Aleksandra Urban

My work has its beginning from my surrounding reality. Memory is recording chosen elements, which are intriguing and stimulating to my imagintion and then artistic awareness transforms it into new pictures. My painting couldn’t exist without traveling and attentive observation of the world.

Aleksandra Urban was born in 1978, lives and works in Wroclaw. She graduated with the diploma in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Her painting is often a very personal journey into the world of memories, fantasies and dreams, which gives it the intriguing form. Full of strange characters and horror phantoms, her works cannot be interpreted unambiguously. Alex often uses the convention of kitsch and frequently refers to the sacred sphere. As a very prolific artist she has exhibited over the past year, among others, at the Edinburgh Art Festival, and in galleries such as the Art Agenda Nova Bestregards Gallery in Frankfurt and twice in the Geppert’s Apartment Gallery.