Julia Tymanska

My name is Julia Tymańska. I graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, and while painting remains an important element of my practice, I have always worked across multiple media – from sculpture, installation, and performance to site-specific actions, street art, and experiments with digital technologies, interfaces, AI, and simulation.
I was born in 1997 and I am currently based in Gdańsk, Poland.
I was born at the intersection of the analog and digital worlds – I don’t fully belong to either, but exist somewhere in between. This in-between space has become the foundation of my artistic thinking. In my work, I explore how technology shapes identity, memory, and presence – both physical and data-based. I'm interested in what remains of us in systems of code, storage, and forgotten information.
I create paintings that resemble system interfaces and digital glitches, patchwork sculptures, fictional archives, and narrative structures that process traces left behind. I often work site-specifically, engaging with local communities and materials gathered through research. My process blends intuition with analysis, technology with emotion.
I create to find out who I am after the next update.

● MA in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland (2021)
● Postgraduate Studies – Art Therapy, Higher School of Vocational Education, Poland (2025)

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
● Fluid Algorithm of Identity, 3RR0R Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland
● DRAFT VERSION: ME, Fala of New Culture Foundation, Gdynia, Poland (2025)
● ASAP 3RR0R, Gdańsk, Poland (2023)
● Motorola, Gdańsk Archipelago of Culture, Gdańsk, Poland (2023)
● POP AND TRASH, Leonarda Art Gallery, Koneser Center, Warsaw, Poland (2023)
● EAT AND RUN, Pawlacz, Gdańsk, Poland (2022)
● Alarm, SFINKS Foundation Gallery, Sopot, Poland (2022)
● Sea Motifs, Traffic Design, Gdynia, Poland (2022)
● Pop-a-Cola, LKW Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Art “Łaźnia”, Gdańsk, Poland (2022)
● Melange, tuBaza, Gdynia, Poland (2022)
● Disturbances of Vision, Pionova Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland (2021)
● Incubator Air: Under Construction, Centre for Contemporary Art “Łaźnia”, Gdańsk, Poland (2019)
● Things I Do and Shouldn’t, Gdańsk Archipelago of Culture, Gdańsk, Poland (2018)
● Young Presentations – Julia Tymańska, SFINKS Foundation Gallery, Sopot, Poland (2018)

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
● Post-competition exhibition “Wybrzmienie”, IKI Foundation, Apteka Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland (2024)
● “Henryk Cześnik and his Students”, Triada Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland (2024)
● Post-competition exhibition, National Painting Competition “New Image/New Look”, Slodown...