Born
1931, Poznań, Poland
Deceased
1999, Kraków, Poland
Education
1950 – 1956
Akademia Krakowska, Kraków, taught by Xawery Dunikowski
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
Soap Bubbles, Contemporary Art Gallery in Opole, Poland
The Penumbral Age. Art in the Time of Planetary Change, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
Female Reservoir, curated by Iwona Demko, The Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland
2019
Living Pink, The Approach Gallery, London, UK
2017
Trace of a Woman, BWA Gallery of Art, Olsztyn, Poland
The Performer, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2014
Maria Pinińska-Bereś i Jerzy Bereś, Monopol Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2013
Maria Pinińska-Bereś: Drawings, David Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2012
Imaginarium of Corporeality – Maria Pinińska-Bereś, State Gallery of Art, Sopot, Poland
2011
Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Galeria Piekary, Poznan, Poland
2007
Mobile-Immobile – Records of Maria Pinińska-Bereś’s Performances, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
2001
Maria Pinińska-Bereś 1931-1999, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, Poland
1999-2000
Maria Pinińska-Bereś 1931-1999, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art in Kraków;
Galeria Bielska BWA in Bielsko-Biała;
Arsenal Municipal Gallery in Poznań;
BWA Awangarda Gallery in Wrocław, all Poland
1997
Existentialium, Studio Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1996
Manhatten Gallery, Łodz, Poland
1993
Centre of Polish Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland
1992
Starmach Gallery, Kraków, Poland
BWA (Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions), Sandomierz, Poland
BWA (Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions), Pomeranian Dukes Castle, Szczecin, Poland
1991
BWA (Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions), Koszalin, Poland
1990
Krzysztofory Gallery, Krakow, Poland
1988
Krzysztofory Gallery, Krakow, Poland
Gallery 72, District Museum, Chełm, Poland
1982
Objects – Documentations – Installations, BWA (Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions), Lublin, Poland
1980
Rytm Gallery, Kraków, Poland
Krzysztofory Gallery, Kraków, Poland
1976
Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland
1973
Współczesna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
1970
Piwnia pod Baranami (The Cellar under the Rams), Kraków, Poland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Beyond Eden, Muzeum Ślaskie, Katowice, Poland
MAŁGORZATA MARKIEWICZ. A MAN’S WORLD NO MORE, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków, Poland
CLICK. Sexualisation of Food in Art, Arton Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2019
SHAPESHIFTERS – Sascha Braunig, Sandra Mujinga, Maria Pinińska-Bereś, The Approach Gallery, London, UK
11/944 from the Collection of Galeria Labirynt, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
Oversupply. On early environmental and land (post)artistic practices in Poland, Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole, Poland
2018
The Power of Nature. Henry Moore in Poland, Centre of
Polish Sculpture, Orońsko
2017
56 Artillery Lane, Raven Row Gallery, London, UK
Lady in the Mirror. Female Art Strategies in the 1970,
Galeria Piekary, Poznań
A-geometry. Hans Arp and Poland, National Museum in Poznań
2016
All Mounds Can Be Seen From My Window, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art
Modern and contemporary art from Poland, Museum
Jerke, Recklinghausen, Germany
20 – An Exhibition In Three Acts: Collection Revisited 1960–1982, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zürich, Switzerland
2015
The World Goes Pop, TATE Modern, London, UK
(Don’t) Touch! Haptic Aspects of Polish Art After 1945,
Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu” in Toruń
Gender in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
2011
Three Women. Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Natalia Lach- Lachowicz, Ewa Partum , “Zachęta” National Gallery of Art, Warszawa
2010
In the Circle of Master Xawery. Dunikowski and his Pupils, The Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, National Museum, Warszawa
Gender Check, Femininity and Masculinity in Art of Eastern Europe, MUMOK, Vienna
2009
Difference Beyond Difference, Słodownia, Stary Browar, Poznań, Poland
2008
Revolutions 1968, “Zachęta” National Gallery of Art, Warszawa, Poland
1998
Blask, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej Domu Krakowskiego, Nürnberg, Germany
Polish Culture Institute, Berlin, Germany
Chodzac po ziemi, Musée d’Historie Vivante, Montreuil, France
Perz-Rhizom, Galeria Pryzmat, Kraków, Poland
1997
Starmach Gallery
1996
Art in Poland: New Directions, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, USA
Salon malarstwa i rzeźby, Pałac Sztuki TPSP, Kraków, Poland
Impact, avant-garde cracovienne après 1945, Polish Institute in Paris
Kobieta o kobiecie, BWA, Bielsko-Biała, Poland
1995
VI Międzynarodowe Triennale Rysunku in Wrocław – Sztuka jako Myśl, Sztuka jako Energia, BWA ‘Awangarda’, Wrocław, Poland
Artyści polscy na festivalach międzynarodowych (Polish artists at international festivals) 1975-95, Muzeum Narodowe, Wrocław, Poland
Wystawa Grupy Krakowskiej, Galeria Krzysztofory, Wrocław, Poland
X Międzynarodowe Spotkania Krakowskie, BWA, Kraków, Poland
Poznańskie seminarium feministyczne. Pokazy artystyczne, Galeria Fractale, Poznań, Poland
1994
Hautevolée, Galerie Rähnitzgasse, Dresden, Germany
Ars Erotica, National Museum, Warszawa, Poland
Grupa Krakowska 1932-1994, Narodowa Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej Zachęta, Warszawa, Poland
Collections
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland
National Museum in Kraków, Poland
National Museum in Wrocław, Poland
National Museum in Poznań, Poland
MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
Museum of Art in Łódź, Poland
Silesian Museum in Katowice Zachęta — National Gallery Of Art Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Poland
Museum of the Chełm Land in Chełm Museum in Koszalin, Poland
Jacek Malczewski Museum in Radom Zamoyski Museum in Kozłówka, Poland
Labirynt Gallery in Lublin, Poland
Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art in Kraków BWA Gallery of Contemporary Art in Sandomierz Galeria Bielska BWA in Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Starmach Gallery, Poland
Museum Bochum – Kunstsammlung, Germany
Migros Museum of Contemporary Art (Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst) in Zürich, Switzerland
Muzeum Susch, Switzerland
Museum Jerke, Recklinghausen, Germany