Kinga Popiela

Kinga Popiela (b. 1991 in Kalisz) graduated in Painting from the University of the Arts in Poznań, studying under Prof. Dominik Lejman and Prof. Andrzej Pepłoński. Since 2018, she has been a doctoral candidate at the university’s Interdisciplinary Environmental Doctoral Studies.

Her work focuses on the performativity of the painterly gesture and the individual memory of the body, as well as its relationship with space. Her paintings bear witness to the fragmented coexistence of the artist with the material during the creative act. They are created through an uninterrupted motion of applying paint onto canvas or paper, using brushes or specially designed tools that guide the pigment until it is exhausted.