Matylda Tracewska

Matylda Tracewska (1978)

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Graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Warsaw (2005). Fascinated by mosaic, she continued her studies at the Faculty of Mosaic of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Ravenna (diploma 2009). For her diploma exhibition Trompe l’oeil at the Museo Carlo Zauli in Faenza, she received the special prize of the trade magazine Solo Mosaico in the form of an eight-month artist residency in Saint Petersburg. After returning from Russia, she spent nine months in Oman, where she created large-scale works from the Tree of Life series for the Al-Ameen Mosque in Muscat. After the contract ended, she returned to Poland. Since 2017 she has worked at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw: in 2017–2020 at the Studio of Technology and Techniques of Wall Painting at the Faculty of Painting, and since 2020 at the Drawing Studio.

At the same time, she continuously took part in international exhibitions. Her works have been shown in Italy, France (Paray-le-Monial, Paris), Japan (Kyoto, Tokyo, Tajimi), Russia (Saint Petersburg, Moscow), Great Britain (London), Turkey (Topkapi Palace in Istanbul), and other countries. In 2017, her solo exhibition Transizione took place at the National Museum in Ravenna; in the same year, she won the GAEM Young Artists and Mosaics prize in the experimental mosaic category. A year later came her next solo exhibition, In-Between / Entre-Deux, at the Chapelle Saint-Éman in Chartres, France. In 2019, she exhibited again in Ravenna; as part of the solo exhibition Pierre de rêve, she presented her “image-stones” for the first time.

Since 2019, she has led her own international workshops in which she shares her creative method. In 2022, she made her debut as a curator: in collaboration with Italian curator Giovanni Gardini, she organized the exhibition Miszmasz, devoted to artistic practices at the intersection of mosaic and contemporary art. In 2025, she received her doctorate from her alma mater. She lives and works in Warsaw.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2025 Uno dei mondi. Pietre sensibili e omologie inattese, MAR Museo d’Arte della Città, Ravenna (IT)
• 2024 Anima Mundi, doctoral exhibition, Hermitage, Łazienki Park, Warsaw (PL)
• 2019 Pierre de rêve, curator: Arkadiusz Karapuda, NiArt Gallery, Ravenna (IT)
• 2018 In-Between, curators: M comme Mosaïque and Luca Maggio, Chapelle Saint-Éman, Chartres (FR)
• 2018 Art in Act, curators: Linda Kniffitz and Daniele Torcellini, Villa Paris, Roseto degli Abruzzi (IT)
• 2017 Transizione, curators: Roberta Bertozzi and Daniele Torcellini, National Museum, Ravenna (IT)
• 2015 Black Square, curator: Anna Mapolis, in collaboration with the Polish Institute, Varshavka Gallery, Moscow (RU)
• 2011 Black Square, curator: Anna Mapolis, Anna Akhmatova Museum, Saint Petersburg (RU)
• 2010 Unfinished Dream, curator: Aniko Ferreira da Silva, Atelier 15, Ravenna (IT)
• 2009 Trompe l’oeil, curators: Fulvio Chimenti and Antonella Malaguti, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza (IT)
• 2007 Hide Park, Ateneum Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
• 2005 Et in Arcadia Ego, Lokalna, Warsaw (PL)

MAIN GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2022 De-materialité, curator: Luigi La Ferla, Gallery 59 Rue de Rivoli, Paris (FR)
• 2022 Lato sensu, curators: Sabina Ghinassi, Eleonora Savorelli, Paolo Trioschi, Manica Lunga della Classense, Ravenna (IT)
• 2022 Miszmasz, curators: Giovanni Gardini and Matylda Tracewska, Santa Maria dell’Angelo / Galleria della Milinella, Faenza (IT)
• 2020 E uscimmo a riveder le stelle, curator: Felice Nittolo, niArt Gallery / Ospedale Santa Maria delle Croci, Ravenna (IT)
• 2020 Postcard from Home, online exhibition, Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
• 2019 Mosaic Exhibition, curator: Mosaic Art Association in Japan, Orie Art Gallery, Tokyo; Mosaic Tile Museum, Tajimi (JP)
• 2019 DEDA Project, Capta Lux, Ravenna (IT)
• 2019 What Do You Work On?, curator: Katarzyna Kasia, Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
• 2018 Mosaico e scultura, curators: Mohamed Banawy and Gihane Zaki, Accademia d’Egitto, Rome (IT)
• 2018 Wall Without a Wall, curator: Sylwester Piędziejewski, DAP Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
• 2017 Amori miei, curator: Luca Maggio, Laboratorio Emme Di, Ravenna (IT)
• 2017 Mosaïque Actuelle, curators: Les Sept Mosaïstes, Galerie l'Antre Temps, Rennes (FR)
• 2016 Tsu-na-gu, curator: Mayoumi Tonomura, Shimadai Gallery, Kyoto (JP)
• 2015 GAEM, curators: Linda Kniffitz and Daniele Torcellini, Museo d'Arte della Città, Ravenna (IT)
• 2015 Quelqu'un, curators: M comme Mosaïque, Tour Saint Nicolas, Paray-le-Monial (FR)
• 2014 Eccentrico Musivo, curators: Linda Kniffitz and Daniele Torcellini, Museo d'Arte della Città, Ravenna (IT)
• 2014 Blanc/Noir, curators: Pascal Beauchamp and M comme Mosaïque, Tour Saint Nicolas, Paray-le-Monial (FR)
• 2014 Dialogues, curator: Maria Rita Bentini, Topkapi Palace, Istanbul (TR)
• 2013 Divenire Mosaico, Palazzo Rasponi, Ravenna (IT)
• 2012 I Long for You, curator: Luca Maggio, Musivum Gallery, ArtPlay, Moscow (RU)
• 2012 Bibliomosaico, curator: Rosetta Berardi, Chapelle Saint-Éman, Chartres (FR)
• 2011 O(Ax)=O(Am) Equazione Impossibile, curators: Associazione Marte, Galletti Abbiosi, Ravenna (IT)
• 2011 Reliquarium, Biennale of Contemporary Art in Moscow, curator: Juri Awakumow, Musivum Gallery, ArtPlay (RU)
• 2011 AfterAfter, curators: Luca Maggio, Daniele Torcellini, Felice Nittolo, NiArt Gallery, Ravenna (IT)
• 2008 Festival della creativität, curator: Matteo Chini, Fortezza da Basso, Florence (IT)