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Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice in 2016-2022. Lives and works in Warsaw. Szwed paints autobiographical situations with a fortuitous understatement, focusing more on impression than on coherence in the story. She is inspired by childishly true and naive things, dramatization of life resulting from the need for emotional regulation. She is interested in the compromise between morality and opportunities. For the artist, art is an attempt to understand the binary way of building reality in mainstream social thought and to critically work through its shortcomings.
Szwed believes that works describing individual experience resonate the most with the recipient, people connect thanks to specific similarities, and feeling a specific type of pain together helps to understand one another and find solidarity in experiencing. Apart from everyday observations, she is inspired by mysterious psychological horror computer games, Satoshi Kon’s anime and small objects that she finds or receives and have no function other than sentimental.
mentions/press:
Floor Level @ saliva.live
Thaw/Roztopy Munich @ Kuba Paris
Vogue Poland ‘Hi, Stranger’ review
interview for Hygge Blog
DJ serwitut Soft Trigger review
works printed in ART MONITOR vol. 26
NADA Villa Warsaw with Alyssa Davis gallery
Neue Stimmung, group show curated by Janek Owczarek and Piotr Policht, GGM1, Gdańsk
30.05.2025 - 14.09.2025
Floor Level, duo show with Lulu Nuti, curated by Kasia Piskorz, Bliss gallery, Warsaw
12.06.2025 - 26.07.2025
upcoming shows:
group show (Urszula Broll's retrospective:Pejzaże jeszcze dalekiego świtu), Rondo Sztuki, Katowice
Memories in Motion, group show curated by Geraud Jean Claude, Galeria Yusto/Giner, Marbella, Spain
selected shows:
2025
Roztopy/Thaw with Łęctwo gallery, Gig Munich, Tiger Room gallery - a part of Various Others Munich
Alice Amati online viewing room, London
solo show: Soft Trigger at Who is Pola, Warsaw
2024
group show: Hi, Stranger, Who is Pola, plac Hallera 6, Warsaw
Neurotypie, Rotacyjny Dom Kultury Jazdów, Warsaw
CRASH CLUB, Warsaw
GLOW DOWN, Windowlicker, Warsaw
Moja droga witrynko..., the ING Polish Art Foundation with Turnus, Podgląd gallery, Warsaw
part of ROZBIEG 2.0, networking programme for young promising artists, Katowice-Tarnow-Cracow
NADA Villa Warsaw fair, Alyssa Davis Gallery NY, Warsaw
April 25 - May 25: MNFST, Metropolitan, Warsaw
Lepkie Uściski Dłoni, Art Walk, Warsaw
2023
Otwarcie Nowej Karowej, Sklep Galeria Karowa na Okręgu, Warsaw
Post Truth (...), Kunstleben Kreuzberg, Berlin
GRAND OPENING, Szałfynster, Katowice
MASA KRYTYCZNA, Oblatów 4, Katowice
Uwierz w ducha, Windowlicker, Warsaw
Tip of my Tongue, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw
Post Truth: Countering Disinformation Narratives, Poznan
LARGO, Wolne Pokoje, Dąbrowa as a part of Spokój Festival
Drzwi Zamknięte, Pralnia|LABA, Tarnowskie Góry
2022
Migracje, BWA Katowice