about me

Dorota Viktoria Łacek Gorczyca was born in 03.03.1965 in Lublin.

Her works are available in the collection of National Museum in Cracow. She has contributed to 9 spectacles/ theatrical preformances, including 4 directed entirely on her own. Among her accomplishments are numerous permanent exhibitions of painting and sculpture. She also participated in creation of stage design to more than 30 realizations of various commercials and feature films.

1986 – 1991 Dorota Łacek Gorczyca graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, and she achieved Diploma in Faculty of Graphic Arts under direction of prof. Andrzej Pietsch. She graduated from Graphic and Interior Design on PLSP in Lublin. She accomplished studies in: drawing, painting, sculpture, design of advertisement, lettering, book, analog photography, advertising photography, screen printing, lithography, intaglio (printmaking) and woodcut.

She has contributed to establishing “Theatre of Situation” in Cracow.

Art Experience 1984 – 2021

Exhibitions of painting and sculpture: participation in 58, including 24 individual exhibitions

2023
Open studio, ul. Zwycięzów, Saska Kępa, Warsaw, Poland

2021
Art procession at the Art Sułek Space Gallery, exhibition of graphics, Koneser Praga Center, Warsaw, Poland

2019
SENSUS, exhibition of paintings, Koneser Praga Center, Warsaw, Poland

2018
The Night of Museums, In tractum III, atelier 3, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland

2017
Engrossed Trail – Benches with Imagination, Bench of a Fulfilled Creator – Andrzej Wajda (2017-2023 project continued), Poland

2016
Night of Museums, In tractum II, atelier 3, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland

2015
Night of Museums, In tractum, atelier 3, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland

2014
Night of Museums, PUTIN’S WINDOW, atelier 3, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland

2013
In search of harmony, exhibition of Polish contemporary art, Palace in Boglewice, Poland

2013
1st Epifania Summer Art Salon, Delfina’s Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Night of Museums, SENSUS, atelier 3, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland
Action QR_CODE, WWW.N (Common Imagination of Warsaw Modernity), Warsaw, Poland

2012
Friends Delfinie, atelier 3, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland
Leader in frames, Mind Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
XI INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION, BWA Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland
Night of Museums, DECENTRISM – SUSURRUS SERAPHIN/SENSUS, atelier 3, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland

2011
Warsaw Art Festival, Mazowiecka DAP Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
DECENTRISM – SUSURRUS SERAPHIN/SENSUS, Lufcik Gallery, Artists’ House, Warsaw, Poland
Night of Museums, DECENTRUM IN TRACTUM, atelier 3, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland

2010
Night of Museums, DECENTRUM IN TRACTUM, atelier 3, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland
MEET THE CHANGES II, POLISH ART SHOWROOM, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland
MEET THE CHANGES II, – POLISH ART EXHIBITION, Poznań International Fair, Poland

2009
Post-open air exhibition – the palace in Boglewice, Poland
Night of Museums, DECENTRUM IN TRACTUM, atelier 3, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland
DECENTRISM – 1 METER OUT OF THE PICTURE, Gallery at the station, Vilnius, Lithuania

2008
MEET THE CHANGES, POLISH ART SHOWROOM, Poznań International Fair, Poland
DECENTRISM 2008, Museum of Kalisz Land, Kalisz, Poland

INTERNATIONAL AUTUMN ART EXHIBITION, BWA Gallery, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland
DECENTRISM 2008, BWA Gallery, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland
Night of Museums, DECENTRYZM IN TRACTUM, atelier 3, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland
DECENTRISME SHOWROOM, Galerie im Hofgut, Reinheim
DECENTRUM IN TRACTUM 2, Delfina’s Gallery, ul. Smulikowski, Warsaw, Poland
DECENTRUM IN TRACTUM, atelier 3, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland

2007
DECENTRISM – A HIDDEN DIMENSION, Museum of Kalisz Land, Kalisz, Poland
Night of Museums, MIĘDZYKADRY, atelier 3, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland

2006
A STEP TOWARDS DECENTRISM, Galeria do three times, ul. Marszałkowska, Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw Art Festival, Lubelska 30/32, Warsaw, Poland

2005
OUT OF THE PROGRAM, Artists’ Club, ZPAP Mazowiecka, Warsaw, Poland

2000
LET’S TALK ABOUT LOVE, Tygmont Club, Mazowiecka, Warsaw, Poland

1999
FILL ME WITH COLOR, Klub Pod Jaszczurami, Cracow, Poland

1997
CALENDAR OF EVENTS, Galeria Miejskie Galleries, ul. Piotrkowska, Lodz, Poland
Katowice, CALENDAR OF EVENTS, Galeria Przy Kinie, Katowice, Poland

1996
CALENDAR OF EVENTS, KFM Gallery, Museum of the City of Krakow, Mały Rynek, Cracow, Poland
CALENDAR OF EVENTS, Galeria ZAR, ul. Bracka, Cracow, Poland

1991
CALENDAR OF EVENTS, International Festival of Contemporary Art, Lile, France
CALENDAR OF EVENTS, Situation Theater Gallery, Rynek Główny 8, Cracow, Poland

1990
Untitled – Situation Theater Gallery, Rynek Główny 8, Cracow, Poland

1989
Untitled, Situation Theater Gallery, Rynek Główny 8, Cracow, Poland

1987
RELIGIOUS INSPIRATIONS IN ART, Rotunda Club, Cracow, Poland

1984
Untitled (alias Viktor Baziński) – LDK Gallery, Lublin, Poland

Author’s performances:
2002
Let’s talk about love, to sonnets by W. Shakespeare, Warsaw, Poland
Elements – Water, Air, Earth and Fire, Warsaw, Poland

2000
And as a king, and as an executioner, to the novel by T. Nowak, Katowice, Poland

1999
Fill me with color, Kraków, performance/spectacle + film for TVP2 Kraków – Klub Pod Jaszczurami, Poland

Teatr Situacji / co-founder:
Shadow Empire, Cracow, 1991
The Rite of Changes, Cracow, 1990
Dutch Performance, Den Helder, Netherlands, 1989
Ulysses, Cracow, 1989
The Fall of Icarus, Cracow, 1989

Permanent exhibitions and interior design:
Julianadorp, Netherlands, graphics in the collection of Galerie Kunst Ligha (since 1989)
Cracow, pastels in the collection of the National Museum (since 1997)
Cracow, Fill me with color, Klub Pod Jaszczurami, wall painting (since 1999)
Poznań, Between Hell and Heaven, Angelo Club, sculpture (since 1999)
Warsaw, Chariot – Angels – Elements, Philosophy Club, sculpture (since 2002)
Warsaw, Kamasutra, Adria Club, painting (since 2002)
Karczew, Portrait of a Woman in Art, Symetria Club, wall painting (since 2004)
Góraszka, Indian Furniture
Numerous projects for individual clients

Major exhibitions:
1993 – 1996 – Running the G&G Gallery of Polish Contemporary Art in Cracow.
Works by, among others, Beksiński, Duda-Gracz, Starowieyski, Kantor, Dobkowski, Pągowska, Tomaszewski, Stern, Kucz, Gierowski, Majewski, Stasys Eidregavicius, Saudek (organization of the first exhibition of this artist in Poland) were exhibited in the gallery.
1987 – 1991 – Co-founder of the Situation Theater and the Situation Theater Gallery, Pod Jaszczurami, Main Market Square in Cracow