Magdalena Gluszak - Holeksa

Magdalena Gluszak-Holeksa is a Polish artist, who lives and works in the UK. She grew up in the Silesian Beskids mountain range in the South of Poland. Throughout her practice, she uses her changing memories of the landscape surrounding her home as a metaphor to explore concepts of metamorphosis and the symbiotic exchange between the dead and living matter. At the core of her process lies her deep interest in psychology and how our inherited belief systems and emotions form a non-verbal language within our unconscious, influencing our perception of the self and the sense of our belonging. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London (2019) and a BA (Hons) in Photography from the Arts University Bournemouth (2014). She is a Fellow at Digswell Arts Trust, where she works from her studio at the Forge, Welwyn North.


"Through painting, I search for a language to explore impermanence and the body’s relationship with the nonmaterial. The process of transforming and revealing through painting is an enquiry into symbols of the non-physical and extensions of the visible. Shifting between awareness and the subconscious, I wrestle with memories that slip my control and with knowledge that seem...

2013—2024
Design for Visual Communication, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London

2017—2019
MFA Fine Arts, Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London

2011—2014
BA (Hons) Photography, Arts University Bournemouth

2010—2011
Foundation Degree in Art and Design, Byam Shaw School of Art

2025
UN-TRANS-LATED, Huang Contemporary, London

2024
Airy Disk, River Art Gallery, Taiwan
Clyde & Co Prize, London
MacFarlanes Prize, London

2023
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
A Matter of Perspective, Liliya Art Gallery, London
South Open, OHSH Projects, London

2022
The Letchworth Open, Broadway Gallery
(Solo) A Mountain, Too, Has Its Thoughts, Broadway Gallery

2021
Correspondence 01, Letchworth Broadway Gallery & Exeter Phoenix Gallery, UK
Re:store Re:new Re:imagine, Willesden Gallery, London

2020
Emergent Vision, Uncovered Collective, London

2019
ARTIQ The Graduate Art Prize, Herbert Smith Freehills, London
Orbit UK Art Graduates Show, OXO Tower Wharf, London
Postopia, Ugly Duck, London

2018
Who Will Provide?, Crypt Gallery, London
Window 71, Broad Lane, London
Beyond The Pale, LOFT, London

2017
(Solo) Rozczlonkowanie (Dismemberment), COK Dom Narodowy, Cieszyn, Poland

2014
TURF, Oxo Tower Wharf, London

2012
Bar-Tur Award, Paradise Row Gallery, London