Sylwia Galon

Sylwia Galon

Graduate of the Sculpture Faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (she got a diploma under supervision of professor Grzegorz Klaman). She deals in video filming, installations, multimedia activities, bioart and sometimes vj-ing. She lives in Gdańsk.

She also studied the master’s programme at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem, Netherlands, and inYach Paszkiewicz multimedia and videoclip school.
Sylwia took part in numerous exhibitions in Poland and abroad, e.g. “Fiction and fiction” in ISW Wyspa in 2009, “Scary Challange” in Tallinn, Estonia in 2009, “Stocznia – mapa nie pamięci”, ISW Wyspa in 2010, “Trwa Generowanie Pogdlądu” MS in Łódź in 2010, “Space the final frontier”, Shristi University in Bangalore, India in 2011, “Art&apparatus” in Ronneby in 2012, “Passengers” in Hanina Contemporary Art Gallery, Israel in 2012. She worked also as a cameraperson and editor for Sopot Dance Theatre, Akuku Sztuka, Regional Television and other institutions. She has attended Film Societies meetings ever since she remembers. An active member of the cultural life of Tricity.

  • “Attraction” Awarded for the Best Cinematography at the Two Riversides Film and Art Festival in Poland

  • Aleksandra Szczepaniak’s “Attraction” got Agatka Modrzejewska’s Award for the Best Cinematography in the International Short Film Competition of the Two Riversides Film and Art Festival, which took place in Kazimierz and Janowiec, Poland, between July 26th – August 3rd. The cinematographer – Ms Zuzanna Kernbach – was awarded by the Jury for “creating visual language equivalent to paradoxes of love: precise and wavering, airy and stuffy, sentimental and penetrating.”

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