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.

  • ”Señorita” in Competition of the Seattle Sisters Cities Short Film Festival

  • ”Señorita” – a short etude by Sebastian Szewczykowski – was presented in competition of the Seattle Sisters Cities Short Film Festival to take place on May 4th. Founded in 1956 by the US President Dwight D. Eisnehower the Sisters Cities International network includes, among others, Nantes in France, Gdynia in Poland, Christchurch in New Zealand, Bergen in Norway, Mombasa in Kenya, Be’er Sheva in Izrael, Sihanoukville in Cambodia, Tashkent in Uzbekistan, and Kaohsiung in Taiwan.

  • ”InstaLove” to Open 12th EU Short Film Festival in Ottawa!

  • Marcin Niemkiewicz’s ”InstaLove” will open the forthcoming 12th edition of the Ottawa EU Short Film Festival to take place between May 2nd-3rd. The twenty three festival short films will be later shown across Canada, including Montreal in late May.

  • “Fear” in the 65th Krakow Film Festival’s Polish Film Competition!

  • Robert Zawadzki’s “Fear” will have its world premiere in the Polish Film Competition of the Krakow Film Festival, which takes place between May 25th – June 1st. The film will be shown as one of ten short fiction films, among the selection of feature and short documentaries and animations.

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