Dominika Block

Dominika Block is a German-based painter, born in Gdańsk and educated at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

For many years, her painting moved between figuration and abstraction, driven by an interest in human experience, emotion and the narrative potential of images.

Her current work marks a fundamental shift. In the emerging body of work Inner Architecture, the human figure withdraws and space itself becomes the subject. Walls, openings, planes, light and absence form ambiguous spatial situations in which inside and outside, surface and depth, solidity and emptiness can exchange roles.

Block is interested in the moment when perception becomes uncertain. Architectural elements are therefore not representations of real places, but psychological and perceptual structures.

Reduction has become an increasingly important part of her practice: fewer elements, greater tension. Abstraction and representation remain connected, but the narrative now takes place within space itself.

University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria — Fine/Applied Arts, graduated 2004

Selected Exhibitions

2024 — Es kommt auf leiser Hufe, akku Abstatt, Germany
2023 — Skandal, L StudiÖ, Öhringen, Germany — Solo Exhibition
2023 — G.E.O., L StudiÖ, Öhringen, Germany
2022 — Der gelbe Klang, Kunsthalle Vogelmann / Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany — Group Exhibition
2022 — Kunst und Kultur bei Bealance, Öhringen, Germany — Solo Exhibition
2021 — Swissartexpo / Artbox Project, Zurich, Switzerland
2020 — Swissartexpo / Artbox Project, Zurich, Switzerland
2019 — Wege, Kunsthalle Vogelmann / Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany — Group Exhibition
2018 — Kunst international Stuttgart, Germany
2018 — Art Show, Palermo, Italy — Group Exhibition