Born Swietochlowice, Poland. Studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Since then, is making sculptures and other artworks, and participating in expositions. For ten years taught in the Silesian University in Katowice. Since 1990 lives and works in Mexico City. Now teaches in the Monastery of Sor Juana University and Iberoamericana University. Involved in the political changes, watching rising necessity of renewal of the ethical status of life – sculptures, drawings or pictures, Jolanta made in Poland, were concerned about the moral basis of the human life. She found the human being between sacred and profane, good and evil, guilt and innocence, life and death. She asked how he or she can keep his or her, integrity. Fund the solution in the responsibility of the human being. This one, which is able to respond to God: “I am here”. Yet in Mexico, she worked asking about Abraham on the Moriah Mountain. Then, about Cain in the Land of Nod. Both established their ethics confronting God. This confrontation which begins when the man recognizes: “I am here”, leads to his moral autonomy. Also, to the conscience of our presence. Recently, Jolanta is working on the subject of the body which is involved in our moral and physical autonomy. Nowadays, when the virtual world on the screens of computers or others mediums, stands for real, the question about the presence of the human being becomes new again. And is necessary and urgent to ask, because of stress, which results of the idea of our body like a cripple machine what teaches us the virtual experience. Sculptures of Jolanta Klyszcz with their huge bodies give the evidence of tragedy which follows the fragility of our lives. Shows up the real dimensions of human being, both, physical and moral, and indicates that tragedy takes action in the mutual penetration of these two aspects of us. First, Jolanta refers to the Greek classic tragedy, later concerned the tragedy like a common human condition. SOLO EXHIBITION 2003 The essential is invisible to the eyes (Lo esencial es invisible para los ojos), Colegio de Bachilleres, México,City 2002 The essential is invisible to the eyes (Lo esencial es invisible para los ojos), Iberoamericana University, Santa Fe, México City   The esencial is invisible to the eyes (Lo esencial es invisible para los ojos), Iberoamericana University, Puebla, Puebla 2001 'Still life' , MUCA Roma, Mexico City 1999 The tragedy will not return. The eye – witness (No volvera la tragedia. El testigo ocular), Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City 1998 Sculpture by Jolanta Klyszcz (Rzezby Jolanta Klyszcz), City Museum, Raciborz 1997 The Land of Nod (La Tierra de Nod), Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City 1992 Moriah Montain. The Thing (La Montaña Moriah. Cosas), Casa del Lago, Mexico City 1991 Painting and the small magic objects (Malarstwo i male przedmioty magiczne), Galeria 6, Gliwice 1989 Painting and the small magic objects (Malarstwo I male przedmioty magiczne), Diocesan Museum, Katowice 1988 About death (O smierci), Dziekanka Gallery, Warsaw   About death (O smierci), Theatre St.I.Witkacy, Zakopane 1987 About death (O smierci), Diocesan Museum, Katowice 1978 The Guilty Earth (Ziemia Winna), Repassage Gallery, Warsaw GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2004 The illustratons: professional nomads (Los ilustradores: nomadas del oficio), Casa del Libro, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico   Illustration: the different reading (La ilustración: la otra lectura), Galería del Sur, UAM, Mexico City , Mexico 2003 Illustration: the different reading, (La ilustración: la otra lectura), Casa del Libro, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico 2002 What can it see, the dead man´s glossy eye (Co widzi trupa wyszklona zrenica) Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland   Collective Show, Nina Menocal Gallery at the First International Congress of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico 2001 Ninart + Dimo, the artists of Nina Menocal Gallery and Mueblerías Dimo, Mexico City , Mexico 2000 In the same house (Bajo el mismo techo), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City   'Still Life' - supplementary exhibition, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico 1998 'Collective show', (artists of Nina Menocal Gallery), Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico   'Art Chicago 1998', Nina Menocal Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, USA   'VII International Contemporary Art Fair', Nina Menocal Gallery, Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico 1997 'Art Chicago 1997', Nina Menocal Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, USA   'VI International Contemporary Art Fair', 'Art in Otro, Special Project', Nina Menocal Gallery, Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico   Poland in Mexico (Polonia en México), Club Aleman, Mexico City, Mexico 1991 'Art Jonctions 91', Nice, France 1990 The Black Hole (Czarna Dziura), Katowice, Poland 1989 Community 2 (Wspolnota 2), Katowice, Poland   The Treinnal of Cracow of Religious Sculpture, (Krakowskie Triennale Rzezby Religijnej), Krakow, Poland   Contemporary Art Fair ( Targi Sztuki Wspolczesnej ), Bytom, Poland 1988 Sculpture in the garden (Rzezba w ogrodzie ), Warsaw, Poland 1987 Drawing of Sculptors (Rysunek Rzezbiarzy ), Oronsko, Poland   Trawelling Show: Cracow, Gdynia, Elblag and Bialystok, Poland   Community (Wspolnota), Katowice, Poland 1985 Religious Art Show (Wystawa Sztuki Religijnej ), Katowice, Poland   Professor Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz student´s circle (W kregu pracowni profesora Jerzego Jarnuszkiewicza'), Warsaw, Poland 1981 II Drawing Triennal ( II Triennale Rysunku), Wroclaw, Poland   Artist´s Alliance of District of Katowice Show (Wystawa Okregu Katowickiego ZPAP), Katowice, Poland   Presentation of the Art of Youth (Prezentacje Sztuki Mlodych ), Katowice, Poland   Creative Attitudes (Postawy Tworcze), Katowice, Poland 1980 Jan Kochanowski and his epoch (Jan Kochanowski i Jego epoka), Radom, Poland   Ttrawelling Show: Berlin, Lipsk, Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna     all images and content Copyright (©) 2005 by Jolanta Kłyscsz   HOME