Joanna Patejuk/ Chócherko Art was born in Poland, of Ukrainian origin. A graduate of the University of Physical Education in GdaÅ„sk. For over 20 years she has been traveling the world on horseback, combining her three passions - Horses, Camels and Art.
Professional jockey, trainer in horse racing, camel champion
jockey in C1 Championship and self-taught artist who found her home in Dubai 12 years ago.
Partner in the creative agency Visual Art Media Studies & Consultancies LLC and Creative Director of her own brand Chócherko Art.
Chócherko Art is exclusively represented by SamaLAin Gallery with her “Naughty Girls & Superheroes Collection “. Additionally six of her paintings from the "Inspired Collection" are represented by the local booming brand Roomours at The Dubai Mall and YAS Mall.
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Chócherko is also represented by the "Living in Wonderland" popular pop art gallery in Riyadh.
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Chócherko Art is dynamically developing on the local market, cooperating with such brands as Rixos, Dubai Verse Cup,
Hats & Horses, Art Fusion Night and Artoze.
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Chòcherko painting entitled Warrior Woman has been featured in Graphic Art 2021, the latest autumn collection of Medicine –
one of the leading Polish fashion brands.
Chócherko’s paintings are inspired by pop art, one of the most fascinating phenomenon in the art of the 20th century. It is anunceremonious, off hand art which draws from the modern highly industrialized civilization. It is an art that uses the attributes of mass culture, giving it the rank of an artistic phenomenon.
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Making use of the creative alphabet and vocabulary of legendary artists who have stolen her heart and inspired her with their idiosyncratic style, Chócherko tells her own stories through prominent figures of film, stage, and art, as well as by incorporating snippets of her everyday life.
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The common denominator of all these works is lightness, fun, colour and a wonderful distance to the serious, challenging issues that the present confronts us with.
Małgorzata Paszyka-Glaza
(Curator of the National Museum in Gdańsk)