Justyna Grzebieniowska studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń, got her diploma with honours at the study of Prof. Jan Pręgowski in 2000. Since 2004 she’s been working as an assistant lecturer in the Painting Unit of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Toruń.

I wanted to devote the new cycle to the great creators of new worlds: Bergman, Kieślowski, Fellini, Saura etc.
From their movies I choose those frames that fit my life in a given moment, I must be moved by them, enchanted.
Painting is a kind of dialogue, it’s like connecting spiritually to the creator (director) and becoming the character created earlier by the director: it’s me who becomes the Véronique of The Double Life of Véronique; Ada from The Piano; the lonely clown Chaplin, having read his autobiography; Sayuri the geisha etc. It’s like putting on masks of various characters, where it’s no longer me, but my face hidden inside the mask becomes a new person, like in the Noh theatre.