Delphine Bereski

Biography

Delphine Bereski is a French artist and dancer born in 1991, living between Paris and Warsaw. She attended ENSAD (Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris) majoring in printmaking and graduated in 2015.

After three years with Ich&Kar studio as a graphic designer and illustrator, she decided in 2017 to return to her artistic practice and cultivate her creative signature. It is in Warsaw where Delphine experiments with body practice, collaborating with choreographers, performers and actors, familiarising herself with Grotowski's work on movement dramaturgy. She also developed her plastic work whilst working with contemporary art centres such as the Zamek Ujazdowski, where she collaborated as a set designer with international artists such as Marta Ziolek, Michal Borczuk and Tori Wranees. Simultaneously she was working on her own projects, which are displayed from 2018 onwards at festivals and exhibitions throughout Poland and Greece. 

In 2019 she wins the Gautier-Delaye prize awarded by the ENSAD alumni association and returns to the Cité Internationale des Arts for a residency. Self proclaimed shaman/Dr Frankenstein hybrid, Delphine Bereski is passionate about folklore and languages, she constructs blended narratives of both anthropology and fiction in which she questions our mythologies and rituals as living beings. The objects she creates are the vestiges and relics of these stories featuring anything from masks, ornaments, instruments, textiles and liturgical objects.

Exhibitions

2019 / COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION OF FOREIGN ARTISTS RESIDING IN POLAND / Biennale Warszawa (Warsaw, POLAND)

2019 / JA JUZ NIE MOGE COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION / CAC Kronika (Bytom, POLAND)