Artistic Roots and Education
Aleksandra Niemczyk holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts, specializing in Painting and Lithography, from the European Academy of Art in Warsaw, Poland. This foundation shaped her distinctive approach to visual storytelling, characterized by rich textures, colours, and layered meanings.
She furthered her education by studying film under Béla Tarr at the film.factory academy in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she earned her MFA in Film Directing. This experience instilled in her an appreciation for the relationship between movement, time, and emotion, bringing a cinematic quality to her visual art.
An International Presence
Niemczyk’s work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions worldwide, reflecting her dedication to exploring the human condition through abstract forms and striking compositions. Her art is featured in several prestigious private and public collections, including the Focus Bank and Louis Vuitton Art Collection in Oslo, Norway, demonstrating her ability to connect with diverse audiences.
Louis Vuitton Art Collection in Oslo, Norway
The Creative Process: Art Meets Cinema
Niemczyk’s creative process blends her painting expertise with cinematic influences. She approaches the canvas like a film director, each brushstroke akin to a deliberate frame, creating pieces that are immersive and dynamic. Her work invites viewers to engage with them as unfolding stories rather than static scenes, allowing each observer to create a personal narrative.
Beyond the Canvas: A Visionary Storyteller
More than just an artist, Niemczyk is a visionary storyteller. Her creations blend the immediacy of visual art with the contemplative depth of cinema. They are layered and open-ended, inviting viewers to explore new meanings each time they engage with her work.
Studio Hole Art Centre Norway
Continuing the Journey
Aleksandra Niemczyk remains a dynamic force in the art world, continuously pushing creative boundaries. Her art goes beyond decoration—it transforms spaces and invites viewers to see the world anew.
To learn more about Aleksandra Niemczyk’s exhibitions, projects, and works, stay tuned to her ever-evolving artistic journey, one that continues to challenge, inspire, and captivate.
Skien Exhibition
What inspires your art, and how do you bring those ideas to life?
Anything that triggers my senses. It can be a light, a scent, a colour, a texture.
I collect those impulses and compose a pattern of simple geometrical forms.
It’s an intuitive way of working with simplifying and organizing visual elements on my canvases. I work with opposite colours that complement each other or with the subtle vibrations of one specific family of colours. I experiment a lot with textiles, like canvas, silk, cotton, paper, thick layers of oil or acrylic paint, asphalt, and gold leaf, building a rich texture on the surface of my paintings. For the last few years, I have been working with textile-inspired grid paintings. During my Artist Residency in Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan 2016, I had a chance to research Japanese textile art, and I continue to investigate dye pigments, patterns, and meanings of ancient folk textiles from different parts of the world.
Which of your works holds the most meaning for you, and why?
I usually have long periods working with a series of paintings, being fascinated or obsessed by one theme at the time. So at that particular stage of my life, those are the works that are most important. However in retrospect, all of them hold a personal meaning and become evolutionary steps.
How has your artistic style evolved, and what challenges have you overcome?
I studied rather traditional forms of art, starting with figurative expression of observed landscapes and objects. However, early on I came across the amazing art professor and abstract artist Jerzy Grabowski, who taught me lithography printmaking and above all analytical visual thinking and passion for colour. From there my style became more abstract and more geometrical, although early on, the forms indicated their origin. I transcended fully to formal abstract compositions around 2007-2009 when I was studying film directing (and painting) in New York, researching American abstract painting movements and reacting to the New York urban grid landscape.
I feel like, creatively, I am always in the flow, always more ideas than time to execute them. But practically, there are of course challenges in the process. Mostly with balancing certain objectives, like balancing periods of research and receiving with creating work and executing ideas, or the uncertainty of the artist lifestyle versus family life, or doubts and self criticism over small details that probably nobody would notice, but I would obsess over until brought to perfection. Challenges always disrupt the status quo, spurring creative solutions, so they are also important part of my process.
