julia tymanska
about me
My name is Julia Tymańska. I graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, and while painting remains an important element of my practice, I have always worked across multiple media – from sculpture, installation, and performance to site-specific actions, street art, and experiments with digital technologies, interfaces, AI, and simulation.
I was born in 1997 and I am currently based in Gdańsk, Poland.
I was born at the intersection of the analog and digital worlds – I don’t fully belong to either, but exist somewhere in between. This in-between space has become the foundation of my artistic thinking. In my work, I explore how technology shapes identity, memory, and presence – both physical and data-based. I'm interested in what remains of us in systems of code, storage, and forgotten information.
I create paintings that resemble system interfaces and digital glitches, patchwork sculptures, fictional archives, and narrative structures that process traces left behind. I often work site-specifically, engaging with local communities and materials gathered through research. My process blends intuition with analysis, technology with emotion.
I create to find out who I am after the next update.
EDUCATION
● MA in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland (2021)
● Postgraduate Studies – Art Therapy, Higher School of Vocational Education, Poland (2025)
AWARDS
● Nomination for the UAP Artistic Award, 13th edition of the “New Image/New Look” Competition, Slodownia Gallery, Poznań, Poland (2024)
● Honourable mention at the 2nd National Painting Biennale “Lubelska Wiosna”, CSK, Lublin, Poland (2023)
● Nomination for the Gdańsk City Award for Young Creators of Culture, Klub ŻAK, Gdańsk, Poland (2022)
● Reader's Award from "Gazeta Wyborcza Trójmiasto", Klub ŻAK, Gdańsk, Poland (2022)
● Śmietański Couple Award, “Young Painting from Gdańsk” Exhibition, Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdańsk, Poland (2022)
● President of Legnica City Award, National Painting Review “Promocje”, Art Gallery, Legnica, Poland (2021)
● “Szum” Magazine Award, “Promocje”, Legnica, Poland (2021)
● Honourable mention, Drawing Competition “Przegrys”, Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdańsk, Poland (2021)
● Personality of the Year – Sopot, Poland (2020), for the mural project “Stars’n’Roll”
● Dean's Award, International Student Drawing Exhibition #RYSOWAĆ, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, Poland(2020)
● Special Award, National Painting Competition named after Wojciech Fangor, Gdańsk, Poland (2018)
SCHOLARSHIPS
● Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Scholarship for outstanding achievements (2020/2021, 2019/2020)
● Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Scholarship (2023)
● Cultural Scholarship of the City of Gdańsk (2020–2024)
● Rector’s Scholarship for the Best Students (2018–2020)
SELECTED ARTISTIC PROJECTS
● Blue Screen of Death – multimedia performance narrated by a computer virus; the project translated the language of system failure into an existential experience, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland (2024)
● Art installation at the festival “Homo s̷a̷p̷i̷e̷n̷s̷ conscious: Earth Station”, Wodniczka, Warsaw, Poland (2023)
● Sculptures for the theatre play "What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?", Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw, Poland (2023)
● Installation at the Praga Koneser Center, Warsaw, Poland (2023)
● Set design workshops at Hanse Museum, Lübeck, Germany, for the “Under Maple Tree” Festival (2023)
● Flower Power scenography at Wisłoujście Fortress, Wisłoujście Festival, Gdańsk, Poland (2021)
● “Stars’n’Roll” – 20 black-and-white horizontal murals on the way to the Forest Opera, Sopot, Poland (2020)
● Direction, set and costumes for the visual-musical play "Sopocka Bagietka", Sopot, Poland (2018)
● Installation "In the Footsteps of Shakespeare", for the 10th anniversary of the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, Gdańsk, Poland (2018)
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
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● DRAFT VERSION: ME, Fala of New Culture Foundation, Gdynia, Poland (2025)
● ASAP 3RR0R, Gdańsk, Poland (2023)
● Motorola, Gdańsk Archipelago of Culture, Gdańsk, Poland (2023)
● POP AND TRASH, Leonarda Art Gallery, Koneser Center, Warsaw, Poland (2023)
● EAT AND RUN, Pawlacz, Gdańsk, Poland (2022)
● Alarm, SFINKS Foundation Gallery, Sopot, Poland (2022)
● Sea Motifs, Traffic Design, Gdynia, Poland (2022)
● Pop-a-Cola, LKW Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Art “Łaźnia”, Gdańsk, Poland (2022)
● Melange, tuBaza, Gdynia, Poland (2022)
● Disturbances of Vision, Pionova Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland (2021)
● Incubator Air: Under Construction, Centre for Contemporary Art “Łaźnia”, Gdańsk, Poland (2019)
● Things I Do and Shouldn’t, Gdańsk Archipelago of Culture, Gdańsk, Poland (2018)
● Young Presentations – Julia Tymańska, SFINKS Foundation Gallery, Sopot, Poland (2018)
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
● Post-competition exhibition “Wybrzmienie”, IKI Foundation, Apteka Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland (2024)
● “Henryk Cześnik and his Students”, Triada Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland (2024)
● Post-competition exhibition, National Painting Competition “New Image/New Look”, Slodownia Gallery, Poznań, Poland (2024)
● Self Control, Food Hall Montownia, Gdańsk, Poland (2024)
● URBAN ART AREA 3, Horse Racing Track “Służewiec”, Warsaw, Poland (2023)
● POR-POL, Prisma Estúdio, Lisbon, Portugal (2023)
● Under Maple Tree, Hanse Museum, Lübeck, Germany (2023)
● Critical Mass, LABOARTORIUM, Gdańsk, Poland (2023)
● Post-competition exhibition, 2nd National Painting Biennale “Lubelska Wiosna”, Centre for the Meeting of Cultures, Lublin, Poland (2023)
● Designates and Accessories, Institute of Cybernetic Art, Gdańsk, Poland (2022)
● I Can Only Talk About War / I Can Not Only Talk About War, Centre for Contemporary Art “Łaźnia II”, Gdańsk, Poland (2022)
● Young Painting from Gdańsk – Diploma Exhibition 2019–2021, Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdańsk, Poland (2022)
● Post-competition exhibition, 30th National Review of Young Painting “Promocje”, Art Gallery, Legnica, Poland (2021)
● Vogue III, Boomer Gallery, Tower Bridge, London, United Kingdom (2021)
● International Student Drawing Exhibition “TO DRAW”, Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń, Poland (2020)
● Exhibition of Winners, 2nd Wojciech Fangor National Painting Competition, Great Armoury Hall, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk, Poland (2018)
PUBLICATIONS
● Interview and artwork, TERAZ Magazine – Gdańsk Cultural Guide (2024)
● Artwork, SZKICE Magazine (2024)
● Interview and artwork, VOGUE Magazine (2023)
● Interview and artwork, SZUM Magazine (2022)
● Interview and artwork, BLIZA – Artistic Quarterly (2018)
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
● One-week artist residency, Fez, Morroco (2025)
● One-month artist residency, Centre for Contemporary Art “Łaźnia II”, Gdańsk, Poland (2019)
● Summer artist residency, Atelier of Żak-Berger, Sopot, Poland (2018)
CURATORIAL & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
● Initiator and organizer of the first and second editions of UNDERGDAŃSK – an independent art gallery tour, Gdańsk, Poland (2022, 2023)
● Founder of 3RR0R – a workshop and educational space within the Gdańsk Open Studios programme, Gdańsk, Poland (2023)
● Founder and curator of Pawlacz – an independent art gallery as part of the Gdańsk Open Studios, Gdańsk, Poland (2020–2023)
ARTWORKS IN COLLECTIONS
● Legnica Art Gallery (Poland)
● Krupa Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
● Pionova Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland
● Private Collections (Poland and abroad)
