Eliza Kolodziej

MFA, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

Eliza Kołodziej is a Polish painter working primarily in oil. Her practice centers around uninhabited urban and semi-natural spaces—walls, bushes, empty lots, paths between buildings. These places seem familiar but carry an unsettling stillness, as if caught just before or just after something happened.

Each painting is carefully constructed, with close attention to light, surface tension, and spatial framing. There is no human figure, but traces of presence remain. Her palette leans toward muted, cool tones with subtle contrast and occasional warmth. Compositions are quiet but charged. Stillness does not equal calm.

Alongside painting, Kołodziej creates contemporary tapestries using traditional weaving techniques. She treats them as tactile remnants—objects that belong to the same post-human world as her paintings. This textile work informs her sensitivity to texture and material decay, often echoing the same themes of abandonment and persistence.

Kołodziej holds an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She paints what lingers—what is left behind, what resists disappearance.

Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Painting Major
(2020 - 2025)

High School of Fine Arts in Lublin
Wooden Sculpture Major
(2016 - 2020)

2025: "Endurlings. The End of the City", solo MFA diploma exhibition, Bacalarte Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2025: "To Embroider a Revolution", curated by Elwira Sztetner and Edyta Kranc, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland

2025: "Fundamentally Unimportant", solo exhibition curated by Marcin Chomicki & Elwira Sztetner, Ponad Podziałami Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2024: an exhibition accompanying Warsaw Art Show Film Festival, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, Poland

2024: "Paradise Lost", Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland

2023: "Workshop No. 56", Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland

2023: "Parallels", Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland

2022: "Niedoczas", Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland