Malgorzata Maria (Gosia) Olchowska

born in Bartoszyce

lives and works in Belgium (Antwerp/Gent).

‘As an architect, I am mostly focused on drawings, models, collages. As a printmaker, I am mostly focused on architecture: buildings, constructions, cities, scale, landscapes, development and growth. These two disciplines are continually crossing in my life. The starting point for my drawings are stories I come across when visiting places. My drawings are intended to describe them.’

Gosia obtained Master of Architecture diploma from TU Delft (NL) in 2007 and since then she was working as an architect at De Vylder Vinck Tailieu, Murmuur and Bovenbouw architectuur. Between 2009 and 2018 she studied printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gent. 

At this moment she is teaching at Ghent University, and Rotterdam Academy of Baukunst.

Between 2016 and 2022 – assistent at KU Leuven Campus Sint Lucas Ghent . 

Between 2017 and 2018- guest teacher at RISEBA, Riga.

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exhibitions and activities

April 2024 – Animation ‘I am not going to cry‘ screening at Tilburg Architecture Film Festival NL

8 October 2023 – Animation ‘I am not going to cry‘ screening at Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam. NL

20 September 2023 – Open Studio, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR

 05 July – 27 September – artist in residence at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR, with support of Government of Flanders

31 April – 24 April Waiting Rooms of Architecture, Red Star Line Museum, Antwerp, BE

11 / 09 / 2022 –  05 / 2023 CCHA Omkaderd.   curator VOET architecture / scenography York Bing Oh & Malgorzata Maria Olchowska / graphic design Jean-Michel Meyers / with the collaboration of Scale Collective & Laura Lievevrouw, CCHA Hasselt, BE

8 – 25 / 09 / 2022 – Emerging Practice. Black Church Print Studio 1982 – 2022, Dublin, IR

26 / 5 / 2022 – 10 / 9 / 2022 Optimism, group exposition, Liebling House, Tel Aviv

23 / 01 / 2022 – 04 / 2022 Modernism for the Future (MoFu 360/365), group exposition, Kaunas, LT

27 / 11 /  2021 – 17 / 04 / 2022  Open Oproep. 20 jaar architectuur in publieke opdracht.  Vlaams Architectuur Instituut, DeSingel, Antwerp, BE

 The exhibition is an initiative of the Vlaams Bouwmeester Team. It is a realization of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, UGent in collaboration with Team Vlaams Bouwmeester and the Flemish Architecture Institute.
Curators: Maarten Liefooghe and Maarten Van Den Driessche m.m.v. Pieter-Jan Cierkens

15 / 10  – 18 / 12 /  2021 – Intersections , double exposition with York Bing Oh,  Rooiplein, Antwerpen, BE , part of Dag van Architectuur 2021

06 / 2021 – 07 / 2021 – artist in residence in the context of Modernism for the Future program. Kaunas, LT

04 / 03 / – 18 / 04 / 2021  – Daisies by night. de Spil, Roeselare, BE (with: Steven Baelen, Wim Bouciqué, Johan De Wilde, Maaike Leyn, Malgorzata Maria Olchowska, Birde Vanheerswynghels) 

30 / 08 / 2020 – 11 / 10 / 2020  Open Oproep. 20 jaar architectuur in publieke opdrachtZ33 Hasselt    

05 – 06 / 2020 –  Residency at Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, BE

20 / 11 / 2019 – 20 / 12 / 2019  Open Oproep. 20 jaar architectuur in publieke opdrachtAtelier Bouwmeester, Brussel.              

20 September 2019 – 31 October 2019  Open Oproep. 20 jaar architectuur in publieke opdrachtVANDENHOVE Centrum voor Architectuur en Kunst, UGent

05 / 2019 – 10 / 2019 Our happy life group show at Canadian Centre for Architecture  (together with Bovenbouw Architectuur), Montréal, CA

03 / 2019 -06 / 2019 – Verdwenen stad, solo exposition at Flanders Architecture Institute, deSingel, Antwerp, BE

05 / 2019 – Cutting Edge, woodcut today group exposition, Old courthouse, Hasselt, BE

09 / 2018 – artist in residence, Black Church Print Studio, Dublin, IR

08 / 2018 –  Verknipt, group exposition, WARP, Sint Niklaas, BE

06 / 2018 – GRAFIEK group exposition, 019, Gent, BE

06 / 2018 – 08 / 2018- 250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

03 / 2018 – de hemel kleurt niet blauw vandaag,  exhibition with Marlies Goesaert, Printstudio 868, Ghent, BE

02 / 2018 – 04 / 2018 – URBNexpo, group exhibition, PointCulture Bruxelles, Charleroi, BE

11 / 2017 – 12 / 2017 – Mostly K but you know how it goes, group exhibition, Boothuis Brauhaus, Dessel, BE

08 / 2017 – 09 / 2017 –  Residency at Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, BE

02 / 2017 – 06 2017  – Prints from the day care Linkeroever as part of the exposition  Find myself a city to leave in showing the work of De Smet Vermuelen Architects, De Singel, Antwerp, BE

01 / 2016 – 02 / 2016 – Cambodia 2015: international architecture and design competition- exhibition of the selected projects.   London; UK

10 / 2015 – 11 / 2015- input output 2015, Brugge; BE

04 / 2018 – 08 / 2015
 – ‘A journey after all…’ solo exposition, Rode 7, Antwerpen; BE

04 / 2015 – Ondergronds: group exposition in Kunstplatform Zebrastraat Gent; 
BE

11 / 2014 – 12 / 2014 – Kunstwedstrijd grafiek in CC Zwaneberg ; BE

06 / 2012 – Print A-Hoi, group exposition, Gent; BE

05 / 2012 – Canvascollectie 2012, group exposition at Bozar, Brussels; BE

06 / 2012 – 07 / 2012  – Boothuis Brauhaus, group exposition, Turnhout- Gent; BE

10 / 2011 – input output 2011, group exposition, Brugge; BE

05 / 2011    –   Dexia Art 2011 /, group exposition, Brussels; BE

12 / 2010  –  Arnoevoo, group exposition, Bredene; BE

09 / 2010 – Noord Publiek – proposals for an undivided city /Amsterdam; NL

12 / 2009 –  Arnoevoo, group exposition, Bredene; BE

10 / 2009  – input output 2009, group exposition, Brugge; BE

Awards

Grant of Government of Flanders for the residency at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR

Project grant of Government of Flanders for the realisation of the exposition ‘Verdwenen stad’ in deSingel, 2019

2nd place: Jonge Architecten Prijs 2016, NL (together with York Bing); December 2016

nomination: Belgenmonument Amesfroort, NL(together with York Bing); October 2016

Laureat : Dexia Art 2011 / Brussels, May 2011

Laureat : Arnoevoo  Bredene, December 2010

Education

2009-2018  Printmaking, De Academie voor Beeldende Kunst, Gent

2005-2007 International Masters of Architecture, TU Delft, NL

2004- 2005 Masters Architecture and Urban Design/ Erasmus program, TU Lincoln, UK

2001- 2004 Architecture and Urban Design TU Wroclaw, Polen

Lectures and workshops

February 2024 – Lecture Drawings as an excuse to make architecture, University of Antwerp, BE

February 2024 – Lecture Architecture as an excuse to make drawings, Politecnico di Milano, IT

February 2023 – Double lecture with York Bing Oh, [W]INTERIEUR I, Thomas More, Mechelen, BE

November 2021 – Double lecture with York Bing Oh Thinking through making, University of Antwerp, BE

September 2021 – Lecture Construction during the symposium Thinking within Models, Graz, AU 

August 2021 – tutor FestivaL’and (Riseba Univerity Summer School), Valmiera, LV

March 2019 – Lecture Bevuste naiviteit, University of Gent, BE

March 2019 – Verdwenen stad, Vlaams Architectuur Institute, deSingel, Antwerp, BE

September 2018 – Lecture Drawing architecture, Black Church Print Studio, Dublin

July 2018 – tutor during the FestivaL’and (Riseba Univerity Summer School), Valmiera, LV

May 2017 – Tutor intra muros architectuur samen met Perneel Osten Architecten, Steinerschool, Gent

March 2017 – Lecture Passie voor grafiek, tijdens drukdrukdruk grafiekfestival, Academie Gent, BE

March 2016 – Lecture Drawing as a reiterative act, RISEBA, Riga, LV

October 2013 – Workshop Constructing a drawing, Academie van Bouwkunst, Rotterdam, NL

January 2012 – Lecture Drawing architecture, Universiteit Antwerpen, BE

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