Plastic bags, disposable package for disposable products after they’ve served their purpose, become useless- they reside in our drawers, as well as being chased by the wind in the African desert, they constitute an unwanted powerful force.
Building from plastic bags to create rhythmical, ordered structures, I have found for them a new place in my designs. Embedded in necklaces and rings they function as gemstones and pearls…

Malgosia Kalinska, Poland.

She lives and works in Szczecin, where she founded the Gallery of Jewellery Designers PRATA..
Member of Polish Goldsmithing Artists' Association

Education:
2005-2011 Master of Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Department of Fabric and Fashion, specialization Jewellery Designs
2008 Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Lodz, Faculty of Textile and Fashion Design, diploma with mention of the Department of Jewelry Design, Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. 

Exhibitions:
2012 in a different light - The Gallery of Art in Legnica | Participation in Brand New New Brand, Inhorgenta, Munich, Germany | Jewellery complemented by light, YES Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2011 Striped-flint -Stone o the optimism, Open Gallery, Sandomierz, Poland
2010 Amber and Silver Time, Caritas Culture Center, Wuppertal, Germany | - Co - Malgorzata Kalinska & Oliwia Kuczynska Contemporary Thater, Warsaw, Poland | Participation in Amberif gala, Gdansk, Polnad
2009 Gold Creations, Jubilee o 50 years anniversary o Jewellery Design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Lodz, Poland | International Competition for the Design of Jewellery with Amber Pop - Amber Gdańśk, Poland -honourable mention | For You, Amber Trip, International BAltic Jewellery Show, Vilnius, Lithuania | ...and camouflages, Corner Gallery, Legnica, Poland, - solo exhibition during Legnica Jewellery festival SILVER | Informal Gallery o Art, Warsaw, Poland - solo exhibition | Jewellery with Amber, Amber Museum, Kaliningrad, Russia | Fresh Design, Sopot, Poland | KORU3, Imatra Art Museum, Imatra, Finland
2008 The moment, last! You are so beautiful! Amber Trip, International Baltic Jewellery Show, Vilnius, Lithuania | Inernational COmpetition for the Designer of Jewellery with Amber Elektronos, Gdansk, Poland | Legnica International Jewellery Competition EXCLUSIVE, Gallery of Art, Legnica, Poland | Silver mouth, Gallery of Art, Legnica, Poland | Painting and jewellery, Neue Greifengalerie, Greifswald, Germany - solo exhibition | Siver & Amber Time, Gallery of the Art, Legnica, Polnad
2007 Legnica International Jewellery Competition ABSOLUTE BEAUTY, Gallery of Art, Legnica, Poland | National Jewellery Competition Prsentations 2007, Warsaw, Poland | Still life and ...., group exhibition of the artistic enviroment of Poznań, Castel in Kornik, Poland
2006 National Gallery Competition Quarter, YES Gallery, Poznan, Poland

Galeria PRATA
ul.Malkowskiego 4
Szczecin
Poland
www.galeriaprata.pl 

and at: www.kalinska.pl