Polina Frydmann

Polina Frydmann is a Vienna-based interdisciplinary artist and art historian (PhD, Art History) working across printmaking and mixed media, exploring memory, identity and cultural heritage through archetypal, reduced-form portraiture.

Her artistic language is characterized by reduced forms, expressive linework and layered textures. Each portrait becomes an archetype rather than an individual, a visual story that invites viewers to recognize fragments of themselves and of one another.

Figures and texts emerge as fragments of memory, at once tangible and elusive. Drawing on the traditions of modernism, visual poetry, and contemporary minimalism, Polina creates works in which documentary representation gives way to atmosphere, and the image becomes a space for personal experience and contemplation.

Her works have been exhibited in Vienna, Saint-Tropez, Chicago, and other cities.

Key themes: minimalism, memory, presence, corporeality, poetry, movement, identity, archetype, cultural heritage, and emotional trace.

- PhD in Art History, thesis: "The Development of the Burial Rite in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (30 BC-330 AD)"
- MA in Document and Archival Study, Historical Archival Institute RSUH
- Media Design, LIK Academy, Vienna
- Graphic Design, National Design Institute
- Printmaking Class, Zeichenfabrik, Vienna

2026
- Finalist of Grand Prix Photo de Saint-Tropez’26, France
- SPC group exhibition, CITYgalleryVIENNA, Vienna, Austria
- The Long Nights of Interculturality'26 by ICDO, Vienna, Austria
- From Professor's Flat by KGallery, Saint Petersburg