Alicja Biała
Alicja Biała (b. 1993, Poznań) is a multidisciplinary and multimedia artist, based between Poland, Netherlands and the UK. In her practice, Biała experiments with scale and materials, with works ranging from large-scale murals and sculptures to architectural and lighting installations, and from drawing to etchings.
Her work often references pagan motifs, interweaving tradition with the political and personal realities of everyday life, aiming to cut into a cultural past that is at once distant and remarkably close. In her pieces we encounter future agricultural societies dancing in bacchanalian rituals, through fields riddled with potatoes; classes gathering to celebrate the harvest of a new world growing from the bones of a ruined one; warrioresses riding to battle atop endangered reptiles; colourful chandeliers emitting beams of lights that ward off the spirits of globalisation; potatoes continuing their silent growth in the midst of a poisoned land. Both speculative and interrogative, her practice examines where we have been, and where we might go in relation to Slavic histories, paganism, migration, politics and the formation of cultural identity.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions internationally, including: The Roberts Institute of Art and Liverpool Biennial (UK); Borowik Foundation and Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow (PL); and Galerie Hussenot (FR). She recently completed a residency at The Versailles-Giverny Foundation (FR). Biała is a graduate of The Royal Drawing School and holds an MA from The Royal College of Art, in London (UK).
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