GENERAL STORE
CONTEMPORARY

office:
2/11 Hughes St 
Potts Point, 
Sydney 2011

T:+61(0)414 844 365
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Directors:

Ben Gavin
Jasmine Kean

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Without a permanent physical space, 
general store contemporary leaps 
and bounds to create events, 
exhibitions and situations exploring
the cross over of sound and visual
components. We hope that what we
represent, discover and transcend
is in a constant state of flux
portraying the important to what
is contemporary, fresh and 
innovative. The identity appears 
and disappears, occupying basements, 
garages, apartment rooms, bars, 
clubs even courtyards for a period 
of time. It is everywhere and 
nowhere at the same time.



Represented artists:
Marta Jurkowska

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Born 1976, Lublin, Poland
Lives and Works in Berlin

EDUCATION

2008 Assistant for Candice Breitz in Berlin
2004 – 2006 post-graduate studies (design & communications) Potsdam, Germany
2003 MA Fine Arts (intermedia studies) - guidance under Mrs Izabela Gustowska 
Academy of Fine Arts Poznan, Poland
1997 - 2002 BA Fine Arts - Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland

EXHIBITIONS

2011 Marta Jurkowska: 'All you need is Love' (solo) (forcoming)
2009 'Sandart' Sand Hotel, Kołobrzeg, Poland (group)
2008 'Art must be Beautiful' Art Stations Foundation, Galerie Stary Browar, Poznan, Poland (group)
2007 Marta Jurkowska:’Inside, Outside, Outside In’ Spielraum, Berlin, Germany
- organized and presented by general store, Sydney. Curated by Ben Gavin (solo)
2006 ‘The Cinematic Experience & New Media Art’ Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin/Kiev (solo)
2005 ‘Porn and Love’ Galerie Stara Rzeznia, Poznan, Poland (group)
2004 ‘Litany to Super Heroine’ ON Gallery, Poznan, Poland (solo)
2004 Young Polish Art: ‘Inside’, Danish Cultural Institute Copenhagen, Denmark (group)
2003 `Hartownia: Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland and Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland 
Organised by Program Gallery. Warsaw, Poland (group)
2003 Selection for the Maria Dokowicz Award - Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland (group)
2003 'Marta Jurkowska' Inner Spaces Gallery, New York USA (solo)
2003 'The Imagination Castle' KKO group 'Let it be' Arts Festival of Ustka, Ustka, Poland
2003 New Video Works - Wozownia Gallery, Torun, Poland (group) 
2003 Multimedia Festival, Osnabruck, Germany (KKO)
2003 ‘Touch’, Klenowa Gallery, Klatowa, Czech Republic (KKO)
2003 Performance ‘Parasite’ Silesian Culture Centre, Katowice, Poland (KKO)
2002 Marta Jurkowska, New Video Works, Wozownia Gallery, Torun, Poland (solo)
2002 Performance May 2002 Pod Aniotem Gallery Torun, Poland (KKO)
2002 Performance April 2002, Warsztat Gallery, Poznan, Poland (KKO)

KKO is a group of female artists. Their activities were based on audio and performance
Members: Marta Jurkowska, Emilia Musial and Marta Migula

AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCES

2003 Lot Award for the prize-winner of the Maria Dokowicz Contest Poznan, Poland
2003 Inner Spaces Gallery Award in the form of exhibition in New York, USA