Tamara Berdowska

Tamara Berdowska was born in 1962 in Rzeszów. From 1985 to 1990 she studied at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She obtained her diploma with honours in the atelier of Prof. Janina Kraupe - Świderska in 1990.

Tamara Berdowska's paintings occupy a special place in Polish contemporary art due to their rootedness in the language of geometric abstraction, which is the result of the meditative character of the creative process.

Tamara Berdowska is one of the most original representatives of geometric abstraction not only in Poland, but also in an international perspective. Like for some of the pioneers of abstraction, for her the image was meant to be a way of breaking away from individually and empirically lived experience, of discovering invisible but existing principles. The concepts that arise in the imagination, devoid of any reference to sensory reality, are realised in cycles, elaborated in many resulting variations. One image gives birth to another, until a sense of fulfilment of the idea emerges and the need to move on to the next stage begins to parent. The work evolves not within the framework of a created system, but according to the development of the artist herself, for whom it is important to sense the vividness and authenticity of her own creation.

Agnieszka Tes