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.

  • Special Presentation of the Gdynia Film School’s films in Los Angeles

  • Kamil Czudej’s “Nothing Serious”, Aleksandra Szczepaniak’s “Attraction”, Piotr Pluta’s “Such a Perfect Day”, Marcin Niemkiewicz’s “love_proxy”, and Lulu Pomorova’s doc “Olga” will be featured at the special presentation of short films from the Gdynia Film School in the program of 26th edition of the Los Angeles Polish Film Festival. The festival’s screenings will take place in the Laemmle Town Center between November 20th – 23rd. Two GSF’s films: “Nothing Serious” by Kamil Czudej and “Attraction” by Aleksandra Szczepaniak have been also Nominated for the festival’s Hollywood Eagle Award in the short film category.

  • “Olga” Among the Winners of the Spektrum Film Festival

  • Lulu Pomorova’s “Olga” got the Documentary Prize “Kinematografek”at the 11th Spektrum FF, which took place in Polish Świdnica and Czechia Trutnov between October 21st – 26th. Spektrum FF featured 49 internationally made films by young directors in three competitive sections for fiction, documentary, and animation.

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