Sleepy Conversations-Bymarka 2 (2025) Printmaking by Wieslawa Nowicka (wiwnow)

Wieslawa Nowicka is a polish artist based in Paris working in several fields - painting, engravings, photography and video. Over the past few years, she has focused her work on the interaction between landscape and body in a post-industrialised society. She began her artistic and cinematographic studies in Paris and Brussels. Interested in multiple visual mediums, she gives her work, both contemporary and anachronistic, inspiration from these different artistic experiences and her personal life. The achievements around painting, photography and installations are supported by research around the history, anthropology and psychoanalysis of unknown spaces. Turned towards the processes related to the artist and desired, dreamed and hazardous gesture, captivated by video art and poetry, she is particularly interested in the conflicting relationship of visual art with the public space. 

In her creations “space” is a tool and a pretext: Through different techniques, the question of our traces and memories in space and time arises. Belonging, territory, place, identity: the artist in her works creates a terrain where everything is possible, where everything meets and overlaps. An art-place where different worlds meet, questioning the lucidity of memory, the nature of presence in the present.

During her studies, already imported by the works of Kafka, Freud, the experimental cinema of Maya Deren, Patrick Bokanowski, Jean Cocteau and (cinema-poetry) Marguerite Duras or the more contemporary cinema of David Lynch in connection with the ambiguity of time and space, incomprehension, insubordination or dreaminess, Wieslawa develops the melancholic poetry of dream images. 

Applied in the European cultural scene, Wieslawa created the Intercultural Visual Form event (2016,2017, 2018) and founded an association Formatova, which allows young international directors to intrude into atypical spaces by projecting the short films on the walls films, under the theme of identity.

Recently she was in residence in Norway, Sweden, and in Iceland where she explored landscape for the project which questions the disappearance of contact between the all-powerful, fragile Nature and humans looking for a lost relationship in a dreamlike space.

Currently, she was on a three-month residency in LKV, Trondheim, Norvege, where The multidisciplinary «in situ» project was shown in an exhibition at the end of the residency. The artist also had the opportunity to show one of her works created on site during the Kunstfest Rotvoll 2024 festival.

• Nationality: POLAND
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Polish Artists