Exhibitions
2026
2025
2023
Przenikanie - kontynuacja, Muzeum Stanisława Szukalskiego, group exhibition
gdynia, poland
Przenikanie, Teatr im. Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza in Zakopane, group exhibition
zakopane, poland
Open studio and exhibition of prints, Printmaking Barcelona, solo exhibition
Barcelona, spain
Toolip International Art Contest Finalists Exhibition, Toolip Art Gallery, group exhibition
Vienna, AUstria
XIX International competition of small graphic form and exlibris, group exhibition
Ostrów Wielkopolski , poland
13. Triennale małych form malarskich, Galeria sztuki Wozownia
Toruń, poland
Nieuchwytni, Galeria Pinakoteka, group exhibition
Gdańsk, poland
2018
Gruop exhibition at TIAC Group with Odd Nerdrum and Golucho
firenze, italy
Fruits of Summer, group exhibition at the Florence Academy of Art
firenze, italy
2016
Katowice Galeria Szyld, group exhibiton with Zbigniew Bajek
katowice, poland
BIO
Born on September 25, 1997 in Gdańsk, Poland. Between 2015-2017, she studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and Comparative Literature at the Jagiellonian University. She completed postgraduate studies in Symbolism in World Cultures at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków. She is a graduate of the Painting program at the Barcelona Academy of Art in Spain and the Drawing program at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy. She received her MFA degree in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She works primarily in oil painting and printmaking, with focus on intaglio techniques. She has participated in exhibitions in Poland and abroad, as well as took part in international art residencies (among others intaglio art residency in the Printmaking Studio Barcelona, Spain)
I KNOW OF NO GENIUS BUT THE GENIUS OF HARD WORK
W. Turner
at the end of the day we can endure much more then we think we can
F. Khalo
Without craftsmanship inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind
J. Brahms
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
Barbara Boetcher’s artistic practice is centered around the human figure, which she treats both as a tool in her attempt to understand the world and as a means of creating a dialogue with the viewer. Her work stems from a fascination with the tradition of the Old Masters and the craftsmanship inherent in artistic labor. Central to her approach is Johannes Brahms’ belief that ,,without craftsmanship, inspiration ice merely a reed shaken by the wind.” In her practice, the intersection of art and craft becomes a mode of thinking - a way of constructing meaning through form, light, color and the materiality of a painting. By combining a classical approach to technique with elements of contemporary aesthetics, she creates works situated between realism and metaphysical figuration. Drawing inspiration from direct observation, photography, film, and the expressive potential of the human body, she seeks to merge old painterly traditions with a contemporary visual language.
A recurring and essential motif in her practice is the gaze, understood as both an encounter and a confrontation. In this sense, the painted portrait ceases to be merely a record of physical appearance and becomes instead a carrier of elusive meaning and a space of tension between corporeality and transcendence. Her work is also characterized by the use of contrast, both visual and conceptual. Within her compositions she often juxtaposes opposites: light and shadow, sensuality and brutality, harmony and deformation, as well as classical beauty with elements of absurdity and theatricality.
She works primarily in oil painting, drawing, and printmaking, with a focus on intaglio techniques, where he repetition of motifs and the variability of prints becomes a method of investigating the relationship between form, color, and meaning.
