Karolina Piotrowska is a visual artist from the Podkarpacie region of Poland. She is a graduate of printmaking at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań. She completed her MA diploma project, titled O(j/b)czyzna, in the Spatial and Intermedia Graphics Studio under the supervision of Dr Witold Modrzejewski. She is the founder and director of the “Nisko” gallery/art space in Poznań, where she curates and organizes exhibitions.

In her artistic practice, she focuses on issues of ethnographic identity and the relationships between memory, place, and history. Her primary source of inspiration is her native Podkarpacie region. For several years, she has been exploring the topic of discrimination against ethnic and national minorities in Poland, with particular attention to the Lemko region (Łemkowszczyzna). In her work, she tells stories of non-existent and disappearing villages, as well as contemporary experiences of the social marginalization of minority communities.