Natalia Różycka

Natalia Różycka (b. 1998, Łódź, Poland) in her artistic practice is focused on a queer story of her home-town Lodz, Poland. It inspires her main medium of choice (half transparent paints used on plexiglass, fake stained-glass paintings that she calls Witrażex), content and camp aesthetics of works. She also works with sculpture and rhyme text.
 

In some ways, she replaces institutions uninterested in that topic and a patriarchal methodology of research. She takes the position of artist-archivist, almost archaeologist, by gathering histories, describing places and people, and giving them space to be heard and seen.

Date of residency: 1.03 – 21.03.2025

RESIDENCY PROJECT

Natalia’s project at MeetFactory explores the naturist movement in Poland and the Czech Republic. The main inspiration for this research is the theory that the naturism movement contributed to a better flow of information within the gay community. After 1989, naturist spaces started to disappear in Poland, but they could still be found in the Czech Republic.

EDUCATION

2023    Graduated with honours from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Faculty of Painting, Poland

2023    Erasmus+ exchange at the Academy of Fine Arts (AVU) in Prague, Czech Republic

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023   Branżowa Łódź w bajkach, anegdotkach i nie tylko..., Jak Zapomnieć gallery,

Krakow, Poland 

2024   Gwiazdy świecą w Łodzi, with the Witrażex collective, Open Eyes Festival,

Krakow, Poland
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024   Pracownia z balkonem, Elektor Gallery in Warsaw, Poland.

2024    Queer erotica zine chapter 3, zine created by Girls to the Front, online.
2024    Identity inks: queer print open call & showcase, Festival Łódź Wielu Kultur and

Miej Miejsce, Lodz, Poland

2023    Portrait after portrait, Karol Radziszewski and the Summer Academy in

Salzburg, Austria

2023    Późna ciemnia, wczesny kitch, Krakow Gallery Weekend KRAKERS, Krakow,

Poland
2023    Queer autonomies, Queer Festival in Heidelberg, Germany
2023    Queerstories, Labirynt gallery, Lublin, Poland

2022    Herstories, AVU Library in Prague, Chech Republic

2022    Queer erotica zine chapter 2, zine created by Girls to the Front

2021    The setting sun is blue here, Jak zapomnieć, Krakow, Poland

2021    Backseat art, Bałuckiego 15 Collective and Open Eyes Art Festival, Krakow, Poland

2021    Bezkres, Fotofestiwal International Festival of Photography, Lodz, Poland

2021    Photographic memory, Małopolska Art Center in Kraków, Poland

2020    To nie tak, MuFo Museum of Photography, Krakow, Poland

2019    Fiks, Free Rooms, Gdańsk, Poland

2019    Rzeczy które mnie a ciebie nie, Tytano, Krakow, Poland

2019    Zbliżenie, Solvay Contemporary Art Center, Kraków, Poland

2018    Dotyk wolności, Palace of Art, Krakow, Poland

All information is accurate as of 25 February, 2025