Katja Mragowska

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Katja Mragowska, born 1975, is a Polish-German artist based in Stuttgart. She is self taught and motivated by the fragile beauty of the human form. This manifests itself in life-size metal and resin cast sculptures which she calls abstractions of the figure. Her overall aim is to bring a little more beauty into the world.^{[1][Quotation needed from source]}

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Mragowska has exhibited in a number of important venues including Stuttgart Paladium, Das Whorl, Stuttgart KunstCenter, The Poznan Institute of Contemporary Art and The Federation Gallery, Mexico.^[2] She has won numerous awards including the Oleszczyński Prize for new Polish sculpture (2006) and the Bachhuber Prize (2007).^{[3][Quotation needed from source]}

Mragowska is currently in residence at Newcastle University in England. She is completing a piece entitled Against Capitalism and Materialism or Bad Primark which depicts a six foot androgynous figure obscured by layers of fabric and an excess of accessories. She is addressing concerns that identity is sold to us and that we are reduced to consumers whose real identities are lost or hidden behind the 'stuff'. ^{[4][Quotation needed from source]}

Mragowska's main body of work is held in The Poznan Institute of Contemporary Art.

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