Agnieszka Piotrowska-Kowalska

Agnieszka divides her time between Kraków and the Beskid mountains in southern Poland, drawing inspiration from the unique energy and contrasts of both environments: nature and city. For over a decade, she has been creating abstract paintings that explore themes of identity, consciousness, and the search for authenticity within the dualities of human experience — light and shadow, strength and vulnerability, chaos and inner harmony.

Her work is also deeply inspired by the dialogue between the inner and outer world. She draws inspiration from spaces transformed by human presence — especially the silent stories hidden in urban walls and textures — as well as from intuition, emotions, and her own lived experiences. Through painting, she seeks to enter into a conversation with reality itself: to explore its layers, tensions, and invisible undercurrents through the embodiment of personal experience.

Painting is for her not only artistic expression, but also a process of returning to herself. She translates emotions, memories, and inner movement into color, texture, and form, creating visual spaces that invite the viewer into their own exploration and dialogue with reality and perception. Many of her works evolve over years through mul...

Between Light and Shadow, 2024, Kraków, Poland; solo exhibition;
Group exhibitions in Iluminatornia Studio, Krakow, Poland, 2016 and 2017