Paulina Maksjan

PAULINA MAKSJAN (born in 1982)
She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk under the guidance of prof. Maciej Świeszewski at the Faculty of Painting and prof. Maria Targońska at the Faculty of Drawing. She specialized also in stage design and illustration. She designs costumes and props for theater and opera. She is engaged in cultural animation as well. Her paintings were exhibited in many solo and collective exhibitions. In 2007 she represented Poland at the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranean Countries in Bari in Italy. In the same year she received an award in the student competition „FAMA” in Gdynia for her performance “Zapis Tańca (Dance Record)”.