Biography

Maka Cielecka

Maka Cielecka has a master’s diploma in graphic design from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. She worked as a graphic artist in Canada and in the Netherlands. Her extensive travels, which started in mid-90s, led her to Tbilisi, Georgia, where she became interested in weaving. Between 2005 and 2017 it was her main medium. Since 2017 she does mainly oil pastels.

Today she lives and works Warsaw, Poland.

Exhibitions:

2023 – solo exhibition, oil pastels and oil paintings, Sienkiewiczowka, Oblęgorek, Poland.

2023 – solo exhibition, oil pastels, weavings i oil paintings, Museum – Tarnowski Castle in Tarnobrzeg, Poland.

2022 – solo exhibition, oil pastels, Cultural Center in Izabelin, Poland.

2022 – solo exhibition, oil pastels, Warsaw, Poland.

2021 – solo exhibition, oil pastels and weavings, Arts and Culture Centre, Siedlce, Poland. 

2019 – solo exhibition, oil pastels and weavings, Gallery Katarzyna Napiorkowska, Brussels, Belgium.

2018 – solo exhibition, weavings and oil pastels, Korczew Palace, Poland.

2017 – solo exhibition, weavings and oil pastels, Gallery Vanda, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2015 – solo exhibition, weavings and illustrations, Gallery Fibak, Warsaw, Poland.

2013 – group exhibition, Warsaw, Poland.