Wioletta Kulewska

Wioletta Kulewska Akyel is an artist working across painting, design and installation, often extending beyond the limitations of canvas and frame. Her work incorporates a mixture of mediterranean and pagan themes that bring the personal spheres of contemporary life into close proximity.
Kulewska's work is informed by travels – journeys to the Baltic, Caucasus, North Atlantic and Eastern Mediterranean territories have resulted in encounters within the ancient world that have served at points of departure for the distinct narratives found in my extended body of work. Forms of peculiar souvenirs brought from these expeditions, such as small artefacts or elements of nature (feathers, shells, bones) can be found across the canvas. The image thus becomes a kind of afterimage of the objects, impressions and experiences gathered, with my artistic practice combining elements of research across philosophy, archaeology and anthropology.
Kulewska is a graduate of Fine Arts from Opole High School of the Arts, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland and London Metropolitan University. Since 2018, she has participated in a number of artist-in-residence programmes, including Slade School of Fine Arts, London, UK (2018); PADA...

2007
MFA Master of Fine Arts
The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art & Design in Poland

2000 - 2007
The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art & Design in Wroclaw Poland

2005 - 2006 Erasmus programme London Metropolitan University

1995 - 2000
Jan Cybis High School of Fine Arts in Opole Poland

Professional Development

2023
Fresco Painting - ancient techniques for contemporary artists Bosa Art School, Sardinia Italy

2018-2022
Turps Banana CC Painting programme

2018
Slade School of Fine Arts, London UK
Colour in Practice

2017
Slade School of Fine Arts, London UK
Painting in Contemporary practice

7th February - 16th March, 2025
‘The Voice of Leda’ exhibition
MUZA National Community Art Museum in Valletta

13th March and 31st May 2024
‘Grotta’ art installation for ‘Malta Biennale Art 2024’ Grand Master Palace, Valletta Malta

14th April - 24th May, 2023
‘Mara’ Group exhibition
Marie Gallery 5, The Bureau Iniala in Valletta, Malta

28th September 2022
‘The Ethereal veil of green’ Pop-Up exhibition Litla Gallery Strandgata 19 Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

10 September – 10 November 2022
‘The birth of interactions’ Group exhibition
IAM Contemporary Art 39 Old Mint Street, Valletta Malta

5 March - 16 April 2022
‘The Feather Collector’
Valletta Contemporary Art Gallery Honorary Patronage: Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Valletta Supported by Adam Mickiewicz Institute

18th December 2020 - 20th March, 2021
‘Próba 2020' - Group exhibition in Gallery in. Jana Tarasina, Poland

2021
‘Rose, Blood and Fire’
Pedvāle Open Air Art Museum, Galley space in Latvia Artist-in-residence programme Pedvāle Art Park

2021
'In Absentia' - A virtual group exhibition created by an online contemporary painting platform in London, UK

2019
Abaca - Second solo exhibition
Upper gallery Malta School of Arts

2018
Embedded - First Solo Painting exh...