Krystian Burda
Graphic designer, sculptor, constructor of spatial installations and sacral architecture. He graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under the supervision of professors Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz and Oskar Hansen. His graduation work, The Road to Żelazowa Wola – a Space-Time Study, showed the concept of an artistic road/monument dedicated to Fryderyk Chopin.
After graduation he worked as an industrial designer at Rybnik Metal Products Plant in Huta Silesia, and also created the interiors of churches. He made bas-reliefs of altars and stained glass in seven parishes in Silesia.
He took part in many group and individual exhibitions, plein-airs and symposia. His works were presented, among others, at BWA (1977, 2010, 2012, 2014) and the Archdiocesan Museum (2012) in Katowice, at the ZPAP Gallery (1979), the Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture (2004), Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2004) and the 2nd Sculpture Biennale (2010) in Warsaw, as well as the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Żelazowa Wola (2013) and “Elektrownia” in Radom (2011). The exhibition was also organized in the artist’s hometown, Rydułtowy, in 2014, the year before his death.
