Longina Poterek-Krenz & Jerzy Krenz
My parents
Both my parents, Longina Poterek-Krenz and Jerzy Krenz were artists. Both studied interior design and exposition at the Art Academy in Poznań (at the time called PWSSP), and that is where they met.
Longina was an artist who touched on people's themes, created art about women and nature. She was precise and hard-working. She created series and cycles of artistic works. She drew a lot, painted and created works from textiles.Jerzy was a total conceptual artist. She was hard-working, but he didn't paint much, he came up with concepts.
I am somewhere in the middle. Our home was full of art, our life and its rhythm were determined by art, to which everything was subordinated.
In the late 1970s, my Jerzy opened Krenz Art Studio, devoted to interior design and later to conservation work and creation of historical lighting for historical interiors. Everything is hand-made - from drawing, through models and castings to final works. They created lamps, chandeliers and candlesticks and other brass objects, in historical style. They restored antiques, created copies. Many churches and palaces in Poland have their works.
Part of their life they lived in Puszczykowo, where they had their workshop and the garden.
They left all too soon.
Painting by Zbychu Ratajczyk
Longina Poterek-Krenz
(*16.2.1946 in Poznań, + 28.8.2019 in Poznań)
Education:
1964 - High school graduation certificate. Fine Arts High School
1973 - diploma with distinction - State Higher School of Fine Arts, specialization in exhibition design. Supervisor: prof. Witold Gyurkovich, topic; "Types and perception of stimulants determining the expression of exhibition displays"
1974-1976 - Assistant at the Faculty of Fine Arts in the Exhibition Design Studio.
Professional:
1974 - Membership in the Association of Polish Artists.
Work: interior design (shops, motels, offices), furniture design, exhibitions (stall), advertising graphics, wall painting, clothing with execution, scenography.
Exhibitions (selection)
1975 - Participation in the 3rd International Plein-Air of Visual Artists "Ceramics for Architecture - Kadyny 75". Participation in the post-plein-air exhibition, SARP Gdańsk
1975 - 2nd prize and distinction (drawing) in the drawing and graphics competition named after J. Wroniecki
1975 - 2nd prize in the "Plastyka w Architekturze" competition, exhibition at the ZPAP Club, Poznań
1977 - 1st Biennale of Small Sculptural Forms, BWA exhibition, Poznań
1983 - Artistic fabric exhibition, "Jaeger und Hund" Fair, Hannover
1985 - Artistic fabric exhibition, 1st International Art Fair, Poznań
1988 "Incurably alive", solo exhibition, BWA Arsenał Gallery, Poznań
1988 "Incurably alive", solo exhibition, BWA Gallery, Leszno
2003 - Berlin Biennale Pollinations, group exhibition, Berlin
2005 - Gallery ZERO in Wrocław, group exhibition with: Seiji Morimoto "Nocturne"; Anna Nizio "Ladies ring twice, gentlemen only once"; Anna Krenz "Unexpected Geometry"; Longina Poterek - Krenz "Nieuleczalnie Żywa", Kolektyw IKOON. Wrocław Non-Stop Festival, Studio BWA, Wrocław
2005 - "Focus Szymborska", group exhibition, Insel Galerie, Berlin
2019 - "Da Capo al Fine", with Anna Krenz, Labirynt Modern Art Festival, Słubice / Frankfurt MORE >>>
Jerzy Krenz
(*29.5.1943 in Warsaw, +3.3.2011 in Puszczykowo)
Education:
Studied interior design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan (diploma 1972). Assistant position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan in 1972 - 1973. Originator of the Wielka 19 Gallery in Poznań (with Zbigniew Cieluch).
Professional:
Krenzart Studio - owner
Since 1995, conservator of historical interiors and metal objects.
Artistic career:
37 individual and group exhibitions in Poland, Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain.
8 lectures.
109 historical objects (design and production).
7 historical objects received an award from the Polish General Conservator.
1 prize from the Cultural Council of the City of Poznan
1 scholarship from the International Institute of Design, London
Activist in Puszczykowo.
