Ruźa Spak · Winner Collectors Art Prize

Ruźa Spak, born in Poland, studied painting at the Kunstakademie Hamburg and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. She also received a DAAD scholarship for Rome.
She lives and works in Berlin.

Portraits (selection)

Former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, for Cicero Magazine. 2012
Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, for the European Prize for Political Culture. 2016

Selected solo exhibitions

2021 Malte Uekermann Kunsthandel, Berlin, Germany
2008 Schultz Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008 ArtFair21, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Cologne, Germany
2006 Galleria, Rome, Italy
2005 Residence of the German Ambassador, London, UK
2002 Emory University, Claus M. Halle Institute, Atlanta, USA
2001 Goethe Institut, Washington D.C., USA
2000 Kunstverein Schering, Berlin, Germany
1998 Texas Union Art Gallery, Austin, USA
1997 Fitzpatrick Troyer Lassman Gallery, Washington D.C., USA

Selected group exhibitions

2025 Espacio Micus, Ibiza, Spain
2022 Fred Schnider Gallery of Art, Arlington, USA
2021 Pinacoteca Comunale di Gaeta, Gaeta, Italy
Women & Flint in Arts, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
2018 Contemporary Art Center and Pacai Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, USA
2012 Musée des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence, France
2010 Beijing, China (Invitation | Homepage)
2009 Kunsthalle Dresden, Dresden, Germany
DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 Art Fair 21, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Cologne, Germany
Michael Schultz Galerie, Seoul, Korea
Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2007 Kunstraum Klosterkirche, Traunstein, Germany
2006 Wichita Falls Art Museum, Wichita Falls, USA
2005 Museum of Modern Art, Pretoria, South Africa
Woman Museum in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, USA
2003 The Millenium Arts Center, Washington D.C., USA

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