In Warsaw salons and lounges do not have to explain who Maria Wollenberg-Kluza is as she is a well-known and fashionable person. Amazing volcano of energy, everywhere present, everything she sees and hears, and sooner or later will paint that. In her exhibitions and vernissages crowds gather, each hall is always too small. Social and artistic success so far definite. Maria works on it extremely passionately. From dawn in her studio brushes sound, and she simultaneously cooks, bakes, cleans, sometimes gives birth to a child, and again rushes to the studio, from the studio to the events, from the kitchen to the living room and to her numerous friends. Her house is famous for its constant hospitality. And how wonderful she cooks and bakes! But this is also an area of ​​artistic creation today.

           Not only Warsaw knows her works - from Lublin to Norway, from Krakow to Stockholm, from Prague to Spain, from Sofia to Dallas. In recent years she had around eighty exhibitions; incredible amount. And all contributed something new and stimulating, which itself is remarkable, given that Ms. Wollenberg-Kluza has clearly formed style, undoubtedly recognizable, and very personal. And yet she does not repeat in her works.

           She is probably the most well-known Polish colorist, along with her very distinguished teachers. She is a student of the famous Tadeusz Dominik, who himself apprenticed in Kapists school whose colorism dates back to the Impressionists. So Ms. Kluza is a heir of one of the most important art styles of painting of last century and has already created her own place in it. Within colorism she is constantly in search of change as well as she also modifies her favorite color tones. Being delicate, elusive and subtle her paintings surprise sometimes with highly saturated spots, and sudden and violent contrasts. Those who see the world in black and peanut sauce colors, should not watch Ms. Kluza’s works.

            But this is only half the truth about her painting, because it is not only the inventing and registration of color. Art of Ms. Wollenberg-Kluza has serious reference to the emotional, intellectual, and moral sphere. Her painting cycles generally focus around a specific problem impossible to express only with spots and lines. You could try to reconstruct a particular "spiritual philosophies" (and not just artistic) of the painter. Her paintings are filled with human silhouettes, human faces and human (just only human?) watching. Do we see reflections of ourselves in her world? Where focuses our attention, our expectations, what exactly so seriously we constantly look out for? In her paintings we as people wait for integrity in a repetition of the mirror reflections, languished in poses, transparent in an unexpected rays of light in multilayer spaces, among symbolic objects, bare, for something important determined.

            Paintings of Maria Wollenberg-Kluza are very rich. Her interests and sensitivity cannot be described in a few words. In recent years, she has been working on a grand cycle devoted to the cardinal sins, though not necessarily deadly in her demonstration, and even with some charm - but that’s a very complex issues and there are plenty of options. In the end (after the big exhibition in ZACHĘTA) this unquestionably sacral cycle, started to evolve toward a great altar of Judgment Day with numerous supplements. This great work is still under creation, and we can still see only its unveiled parts. We can only guess in which direction it is evolving. And certainly this will not be the last act of her artistic creation.

            In her compositions we see how mix horizontal lines of auroras and clouds, horizontal people and constructions built by them, facial curves and light of eyes. And from the nearby Kabacki Forrest arrive pink swans to inhabit Maria’s canvas. Let our eyes also find a shelter there.

                                               Piotr Kuncewicz,  1993