Bio

Magdalena Zych (b. 1990) is a painter working in oil, developing a biomorphic visual language inspired by biology, ecosystems, and interspecies relationships. Her works combine observation of natural forms with elements of imagination, creating images in which the boundaries between organisms become blurred.

In her painting cycles, she explores nature as a system of interdependence and a space of constant transformation. In recent years, she has been developing, among others, the Hygrophilic series, dedicated to aquatic environments and hygrophilous organisms, and Forest Floor, focused on the micro-world of forest litter, as well as processes of decomposition and regeneration of matter.

Her practice also includes spatial works, in which she creates immersive environments referencing biological processes of growth and transformation.

She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2016). Her works have been presented, among others, at BWA Warszawa, CAMP Gallery (Miami), Van Rij Gallery (Kraków), and during the VOLTA Art Fair in New York.


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Group exhibitions:

Rewilding: Breath of Crawling Shadows, BWA Warszawa, 2025

Human (Nature), CAMP Gallery, Miami, FL, 2025

Coming Out Collective: Invisible Weights, Pawilon Bliska 12, Warsaw, 2025

Live blood, Oblatów 4, Katowice, 2024

A+MNFST, Metropolitan, Warsaw, 2024

I Will Never Give Birth to My Mother, Windowlicker, Warsaw, 2024

Close Strangers, Sklep Galeria Karowa, Warsaw, 2022

Solo exhibitions:

The Meeting, Van Rij Gallery, Kraków, 2024

Wilgotne sfery, Prześwit Gallery (Cliché Gallery), Warsaw, 2023

Przepoczwarzanie (Metamorphosis), Rotacyjny Dom Kultury na Jazdowie, Warsaw, 2023

Selected achievements:

Charity auction Art for Nature Protection – 25 Years of WWF Poland, DESA Unicum, Warsaw (2025)

6th National Leon Wyczółkowski Painting Competition, Bydgoszcz (2024) – Finalist

VOLTA Art Fair New York, with CAMP Gallery, 2024

Listed in the Kompas Młodej Sztuki (2023–2025)

2nd Lublin Biennale Lubelska Wiosna (2023) – Honorable Mention

Works in private collections and in the Rossmann collection

Education:

Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Faculty of Graphic Arts, 2010–2016

Pedagogical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 2014–2016