Barbara Krupa-KapuśNiak

Women's stories flow through me.
Wounded women, fighting for themselves and their families, displaced, losing husbands, children, raped, abused, giving birth in the field and digging graves for their own children and husbands with their own hands.
I feel a great multitude of unsaid words, loneliness, pain and strength.
I describe them, disenchant them, I pay respect for the strength they had to have to survive.
These are our mothers and grandmothers and we are of them.

In my pieces of art, women find themselves, but also strength, sadness, sisterhood. They are often nudes – but nudes for female souls. Emotions play a key role here.
I oppose canons, taboos, patriarchy and the roles women are put in. It's a meeting with oneself, often with traumas, or hidden emotions. It is acceptance, support and unspoken words; a source of inexhaustible strength, pride.

I know that what I do matters, not only to me.

2021 – present – Postgraduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław in the field of “Mediation and Art Market”
2011 - Completion of the doula course run by the Born in Humanity Foundation
2008 - Obtaining the title of IT Engineer

11/2022 - Collective exhibition after the residency "Movement, breath, space - energy in calligraphy" at the 2 Światy Gallery in Krakow (catalog and online exhibition)
2022 – Post-competition exhibition of the 22nd Biennale of Mountain Photography at the Karkonosze Museum and in the Czech Republic in Vrchlabi at KCEV Krtek and publication in the Catalog for the 22nd Biennale of Mountain Photography
08.2022 - Co-author of the exhibition "Dreams" at the Interferencja Gallery in Olkusz
04.2022 - Participation in the exhibition of the photo competition "Touch" as part of the Legnica Festival SILVER2022 (virtual exhibition)
2022 - Collective exhibition "Our" Jelenia Góra Photography Zone Browar Mieszczański in Wrocław and in the "Nad Schodami" Gallery in Lubań
2022 - Open-air exhibition in Szklarska Poręba at the ARKANA festival: Festival in the footsteps of Will Erich Peuckert and publication in the calendar and catalog issued for the event
2021 - Participation in the Festival of Photography in Goerlitz
2021 – Publication of an article for "Wide frame by Nikon"
2021 – Edition of the e-book for learning photography "Understand your camera, love photography"
2020 - Publication of an article in "CYK Magazyn"
2015 - Preparation of photogra...