Julia KowalSKa
Julia Kowalska
Poland
b.1998
“I have been looking for enigmatic and ephemeral qualities, reminiscent of fleeting dream scapes, taking inspiration from the sense of unreal and unfamiliar occuring in dreams. Visual atmosphere of my works is meant to evoke ambigues, obscure associations and keep depicted scenes within the poetic of uncanny dream.”
- Julia Kowalska
A rising art world star, Julia Kowalska is a 25-year-old visual artist based in Warsaw. Her work references human existence and relationships, in which the artist seeks moments lined with ambiguity and explores the ambivalent nature of communing with the body. The enigmatic and ephemeral character of dream perception embeds the artist’s work in a sense of repetitive disorientation, while the ambivalent gestures and expression of the depicted figures sensually narrate the complexity of mutual relationships based on emotional dependencies and divergent affections.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Milky Blind Eye, Sarah Kravitz, London UK
2022
Pleasant touch, like talc powdered inside, Sklep Galeria Karowa, Warsaw
2021
All feelings became overpowered, Szewska 16 Gallery, Poznan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / EVENTS
2022
UpComing, Salon Akademii, Warsaw
2022
Under the Jaguar Sun, Sarah Kravitz, London
2022
Space to divide, Polish Institute in Bratislava
2021
Pandemic body, Salon Akademii, Warsaw
2020
Abnormalities, Jazdów, Warsaw
2022
Hotel Warszawa Art Fair with Śmierć Człowieka / Death of Man Gallery
2022
Contemporary Lynx Award on Nowy Obraz - Nowe Spojrzenie, national contest, Poznan
2022
Nomination on 4 Fangor’s National Painting Contest, Gdansk