Gabriella Novak is a Polish-Swedish visual artist recently based in Stockholm. They have been working across a wide variety of medium past 15 years including; film, photography, drawing, ready-mades sculpture, installation, video, painting and performance.
Last year Novak went back to and focuse on photography where they creates situations and scenes touching upon topics such as; as; violence, sexual abuse,, pain, gender, self-destruction and self-healing.
In 2022, Novak completed a Master’s degree in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Umeå, Sweden and studied Fine Arts at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw between 2013 – 2015. They also have a background in performing Arts at Theatre and Film school in Stockholm, Photography studies at Valand Art Academy (HFF) in Gothenburg and Art history, Film studies and Philosophy at University.
Throughout the years, Novak participated in Artist in Residence programs and art projects with Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Moderna Museet, Pals Performance Art Links, Supermarket Art Fair, Färgfabriken in Stockholm, Gallery Thomassen in Gothenburg and Bildmuseet in Umeå, ZVUN Gallery in Nachod.
In 2022 Novak was awarded the Assistant Grant with artist Åsa Cederqvist and trawel grant for AIR in North Macedonia (2020 and 2022) from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. In 2020 They got grant from e Swedish Royal Academy of Arts (Konstakademin).