Visual artist Małgorzata Bańkowska Follow.Art Card

About me

In my artistic practice, I move along the border between dream and wakefulness, treating drawing, painting, and sculpture as equal languages for exploring inner experience. I am not interested in literal narration or explicit commentary on reality. I work intuitively, allowing images to emerge from the tension between form and emptiness, between what is visible and what remains hidden.

In recent years, ink drawing has become a particularly important medium for me—immediate, direct, and unforgiving in its ability to register thought and emotion. Line is not used as illustration but as a trace of impulse, gesture, and at times unease. These drawings exist in close dialogue with my painting and sculpture, forming a shared symbolic space in which recurring themes of corporeality, fragmentation, memory, and transience appear.

I am drawn to what is ambiguous and uncomfortable: silence, tension, inner fractures, and liminal experiences. I perceive art as a way of asking questions rather than providing answers. Each work is an attempt to reach meanings concealed beneath the surface of images and words.

I do not create closed interpretations. Instead, I leave space for the viewer, believing that encountering a work of art is an intimate and individual dialogue. My practice remains an ongoing process—evolving, shifting, and resisting final conclusions.