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.

  • “Mom Is Going Back” Awarded at the 23rd Uhvati Film Festival in Serbia and Croatia

  • Mikołaj Janik’s “Mom Is Going Back” got two awards at the 23rd Uhvati Film Festival: Grand Prix at the Novi Sad edition, and Second Prize for Documentary Film in Rijeka, Croatia. Organized in the region of Southern Europe (Novi Sad in Serbia, Rijeka in Croatia, and Kotor in Montenegro) in October and November, the festival features fiction and documentary films presenting themes of disability.

  • “Nothing Serious” and “Such a Perfect Day” in Competition of the 18th Amarcort Film Festival in Italy!

  • “Nothing Serious” by Kamil Czudej and “Such a Perfect Day” by Piotr Pluta will be presented in various competitive sections of the forthcoming 18th Amarcort Film Festival in Rimini, Federico Fellini’s birthplace. The festival held between November 25th – 30th, will show “Nothing Serious” in the Student Films category, while “Such a Perfect Day” – in the Titta category dedicated to films on parent-child relationship.

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