Olga Szczechowska

Painter, graphic designer, illustrator. Born in 1987, Radom, Poland.

In her practice she focuses on the relationship between nature and humans, closely observing the ways in which we shape the nature in our own backyards. By looking at trimmed hedges, decorative plants and meticulously designed home gardens, Olga Szczechowska captures the sometimes-eerie nature of our immediate surroundings. She lives and works in Warsaw.

Olga Szczechowska paints her immediate surroundings – lush gardens, tall trees, blossoming lilacs, and finely trimmed bushes. Her paintings depict the gardens of her Eastern European childhood, featuring geometrically shaped trees, pink flowers, spherical bushes, and stormy skies. These images are deeply ingrained in our collective memory. Amidst the thick greenery of these gardens, there pierces the distinctive geometric architecture characteristic of the Polish landscape - those familiar concrete cubicles with triangular roofs, and vine-covered fences.
Mimicking existing garden compositions found on the internet, the artist focuses on the ways in which we control the nature closest to us - our small patches of land. In these zoomed-in landscape representations, the presence of human intervention is strongly e...

2007-2012 Faculty of Fine Arts, painting departmet, MA, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

2008-2011 Faculty of Philology , cultural studies, BA, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

2018 Surroundings, Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw(PL)

2016 One swallow makes a spring, Gallery 58, Radom (PL)

2016 Cuttings, Studio Large Room, Warsaw (PL)

2015 It happens in paradise, Magic garden, Finnish cottage, Warsaw (PL)

2014 Forest body, Brda Gallery, Bydgoszcz (PL)

2014 They say, those who paint like to exaggerat, Wozownia Art Gallery, Torun (PL)

2013 Habitat, intervention in space, CoCA, Torun (PL)

2013 One swallow makes a spring, intervention in the urban space, Torun (PL)