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Douro Flying Carpet
Douro Flying Carpet
Douro Flying Carpet
Douro Flying Carpet
The Portal
The Fregrence
Dethronement
Red On Green
Greener Grass (The What)
Freedom
LP | Other People
Electrically Charged Geese
LP | Lost On You
The Audience
The Swan
The Fountain
Talha Dourada (São Pedro Church)
Vanitas
Amarante1950
Amarante 2022
Sozinho
WILD FLOWERS | drawing
Adega | LOCALITY
AMARANTE | drawing no.3
Local shop | LOCALITY
AMARANTE | drawing no.4
The Father | LOCALITY
Moth to a Flame | VANITAS
Portrait commission
Wasps in Thistles | VANITAS
Fragment of painting
Wildlife | BIZAARE PAINTINGS
Exhibition at Rua Miguel Bombarda, Porto Art District.
Sweet Death | VANITAS
Hexahedron, Serra de Aboboreira | BIZAARE PAINTINGS
A Lobita | BIZAARE PAINTINGS
Portrait commission
Matylda | VANITAS
Tornado | BIZAARE PAINTINGS
Moth | UGLY NATURE
Mariposa | BIZAARE PAINTINGS
Exhibition at Rua Miguel Bombarda, Porto Art District.
Macaco Esquilo | BIZAARE PAINTINGS
Macaco Esquilo | BIZAARE PAINTINGS
Exhibition at Rua Miguel Bombarda, Porto Art Distict
Morcego | BIZAARE PAINTINGS
Moth | UGLY NATURE
Moth | UGLY NATURE
AMARANTE | drawin no.2
The others | VANITAS
Moth | UGLY NATURE
Moth | UGLY NATURE
AMARANTE | drawing no.1

About Zuzanna Olowska Hope
Gallery curator & artist

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Zuzanna Olowska Hope was born in Gdansk, Poland, 1983, into an intensely artistic family. With the names such as Paulina Olowska and Krystyna Suchwallo. She studied art and interior design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland (2007 - 2011). 

Zuzanna works mainly with traditional oil painting or drawing, but also photography and design, for clients and galleries in Portugal, Poland, Spain, Germany, England, United Arab Emirates and USA.

She worked as a mural painter, interior and graphic designer and an art consultant in Shoreditch, London (2012 - 2015) before establishing an alternative art gallery called Division Zero in Porto, where together with an art collective of local artists she exhibited her works and curated other artists (2016 - 2018).

Working alongside the Faculdade de Belas Artes at the University of Porto, Zuzanna hosted an art retreat based around her farm near Amarante, with a final exhibition at Lugar de Desenho, Fundação Júlio Resende, Porto (2018).

 

​At 28th of May 2022, Zuzanna Olowska Hope opened the MUSO Art Gallery in Amarante with her focus on promoting international artists, whose works cover a variety of mediums. MUSO gallery also intends to create bridges between the different forms of arts: visual, poetry, music, among others.

As a curator of the MUSO Art Gallery in Amarante, Zuzanna Olowska Hope, with support from Amadeo de Sousa-Cardoso Museum in Amarante and Faculdade de Belas Artes at the University of Porto, created an international art competition MUSE, Homage to the poet Teixeira de Pascoaes. With a final exhibition at the Amadeo de Sousa- Cardoso Museum and an exhibition catalogue with poems of Teixeria de Pascoaes translated for the first time to English language (2022).

Recent exhibitions include:

  • Solo exhibition at CCBombarda, Rua Miguel Bombarda for Inaugurações Simultâneas (April 2017)

  • Live painting performance at CCBombarda for Inaugurações Simultâneas (May 2017)

  • Group exhibition at Miguel Costa Cabral & Associados, Rua Miguel Bombarda, Porto (May 2019)

  • Group exhibition at Casa da Granja Museum, Amarante (December 2022)

  • Group exhibition. "Vozes da Paisagem" | "Voices of The Landscape" at Faculdade de Belas Artes Universidade do Porto | Porto Art Academy (December 2023)

Zuzanna continues to host oil painting and drawing workshops at MUSO Art Gallery in Amarante and Plain-air in nature.

Zuzanna takes her inspiration from observing her surroundings, the simplicity of nature's rules, and humanity's place within them. She explores everything from brute realism, symbolism, through to memories from recurring dreams.

Artist statement.

Love is an atavism, but I like to feel feral.

I take my inspiration from observing my surroundings and I make sure to surround myself with things which inspire me: the simplicity of nature's rules, and humanity's place within them. I’m exploring everything from brute realism, symbolism, through to memories from recurring dreams.

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