Statement
Gabriela Jolowicz captures fleeting sceneries of everyday life in one of the oldest and most traditional visual media, the woodcut.
Next to almost still life images with laptop or Ipod you will find dense genre-like scenes of metropolitan life often set in interiors such as music clubs or pool bars. The environment the artist lives in and the situations she experiences are captured in the two-dimensional woodcut within the confinements of the black and white technique. Jolowicz freezes an already fading afterimage of reality in a disjointed and kaleidoscopic manner.
Nevertheless the mode of depiction appears to be realistic on first impression. On second glimpse the sobriety of the sceneries is broken up through the scattered picture references and unique compositions. Great richness of detail and a pronounced variety of structures bring about a confusing and irritating simultaneity of forms. The structures, executed in either acutely delicate or crude cuts, are heightened in a playful employment of proportions and through perspective distortion, readable as decorative graphic patterns or elements suggestive of three-dimensional depth. In this context, Herbert Eichhorn (Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen) alludes to "a veritable horror vacui and a desire to break open the wooden surface" and refers to the artist's deliberate quotation of printmaking history.

Education
1995/6 St.Edward’s School, Oxford (UK)
1998 Abitur at the Gymnasium Salzgitter-Bad
1999 Guest Student at the University of Art Braunschweig
2000 Studies at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim
2002 Studies at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, with Prof Volker Pfueller and Prof Thomas M. Mueller
2007 Diploma at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2007–10 Postgraduate Studies at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig

Awards
2014 Honourable Mention, XVII th German International Exhibition of Graphic Art,
Kunstverein Frechen (D)
2012 1.Place, International Art Award for Woodcut, “Holzschnitt Heute” of the Stiftung
fuer Kunst, Kultur und Bildung, Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg (D)
2007–09 Scholarship of the Schuler-Stiftung Wuppertal (D)

Teaching
2015 Large Scale Woodcut Workshop for the Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, Edmonton (CA)
2014 Illustration Workshop for Wildflowers, Turin (I)
2009–10 Evening Academy at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig

Solo Exhibitions
2015 Present Density, Artist Proof Gallery, Alberta Printmakers, Calgary (CA)
Disorganiser, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig (D)
Present Density, Main Gallery, Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, Edmonton, AB (CA)
temporary #2: Gabriela Jolowicz, Emmanuel Post contemporary art, Berlin (D)
2014 Wildflowers, Turin (I)
2013 Wildflowers, Atelier Giorgi, Turin (I)
2012 The Monkey on My Back, Gallery Emmanuel Post, Berlin (D)
2010 Now Playing, Gallery Hafenrand, Hamburg (D)
Now Playing, Gallery Emmanuel Post, Leipzig (D)
2008 Megabillig, Fifi, Leipzig (D)

Selected Group Shows
2015 Pentomino, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig (D)
Exhibition Of 8th International Graphics Workshop, Center For Graphic Art And Visual Researches,
Akademija, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade (SRB)?catalogue
Vertraute Gesellschaft, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig (D)
Somewheres & Nowheres (IPCNY touring), Concourse Gallery, Uni. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (USA)

2014 Somewheres & Nowheres: New Prints 2014/Autumn, International Print Center New York (USA)
New Prints 2013/2014 Benefit Exhibition, International Print Center New York (USA)
XVIIth German International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Frechen (D)?catalogue
Zitieren, variieren, modifizieren, 28.Kunstpreis der KSK Esslingen, Nürtingen (D)
Einszueins, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig (D)?catalogue

2013 Lubok, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo del Teatro Isauro Martínez, Torreón, Coahuila (MEX)
Nordwestkunst, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven?catalogue
Das Wandern der Schatten, w Moki + Emma Akerman, Gallery Feinkunst Krueger, Hamburg (D)
All Star Cast, Gallery Baer, Dresden (D)
Sol Niger, w Lou Hoyer + Steingrimur Eyfjord, Gallery Christian Ehrentraut (D)
Lubok, Museo de la Estampa del Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, Toluca (MEX)
New Prints / New Narratives, International Print Center New York (USA)
Lubok, Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia, Michoacan (MEX)