Collection

Works from the My Drawings Are a Kind of Diary series are the aftermath of Anna Okrasko’s exhibition Women Painters: Wives for Men Painters shown in 2003 in the hallways of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Walls painted pink featured stencilled inscriptions, such as “Female artists don’t have pretty manicured hands. Painting department girls are dirty.” In a series of drawings on paper, Okrasko offers an ironic commentary on feminine tropes in art while exploring themes of intimacy as an area of inspiration for female artists of the second half of the 20th century, such as Tracey Emin or Sophie Calle.

Painter, sculptor, creator of installations and artistic actions. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in Prof. Leon Tarasewicz’s studio, and at the Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. Her 2004 final diploma cycle My Professor Paints Stripes and I Paint Dots Because It’s More Girly is an explicit declaration of her artistic interests. She explores private, feminist, and social themes, as well as tropes of artwork production and the art market. She frequently uses text, simple form, and intense colour. She lives and works in Berlin.