Iwona Liegmann graduated in 1993 from the painting unit of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, her diploma was supervised by Prof. Zygmunt Kotlarczyk. In 1995-96 she completed MA studies in Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen (scholarship awarded by the British Council). She had solo exhibitions in Poland and Germany and took part in numerous group exhibitions.
In 2005 and 2009 she was awarded  by the Polish Ministry of Culture and the Toruń President for the projects  "Mummy Mami" and "Pippi Lee".
In 2006 she was the winner of the Stellwerk Zollverein e.V. scholarship competition.

Iwona Liegmann explores humorously and playfully facets of human mentality. Artist´s exceeding indulgence to trash, expressing itself in a very ‘baroque’ manner through her painting and object art, is changing between fascination and irony. Her works which step out from reference points in reality to the phantastic, cannot easily be matched to usual categories. But obviously the artist, who says that she doesn´t want to avoid „kitsch in the positive sense“, is always keeping an eye on historically ‘weak links’ in the traditions of the so-pretended trivial. From fairy tales and folklore to contemporary mass culture and it´s industrially prefabricated plastic worlds develops an artwork, which is raising questions about orientations of cultural identity between the flashy illusions of the pop world and a nostalgic reference to an at least equally phantasmatic world of the past. 

Andreas Dunkel, Stellwerk Zollverein Foundation, Essen, Germany

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