Tania Kandracienka was born in 1980 and she lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. Tania is inspired by everyday experiences, maternal care, and art historical references.
Drawing on her academic training, Kandracienka demonstrates a refined technical mastery, expressed through dynamic, broad brushstrokes that seem to effortlessly flow across the canvas.
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"The dense air of summer is softened by cold autumn dew, as we gather a harvest of joyful memories from dawn to dusk, like swimming from buoy to shore and back again. My series When the Summer Lusted Forever looks back at my own formative years while also reflecting on the childhood of my children, who are now teenagers. Climbing trees, hanging on playground bars in the city park, collecting chance forest treasures—branches, beautiful stones—these are just some of the small tablets of exploration. Trees fill this series, where I blend close observations of this summer with recollections of earlier ones. The works also touch upon that fragile age when we longed to understand what it meant to grow up, yet could not fully grasp the consequences of that passage into adulthood. Young boys on the cusp of manhood—a time that feels particularly complicated for them. There are so many conflicting demands, so many mixed signals. Perhaps that is why red and blue recur throughout this series. Color helps anchor memory to a specific moment. Red—linked to energy, but also to the stop sign—becomes a symbol that grows more layered with experience, carrying both urgency and restraint. As with adolescence itself, what begins in simplicity deepens into nuance and complexity." Tania Kandracienka was born in 1980 and she lives and works in Warsaw, PolandKandracienka is a figurative painter who primarily depicts intimate and everyday subjects of private life. Her vivid, collage-like paintings based on photographs of her family members and friends are metaphorically connected with social concerns of our time.
Work of Tania is on display in Artistic Museum of Deruta (Italy) and private collections in Holland, Belarus, Poland, Germany and Italy. She has participated in several group expositions and solo expositions in Berlin, Minsk and Saatchi Gallery in London.
EDUCATION
2004 – graduated from Belarusian State Akademy of Arts, Minsk
2004-2007 – Postgraduate Studies at Art Theory and Art History, Belarussian State Academy of Art Phd in History of Art
2005-2020 – Assistant professor at Drawing Department, Belarussian State Academy of Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Spinario. Boy with Thorn, Lilia Zakirova Gallery , Heusden, Netherlands
2018
Human Resourse, A&V Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2015
Swimming lesson for girls, Mastactva Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2009
Identification, Museum of Modern Fine Arts, Minsk, Belarus
The Time Games, Werstattgalerie Gallery, Berlin, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
MIX 2025, KIRK Gallery, Danmark
Art Herning, KIRK Gallery, Danmark
2024
MIX 2024, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
2023
Christmas Show, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
At the Edge of Realism, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
Belarussian group exibition, Galerie De Twe Pauwen, Heusden, Holland
2022
Border Line, Gallerie 101 Project, Warsaw
2021
Please do not confuse, Navicula artis, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Osemetna Zalezitost, Galeria mesta Levoca, Slovakia
2020
Non-place, Galereya Art Belarus, Minsk
VLADEY Жыве Буларусь! Moskow, Russia
Faceless, KX Space, Brest, Belarus
2017
Man&Man, National Center of Modern Art, Minsk, Belarus
Start Art Fair 2017, Saatchi Gallery, London, Great Britain
2012
The Palace Complex, Gomel Palace, Belarus
EXIT-I, dedicated to German expressionistic movie, with the assistance of Goethe Institute in Minsk Municipal Museum, Zaslavl, Belarus
2011
Cento-De/fragmentation, the National Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2007
Pienkow Art Workshop, 8th International Plain-Air Painting Contest, Museum of the Academy of Arts, Poznan, Poland
2006
Post-tradition, The National Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
2003
FormAzione Concretta, International Exhibition of Experimental Ceramics, Deruta City Museum, Italy
2002
Zdarzenia, The International Festival of Theatre and Visual Arts, Tczew, Poland
2000
New Names, The National Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
