Paolo Kozma

I consider the body my prime medium - my body as not a permanent medium because is changing from one second to the next. I start from here.

I am a contemporary cross-over artist working at the intersection of performance, painting, and bodily action. I extend my body

My practice transforms the act of painting into a live, performative event, where movement, endurance, and presence become tools for image-making.

Each work emerges from a time-based process in which the painting records traces of action, decision, and intensity.

Rooted in performative gesture rather than traditional brushwork, I use my body as both instrument and medium, allowing physical movement, rhythm, and temporality to shape large-scale contemporary paintings.

My performance is an essential phase of creation and resulting paintings function as autonomous unique visual works carrying within them the residue of performance — energy, tension, music, story and spatial memory—while existing independently within the context of contemporary painting.

Thorough my works I am questioning authorship, permanence, and the boundaries between visual art and live action. My work reflects on the body as a site of inscription and on painting as an expanded field—one t...