Weronika Surma

Culture of Mobility

Year of birth: 1987 Field: Ceramics City: Daugavpils, Latvia

Graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where she defended her diploma with distinction (2013). In 2018 she completed Interdepartmental Doctoral Studies at the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass of the E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, where artist currently works as an assistant to Prof. J. Teper in the Studio of Ceramic Technologies and Techniques in Painting and Sculpture.  She also runs her own ceramic studio in the Agora Cultural Centre in Wroclaw. She did an internship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic (2012), at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vilnius, Lithuania (2016) and at the Kay Aplin Ceramic Studio in Brighton, England (2017). She graduated from the A. Kenar High School of Fine Arts in Zakopane. Winner of the Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2015) and several distinctions during international exhibitions e.g. Ex Tempore in Zagreb, Croatia or Together 2015 in Riga, Latvia. She takes part in numerous group exhibitions (both national and international), international plein-airs, symposia and artistic residencies. Curator of competitions, art and design exhibitions and the 12th and 13th editions of the High Temperature Festival. Mainly deals with artistic ceramics, where on the surface of ceramic painting combines drawing, sculpture, graphics and painting into a coherent whole.

Wrocław based ceramicist, as part of the Culture of Mobility programme, she will participate in the 9th edition of the International Ceramic Symposium Ceramic Laboratory 2021, as part of the 3rd Latvian Ceramics Biennale, in Dyneburg, Latvia, at the contemporary art centre - Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre. The event will take place from 9 to 24 July 2021. It is one of the most important contemporary ceramics symposia organised in Europe and the most renowned event of its kind in the region, which promotes selected artists from around the world. The overarching aim of the symposium is to experiment and create unique contemporary ceramic works and to exchange experiences between participants. In addition, the organisers provide the organisation of two exhibitions, the acceptance of three objects into the Mark Rothko Art Center's collection and presentations by participants during scheduled lectures.