Born in 1959, she creates paintings, photographs, objects, and textual installations, including in public spaces. She is interested in how language shapes our thinking, the relationship between text and image, and the connections between art and literature.
She has held solo exhibitions at venues including the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the Bunkier Sztuki Gallery in Krakow, the Atlas Sztuki Gallery in Łódź, and the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw. She has participated in numerous thematic exhibitions in Poland and presentations of Polish art abroad. She is a recipient of the Katarzyna Kobro Award.
She has curated interdisciplinary exhibitions, including “A Dream is a Second Life,” “A Rose is a Rose” (BWA Tarnów), “New Illustrations” at the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok, and “Life.” Instruction at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, and “I Screamed, and When I Screamed, Precious Things Broke” at the Günter Grass Gallery in Gdańsk, and “City of Dreams” at BWA Krosno. Since 2019, together with Lila Kalinowska, she has been implementing an interdisciplinary project in Przemyśl – “The Center of Worlds is Here.” She lives in Przemyśl, works at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Rzeszów, and collaborates with the BWA Warsaw gallery.
The artist creates paintings in the convention of hastily painted murals. She doesn’t calculate the arrangement of words, their division, or letter size – she renders these decisions within the available space. Seemingly. She always arranges the content so that what is meant to be emphasized is reinforced. This inscription, taken from a painting, sounds like a wagging finger at the world. The world undoubtedly deserves it – and in many ways, at that.
– Maria Anna Potocka
