artist statement
I work with textile art, which I treat not only as a medium but also as a starting point and an active co-creator of the work. I often use found materials, remnants, textile waste, and fibres. It is these materials that largely determine the final form of the piece — they influence composition, colour, texture, and often even the subject itself. The creative process emerges from a dialogue with matter rather than from a pre-imposed form.
My works function as a kind of passage — a liminal space between worlds: inner and outer, symbolic and bodily, individual experience and something more universal. I am interested in the motif of the threshold, understood broadly as a site of transformation and change. I refer to transitional spaces present in different cultures, including the idea of the torii — a symbolic gate separating the everyday from what is sacred or transformative.
In my practice, I explore the theme of initiation — understood both as entering experiences of motherhood and adulthood, and as a process of deepening self-awareness. I am interested in bodily consciousness, its limitations, as well as the process of accepting one’s shadow. My work becomes a tool for examining the full spectrum of experience: from tenderness and intimacy to tension, fear, and transformation.
CONTACT
przybylo.ania@gmail.com
+48 889 828 960
solo exhibitions
2026
She, Niżańskie Centrum Historii i Tradycji, Nisko
2025
Tenderness of matter, Biblioteka Kraków, Filia nr 20, Kraków
2018
Mother, not mother… every woman is divine, Centre for Contemporary Art Solvay, Kraków
2013
Personality of the year, Galeria Promocyjna ASP w Krakowie2012
2012
In the light of underground water, Student Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
selected group exhibitions
2024
Food in art, MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków
2022
Pola – The Exhibition of Polish Contemporary Textile Art and Batik, Museum Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta
2022
Rooting , MOVA – language and culture, Gdańsk
2020
Subversive Embroidery, Ethnographic Museum, Wrocław
2019
2nd Textile Art Biennial in Poznań, Sections Threads Reports, Grand Prix for Don’t Be Afraid, It Won’t Bite, National Museum in Poznań – Museum of Applied Arts
2018
Synestezje – Visual Art, Music, Word, Studio Club, Kraków
2016
HERstory of Art, Norbertine House, Kraków
2014
Wroclove Design Festival – Design + Craft zone, CRZ Krzywy Komin, Wrocław
2013
Artistic Journey of Hestia, 12th edition, Ergo Arena, Gdańsk
2013
Recycling Art, Kärcher HQ opening, Kraków
awards & collections
2019
Grand Prix, 2nd Textile Art Biennial in Poznań, Poland, for don’t be afraid, it won’t bite, National Museum in Poznań, Poland (collection of the Museum of Applied Arts)
2026
Work sold at auction, Polish School of Textile Art, DESA Unicum, Warsaw, Poland
publications / press
2020
Wyszywamy rewolucję, interview with Olga Budzan by Magdalena Piekarska, Wysokie Obcasy Extra, no. 11 (101), November 2020, Agora SA, Warsaw
2016
Herstory of art, text by Iwona Demko, ASP News, no. 74, July 2016, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
2013
Chmury, Depresso – Trú Optimist Depresso Young Magic Zine, no. 1, December 2013, Trú
2013
Between form and content – anna przybyło and jacek dudek – personalities of the year at the sculpture department, text by Janusz Janczy, ASP News, no. 63, October 2013, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
