Dominika Kowynia (b. 1978) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, obtaining her diploma in painting in 2003 before receiving a doctoral degree in 2010.

„My art practice is rooted in a sense of lack. I was not filled with data about the world as a child, there were no adults around me interested in it, so I created a space for myself where I endured my own collected observations and information, trying to understand and adapt it. Adaptation had two thresholds, which I climbed with effort: the lonely discovery of the rules of life in early childhood in exile in Libya and the re-learning when I was thrown into Polish foreignness in early adolescence without any guidance”.

Selected solo and group shows:

2025

Let them see us!, The Royal Castle, Warsaw (PL)
New Expressions: Visual Contexts of Contemporary Poetry Books, Museum of Literature, Warsaw (PL)
Songs never quite meet, Polana Institute, Warsaw (PL)

2024

We want the whole life. Feminism in Polish Art, National Art Gallery, Sopot (PL)
New generation and classics from Wojciech Fibak collection, CSW Toruń, (PL)
All these waves, Renata Fabbri, Milan

2023

Panoramas (w/Mikołaj Sobczak), Polana Institute at Nowy Teatr, Warsaw
Animals She Houses, Polana Institute

2022

Arbeite, den die Nacht kommt, Polnisches Institut Düsseldorf (DE)
Second Body, BWA Olsztyn (PL)
Inner Edge, IMPORT EXPORT, Warsaw

2021

Who will write the history of tears. Artists on Women’s Rights, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (PL)
Art Encounters Biennal 2021, Timisoara (RO)

2020

Something in Common/Warsaw Under Construction 12, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (PL)
Narrow Passage, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Attempt at Reversing, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała (PL)

2019

Paint means blood,Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (PL)
Flour, oil, paint, MOS Górzów Wielkoposlki (PL)