Dimensions: 90 x 120 cm
Signed, dated, and inscribed on the reverse: 'K Stovrag | "The Peaceful | Queen" | 2024'
Exhibited
“Extraterrestrial Gardens of Delight,” BWA, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, 2024
“Not Everything and Not Everywhere Is for Us,” Art Industry Standard, Kraków, 2024
Biography
She graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. In 2024, she received her diploma from the studio of Prof. Witold Stelmachniewicz. She completed the appendix to her diploma thesis in the studio of Prof. Iwona Demko. An important period in her education was a one-year Erasmus student exchange at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna during the 2022–23 academic year. She has been awarded the Rector’s Scholarship for outstanding students on multiple occasions. In addition, she is a winner of the CX ART competition—“We Create a Gallery of Young Art”—and a finalist in the “LOOSTRO 16th AUTUMN ART SALON” competition. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Poland and abroad and has held three solo exhibitions, the most significant of which are: “Our Pain is Self-Chosen,” Van Rij Gallery, Kraków—a solo exhibition as part of KRAKERS Cracow Art Week, 2025; “Dream, Darling, Dream,” Rostworowski Gallery, Kraków, 2025; “CHAPTER FOUR / AND HERE TOO,” Rondo Sztuki, Katowice, 2024; “Extraterrestrial Gardens of Delight,” BWA Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, in collaboration with Samuel Kłoda, 2024; “Not Everything and Not Everywhere Is for Us,” Art Industry Standard, Kraków—solo exhibition, 2024, “The Gentle Kingdom,” Olympia Gallery, Kraków—solo exhibition as part of KRAKERS Cracow Art Week, 2024.
In her work, the artist primarily explores the themes of hydrofeminism, ecology, and utopia and dystopia. She uses these themes as a tool to explore empathetic, alternative relationships between humans and the natural environment as well as non-human beings. The world depicted in her paintings is multicolored. Beneath the surface of this visual energy lies uncertainty, doubt in humanity, and a palpable decline in the sense of security in the contemporary world. The artist’s work consists primarily of speculative narratives that combine ecological sensitivity with a critique of capitalist systems of exploitation, offering a space for interspecies empathy and new visions of a shared future.
