Urszula Blachnierek
Recently, I have been engaged with broadly understood humanist and posthumanist themes, as well as questions of relationality and identity. My works are often created through the combination of various materials such as wood, metal, plaster, glass, or wax. For each concept, I consciously choose the material so that it is not merely a surface, but an integral part of the work.
In one of my recent works, “The First Scar”, I address the theme of identity mentioned earlier, but also the individuality of each of us. How do our first relationships influence us? How do we change over time, and how does our body transform?
In 2025, I graduated with distinction with a Master’s degree in Sculpture from the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań. My diploma project explored a slightly different theme than my earlier work, focusing on the impossibility of play.
Educational and artistic themes had already appeared in my practice during my studies, but it was only after graduating that I began to realize the connection between art and pedagogy more fully. Currently, I teach ceramics, painting, and drawing to both children and adults, and I also conduct individual classes. In my free time, in the “Błękitna” studio, which I co-create with three other people, I organize workshops that oscillate between art and craft.
Urszula Blachnierek graduated with distinction with a Master’s degree from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań in 2025. In 2020, she graduated with distinction from the Piotr Potworowski Secondary School of Fine Arts in Poznań.
She works in the broadly understood field of sculpture, creating works based on both figuration and abstraction. She is particularly interested in the relationships between humans and nature, as well as in aspects of otherness and interconnectedness.
She is the recipient of the scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in 2023 and 2024, and the scholarship of the Marshal of the Wielkopolska Region in 2023. She received the Special Prize of the Polish Sculpture Center in Orońsko at the 6th Józef Kopczyński Biennale of Small Sculpture Form in 2021. She is also the recipient of The Henryk Starikiewicz Prize, a painting and drawing plein-air residency in Italy in 2020. Her works have been presented in exhibitions in Poland and abroad.

Forms of Fragility Glass, Plexiglass, Fireclay, Steel, X-ray Photo, 182×76×56 cm, 2024

Forms of Fragility Glass, Plexiglass, Fireclay, Steel, X-ray Photo, 182×76×56 cm, 2024

Still Me? Plaster, Wood, 40×10×10 cm, 2020

Regeneration Process from the series Mutual Taming Plaster, Wood, Digital Photography; Object 80×30×30 cm, Photograph 53×42.5×3.5 cm, 2022

Regeneration Process from the series Mutual Taming Plaster, Wood, Digital Photography; Object 80×30×30 cm, Photograph 53×42.5×3.5 cm, 2022obiekt 80x30x30 cm, fotografia 53x42,5x3,5 cm, 2022

Navelothek Wax, 100×50 cm, 2024