Indi - Izabella Pajonk

Visual artist, working in the fields of painting, photography, performance and intermedia. Author of the Indi ARTE Garden – Laboratory of Creativity, a project for art education and art therapy workshops. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (1995 diploma in the Painting Studio of prof. Włodzimierz Kunz). In 2011 she completed postgraduate studies in Artistic Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. In 2017, she completed postgraduate studies in Art Therapy under the supervision of prof. Wiesław Karolak at the University of Humanities and Economics in Łódź with honours, with a diploma project W Pieśni Wszechświata – Twórczy Trening Rozwoju Osobowości, realised in Italy. She studied therapeutic work with sound at Olga Szwajgier's Voice Laboratory. She has received two scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2002, 2004), Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. Between 1994 and 2020 she realised more than 30 solo exhibitions in Poland and Italy and participated in many group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Since 2013 she has collaborated with the literary and cultural quarterly 'eleWator', where she publishes short literary forms and photographs. Since 2006, she has collaborated with the Węgajty Theatre as part of the workshop activities of the Other Theatre School and the Needed Theatre. Projects carried out as part of the Theatre Village Festival: 2004 – Photo show Podróż na Wschód – Indie, Nepal, 2006 – Spatial installation Stock Exchange Satori – Digital Mandala – Mindfulness Meditation hommage Thomas Merton, 2007 – Pułapka na Wiatr pamięci Andrzeja Suryna – Intermedia/Performance, Teatr Węgajty & Festiwal Multigodki, 2008 – Strefa Śmierci – performance, Festival Dwa Ogrody & Teatr Węgajty, 2008 – W Rzece Heraklita – Intermedia/Performance, Teatr Węgajty & Festiwal Multigodki, 2018 – Healing Forest – Arte Workshop.