The Main Series

The Main Series is a series of oil works that Pola Dwurnik has been working on since 2004. It includes a wide variety of paintings, but the main theme is a female subject. The main protagonist is almost always a woman, often reminiscent of the artist herself. We see her in different situations and roles. Within the Main Series, smaller sub-series can be distinguished (e.g., the “Self-Portrait with a Lover and a Cigarette”) and recurring motifs (such as the Queen of Painting or animal figures).

Goose Feather Dress Polish Painter after John Sargent, 2025, oil on canvas, 210 × 150 cm
Doppelgänger, 2025, oil on canvas, 89 × 63 cm
Doppelgänger 7, 2025, oil on canvas, 100 × 73 cm
Doppelgänger, 2025, oil on canvas, 73 × 100 cm
Doppelgänger, 2025, oil on canvas, 100 × 73 cm
Violetta Valery, 2025, oil on canvas, 210 × 150 cm
The Unbearable Immobility of Horizon, 2025, oil on canvas, 100 × 73 cm
The Wind, 2025, oil on canvas, 100 × 73 cm
Woman with Mirror 02, 2024, oil on canvas, 100 × 73 cm
Woman with Mirror 01, 2024, oil on canvas, 100 × 73 cm
Refugees (Foxes), 2024, oil on canvas, 213 × 248 cm
Armor, 2023, oil on canvas, 100 × 73 cm
The Bear, 2023, oil on canvas, 100 × 73 cm
The Hat, 2023, oil on canvas, 100 × 73 cm
Frog Prince, 2023, oil on canvas, 100 × 73 cm
Moment of Transition, 2012-2022, oil on canvas 150 × 210cm
Hidden, 2023, oil on canvas, 100 × 73 cm
Smog after Courbet, 2023, oil on canvas, 227,5 × 292 cm
Claws, 2021-2022, oil on canvas, 227,5 × 292 cm
Armor, 2021, oil on canvas, 200 × 270 cm
At Night, 2021, oil on canvas, 200 × 260 cm
Theres a Devil Crawling Along Your Floor, 2017-2021, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
The Rat House, 2020, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
Queen of Painting after The Hardwick Portrait of Elizabeth I of England, oil on canvas, 210 × 150 cm
Drunk Composition on The Stairs, 2017, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
Langwidere Subseries Animal Heads, 2016, oil on canvas, 46 × 55 cm
The Ghost of Ancesters and the Angel of Future or Ignorance, 2016, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
Surprise, 2016, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
Stunt Woman Ewelina Guzik, 2015, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
The Great Fox, 2015, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
The Old Age Portrait of my Grandmother Anna, 2014, oil on canvas, 210 × 150 cm
All This Always, 2014, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
Coffee and Steel No More of those Beautiful Boys, 2013-2014, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no…, 2013, oil on canvas, a whole in the parrot’s eye, 116 × 89 cm
Queen of Monkeys, Sex Slave or a Trainer, 2012, oil on canvas, 210 × 150 cm
Ritual, 2013, oil on canvas, 70 × 70 cm
Borsuka, 2013, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
Before the Orgy, 2012, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm (painting dedicated to A. Zaucha and P. Klossowski)
A Communist Self-Portrait based on images of Emma Goldman Rosa Luxemburg Louise Michel Vera Zasulich Dolores Ibarruri Gomez and others, 2011, oil on canvas, 116 × 89 cm
The Last Scene, 2010, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
Fireworks, 2010, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
School of Smoking or A Concert in a Cave, from left: Pola Dwurnik, Teresa Gierzyńska, Dorota Wnuk, Slawomir Elsner with his dog Gruna, Daniela Pfeil, Tomasz Kowalski, 2009, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
Mercy!!, 2008-2009, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
Crime, 2008, oil on canvas, 210 × 150cm
Projection, 2008, oil on canvas, 210 × 150 cm
Insomnia, 2008, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
Lady Goldfish, 2008, oil on canvas, 116 × 89 cm
Queen of Animals Mika III, 2007, oil and postcards on canvas, 116 × 89 cm
Paintress, 2006, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
Take Off, 2007, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm
I Am Married to Painting, 2006, oil on canvas, 210 × 150 cm
My Sex Therapist Told Me, 2006, oil on canvas, 210 × 150 cm
Love, 2004, oil on canvas, 150 × 210 cm