD_S (PL)
2012
Private Sphere – Gepperts’ Apartment Gallery, Wroclaw (PL)
2010-2011
Between – SIC! Gallery, BWA Wrocław (PL); Zero Gallery, Berlin (DE)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
2025
Bazar Bizarre. Grain and Animals – Wroclaw Off Gallery Weekend, Jemiolowa Street Marketplace, Wroclaw (PL)
2025
War Garden: Plants in Times of Conflict – 66P Subjective Institution of Culture & Geppart Gallery, Wroclaw (PL)
2025
Lost for Words, 5th International Ceramics Biennale – Rothko Museum, Daugavpils (LV)
2025
Bazar Bizarre. Soil and Water – Jemiolowa Street Marketplace, Wroclaw (PL)
2025
Frequenz Festival, International Festival of Experimental Music and Audiovisual Arts – Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel (DE)
2025
Waves – Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ustka (PL)
2025
Expedition to the 17th Meridian – Artistic Research Studio of the new headquarters of BWA Wroclaw (PL)
2024
Bazar Bizarre. Debt – Jemiolowa Street Marketplace, Wroclaw (PL)
2024-2025
Solo and in Duo – National Forum of Music, Wroclaw (PL)
2024-2025
Ulro Land – Museum of Pharmacy, Wroclaw; Museum of Literature, Kaunas (LT)
2024
Bazar Bizarre. Fertilisation – Jemiołowa Marketplace, Wroclaw (PL)
2024
Aerial Forms – work created for Marta Sniady’s Body X Ultra, performed by Ensemble Kompopolex, 34th Musica Polonica Nova Festival – National Forum of Music, Wroclaw (PL)
2023-2024
One Thought Finally Triggers Everything – BWA Zielona Gora (PL)
2023-2024
Glass Biographies. Polish Women Glass Designers (1945–2020) – National Museum, Wroclaw (PL)
2023-2026
Gestures. Traces – installation – Krupa Art Foundation, Wroclaw (PL)
2023
Survival Art Review 21, The Underground Museum – Wroclaw (PL)
2023
20th International Media Art Biennale WRO, ‘Exchangeable Contents’ – MiserArt, Wroclaw (PL)
2022
This Is What I Paint! – Gepperts’ Apartment Gallery; Szewska Gallery, Wroclaw (PL)
2022
Mother Earth – Dizajn BWA Wroclaw (PL)
2022, 2023, 2025
Looking Through Objects. Women in Contemporary Polish Design – Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn (EE); NOMUS, Gdansk; Design Museum Brussels (BE)
2022
No!peace, Lodz Design Festival – Academic Design Centre, Lodz (PL)
2020
Kingdom – SIC! Gallery, BWA Wrocław (PL)
2019-2020
Exemplary Exhibition – Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw (PL)
2019
Let’s Talk About Modernity – Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv (UA)
2019
On/Off, WRO on Tour, 4th Festival of Audiovisual Art Tetramatyka – Museum of Ethnography and Artistic Industry, Lviv (UA)
2019
Survival Art Review 17 – Wroclaw (PL)
2019
18th International Media Art Biennale WRO, ‘Human Factor’ – Piekarnia, Wroclaw (PL)
2019
Departure – BWA Wroclaw Glowny (PL)
2018
Homage to Beauty, Designblok – Prague International Design Festival, Lapidarium, National Museum, Prague (CZ)
2018
Survival Art Review 16 – Wroclaw (PL)
2018
Porcelain Aristocracy, Krehky Mikulov Festival of Art and Design in Central Europe – Mikulov Castle (CZ)
2018
The Other Side of Things. Polish Design after 1989 – National Museum, Cracow (PL)
2018
Talente, International Skilled Trades Fair – Munich (DE)
2017
Poland: For Canada, With Love – Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Ottawa (CA)
2017
Polish Design. Tomorrow Is Today, Salone del Mobile – Superstudio Piu, Milan (IT)
2016-2017
The Logic of Locality. Norwegian and Polish Contemporary Design – International Cultural Centre, Cracow; Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim (NO)
2016
Turning Point – Faur Zsofi Gallery, Panel Contemporary, Budapest (HU)
2016
European Triennial for Ceramics and Glass – Grand Hall of the Anciens Abattoirs of the City of Mons (BE)
2016
Young at the Museum. Highest Level – National Museum, Wroclaw (PL)
2016
Kunstzug – Runde Ecke, Dresden (DE)
2016
Phantom – BWA Katowice (PL)
2016
Survival Art Review 14 – Wroclaw (PL)
2016
Pragmatism and Beauty, 21st International Triennale Exhibition – Milan (IT)
2015
System Error – Casa Matei Gallery & Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
2015-2016
Moderna. Industry + Craft – Helsinki Design Week, Helsinki (FI); 3rd Design Days, KUL, Stalowa Wola (PL); Lublin Modernism Days, Lublin Institute of Design (PL); Polish Institute, Sofia (BG); Concordia Design, Poznan (PL)
2015
Survival Art Review 13 – Wroclaw (PL)
2015
In.stability – Institute of Design, Kielce (PL)
2015
(Do Not) Touch! Haptic Aspects of Polish Art after 1945 – Centre for Contemporary Art (CSW), Torun (PL)
2014-2015
What Goes Behind… Contemporary Polish Ceramic Design – Inno Design Tech Expo, Hong Kong (CN); London Design Festival, Tent London (UK)
2014
Connecting. Design from Poland, 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial – Istanbul (TR)
2014
Swinging Imagination – Musee du Four des Casseaux, Limoges (FR)
2014
What Remains – Polish Institute Gallery & Trafo Gallery, Prague (CZ)
2014
Polished Up. Design from Poland – IMM Cologne (DE); Regional Museum, Stalowa Wola (PL); Institute of Design, Kielce (PL)
2013-2015
To Err Is Human – BWA Tarnow (PL); BWA Zielona Gora (PL); BWA Dizajn Wroclaw (PL); Institute of Design, Kielce (PL)
2013-2014
Forest and Meadow – Design Trade, Bella Center, Copenhagen (DK); Designgalleriet, Stockholm (SE)
2013
What’s for Breakfast? Design from Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia & Georgia – Writers’ House of Georgia, Tbilisi (GE)
2013
Kaolin – JCI, Jingdezhen (CN)
2013
Polish Folk – Sofia Design Days, National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest (RO)
2013
Everything Forever Now – MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Cracow (PL)
2013
Wroclaw – Three Dimensions – Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko (PL)
2012
Common Roots – Design Museum Holon (IL)
2012
A Wonderful Place – Galleria Cvernovka, Bratislava (SK)
2012
Slow Design – Budapest Design Week, Budapest (HU)
2012
Survival Art Review 10 – Wroclaw (PL)
2012
Must Have from Poland – Milan Design Week, Ventura Lambrate, Milan (IT)
2012
Design with a Conscience – Stockholm Design Week, Pop-Up Store NK, Stockholm (SE)
2011
Journeys and Encounters – Gorlitz (DE)
2011
Ethno-Inspirations – National Museum, Gdansk (PL)
2011
Design in Action. Exemplary Project. Dizajn-Wawa, Neighbours 2.0 Festival, Warsaw (PL)
2011
Life in 3D. Art in Terrarium – BWA Olsztyn (PL)
2010-2011
Designed in Poland – MuseumsQuartier, Vienna (AT); Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest (HU); Palau Moja, Barcelona (ES)
2010
Ponderabilia. Curiosa – Spot, Poznan (PL)
2010
Polish Design, ‘Elle Decoration’ – Centre for Contemporary Art (CSW), Warsaw (PL)
2010
Make me! – Designers’ Open International Festival, Leipzig (DE)
2010
To Connect. To Divide – Gorlitz (DE)
2010-2011
Re.product – Gdynia City Museum; Institute of Industrial Design, Warsaw (PL)
2010
Poland! Folk – PS2 Gallery, Belfast (IE)
2010
Sens/ces – Gepperts’ Apartment Gallery, Wroclaw (PL)
2010
Ponderabilia. Res momentariae – Spot, Poznan (PL)
2010
Talents, Ambiente Fair – Frankfurt (DE)
2009-2013
Un-polished. Young Design from Poland – Lviv Academy of Fine Arts (UA); National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (RO); Korea Foundation Cultural Center Gallery, Seoul (KR); Centre Meridional de I’Architecture et de la Ville, Toulouse (FR); Design Museum Helsinki (FI); Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (CN); Centar za dizajn Hrvatske Gospodarske Komore, Zagreb (HR); Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest (HU); Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Cologne (DE); Pavilion d’Arsenal, Paris (FR); Salone del Mobile – Milan (IT); Paris Design Week, Docks en Seine – Paris (FR); CODE International Fair – BC Design Center, Copenhagen (DK); Museum Tuch und Technik, Neumunster (DE); DMY International Design Festival – Berlin (DE); Design September – Brussels (BE)
2009
Dizajn=Design – Polish Institute, Berlin (DE)
2009
Natural Resources of Polish Design – Ethnographic Museum, Cracow (PL); Regional Museum, Stalowa Wola (PL)
2009
Make me! – Lodz Design Festival, Lodz Art Center (PL)
2009
Shop, Warsaw under Construction festival – Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (PL)
2009
Design–Antidesign – Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw (PL)
2009
Black and White. Young Polish Design – Maxim Hotel, Tel Aviv (IL)
2008
Make me!, Lodz Design Festival – Lodz Art Center (PL)
RESIDENCIES
2017
Styria Artist in Residence – Graz (AT)
2017
Viewpoint – Centrala Art Gallery, Birmingham (UK)
2011
Shaping the New – Kosice (SK)
SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS
2011, 2015
Ethno-project – Wilamowice, Warsaw, Cracow (PL); Minsk ( BY)
2011
Fenomen Gemer – international ceramic symposium, Ozdany (SK)
2010
46th International Ceramic and Sculpture Plein-Air, Bolesławiec (PL)
2008
32nd International Symposium Porcelain Another Way, Wałbrzych (PL)
2007
Deutsch-Polnische Kunst, international symposium – Reichenhaller Akademie (DE)
2006
Wood-Fired Ceramics, international symposium and ceramics workshop – Luboradow (PL)
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY FOR INSTITUTES INVITES
Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw; BWA Zielona Gora; 66P, Wroclaw; Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ustka; BWA Wroclaw; Institute of Design, Kielce; OP ENHEIM, Wroclaw; Krupa Art Foundation, Wroclaw; Museum of Contemporary Art Wroclaw; Cieszyn Castle; European Capital of Culture Wroclaw 2016
ŁUHUU! GROUP
Katarzyna Golen, Karina Marusinska, Agnieszka Rzezniak, Natalia Rzezniak-Pospieszalska
2015
Wild Fields. The History of Avant-garde Wroclaw – National Gallery of Art Zacheta, Warsaw (PL); Kunsthalle/Hala Umenia, Kosice (SK)
2015
Celebrations of the 250th Anniversary of Public Theatre in Poland – Polish Theatre, Wroclaw (PL)
2014
Performance 4:0 in the collection of the Lower Silesian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Wroclaw (PL)
2012
Active Poetry. A Sketch for the Transformation of Art in Public Space in Poland – Shoreditch Town Hall, London (UK)
2012
Documentary Film Academy ‘Dok.Art’ – Museum of Contemporary Art Wroclaw (PL)
2012
Erasure. Exercises in Memory – Studio BWA Wroclaw (PL)
2012
Survival Art Review 10 – Wroclaw (PL)
2012
OUT OF STH – Wroclaw (PL)
2011
Opening of ‘RE: generacja’ Gallery – Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw (PL)
2010
To Be Like the Chief Judge – Awangarda BWA Wroclaw (PL)
2010
Fresh Zone Competition – ArtBoom Visual Arts Festival, Cracow (PL)
2009
International Festival of Art Interactions – Piotrkow Trybunalski (PL)
2009
Vault-Project – SIC! Gallery, BWA Wrocław (PL)
2009
1st Art and Documentation Festival – Lodz (PL)
2008
Festival de Couture – Strasbourg (FR)
2008
Incubator – Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk (PL)
2008
9th International Performance Festival Anymous – Plzen (CZ)
2008
Survival Art Review 6 – Wroclaw (PL)
2008
29th Stage Song Review, OFF section – Wroclaw Contemporary Theatre (PL)
2008
Art After Hours – Young Artists Promotion Gallery, Lodz (PL)
2007
3rd Intuitive Art Festival Intuitiva – Firlej Art Activity Centre, Wroclaw (PL)
2007
Survival Art Review 5 – Wroclaw (PL)
2007
Masks, performance – Studio BWA Wroclaw (PL)
2007
International Festival of Art Interactions – Piotrkow Trybunalski (PL)
2007
Bil-Babel, happening – Bilbao (ES)
2006
Ocean, performance – Sopelana (ES)
2006
Survival Art Review 4 – Wroclaw (PL)
2006
1st LiteratRURY Festival ‘Freedniowka’ – Rura Jazz Club, Wroclaw (PL)
2006
‘Grand Canyon of Art. Landscape of the Mine’ festival – Belchatow Brown Coal Mine (PL)
2006
Port Wroclaw – Impart Art Centre, Wroclaw (PL)
2005
Survival Art Review 3 – Wroclaw (PL)
