Kasia Słania is a visual artist whose practice explores the fragile space between control and surrender. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, her work is informed by a precise eye for composition developed over two decades as an art director. Słania views paper not merely as a surface but as an active, physical partner—an immediate and unforgiving medium that anchors her tactile, instinctive process.

Her latest practice, the series ‘Grasses’, comprises three mixed-media works on paper that examine a congruence of place and time. In this series, the artist uses graphite, oil pastel, and graffiti ink to trace a protagonist who gradually dissolves into the landscape. Works such as ‘Grasses-Tensed’ and ‘Grasses-Last’ capture the shifting rules of late summer light—moving from vibrant ochre to a lower, heavier focus. Through gestural marks and dense textures, she transforms an ordinary moment into a meditation on change and memory, exploring how a figure can blend into its surroundings until the boundaries of identity become indistinct.

Słania’s artistic language merges drawing and painting, characterized by thick lines, vibrant colors, and a raw emotional clarity. Her inspiration is drawn from the bold textiles of her childhood in industrial Bytom and the energetic contradictions of everyday life. Having exhibited early in her career in both Poland and Germany, her current work remains deeply interested in the "unsaid"—how fragments, smears, or drifting letters can hold the weight of an unfinished thought, inviting the viewer to find meaning in the spaces in between.

Exhibitions

2025

In Art We Trust, Group exhibition, On Arte / Studio Bank, Warsaw, Poland.

2024

Women in Art, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, USA.

Abstraction, Gallery Omnibus, Dresden, Germany.

2023

Explora 2023, Make Art Gallery (online), Italy.

Winter Group Exhibition, Royal Blue Gallery (online), Greece.

2022

Dinamica 2022, Make Art Gallery (online), Italy.

2001

Group exhibition at the Ten-Ta-To Gallery, Katowice, Poland.

2000

Solo exhibition at the Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland.

Two group exhibitions in Germany (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Dortmund).

Solo exhibition at the Ten-Ta-To Gallery, Katowice, Poland.

Prizes & Award

2026

BBA Artist Prize - 3rd Prize, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2023

Artist of the Month – December 2023, Art Jobs, United Kingdom.

ITSLIQUID International Competition, 14th Edition, Italy.

Artist of the Month – July 2023, ITSLIQUID Group, Italy.

Premio Arte Critica — Group Exhibition Dinamica Art Expo 2022 – Critical Art Award, Italy.

Awarded for “having left traces of mature artistic research that eludes the classical aspect of

painting, with clear reference to contemporary experimentation.”