About

fot. Julia Markiewicz

My name is Agata Borowska, and I am a visual artist working primarily in the medium of analog collage. In my practice, I create compositions with a clear, central structure. These often take the form of abstract shapes that seem to float in space or drift on water, suspended between reality and imagination. I am drawn to ambiguity in art.

I approach collage as a form of visual archaeology—a way of uncovering new meanings from existing images. I work with a wide range of paper materials, from contemporary and archival magazines, photographs, and postcards, to albums and books.

The visual language I have developed through collage serves as a starting point for my paintings, where the compositional tension, layered textures, and intuitive gestures of collage are translated into a more fluid and expansive medium, deepening my exploration of abstraction and form.

I am also interested in portraiture. In drawing, I usually produce quick sketches, while in painting I often create abstracted representations based on gesture, intuition, and an unconventional color palette.

I hold postgraduate studies from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (Painting and Drawing) and from the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Modern Art History).

I live and work in Warsaw.

awards and prizes:

I am the recipient of the Teravarna Merit Prize Award 2025 and a finalist of the Luxembourg Art Prize 2024, YICCA Prize 2023/2024, and Women United Art Prize 2023.

My work has been featured in art magazines and publications such as:

Revue Colle (2025)
Living Room Magazine (2024) 
Suboart Magazine (2024)
Women United Art MAGAZINE | Special Edition 2024

exhibitions

2026: STATES of LIGHTNESS, solo exhibition of collages and paintings, Strefa A Gallery, Hotel Indigo Kraków - Old Town, 29.01.2026 - 0.03.2026
2025: exhibition of collages inspired by the poetry of Anna Hanna Czarnecka, The most beautiful thing is the unfolding of nothing, Latarka Gallery, Library of Leon Koźmiński Academy, Warsaw
2025: group collage exhibition Cut & Composed, West End Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
2024: group collage exhibition Collage Notes, Paris Collage Collective, Galerie Canopy, Paris, France
2024: group exhibition Modern Fluxus: New Mail Art from around the World, Little Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA
2024:group mail art exhibition Sender: Paweł Petasz, Recipient: The Whole World, Galeria EL, Elbląg, Poland
2024: group exhibition Everything for Sale, vol. 2, Galeria S35, Łódź, Poland
2024: group exhibition as part of an annual city event - Night of Museums, Defabryka, Warsaw, Poland
2024: solo collage exhibition Fragments, Taras Sztuki Gallery, Wilanów Centre for Culture, Warsaw, Poland
2024: solo collage exhibition Fragments, Moments, Memories, Łaźnia Gallery, Radom, Poland
2024: solo collage exhibition BETWEEN Wakefulness and Dream, Format Koncept, Warsaw, Poland
2024: group exhibition, YICCA Prize, Matalon Foundation, Milan, Italy
2024: group exhibition Inhale, presentation of works created within natural pigments, a project organized by Slow Painting Studio Fraeym, Berlin, Germany
2023: solo collage exhibition, Galeria Przechodnia, Warsaw, Poland
2023: solo collage exhibition The need for (re)connection, Intergenerational Education Centre, Warsaw, Poland

fot. Katarzyna Szlembarska

“States of Lightness” is a story about the affirmation of life. It is art that soothes, offering a moment of respite from an overstimulated world. Agata Borowska shows that aesthetics are not merely a superficial layer of an image, but a tool for organizing thoughts and emotions. Her works are like a deep breath - they allow us to pause, look around, and find meaning in the simple act of being here and now.

STATES of LIGHTNESS – an exhibition of works by Agata Borowska (29.01-30.03.2026, Kraków)

An excerpt from the curatorial text by Małgorzata Błaszczyk, ,
owner of Strefa A Gallery