Anna Przybylo

I work with textile art, which I treat not only as a medium but also as a starting point and an active co-creator of the work. I often use found materials, remnants, textile waste, and fibres. It is these materials that largely determine the final form of the piece — they influence composition, colour, texture, and often even the subject itself. The creative process emerges from a dialogue with matter rather than from a pre-imposed form.

My works function as a kind of passage — a liminal space between worlds: inner and outer, symbolic and bodily, individual experience and something more universal. I am interested in the motif of the threshold, understood broadly as a site of transformation and change. I refer to transitional spaces present in different cultures, including the idea of the torii — a symbolic gate separating the everyday from what is sacred or transformative.

In my practice, I explore the theme of initiation — understood both as entering experiences of motherhood and adulthood, and as a process of deepening self-awareness. I am interested in bodily consciousness, its limitations, as well as the process of accepting one’s shadow. My work becomes a tool for examining the full spectrum of experience: from tenderness an...

2008–2013 – MA, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Sculpture Department
2012 – Erasmus LLP Scholarship, Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Fields: Costume and Fashion Design, Jewelry Design

solo exhibitions

2026
She, Niżańskie Centrum Historii i Tradycji, Nisko
2025
Tenderness of matter, Biblioteka Kraków, Filia nr 20, Kraków
2018
Mother, not mother… every woman is divine, Centre for Contemporary Art Solvay, Kraków
2013
Personality of the year, Galeria Promocyjna ASP w Krakowie2012
2012
In the light of underground water, Student Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia

selected group exhibitions

2024
Food in art, MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków
2022
Pola – The Exhibition of Polish Contemporary Textile Art and Batik, Museum Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta
2022
Rooting , MOVA – language and culture, Gdańsk
2020
Subversive Embroidery, Ethnographic Museum, Wrocław
2019
2nd Textile Art Biennial in Poznań, Sections Threads Reports, Grand Prix for Don’t Be Afraid, It Won’t Bite, National Museum in Poznań – Museum of Applied Arts
2018
Synestezje – Visual Art, Music, Word, Studio Club, Kraków
2016
HERstory of Art, Norbertine House, Kraków
2014
Wroclove Design Festival – Design + Craft zone, CRZ Krzywy Komin, Wrocław
2013
Artistic Journey of Hestia, 12th edition, Ergo Arena, Gdańsk
2013
Recycling Art, Kärcher HQ opening, Kraków